"our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” ::stephen pressfield::
[the conversation in progress is about sand spurs]
lori: today i found one right here on my sweater and all i did was walk from my house to the car.
bryan: how did that happen? did you roll to your car?
carolyn: they’re sand spurs. all you have to do is walk out the front door and they just all go [shlup] – and they’re all over you.
lisa: one time i got a huge burdock caught in my hair.
matthew: your hair? how did it get stuck in your hair?
lisa: [in a tone that would indicate to most the following scenerio was a completely normal, everday, common experience...] well, when you’re 3 years old and you’re riding your tricycle and you run into a sheep…
[group momentarily quiet & confused - wondering if they heard right]
carolyn: did you just say, you ran into a sheep with your tricycle when you were 3?
lisa: yep. took forever to get that burdocks out of my hair. it was huge!
hahahahaha!
but seriously, sandspurs are evil. and, now i fear i will have nighmares about giant burdock covered sheep.
my mom loves astronomy (not astrology, that stuff is wierd… astronomy is the study of the stars and planets). i have to say, she’s starting to get me hooked. it’s so cool to think outside our little earth… and all we have to do is look up.
so last night (top to bottom) venus, the moon, jupiter and mercury took center stage at twighlight. is was so pretty. now, i didn’t have a tripod… so this picture was taken up against a split rail fence at ISO 1800 … so, it’s a little grainy. but at least it’s sharp. pretty cool. this was taken from doe hill on the blue ridge parkway overlooking spruce pine. it’s amazing how much you can see up here in the mountains without all the city lights.
