SeaSide Sharon

A Gallery Night from last summer...

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:02:00 +0000

Some photos from a Gallery Night last summer. So I thought I'd put them up before I go to another Gallery Night...which just happens to be this Friday night. Am I going? I don't know yet.

"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles Bukowski

"She has her moments. And she makes cupcakes."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Janet Evanovich, Wicked Appetite

"I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Albert Einstein

"This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Suzanne Collins (Mockingjay)

Comic and Grace

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:24:00 +0000

Comic and grace...that describes pelicans.

I was out taking pictures for photography shoot locations and at one point found myself behind Joe Patti's. What a great place. The pelicans think so too. I could of spent all day there with them.

I just want to tell you what happened to one poor pelican. I noticed a fishing line that moved when a certain pelican moved. Then I saw it was attached somehow to him. So I grabbed the line, not really knowing what to do. He pulled. They are surprisingly strong! During this struggle I saw the line was in his mouth. I assume there was a fishing hook involved.

I looked madly around. I mean what do you do with a pelican on a string? I saw one man by a back door, probably taking a break. I called for him to help. He came, but as he did, the pelican made a huge leap and jumped off the dock into the water. Now I had a pelican on a string, in the water, and a man.

We decide that if we did anything further, we may drown the bird. So I let the line go. The man said that last week he and a buddy of his got a fishing hook out of another pelican. He said that he would keep his eye out for this one and when he gets on the dock again, he will get the hook out.

ATTENTION FISHERMEN!!!!! Please take care of your fishing lines properly. This could of so easily been avoided.

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Polar Bear Plunge 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:09:00 +0000

This was our second year at the Polar Bear Plunge as an active...viewer! It was considerably warmer than last year.

Other than the warmer weather, it was like I remembered it last year. Lots of people. Lots of funny hats.

2 PM...the race is on!

And even a hipster

A Saturday Morning at the Farmers Market

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:44:00 +0000

Another Saturday a few weeks ago at the farmers market. The weather was warm. Making it especially nice to linger. So I did.

And this Saturday there was something else that made me want to linger a little longer. A three woman string band. The music was soft and almost mystical. There were soft notes riding the sunlight on a breeze through the trees. Sweet.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Victor Hugo

"I am in need of music that would flow over my fretful, feeling finger-tips..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Elizabeth Bishop

" My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Tupac Shakur

"Believe beyond your minds eye and see the light..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Will Barnes, The Expansion of The Soul

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Abraham Lincoln

"...I've made it my business to observe fathers and daughters. And I've seen some incredible, beautiful things."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap

"rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness…"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Leo Tolstoy

Pensacola Christmas Parade 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:47:00 +0000

Last Friday evening, Drew and I went downtown to watch the Christmas Parade. It was quite impressive...lots of floats, bands and people.

These pictures are not so great. Low light and moving objects make for a bad photography combo. But, here they are anyway.

I don't know how Christmas Parades are in other parts of the country, but this was the beginning of our parade.

December in Florida

Part of the crowd

The runners

After the runners left

I like the blue lights

Cops on motorcycles that stopped to throw beads

Performing Arts

We support our troops

Red glow

Like candy

Some sort of giant bird

Fluffy

Like a garden

Krewe of Seville

Love this one

See the beads in the air?

Octopus-like

Dragon

Another ship

Fountain on the way to our car

My quest for Santa

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:55:00 +0000

I went to the flea market this morning on a quest to find Santa. But I didn't find him. I showed the photo, inquired. Felt like Nancy Drew sleuthing about. I did talk to Norma and Sandy in the front office and had a nice lead. Norma said she remembers him, but his name escapes her. So, I am to call her back.

But, I did get a couple of photos from the market.

"I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Saul Williams

"It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Haruki Murakami

Looking for Santa

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:28:00 +0000

My mission this weekend is to find this man. Not a normal man. But Santa. A little strange. But not for this time of year I suppose. At least my chances are hugely increased.

I took this picture last year at the Gulf Breeze flea market. Now I would really like to get a model release from him. So off to the flea market I will go. Hi ho hi ho. Wish me luck.

"She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year."
¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople

Seaside Community Yardsale 2011 - 6

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:01:00 +0000

Well, this is the last set of pictures from this years Seaside Community Yard Sale. What a fun day. Spent with family. Good food. Good company. Sunshine.

"Don't wish me happiness I don't expect to be happy all the time... "
¸.•*´¨`♥ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

And here is the last last one of the Airstream couple. Perhaps my favorite. For sure I could have sat there all day and took pictures of people in that spot.

"He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Leonardo da Vinci

"... it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

No day at Seaside would be complete without, well, the sea. And here it is, in all it's blue twinkly glory. So inviting.

"Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Graham Greene

"The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

"Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy

I took this one as a special request for my sweet son-in-law, Robert. He wanted a picture of this road sign that he spotted. It's "Robert's Way" or no way!

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Aurelius Augustinus

And, in case you're interested. Here is a little iPhone shot of what I purchased at the yard sale. A pair of comfy, seafoam green yoga pants. A small, soft, red leather shoulder bag. A little Starbucks coffee measuring device. All for under $20.

Seaside Community Yardsale 2011 - 5

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:22:00 +0000

More of Seaside. And the next picture is of the couple behind the Airstream trailer. Intriguing. At least to me it was.

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

"Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Bob Dylan

"The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles Simic

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

"I can call back the solemn twilight and mystery of the deep woods, the earthy smells, the faint odors of the wild flowers, the sheen of rain-washed foliage..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Vol. 1

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Edgar Allan Poe

"...starkly pure and yet so very earthy."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Nalini Singh, Play of Passion

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jorge Luis Borges

Seaside Community Yardsale 2011 - 4

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:20:00 +0000

More from our day at the Seaside Community Yard Sale. These are more or less images of me wandering about and photographing what catches my fancy. Not the yard sale per say. More of the community.

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Friedrich Nietzsche

" But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason

I do have a couple more takes on this next one, which I will put up in the next couple of posts. I was fascinated with this couple sitting in front of a mirror at the back of this Airstream trailer. The wind. The way their body language spoke. I could of became a stalker at that moment.

"With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ J.R.R. Tolkien

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection

"I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. "
¸.•*´¨`♥ Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Pablo Picasso

"Everything is design. Everything!"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Paul Rand

"I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Willa Cather, My Ántonia

Seaside Community Yardsale 2011 - 3

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:25:00 +0000

You really never know what you will see at this yard sale. Jars of marbles. Vintage dresses. Galvanized watering cans full of lavender. Pink ribbons. Red framed mirrors. Blue enamel tea pots. Old suitcases. Furniture with so much character that you swear it is talking to you. Leopard print lampshades. A child's smocked dress...the list goes on and on.

A feast for the eyes and the imagination.

"Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

"Fashion changes, but style endures."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Coco Chanel

"I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles Bukowski, Women

"...and the afternoon flowed on into lavender evening."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Anne Rivers Siddons, Downtown

"we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

"I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

" But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Seaside Community Yardsale 2011 - 2

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:43:00 +0000

"... padding along a trail where other walkers had broken ground before me. And then I found an extraordinary bouquet."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

"purple does something strange to me"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

"Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up."
¸.•*´¨`♥ A.A. Milne

"Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Thomas S. Monson

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Madeleine L'Engle

"No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Agatha Christie

"Take a look in the mirror for a co-operative portrait subject."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Richard Woods

I feel so Vivian Maier when I do a self portrait.

Seaside Community Yardsale 2011 - 1

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:26:00 +0000

This is our second year of making the trip to Seaside for the Community Yardsale. It is so much fun! I especially enjoy it for the picture taking opportunities. And I always find a bargain or two.

"So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

"I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness

"...smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Van Morrison

"... and when the world tells me I ought to be a size eight, I can thumb my nose at them in complete empowerment."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jen Lancaster, Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not the Answer

"...And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors"
¸.•*´¨`♥ J.R.R. Tolkien

I think I took a picture of the crowd last year. It just always amazes me at the sheer number of people. But, despite the numbers, it is easy to maneuver around and see everything.

"It's much easier to trust the universe when it's going well, she said."
¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople

It is our choices that show us what we truly are...

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:39:00 +0000

A few random shots from a couple of different markets. One in Pensacola, the other in Seaside.

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
¸.•*´¨`♥ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"There is a magic made by melody..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Elizabeth Bishop

"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

I hear the train a comin'...

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:32:00 +0000

One morning I wanted to go to the tracks. And Graffiti Bridge. It is so much fun photographing it. Always changing.

"I hear the train a comin, ' It's rollin' 'round the bend, And I ain't seen the sunshine, Since, I don't know when..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Johnny Cash

"...this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments...as iridescent as a dragon-fly ."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Elspeth Huxley (The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood)

"The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Elie Wiesel

"Time is the longest distance between two places"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Tennessee Williams

Another morning we went to Polonza Bistro for breakfast. It was ok. The place is really cute. I think as time goes on and they find their groove, it will be a wonderful place to eat.

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
¸.•*´¨`♥ W.B. Yeats

".....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

This is just a house. An old house. Probably on a historic register. Or it should be. I loved all the loose shutters and various stages of painting. And that umbrella. The umbrella really added the finishing touch. Pink.

"Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Hermann Hesse

A Gallery Night

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:25:00 +0000

"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Louis Armstrong

"May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Bob Dylan

"She saw herself reflected in the store window & then the sun changed & she disappeared..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople

"It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ally Condie (First Day)

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Marcus Aurelius

"We had gone far enough together to listen easily in the quiet spaces."
¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Oscar Wilde

"She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love."
¸.•*´¨`♥ E.M. Forster (A Room With a View)

"We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Zelda Fitzgerald

A day at the pool

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:53:00 +0000

Last summer Nikki doggie sat for her neighbor. Said neighbor had a pool and said we were welcome to use it. So. We did!

This is Gumbo, the reason for the doggie sitting. Isn't he adorable?

Gumbo

"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face ..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Elizabeth Wurtzel

"The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

"I want leisure to read—an immense amount."
¸.•*´¨`♥ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"This is very important -- to take leisure time."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles Bukowski

"We have lost the abstract sense of beauty."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A night on the streets

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:22:00 +0000

An evening in Pensacola...Gallery Night.

"He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Mario Puzo, The Godfather

"Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Bob Marley

"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Toni Morrison

"A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Oscar Wilde

"Archaelogists centuries hence may marvel at such relics: his mustard stained napkins, toothpicks chewed to splinters."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Amy Gerstler, Ghost Girl

"...while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

"torn between wanting to stay & wanting to go & worried it will be the wrong decision either way"
¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople

"There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss

" It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ally Condie, First Day

Grand Marlin

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:47:00 +0000

We have discovered the Grand Marlin Happy Hour! It is a great place to get a fantastic $5 burger & fries and breathe in the ocean air.

"Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Yuan Mei

"And don't you leave, 'cause I know all I need is on the other side of the door."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Taylor Swift

"When you play, never mind who listens to you."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Robert Schumann

"To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. "
¸.•*´¨`♥ Angela Carter

"...Why should I walk nights by the tavern where I drank every night thinking of her?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Orhan Veli Kanık (I, Orhan Veli: Poems)

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea ...I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

These last two pictures are from right up the road at Bands on the Beach. The crowd and of course, our famous Beach Ball.

"She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it."
¸.•*´¨`♥ William Gibson

How does one become a butterfly?

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:56:00 +0000

The little caterpillar finally turned into a butterfly. I was there shortly after she shed the chrysalis.

She slowly spread her wings. Then folded them together again. Like she was surprised she could do it. Testing them out. Her little legs were wobbly. At one point she was on my hand...my arm.

For a day she stayed. Letting her wings dry. Getting to know them. Now she is gone. Living her little butterfly life.

These are pictures of those first moments. Late afternoon. New life. Each picture amazes me. I'm in so much awe.

"How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

"The earth has music for those who listen."
¸.•*´¨`♥ William Shakespeare

Melancholy Micro

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:40:00 +0000

Feeling a bit on the melancholy side. So I put on my micro lens and set out. To my yard. Did it get rid of the melancholy? Well, I forgot about it for a bit. Here are the pictures.

"When that slow-motion, silent explosion of love takes place in me..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Vladimir Nabokov

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Allen Ginsberg

"I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson, History

" suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ray Bradbury, The October Country

The last image is of a chrysalis that one of the caterpillars formed in my back yard. There were several caterpillars in the back yard on the Milkweed plants, but this is the only chrysalis I could find. The others could be in a million different places. I'm just lucky to have found this little one. The ridge at the top of the chrysalis is well defined. And the yellow-green dots are iridescent. A brilliant color that actually glows. The moisture that you see on the outside is coming from within. Like it is sweating. Guess it is hard work becoming a butterfly.

These were all hand held photos. Melancholy people don't bother with tripods. Like the honey badgers of photography. We don't give a s**t.

Some more of Windmill Market

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:08:00 +0000

"We laugh and laugh...and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."
¸.•*´¨`♥ H.L. Mencken

"Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Julia Child

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
¸.•*´¨`♥ H.L. Mencken Andrew Wolfe

"...and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry David Thoreau

"He who controls the spice controls the universe."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Frank Herbert (Dune)

"In secret we met - In silence I grieve..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ George Gordon Byron

A trip to Windmill Market in Fairhope

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:04:00 +0000

One Saturday this summer we went to Windmill Market in Fairhope, AL. This little Alabama town is more artsy that any other place I've ever been. Just puttin' that out there for discussion.

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Edgar Degas

"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began."
¸.•*´¨`♥ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Laurie Colwin

"Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Tom Robbins

"Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as 'Nevermore.' "
¸.•*´¨`♥ Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven)

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Clive Barker

Flowers from my yard

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:27:00 +0000

Yes. It's true. All of these flowers bloomed in my yard this summer. At one time or another. It was a riot of color.

" small visitors to the garden hopped and splashed and made the most of the day that was becoming fair and sunny."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Juliet Marillier (Heart's Blood)

"She likes the stark simplicity of Japanese art and the daring complexity of Russian literature."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Christopher Moore (Bloodsucking Fiends)

If you read this far, I have a confession. See that cute little bug in the first picture? Well, they are assassin bugs. Generally thought of as a good bug for the garden.

So it was 'live and let live' policy between them and me. Until one day I saw one dragging off one of my caterpillars. Oh. I was enraged. It quickly became a different scenario...'live by the sword, die by the sword'. Any bug that is a danger to the caterpillars had better steer clear from my butterfly garden. They have been warned.

Let's do the beach

noreply@blogger.com (Sharondipity Photography) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:18:00 +0000

Summer is ending. Even though it's still warm and summery, it is officially autumn now. Here are some summer beach pictures.

"She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl."
¸.•*´¨`♥ John Green (Paper Towns)

"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Haruki Murakami (Dance, Dance, Dance)

"Love me. Love my umbrella."
¸.•*´¨`♥ James Joyce (Giacomo Joyce)

"Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Scott Westerfeld (The Uglies Trilogy)

"Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Leo Buscaglia