Photography

I should be working on the bankruptcy case, I have to go to Pocatello tomorrow, with or without Don. I am scared spitless. So, I'll share Don's writing prompt from the writing group tonight. Why don't I share mine? I don't know, maybe I will sometime.

Photography

I wonder if that would work for a picture? Mmmm, maybe this way, perhaps closer, further away. Nah, but get that out of the picture. Snap, snap, snap.

Oh yah, over there. That works!!! Another one. Squat down for a different angle. What if I put those flowers in the foreground?

Well, I have taken some pictures. Now to see how they look on the computer. Guess some will be no good and I will delete, some I will like & keep, some I will decide to keep or delete later.

That one I will put on my screen saver or use as wallpaper. Now that one looks really good, I never thought so before.

This is the last flower in the tractor tire flower garden out front of our house last fall. We got out of the car one Sunday afternoon after church & here was one little flower left. I said how pretty it was sticking up through the leaves.

Fall 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I decided I wanted a picture of it. I got my phone out to snap a picture. Don went into photo mode. He took several shots & moved a garden tool that was still in the garden. After several shots he put them on the computer & chose what he wanted to keep.

Tetons, 7/10/08

 

 

 

The photo of the Tetons was taken one summer in July when he & Don-Mike were coming home from Montana down through Yellowstone National Park. They stopped to have a photo shoot. When Don was finished taking pictures Don-Mike asked, "Did you get any of the mountains?"

Photography is something Don likes & is good at.

Don's favorite vacation

At Tuesday night's writing group, we were given a prompt & had 6 minutes to write something on it. As I mentioned in yesterday's entry, Don spent almost half of his time looking through the journal jar, trying to find something he wanted to write on. He chose "My favorite vacation."

Today, when I was emptying the garbage can next to his computer, I found a piece of paper that had some writing on it, some numbers actually. It was the only piece of paper in there, the other stuff was pop cans & a bag from Big J's (fast food). I pulled the paper out to see if the numbers had any relevance. I opened it & it was Don's writing from Tuesday night.

Car trips have been a way of life for my vacations. Growing up we always went to new and different places, starting with Yellowstone/Tetons. Later I recall Seattle Worlds Fair, Disneyland, national parks, always a new spot. So I don't have one.

When my sister Wanda passed away & we were going through her stuff, I found my writing in her drawer. I had started writing a novel as a teenager & I threw it away. Wanda had dug it out of the garbage & put it in her drawer. I threw it away again.

I don't know that Don has written his life story. If so, I don't know where to find it. Now that I have "saved" this little scrap of Don's memories, I'll throw the paper away.