On my trip I got to meet Amal, who got tired out and had to rest. He has a place behind the desk on the windowsill where he likes to have a contemplative time out.
Meeting Amal
On my trip I got to meet Amal, who got tired out and had to rest. He has a place behind the desk on the windowsill where he likes to have a contemplative time out.
I hiked with my aunt Pat in Covington, Virginia yesterday. The foliage is so different from the West Coast and I am enjoying the cicadas….
This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Monday #72. Sunset at Larrabee State Park last week.
Another photograph from last summer, at Lake Matinenda, Ontario, Canada. When the loons call I call back and sometimes we have a conversation….
This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Monday #68. He has a close up what is it? In response, another photograph from my trip from Washington State to Chicago and up into Michigan by train, in 2014. Distance and light and color. And perspective, which I need today.
My End of Life Plan and Wishes are as follows:
1. My plan is that my life should end after a half day of skiing for free at age 125 or 126.
2. My wish is to ski quite brilliantly, smoothly and gracefully, though not as aggressively as at age 110 and below.
3. My plan is that other skiers will ask who that brilliant skier is and that all the lift operators will know.
4. My plan is that I will have a delicious lunch, with a glass of champagne, in a condo overlooking the slopes.
5. I plan to have a hot tub and then a massage from one of the many handsome men who flirt with me.
6. My plan is that I will sit in a comfortable leather armchair with my feet on a foot stool, while three of my male friends vie to be the one to bring me the second glass of champagne.
7. My wish is that I will not need any cosmetic surgery or false eyes or ears or teeth or joints or heart valves and will retain my spleen, teeth, gall bladder, appendix and brain in full operating order.
8. My plan is that I will not be on prescriptions, medicines, vitamins, supplements, medical foods, or nutraceuticals nor under the care of any quacks of any sort.
9. My wish is that my male flirts will all think that I am not a day over 75.
10. My wish is that I will be listening to live music, a woodwind quartet or string quartet, just dropped in to say hello, along with three of my great grandchildren, showing off their olympic ski medals, summa cum laude graduation documents, or Nobel prizes.
11. My plan is that after the quartet leaves, I will fall asleep….
12. ….and not wake up, and that though my attendants are sad, none of them throws themselves off the balcony over the cliff and are all surprised at my true age and at the bountiful gifts I have left to each of them with proof that a long life and compounded interest have excellent results. My children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will live long and prosper as well.
I took this in 2014 on my return train trip from Chicago to Edmonds, Washington and home.
I stopped driving to work to see these, and another doe and fawn yesterday right in front of my house. The doe was outside the fence and hopped in. I don’t know if a gate is open somewhere or whether she’s raising them in this yard or whether they can hop that fence already too….
After the graduation ceremony was over, we wandered around theΒ Washington State University campus to take pictures. My son explained that the window on the top of the library is called the Nipple of Knowledge, an important photography destination.Β Hooray for all of the graduates and many thanks to the font of learning!
This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Monday #60, a tiny web spun to a rose bud….
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