i have joined the on-line community...fred made me do it.
its pretty cool though, lots of peeps i haven't talked to in a while. i hope they confirm me as a friend. wouldn't that be horrible-oh i remember you, but you are not "friend" worthy. we'll see how long it lasts anyway.
I realized I am never going to get any better at photography unless I actually take a class. So I am officially signed up for one this fall which meets for 6 weeks. The funny thing is, I have always loved taking pictures, but I have never taken a class. Well, I took a dark room class, but never a class on how my camera works i.e. how to change the F stop and aperture. I did buy a book on photography, and one of the first things I read was how much equipment professional photographers use to get great pictures...like the pictures in National Geographic. Like the ones I always think I can take, and then am so disappointed when not even one of my pictures looks anything close to that quality. The book further stated that you see only the best picture, out of hundreds the photographer took. How inspirational. The good thing is I am not trying to make a living out of it. Although, that would be nice too.
I saw this in the paper today:
"A lot of people are talking about an incident in Texas where a young couple, rushing their dying dog to a veterinarian, was stopped by a police officer. The man was driving 100 miles per hour while talking on his cell phone with the vet’s office. When stopped late at night, the officer repeatedly yelled at the hysterical driver, and at one point told him “It’s only a dog, you can get another one.”
The dog, a teacup poodle named Missy, died as the couple waited 20 minutes for the officer to write a ticket. The couple believes the officer took that long on purpose. The police say the driver was a menace."
Here is the video:
What an unfortunate situation. I would ABSOLUTELY break the law to save my heathens, Monty and Gerdie...but not at the price of harming myself and all the other drivers on the road. Over 100 mph while on the cell phone does not make for a great combination, especially when you are that upset. However, the police officer does come off like quite an a-hole. "It's only a dog, you can get another one," excuse me who the hell are you to tell me my pets are not like my children? If you lose your job for this incident...it's only a job, you can get another one! Obviously neither party involved handled this situation appropriately, but if he had pulled over a driver with a sick child, there is no doubt the officer would have escorted them to the hospital. Anyway, I feel for the couple who lost their pet under such horrific circumstances. And I also hope the police officer can see how inappropriately he handled the situation and caused more emotional stress to an already clearly upset family.
I had to go to SC for a job a couple of weeks ago...to the country. We stopped in a small (one block long small) town for lunch; the food sucked, but at least the town was cute and provided for some photographic opportunities.
My mom just called to tell me my Aunt Winnie died. She was my Great-Grandfather Morgan's sister, and was just a few days short of her 109th birthday! The crazy thing is, her care-giver, an edlery woman herself, died at EXACTLY the same time. Goes to show there is more going on in the world than we can see.
By DANA DeFEVER
Newhouse News Service
Published on: 08/05/08
FLINT, Mich. — Sometimes, Sherrie Lynn Palmer can't even walk her dogs down her street without vehicles beeping at her, mistaking her for a prostitute. So she decided to act.
After watching drug dealers and prostitutes doing business on the street and finding hypodermic needles and condoms left in their yard, she and Russ Palmer have posted a sign outside their home: "No Ho Zone."
"We don't want it here," said Sherrie Lynn Palmer, a 48-year-old budding artist who made the sign featuring drawings of eyes watching the street and a dog chasing a prostitute.
"There's a lot of really good people around here. I don't want to sit here and let the crime fester. ... It all starts with the prostitutes. It brings everything else."
Russ Palmer, 57, got the idea for the slogan after seeing a report on the ozone level.
The couple have lived in the house for four years. When they first moved in, they opened an antique shop, but the illegal activities on the street deterred customers. They closed the business after also having health problems.
The criminals and prostitutes don't live in the area anymore but they still choose to do their business there, sometimes throughout the day, Sherrie Lynn Palmer said.
"It would be a relief if it was only at night," she said.
There are hopes of cleaning up the streets and the neighborhood. Since the sign went up in May, there has been less activity on the streets, the Palmers said.
"The area's coming up to what we want. We're just waiting it out," she said. "I think it's a sign of hope."
Presale tickets went on sale yesterday for one of my favorites, Ray Lamontagne. I got 4th row center, at the Tabernacle. Be here now....
