Skywatch Monday

Okay, so I'm cheating a tiny bit.  This is one of my favorites from this past week, from outside my friend Wendy's house.  Lovely weather we're having!

Annnnd.... we're back!

To quote a long-lost rock singer: "School's out for-ever!"  I found out on Friday that my final case study/thesis paper was accepted, I have passed my final class and I have my Masters degree.  It's been a long, tough three years and I admit that there were times when I thought I would never finish, and times when all I wanted to do was quit, but I made it through and now I have three more letters after my name.  The best part about it is that now I can concentrate on photography.  I went to day to one of the local antique stores and bought a couple of old picture frames which I'm hoping to use to display some of my work at a local arts center.  The theme is "Rhymes with Orange" and I'm thinking of using one or two of these. 

I got nuthin'

I knew I would finally get to this point, where I couldn't think of a single thing to blog about.  At the risk of sounding repetitive, the only thing going on in my life right now is my final paper for grad school.  It is consuming my waking and sleeping thoughts, to the point where I've become totally boring because I can't think or talk about anything else.  On the positive side, my dear husband, who is also getting his Master's degree this month, has planned a getaway for us this weekend which I have rented a fabulous new lens for and which I am going to try to enjoy as much as possible, even though it means I probably won't get much sleep for the rest of the weekend.  Wish me luck!!

Little cat feet

One of my favorite poems is almost not a poem at all.  Carl Sandburg wrote it in 1913 and included it in a collection that he called "Chicago Poems".  It's one of the first poems that I learned and has always made me think of San Francisco with warmth and love, even though the fog itself can be cold and wet.

The fog comes in
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Wednesday reflections

Every Sunday morning we have this routine.  We go somewhere for breakfast, then we gas up the car, then we go to the supermarket.  Pandora, who usually loves to get out and do things and go places, dislikes the supermarket intensely because the floors are very slippery and she has trouble keeping her legs under her.  Not the best situation for a guide dog.  I took this a couple of weeks ago when I was waiting to pick up a couple of lattes from Peet's.  I was scanning the bakery case for Cake Wrecks (you know, just in case!) and I happened to turn around and there she was, sprawled out on the floor and looking very unhappy!  She's a little braver about it now, but secretly I think she wishes she could just stay in the car.

Is it, can it be spring yet?

If there's one thing I really love to do, it's go for walks around a neighborhood and see what kind of photos I can get.  When the weather's not good, I like to go to the store and get a bunch of flowers to practice on.  I did that the other day and came up with this one.  Totally not what I had in mind, but I love it so much, I had a canvas made of it.

Here's the original

And here's how the canvas came out

I'm pretty excited about how it came out, since it's the first photo I've tried to enlarge beyond 8x10.  Now I just have to figure out where to hang it.  



Monday, Monday

"Can't trust that day
Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way"

It's another grey, gloomy, rainy Monday here in the City by the Bay, so I went back into the archives to find a skywatch photo from a much prettier day.  Sometimes the clouds over Park Street are just wonderful.