Body, Mind, Spirit
Greetings from the land of the infirm! I took my last antibiotic yesterday and am finally on the mend from whatever it is I have had the last two weeks.
It should come as a shock to absolutely no one that I get bored easily and like to make up little challenges for no reason. I got bored with the flowers. I was also running out of flowers, but mainly I got bored with the flowers.
On Monday I was taking a short walk around the block and found two piles of water balloons hidden behind the tires of a parked car. I thought it looked more interesting than geraniums, so I made it my picture of the day. On my way back home I saw an unraveled baseball in the gutter. I decided it might be fun to make all my pictures for the week objects found on my walks during the week.
The baseball was gone the next day. I was too sick to go farther and find anything else, so I took a picture of the branch thing that was there in its place. It wasn’t nearly as interesting as an unraveled baseball. The rest of the week, though, was more successful both in items found and in the distance of my walks.
What I found:
- Water balloons
- Branchy thing
- Green felt
- Victim restitution billing statement (unpaid, in the gutter–Richard refuses to learn)
- Weeds and curly ribbon
- A fork in the gutter
- A pile of fluorescent lighting covers
It made my walks fun, but that challenge was no joke. I must have looked like an owl on the hunt high on cocaine. Seriously, how else could I expect to find a piece of green felt in the middle of the road?
Song of the Week
The Weight – The Band
So glad you are feeling better! And love the composition of these pictures – the one with the branch is beautiful.
Unused water balloons?? Are such things even possible?
I love “The Weight.” SUCH a huge Levon Helm fan. Did you see the tribute to him at the Grammys? It gave me chills.
Up for air. What a month! Thank goodness that March is over, and things can get back on track (I missed three days of walking, and seem to have lost my camera). Anyhow, love the found objects – they are sort of bitter-sweet. Congratulations on week 14.
Now, time to catch-up on posts!
Nice change of pace this week!
Your tireless search for intriguing ground objects did not go unnoticed, my friend!
My mom and I were out walking once, when we found a wee bloody saw in the road. We decided maybe we’d just run the rest of the way back . . . just in case whomever lost said saw, decided to come back, and rid himself of any witnesses.
Who says walking’s uneventful?
You know – I kind of love these toe shots.
They’re stuff you’d see in a gallery somewhere. People would sip wine and contemplate.
My husband’s sitting next to me & insists that “felt” is actually a “scratchy pad for cleaning”.