Yes, thank you, Ginger, I'm still alive

I never thought I'd come back to this place again...except I know that whenever I say never, God is sure to overturn my obstinancy. 

But when Ginger emailed me and all the other Friday Hometown Shooters last week...it was a reunion I could not refuse.  I am fortunate, in retirement, to be so busy with a life full of people and projects, that I can't say I will get back to the old blogging frequency and creativity.   I'm not even  sure these days where Bagman and Butler are.  I think Bagman is in Amsterdam and the last I heard Butler was attending a chef school in the South of France. 

But I am going to post a couple of pictures for tomorrow's shoot.  The theme is a problem for me.  Rush hour.  Since I no longer comute to work, I don't remember what rush hour is, let alone have any pictures of it.  

But I do have a couple of pictures of "rushing"....or experiencing a "rush" of adrenalin.  I guess these will have to do.

 

 

 

 Mostly I can't wait to see what all my other old friends come up with...it has been along time, but the Blogspot Community is like family -- you can be gone for years and when you come back, it's just like you never left.

 



 

Just to prove I'm not dead

At least not yet.

But I do seem to have abandoned blogging for the most part.   Just spending a little more time in the real world -- not that any of you are not real!  More time with grandchildren and also getting out with the camera a bit more and trying to learn something about High Dynamic Range photography.  But not getting very good results yet. 

I do miss reading blogs and I do miss so many of you. 

It was also scary to come back today, look at my last blog and see that it had been spammed by several people selling money making ideas and porn.  I deleted them but wondered whether they have also hit earlier blogs.  Damn.  Why can't everybody be nice?  I guess there are just so many people in the world that there have to be outliers to the statistical niceness bell curve. 

I've also been spending more time in the woods behind our house. 

 

I discovered last October,  that it is a lush battleground between vines and trees. It has been urging me to experiment with a photo series that I think of as "The Codependency of Vines and Trees." 

Ah...codependency...so many blogs could be written about that.

I'm not getting the images that I see in my mind yet but I'll post a few.  There are some things that don't convert well from idea to image.  Vines on trees may be one of those subjects.  Too busy!  Too messy.  But I guess that's also true of codependency.  

Anyhow...

 

 

 

Bagman and Butler aren't here right now but they send their regards.

 

BAGMAN: "WE ARE TOO HERE!  WHY ARE YOU SHUTTING US UP!!!"

 

BUTLER: "Easy does it, Baggie.  He just doesn't want to put in the extra time and energy to let us dialogue."

 

BAGMAN: "Lazy bugger."