Head Cold. Nasal drip. Nagging cough. Light nausea. Friday the 13th. Feels about right.
6:10 am. Cove Island Park. 192 days. Consecutive, and getting long in the tooth.
45° F. Wind gusts up to 25 mph. Drizzle. Wet. Cold.
Cloud cover: 100%. Like a million %.
M-G: You’re dragging.
DK: It’s that obvious?
M-G: Snarky too.
M-G: COVID?
DK: Can’t be.
M-G: How’s that?
DK: Hood Brand Ice Cream Sandwiches.
M-G: Ice Cream Sandwiches?
DK: Yes. I’m up to 3 a day. I’ve haven’t lost my taste buds. In fact, right this second, I can taste the chocolate flavored wafers wrapped around the cool vanilla ice cream. I can taste that chocolate. I’m already heading for my second just thinking about it.
M-G: Hmmmm.
DK: I think it’s time to head home. Not seeing anything inspiring today. Is this the best you can do?
M-G: (No comment. Eye brows raised)
M-G: Stegner.
DK: Stegner?
M-G: “Sit still and let the world do the moving.”
I don’t sit, but I stop.
Overhead, out of nowhere, hundreds of gulls.
A sky white with wings.
I grab the camera. And start snapping.
DK: Damn it! I don’t know how to capture things that move. It’s bloody frustrating. I know, I just know they are all out of focus.
M-G: Hmmmmm.
DK: Hmmmmm what?
M-G: Stegner.
DK: Hmmmmm.
Notes:
- DK: Me. M-G: Maybe God.
- Photo: DK, Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. 6:15 and 6:45am (in full blur, not intentional, not conscious art). 45° F. Drizzle.
perspectives
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Truth!
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… “DK: Me. M-G: Maybe God. Photo: DK, Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. 6:15 and 6:45am (in full blur, not intentional, not conscious art). 45° F. Drizzle.”
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Thank you Horty!
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Most welcome!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
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So much to do, so little time. YOU are capturing what is important. Stay with it!
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So true Lakota. So true. Thank you!
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Your COVID test is better than the swab up the nose!
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Hmmmm
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Three per day, eh?
It’s okay of shots are blurry sometimes, just so you know. You were there, you stopped, you saw.
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3 per day + 1 ice cream drumstick. Fact.
And blurry shots. There was 25 of them. Brutal!
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Good grief, man…
So what if there were 25?
I have discovered to put it on “action” setting when trying to capture things that move, it takes multiple shots… one of them (or more) end up pretty darn good 😉 (It’s quicker to do that than find the multiple shot setting on my camer)
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Laughing. Good Grief Woman. I have issues to work through!
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Haha! You’re telling me!
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Geesh, pal, if you keep up this pace, *you’ll* be a drumstick by Thanksgiving. I’m lovin’ my Mirror…just sayin’. 😉 And I’m lovin’ this photo and the way inspiration strikes when ya least expect it. Keep walkin’….
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Laughing. Oh I’m on my way to Drumstick! As to the Mirror, that’s all I need, is yet another gadget. Yet, the colder it gets the more appealing it becomes!
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I love it, I really do. Yesterday was a cardio and strength class, today was sculpting, tomorrow Barre. The variety is awesome and it’s super convenient to work out at home. Highly recommend. 😁👍
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You are a machine. Like an Automaton.
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Automaton…abbreviation OCD.
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Ha. I get it.
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I like M-G as a walking buddy.❣️ When we pause we can open up to something ready to be seen.
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That is Truth Val!
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1. You need to get tested. Not losing your sense of taste doesn’t really mean anything.
2. Where does Talenti fit in exactly? What happened?
3. Ice cream sandwiches are life.
4. Stegner 😉
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1) I did, 1.5 weeks ago. 2) TALENTI is gone. Old news. 3) I so agree. 4) YES on Stegner!
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1. Great. 2. OMG. 3. 🥰
4. 🙂
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Talenti is gone?! Blasphemy!
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Yep. We’ve moved on.
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Right?
It’s not gone. He’s just done with it.
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Great shot, catches the movement and yes God!
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Smiling! Thanks!
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Hope you’re feeling better soon. 🌷
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Thank you!
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Some days are like that. Not bad for Friday the 13th.
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And today was/is that some day. Thanks Anneli. Have a good weekend.
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I love your humility. Cool photo too.
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Thank you. Appreciate that. Humility (DK: Def): Method of dealing with so many shortcomings… 🙂
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Feel better…glad you had such a productive conversation
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It was. Those with myself always end up so agreeable!
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I kinda like that – only the MG = I don’t think of God as a maybe…. but that’s YOU and your mind working –
I don’t mind a ton of blurry gulls, and I’m sure no one minds!
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They will have to not mind! That’s all I have!
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It’s fine – we don’t ask the impossible 🙂
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Thank God for that.
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Tara Brach always says, ‘there’s nothing wrong with this moment’ only the stories in our mind think there is. Love this capture in motion 👏👏
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Tara Brach is so wise. Thanks Karen.
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Ah, thats nice. So sublime. Only, not sublime. Its what I used to think sublime meant. I thought it meant an understated, hidden or occluded perfection. Is there a word for that?
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Subliminal maybe! lol
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Steve, too kind. I would take 1/2 of any of those characterizations….
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You know sometimes the truest part of a story is the part that is a little burry.
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There’s a lot of truth in that Steve.
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Its a variation of something I learned in writing my stories, for better or for worse…
“Sometimes the truest part of a story is the part I make up.”
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Smiling. I do get this.
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Stegner indeed. ❤
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Ugh.
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I told you it was going to get cold. I also love ice cream sandwiches. BTW, did you ever read Joshua?
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No. It is in my cue and can’t tell you why I am resisting. I can’t. Something is holding me back. Because I know that if you recommend it, I “need” to read it.
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Grasshopper,
Every journey starts with a single step and starting is half way done.
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It does that Friend. It does that.
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I n c o n c e i v a b l e , No Talenti Mint Choc Chip…then I thought well he is branching out…and then I googled…not available in the sandwich though it is in the carton… Hood Brand “Mint Choc. Chip Ice Cream…just saying…I have a photo though I don’t know how to post it here…I also have a photo “Gorge” brand huckleberry ice cream cone with a place called Mt Hood as the backdrop… ps: Hood Brand makes a pumpkin ice cream I think it is in the sandwich form…ah, the Possibilities 🙂
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Huckleberry ice cream cone. OMG. I need one.
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Nice snap! I have the hardest time photographing anything in the sky. You did well to have the static bush to ground the shot. Well done, esp as the blur conveys movement!
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Thank you Bela!
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