Horse farms and Spanish moss

On the way to Gainesville,FL

Face Time

Gus and Cotton and I had some face time with some of our favorite people - Micheal and Elaine - this weekend.  They are our former trainers and we hadn't seen each other in quite a while.  But as it usually is with friends you haven't seen in a while, we picked up as if we'd never left off.  And Gus and Cotton were beside themselves to see them.  Fur flew, pink tongues slurped, tails wagged, tummies were scratched...and when it was all over, Michael and Elaine left with plenty to remember Gus & Cotton by:  lots of yellow fur!

Tuesday Not-So-Still Life

I could have taken the yellow out of the photo, but in the early morning, before the sun comes up and using the light over the sink, this is what it looks like. 

Cozy. 

And a certain yellow dog monitors the status of breakfast.

Even after he's eaten.

Bottle Light

This was in the window in the West Atlanta Anthropologie store...I kept going back to look at the light through the bottles and took a quick photo. I should photoshop out the tall pole...interestingly, the glass bottle refracts it somehow and it doesn't show up through the bottle.

Everyday

I've read that it is a good creative idea to have a photographic theme that you pursue over your creative lifetime.  I suppose it gives you a fixed reference to measure your progress and to try different approaches...a friend said her dad took a photo of an empty chair wherever they went, and he had hundreds of them. Or maybe I read that somewhere.  Anyway, I thought that was a neat idea.  I've been thinking what mine might be.  The chair idea is a really good one but I thought I should give figuring out my own a go.

In the meantime, I've been seeing the beauty in the everyday.  The way the dogs are back lit when they stand in the doorway to the hall and "grrr" to get my attention, or the way the light falls across the floor.  This is one of those things I saw when I was focusing on something else.

This is one of two items I bought at the primitive art show that happens around my birthday every year.  I love them hanging on doors and have moved them a couple times.  I like the idea of art tucked here and there.