Mere seconds after I took this photo of LG and her friend G saying goodbye this morning, one or both of them got a little too exuberant and they ended up on the concrete. LG bumped her head, but she recovered quickly - not too much crying. ;)
Taken January 24, 2008. Little Girl at 3 years, 1 month. G at 3 years, 1 week.
I love where we live. We live in the city, but we live in a quiet little neighborhood with horses on two sides of us. Our property is also zoned for horses, but I doubt we’ll ever own any. But we do enjoy seeing them every day. It makes us feel like we’re living somewhere rural rather than in a hustling bustling major city. I love to go outside and just drink in the peacefulness. There are plenty of critters that inhabit our land, but I enjoy being able to watch them scurry and fly around.
We used to live in a busy neighborhood across the street from a school, with neighbors who, well, were not all that quiet. They had loud parties. They played their car stereos ridiculously loud at all hours of the day and night. They threw their cigarette butts and beer cans in our driveway. Once, they even put their lawn chairs in our driveway and sat there smoking and drinking. Rude people. I couldn’t wait to move.
Here, we rarely hear loud music. We have our own little drive that gets very little, if any, traffic, other than when people are visiting us, and yet we have really good neighbors that would watch out for us if we needed them to.
Peace to me is the feeling I get when I walk around our yard, feeling the sun on my face, listening to the birds twittering, the horses neighing and the hum of the cars on the freeway a mile or so away. Peace is home - just looking out my back door.
Taken January 23, 2008.
LG inspired this shot. As I was pushing her on the swing trying to find inspiration for photos today, she joyfully told me that she could see her shadow. Bingo. Thanks kiddo. :)
Taken January 22, 2008.
By the way, the photo and title yesterday were both about Martin Luther King…the king was fairly obvious I think, but it was the song title I was thinking of…”Change the World”…since that is what he did. Now you have a glimpse into the way my mind works…lol! Good guess Chriss - you pretty much figured it out! :)
Taken January 21, 2008.
And a virtual cookie to anyone who can figure out what the title and the picture have to do with anything.
Links to some of my favorite pictures from other blogs for Week 3:
In the United States, today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and I tried my best to think of one word that would sum up Dr. King’s legacy to use for the photo topic this week. I thought of several words - dream, equality, peace, freedom, but they are all pretty abstract, so I’m going to leave it kind of open this week. If you choose to use the topic, you can use any of the words above to inspire you, or any others that you think relate to Dr. King. Or you can even use the word “king” in it’s concrete form to inspire you. Or whatever else you come up with. It’s just a jumping off point for your creativity really. I’m leaving it up to you. And I’m going to have to think of a way to photograph this one myself!
Can you believe this is already the 4th week of Project 365? Wow!
Melody doesn’t get her picture featured here too often - not because I don’t want to, but because she doesn’t usually stand still long enough for me to focus the camera and click. I got lucky today, though! Does she have the longest tongue ever or what?
Taken January 20, 2008. Melody at 2 years, 2 months.
Today was our 17th wedding anniversary. Little Girl was invited to a birthday party (well we all were) for one of her friends, but I didn’t particularly want to spend what little time I had with my hubby today at a birthday party, so Marlene (bless her), who was also going to the party, offered to take LG with them. So LG got to go and we got to have lunch alone. Alone! That is so rare these days! lol!
After lunch at Macaroni Grill (served by Rochelle, of course), I had asked Mike to take me somewhere that I could take some photos, and since we needed to do a little exercise, and we’d never been there before, but had been wanting to go, and also because it was really close to where we were, we went to the Deer Valley Rock Art Center. The Center is a preservation area for the Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph site.
I think what really was profound about this visit is to think that these people who lived thousands of years ago and had no technology to speak of, are able to communicate with the future just by these simple, yet beautiful, rock drawings they left behind. It’s pretty amazing to imagine people living not too far away from where we live and making these drawings, graffiti if you will, that we are viewing millenniums later. Pretty awesome. We came across an older couple on the trail who were visiting from the far east part of town and had a really nice little chat with them along the way. Click here for more photos of our visit to the rock center.
And finally, I leave you with a picture of the three of us after we came home this afternoon. Seventeen years ago, two people became one entity. And almost 14 years after that, two became three. You can’t get to three without two after all. And three? Three is a magic number.
We got this card from my aunt. She is awesome about remembering dates and sending cards. My mom was, too. Me? Well, today I was supposed to buy two cards while I was at the grocery store…one for the friend whose birthday party LG is attending tomorrow and one for Mike for our anniversary. I remembered the birthday card at least. *sigh*
Taken January 18, 2008.
So, long story short - I had to get my eyes dilated today so that the opthalmologist could check for a detached retina. No detached retina - eyes fine, perfect, lovely, wonderful, whatever. But, that cut my photography time way way down because in case you’ve never had your eyes dilated before, you pretty much lose your up close vision for several hours - so it’s pretty hard to take photos. It’s also hard to focus the camera, auto focus or not. So I did the best I could with this one. It’s hard to see my dilated eyes, but that’s what I was aiming for.
Taken January 17, 2008.
