Fall Is Blowing Away!
Art is blooming online. This is what I wanted, and I hope to be part of it. What have I been doing? Valiantly trying to grow in art and photo between job sessions and outside work. This year's leaves have peeped their way in. I kept up until the last few days which have been hell. I'm out raking in snow and trying to drag the stuff to the end of the driveway. I'm a rebel. I don't drag my stuff to the area right by the street for pickup, I make a pile at the end of my driveway and stomp on it, like a vat of grapes (I Love Lucy rerun, where I learned this) to get it down flat, and I keep doing this. Then I erect a small fence on either side of the drive. They still have room to come in to the drive to shift the leaves to the street for pickup. I do this because I do not like the slight tracking on the yard, when the leaves sit right by the street. I hope this keeps working. I checked twice yesterday, and before, to see if this was alright again, this year. It was. Hence I was raking and blowing leaves ALL DAY to make sure when the final DROP came there was not an over burden of leaves to take care of. I have a tree which is going to drop, and one that will probably drop in Dec!! Always fun to rake then, if I do at all. I wish I had help in this, it is really a two man job. I still have more to do. They drop on the roof and stick to the roof, and the leaves are thick in the eves. It's been raining and is said to stop. I hope it does. This is not a fun time, although I love being out...but I got no tree color shots because of it.
My high school girlfriend had a trip planned with a friend to go to Israel this fall. Yup, they were there when the war started, and had to wait 5 days until they got out! I had no idea, until she emailed me, and sat here watching all the news for weeks! Had to think, when I was younger I went to things like that, but I didn't think, in the end, I would find anyone, so I stopped going. This was so horrible. Only kids, just starting out, looking for friends and maybe marriage. Again I watch something I can't do anything about. Something and horrible death. Why not punch, don't kill to get your point across. Walk out, anything, not death. I fear these people want to take over. And, if this goes to form, in the future, there will be concessions. And it will be resolved, although I don't know about this time. Why do people have to kill to get their point across? Is that the only thing that will work? Sometimes opposing sides see that other people have another opinion and one side will walk out to get mediation . But sometimes people are too much of enemies to mediate. And, as here, the common man is caught in the middle and could be killed!!! And how to tell the two apart? An innocent common man, or a common man waiting to jump on the bandwagon and join the war. Another bad war.
My art is going well. I keep loosening up, but I like to see where this is going. I plan too much to do, and would like to make a couple of diary freeze pictures, that I can't get to. There is so much I have to do, going on, I can't get to it. One is a crane flying into a spring woods, another is a falcon sitting against a sunrise. These are hard for me to try and do in watercolor. I can't foresee watercolor, so I may be inserting corrections of part of the picture so the whole thing goes together better. You can't make mistakes in physical watercolor! Also I have not been able to get a couple of drawings up. But these can be corrected in the computer - no sweat! But no time. And I'm doing two other things, which I can speak of till it is done. I'm about to drop out. Last night I actually cried and got really mad...like a wild animal because I didn't want to clean up the house after the horrific day of dealing with leaves. (I live alone, so no one but the house could get hurt!) I can't just walk in the door and jump in a shower! I have to really clean myself real good, deal with my dirty clothes and clean the floors...even though I'm a (shoes off at the door and walk with clean socks in the house) kind of person. Sometimes it's two more hours of clean up after I get done with leaves or mowing! And it's work before I go out, because I have to get in special clothes that are only for working in the yard. I see others just blowing through yard work, even some who are wearing Good Clothes while doing it!!!! And while I'm doing this, Halloween and photos pass by. But the last two preceding falls, I have taken too many pictures. But this fall, the trees tended to stand still with their color leaves longer. I did get a couple of shots. And some before, with green. Trouble with that is most need some kind of editing to get them right. I think I had only one to two that stood alone, just as taken. But there were also some good shots for editing! So I've got to go and do one of my things. I've got three things I can't get to, to do today.
I've decided to keep another diary (if I can find one that is public) and write in it when I'd like to write thoughts or something...and keep writing in this one sometimes. I'll give you the address when I get it set up. I can't find one yet that takes pictures. I can't be picky if I want to get this set up. I hope you can get to it. If not maybe there will be another way. Not that I am so popular a journal keeper. I will post in Live Journal also sometimes. I'm missing posts and thoughts, if I don't do this. Please know that I'm not stopping Live Journal because I like Russians, or the Russian Astronauts I've seen on television. But I have never been, and could in the past hardly afford to travel to Russia. (And there are other people from other countries posting in Live Journal.) In not being to the country I can't tell where the foot fall is with all the public and private people. I tend to like my Russian tendencies, but that is only what I have to go on. Being an artist I can't see beyond that. I do have an American foot fall, and I am generally happy here. And I like my Russian and other tendencies. But if America is widely hated or less liked by Russia, I don't really know it, and no one else that I trust 100% is talking to me, so I would believe it. If that is so, I am sorry I have not left yet. But Russians are people just like everyone else on the planet and I find it really hard to believe they hate us that much. I don't write in the diary that much and someone in Russia may find it entertaining to find out what one American is doing and feeling. So this is the only thing I can think of to do. I hope you can get to the site once I get it set up. If Live Journal closes in the future, just boot me out. I can find another blog/journal/diary and place to post my photos. Unless the Internet goes out. Thanks for reading this! Maybe I won't change it.
Jasperita
