October 12, 2011
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put down the camera
So I’ve discovered you can’t really take a picture of the moon. Ok. I can’t. Which I suppose is just fine. Photography not my thing anyhow. What you can’t see from this picture was amazing. The moon itself had those very cool and clear dark patches (and was coincidentally the same moon from my car fire/foot long caterpillars and alien invasion dream- but that’s another story.) Then a ring around the moon which you can almost see in this boring photo. What you can’t at all see was the second ring and the clouds shifting the image. Yea, ok. Guess you had to be there. And maybe you were. Because I was quietly singing “somewhere out there” in my head and having contemplations about shinyness and cosmic connections and stuff. You may point and laugh. It’s ok.
150 year old oak tree from across the street. It dumps leaves for fabulous leaf piles, keeps the squirrels very busy, and is generally just a tribute to how fleeting we are in the scheme of things.There. I figured out how to stick in photos. Now I’m like everybody else. Yea, me.
Comments (24)
they’re very nice thank you very much but i believe it’s “yay me”.
@complicatedlight - yea, varily. it appears ye are right. how that pains me. all this time, been congratulating myself the wrong way.
…varily? i’ll say.
aren’t you supposed to be at work or something?
@complicatedlight - my internal spellchecker appears to be on the fritz this morning. thanks for pointing it out. now i’m going to a place where the words i have to spell are short.
i’m sorry……i’m a bad man. *hangs head*
@complicatedlight - and you think i’m going to try to make you feel better now? i don’t think so. *grins wickedly*
*head falls completely off and rolls down gently sloping hill, finally coming to rest (more precisely brought to a rest) by an unsightly pile of dog poo.*
@complicatedlight - seriously, if i could stop laughing i might try to tell you that you’re not really all that bad but i’d probably end up misspelling another word and then we’d be starting all over again and neither of us really wants that because one head resting near a pile of dog poo per day is really my limit and probably doesn’t smell all that great to you either
lol. fortunately, as my head is disembodied from my lungs, i’m not really breathing too well, and so can’t fully imbibe the essence; nevertheless the scent still permeates due to diffusion. that’s simple physics. can’t stop that.
though it could be worse. is what i’m sayin’.
@complicatedlight - yup. it could be worse. it could be kitten poo which is way more toxic than dog poo and probably wouldn’t so much stop your head from rolling so your head would still be rolling down that hill but covered in … you get the idea. the point here being that maybe you oughtta not be picking on my crappy early morning spelling and such.
I DO WHAT I WANT YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ME
@complicatedlight - by all means. do what you want. it’s your head.
I AM MY OWN WORST EMENY
@complicatedlight - don’t want to be my friend no more
I have trouble with night photos too. I’m sure there are people around here who can tell us both how to make them work but the word imagery is better anyway.
Glad to see some pics….there is a lot to photograph besides the moon.
@drawmafreezone - i’m told there’s a button for nighttime. but i’m also told there’s a button for zoom and i can’t find that either. i have a goal to capture the moon. perhaps i’d be better off using the words anyhow.
@vexations - true enough. it’s a big, beautiful world.
@promisesunshine - My camera doesn’t have a button for the moon. LOL it’s pretty simple and low key.
@drawmafreezone - point and click. and i barely remember from day to day (month to month really) how to download the photos. so not my thing.
you are lucky to have fall colors.
i too have trouble with moon shots and when i do get a nice one, i wonder how i did it. lol
@buddy71 - i have a renewed appreciation for fall thanks to all these xanga photographers. ordinarily i just crank through fall on my way to the dreaded winter.