WineontheKeyboard

You know how some people carefully plan out their pictures? They crop them and set them up in beautiful designs in their scrapbooks? Or at least they buy photo albums and stuff their photos in there?

That is so not me. You’re more likely to find photos I like tucked all around my house.

Like taped up all around my window beside my computer where I can see them every time I look out the window. Or tucked under a magnet on my fridge. Or slipped into the mirror’s edge on my dresser. At Christmas time, when anyone sends me a photo in their Christmas card, I tuck it into the “seam” on my kitchen cabinets. The kitchen is cheerfully decorated with pictures of friends and family for the holiday season.

I WANT to be a scrapbooker. I really do. It’s such a great idea. It’s just that I never take the time to do it. I also worry that I’ll tuck all these photos in gorgeous scrapbooks…and hardly ever take them out to look at them. The way I have them scattered all around the house, I see them all the time. An ever changing vista of happy memories.

I also love to make DVD slide shows of photos set to music. Though, once again, how many times do people really play these DVDs?

How about you? Are you a scrapbook person? A blow them up and frame them person? Stuff them in a box? Make slideshows? What do you do with your photos?

Photography by Kacey
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My kids used to always say that to me. “Mom, he’s looking at me!” Like that was some kind of ultimate transgression. Okay, I do miss that kind of funny nonsense around here sometimes. Sometimes.

But, who knew the birds would start talking nonsense to me too?

I spotted this lovely yellow shafted flicker out my window. Haven’t seen one in a very long time. He paused and posed for me, thinking he might be the next America’s Top Model or something.

“Hey, lady, are you looking at me? Are you trying to figure out what type of bird I am?”

“Here, can’t you tell by the spot on the back of my neck? I’m a Yellow Shafted Flicker!”

(Me? Silly me. *I* thought the bird was bowing down to my photography greatness)

“Okay, fine, lady. Here’s a better shot. Make sure you get it from an angle. Catch my highlights.”

“Sigh. Let me make this easier for you, lady. See the yellow shafts on my tail? Hm, think that’s why they call me a yellow shafted flicker?”

“Are you about finished, lady? ‘Cause I want to go back to eating. ‘kay?”

Kacey’s note: I don’t really think it’s fair for these birds to talk back to me too. Must be a male… And as a total aside, I kept wanting to type in Flickr (like my photo site) not flicker.

Photography by Kacey
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. ~ Agatha Christie

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I’m SO into my second blooming now and I love it. So much to try, learn, explore. How about you?

Photography by Kacey
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