Cell Phone Pic Purge
Over the weekend Jodi (wife of this particular splinter of the collective consciousness) sent a pic message of Ana (daughter of this particular splinter of the collective consciousness) from her swimming lesson, and when I saved it, my cell phone told me it was full. So, I decided to offload the picture vault…and I was surprised to find photos that were a couple of years old already! Time really does fly…sort of felt like I was taking a voyeuristic piddle through my own attic, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, here are a few, with more to follow sporadically, periodically, maybe even redundantly.
William (son of this particular splinter of the collective consciousness) plays drums in the 8th-grade band, and takes extra lessons from a guy in a recording studio behind a mattress store on one of the main drags through Rocket City.
When it’s not mid-summer and 120 degrees without a breeze, I wait in the car, because, let’s face it: two guys on two drums knocking out paradiddles and flams at breakneck speed…let’s just say the volume is just about perfect from the street outside.
Anyway, he’d just finished a lesson and jumped back in the car when I snapped a portrait.
Ana, meet Randy; Randy meet Ana.
Ana was only 1.5 (good grief, she’s already 3.5 going on 14 now…) when she — let’s be honest — infiltrated Randy’s (a.k.a. Muttzer) favorite space (especially when it’s thundering) underneath the built-in desk in the kitchen.
Randy looks thrilled. Ana looks like she wants to touch a doggy eyeball or stick her finger up his doggy nose.
No sweat, they are fast friends now…
Tyler (another son of this particular splinter of the collective consciousness) is clearly enjoying a trip to Bridge Street Town Center.
Bridge Street is one of those new urbanism projects designed so people can live/work/shop/play in the same locale, which saves a lot of gasoline, reduces carbon emissions, and plays hell with the plastic in your wallet.
On closer look, I think Tyler’s most excited to discover the Victoria’s Secret establishment behind him has finally installed their window displays. Or, maybe we were trying to decide where to eat lunch and he was using sign language for “Hooters.” You can never be too sure with Tyler.
Jodi and I took a weekend getaway to Atlanta around our third anniversary a couple of years ago. And what’s more romantic than searching around the MARTA subway downtown trying to locate the escalator Warren Beatty rode to the hereafter in Heaven Can Wait? (If you wanna know, it’s the longest of four in the Peachtree Center station, and as can be seen from this superlong escalator video, the view down is even scarier than the view up.)
From below, it really does look like it’s sort of taking Jodi up to heaven…stay away from the light! Don’t go into the light!
Anyway, that was one escalator where I opted not to take the stairs.
This is a United States Postal Service mailbox wrapped to look like C-3PO.
Yeah, yeah, for crying out loud, I know it’s R2-D2. Just testing ya’ :-)
Remember, this was 2007 — the thirtieth anniversary of George Lucas’s Star Wars film. Apparently the U.S. Postal Service wrapped a lot of their mailboxes across the nation to celebrate. Who says the government can’t do anything right?! :-)
Me! Me! MEEEEEE!
If you look closely, there’s a big ol’ tall building in the background.
I’m standing in front of it…and I think to myself, hey…I have a camera in my phone!
It was a pretty nice day with a nice breeze flapping the flags…and then add my face…what could be more perfect! ;-) ;-) ;-) Ahhh-Hahhahhahhaa…
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Nice to see you got rid of the robe, sandals, long hair and beard for your photo. Time does fly, as it seems only yesterday I was taking my brood to grammar school, and am now watching their kids.
Cherise every moment, because before you know it they are graduating from college and finally having kids of their own.
Just to let you know, far better things are ahead. I know I had a blast when they were young and watched and enjoyed as they learned things and listened to your every word. But now that they are adults it is fun to sit across a table and hear their views and opinions, and at times when they were teens I tought they didn’t listen to my words of wisdom and advice, they were listening and storing it away for later use.
I don’t want to rush time for you, but when those grand kids come it is the greatest time of your life. Now you have young kids again, and you can truly enjoy them not having to worry every minute about their health, education and all the other worries of a parent.
Take every picture you can for each is a great memory. During my parents and my time photos were a rarity. I only have a few of me as a child, and what a pleasure it was on our trip to Lithuania, that my wife brought a scanner and I now have pictures of my father in his military uniform and myself when I was one, I now have two photos of my brother who was killed at the age of five as we were fleeing Lithuania during the war.
Enjoy the kids, as I did mine and it will keep you young forever.
What a great looking family!
When I was growing up it seems like Dad was always taking pictures. Every time we turned around, there was Dad. We gave a collective groan at Christmas time (”C’mon kids, it’s time for the Christmas Picture”!)
We have 3 large photo albums full of our childhood and they are priceless.
Thanks for the kind words and thoughts, Pelmo and Lynne. I am enjoying the kids, and when I think about all the difficult times that so many have gone through, I almost feel guilty that I have been so blessed…never got close to having to fight in a war or to escape a country that was at war.
I often wonder if, instead of making quick thumbnail sketches and watercolors, if Monet, Sargent, Van Gogh, etc., had cell phones if they would have just been snapping away instead of grabbing their sketch easels.
Also, there is now always the constant choice…do I absolutely submerge myself in a beautiful moment, or grab the cell phone and try to capture it forever (in case my memory doesn’t make a good capture…) I guess as with most things, a good balance is best! :-)
Nice photos, Joe.
I have boxes of them. Probably too late to label them…due to memory loss…and they have probably degraded badly anyway.
Xman do what my wife is doing. She bought a scanner and when she has time during the winter is scanning all the photos on to her computer and finally on discs for posterity. Plus she can hand out the discs to other people.
Thanks Pelmo.
I guess I should….but, I’m afraid I’ll photoshop everything I scan.
It could take years!
Maybe if I smoke some bud and spin a Hendricks album…..
Xman even if you mess up, you will have a GREAT time doing it.
If I had your email…I’d send you a great photo of a laden gooseberry bush her in wyoming.
It’s pelmo@earthlink.net, and have a great hunting trip.