Reflection Monday September 2023

 Bubble Living

The barrier, I believe, that you create to maintain your personal environment 

in a state of disconnect from the World around you.

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Common sense 

Sound and prudent judgment based 

on a simple perception of the situation or facts

Merriam-Webster

Perspective

It is all around us mentally.

Reflect on where you are

as the source 

of sunlight.

Starting the Month Ouch Right

Handmade composition viewer
from a cracker box

Preparing for photograph excursions this fall, I want to make my own composition viewers. On YouTube I found a lovely tutorials. 

So there I was chomping on whole wheat Carr's crackers when I decide to cut up the box and make a composition viewer.

The small viewer is covered in blue painter's tape to give it stability. I'll make one with a larger opening, and one that is adjustable.

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The last week of August was slow with a few nice weather days. Not summery, but when the sun is out, I feel grateful.

Fall in the air sends my thoughts to a garden project where I plan to put in a nice autumn scene with mums, corn stalks, and pumpkin cut outs in wood and painted.

The short of the story, looking for a jigsaw, I found my old sander on the cupboard top shelf. 

Wrangling it to the edge, I had it right towards my waiting hands when the wire tiered basket (2+ feet tall) on the shelf next to it decides to also tumble. I saw it. I knew where it was going. I just didn't have hands, time, or fast enough reaction to get out of the way or stop it from landing across my forehead above my eye. 

You know what I have now?

An eye sore.*

😬

laughing

*No bruising or wound though, just sore. 

Correction, light blue bump, 

Small ice bag slides off when watching YouTube.

 

I Google head injuries to refresh what I already know.

Head injuries can impact the retina. Years ago that happened,

flashing lights in my peripheral vision. Doctor back then said not detached, but be careful, and go to doctor if it happens again. This accident wasn't that bad, thankfully.

Welcome To September

Cosmos in Morning Sunlight

The morning sun provides lovely light for taking photographs. Consider planting to capture that sunshine in a garden for photography. Those cosmos were gorgeous in person.

Have a Gorgeous Weekend!

Read about or play ping pong

Make a tomato, cheese & bread salad

Browse polyester fall jackets online

Call an old friend

Read a non fiction book

Ask your toes where they've been

Write song lyrics about your day

Shop for embossed rolling pins

Create an apple ice cream sundae

Take a power nap

Farewell August 2023

 

Earth's Blue Supermoon
2:31 AM EDT 31 August 2023
Vergennes, Vermont

Through the window, I was able to see the Supermoon after midnight. I took a few photographs through the window. One is good enough to post.

Earlier there was cloud cover.

Supermoon behind the clouds

Farewell August 2023. I prayed for more sunshine. Alas, the weather patterns were already in motion around the Earth. It has been thirty-one days to remember, including all the raindrops and chill in the air.

Week 34, Day 237 of August 2023

Pink Cosmos 2023

 Another Friday, another month fading into the past, more rain, the days continue to build a path towards the autumn. I looked at a flannel shirt today, hanging there in my closet. Appearing as if on the border of a power nap, the collar droops and curves, stretching above an open unbuttoned yawn.

There is a battle with the laundry. I say,  I've done enough! The basket says, Oh no you haven't! I'm considering how I can do away with using laundry baskets. Eliminating the amount of lip one gets, the mental sass from objects in our home environment is a real challenge.

Instead of soup on dreary overcast days, I think a lively green salad and/or stuffed grape leaves will be better.  

My mother had a wide variety of meals she made, like stuffed green peppers. I wonder how I lived through having stuffed green peppers in my youth. I stopped making them decades ago due to indigestion.  My menu is less than a quarter of what she served. Building a recipe file is a good idea. However, the problem with recipes is that you have to shop for the ingredients. 

Have a Delicious Ingredients' Weekend!

Design your own tartan

Hand sew a fall fleece hat 

Read about the Coriolis Effect

Poach pears

Create a veggie goulash

Sing to a summer squash

Go for a walk with a friend

Read a few Shakespeare Sonnets

Tell your Wok a story

FYI Post

 My apologies

The delete trash can is so close to the check mark on the comment page, some of the comments I have approved ended up being deleted by my mistake. If your comment doesn't show up after a day or so, then please leave another. 

Otherwise, nice day. Got overcast in the last half of the afternoon. It was nice to sit outdoors, putter, trim plants, toss patio junk. 

Hope ya'll had a nice day

The Buy the Farm, Dirt Desert, Bucket Kicking Days

 

Party is over, done with, no turning back the hands of time for me. I'm old for sure.* No this is the new 60. 

So how am I feeling about being 3 quarters of a century as an air breather? In a state of awe actually, that I made it this far, especially when I think back to times when that felt iffy. 

Ah, the adventures of youth, they aren't near as cool as it is to be so experienced living. There has been history I have lived. I was alive when Einstein walked the Earth. When Eisenhower was no longer president, I cried thinking America's lost a father. I am a living part of history from the hippie flower child era. 

As a side effect, I am feeling a sense of needing to adjust my attitude(s). Tidy up, get things sorted, clean up my projects, and such. Also, consider doing things that won't matter much, like trying out that temporary tattoo. I'm not interested in capturing my younger years, being hip, cool. I've been that. I am that. My interest is in having fun being full of years. 

The aches and pains, skin changes, weight gain and such are not fun. The idea that this is thee most defined era of My Life is hilarious to me. I know for sure I will not repeat 75 years living. At most, I might make it to a hundred, 2048. More likely, I will be gone within ten years. Scary it is not. I believe is some form, life continues by the grace of God. 

Human existence has always been fascinating to me. What puzzles me is that for all the advances in science, there is no way yet discovered to help folks transition to the next stage. Paranormal investigations are mostly theater, I believe, to the majority of people. In reality, those people that promote the paranormal, are the ones helping people to understand that life as we have been told, doesn't have a clear boundary between life and death.

*My birthday has gone by.

Thoughts On Group Mentality

 A weird idea breezed across my brain, that if conservatives adopt the style of a liberal looking hippie type person, then that might confuse people with conspiracy obsessed syndrome into regaining their common sense. 

It isn't a secret that people in general want to be accepted, fit in, get along with others.  In World History there are societies that adopted a uniform dress code. Hello pilgrim.

In art, composition is key. In life, context, I believe, is the clearest lens to view the images we accept or reject.

We identify with groups in particular clothes, a football team geared up, soldiers in uniform, gowns at a gala. When those people are in the personal time clothes, we can't tell who they identify with. Every time we throw on a pair of jeans and a tee shirt, we disguise part of who we are. If we wear the same style no matter what, then we can develop a group cohesiveness that might help people experiencing a lack of common sense to regain the reality they're suppressing. 

Think what it would do to society if for one full week we all wore only tee shirts and jeans, and tossed on some hippie beads.

P.S. I'm a glass bead wearing conservative on the liberal side of the spectrum

Thoughts on the End of Summer

Autumn Gold
Lumberville, Pennsylvania
24x24 inch oil

Fern Coppedge, 1883 ~ 1951 

American Impressionist

Yes indeed, those autumn colors aren't far away. Signs of fall are already being seen here and there in Vermont at this lower elevation near Lake Champlain west of the Green Mountains.

Fern Coppedge's winter snow paintings are a favorite. I learned about her in an art magazine I bought at a library sale many years ago. 

The backyard landscape in the photo has a familiar feel because that is similar to where us kids played in the backyard days of stay off the steps and don't climb the trees.

And so goes the longing for a few days of summery weather before the autumnal equinox on 23 September 2023. Time to consider scheduling a flu shot, putting away the sandals, and deciding if there will be a foliage photography tour. After summer's plans were wiped away by rain, I hesitate to put my heart on the future season. An improviso approach feels more comforting and practical.

Lincoln Gap Foliage 2021

Thus, taking in the days as weather and health permit is the pace of fall this year for me. 

The Beautiful Reseeding Morning Glory

Morning Glories on twine

     From a wildflower seed packet, the morning glories (photo) are the first green leaves to sprout along with dandelions. The original seeds were planted circa 2005. They bloom into autumn until the first hard frost.  

Amazing that is has been 18 years reseeding morning glories keep blooming in my planters, and from in the ground. Some years the twine goes across the top of the patio window. This year,  the plants aren't as lush.

Is there an old stand by flower reseeding in your garden?

Day 230 of Week 33, August 2023

Red Cosmos

The red cosmos didn't respond to Miracle Grow the same as the more common white and pink cosmos. Instead, the red variety puts the energy into stem and leaf growth.

The feathery leafed flower was put in a large planter mid to late June. Late August, this week is the first time the red cosmos has bloomed. Main stems are as thick as my thumb. Beautiful as greenery, it will make a nice tall border next year among Bachelor Buttons and white cosmos.

Have a Blooming Good Weekend!

Read a new author

Shop linen dish towels online

Design 2023 holiday cards

Cringe at Halloween in stores already

Change passwords

Refresh old website accounts

Dance a waltz by yourself

Tell an apple a secret

Make applesauce