thoughts from January 2014

nothing says January like a low sun in the sky
I might be in Florida now but I grew up in Michigan
I can feel this photo, the cold sun, the long shade
I miss it 

for like 5 minutes...

 lightening hitting this tree - just wow!
glad it didn't hit me

the most lightening strikes in the US occur in central Florida

don't ask.....

I love these paper fish, they make me happy

this is a friend of mine on his new "bike"
he always rode a unicycle, now it has a training wheel
or at our age - a cane

or the Human View

or the Human Survival View

and I never liked the moniker - global warming

that is just too nice sounding, warming - that sounds like a nice thing

who wants to be cold

but actually it is a lot more serious than that word makes it sound

how about Global Fever?  Global Fever and Chills?

Global Frying and Freezing?  Something more accurate

unbelievable!
and good reason not to go there
they don't need anymore people!


Speaking of civilization 

I think I lived in one of these in a past life
I love them, they are so beautiful

hey kids, we need to do this on our beach 

wow very cool - we want JUSTICE not EQUALITY then

J U S T I C E

are we getting it

this is from the President's State of the Union Address

look at the look on Boener's face

I want to slap that smirk right off - how rude

you would think he would at least be more professional than that!!
so disappointing

good to remember

is it just me or do you laugh out loud when you look at this dog?

even without the rest of it - I mean that look

love this - I am always amazed at the talent of humans

 I am Greek!!  What are you?

this is the migration route of humans in the US - wow

I went from Michigan to California - few lines
California to Washington, then to Oregon - thick lines, everyone was doing it
Oregon to Florida - few lines

when I had a silk screening business years ago

I called it abracaDEBORAH

(pretty clever huh)

oh and my mom said Deborah was a Hebrew name....
(she was Episcopalian)

this was my logo

drawn by my friend Seiza -

the great and powerful!

thanks again sweetie!!

my most used words from 2013 Facebook

Something True
Water Year

Elizabeth Friend
Thanks West
Think Project
Florida Right
Wow Birthday
Great Day
One Hope
Love Mexico
Friends Today
Kids Family
Writer's Believe


yep that about sums me up

xxoo

I seem to be on a January hiatus

I seem to be

"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"

thanks to Ray Troll for knowing just how I am feeling.....

that reminds me,

I have a great story about Ray.

When I was the executive director of a small non-profit in Washington State,

called, Wild Olympic Salmon,

we decided to sponsor a marathon to raise money -

we called it the Salmon Run.

What we needed was a catchy logo.

We loved Ray Trolls work and were all big fans.  He lived in Alaska, we even had some friends who knew him.....

So we are at a meeting and have to make some decisions, I say, let's write to Ray.  Ha ha ha.

Oh come on, someone says.  Call him, F. says, yeah, call him.

Ok, right, so I look on his webpage, call the number and fall off my chair

when someone answer's, Ray here.

Brilliant me, the first thing I can think of is to say was, oh my god, you answer you own phone!

After some conversation, turned out he was a regular famous artist kinda guy

and he said he would work up a logo and donate it to us -

unbelievable

he was a fish guy, but still unbelievable and yet true.

He is one hell of a nice guy.

I have long since lost the artwork he did for our run.

The group fell apart - well blew apart in the late 90's

(founders syndrome - spread like wild fire - deadly)

but here are some of my favorites

we were the salmon people

 and we could totally relate to the fish themes

it was so us

this was our favorite

http://www.trollart.com/home.html 

George Harrison - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IV9gxHhwM   

January 1st 2014

it was overcast but not cool

the steel gray made it feel like New Years Day to me

so

first Kayaking of the year

we put into Lemon Bay at a dead-end street

 about a half mile from the house

it's an old section of town and the houses

are set back and they left the trees

it lovely

just past them are the newer houses

they couldn't be uglier

right next to the water, hardly any trees

we paddled up the bay to the Lemon Bay Park

a huge undeveloped area right on the bay - no houses

except this main building where they have talks and whatever

the shore is wild for miles - old Florida

with lots of little beaches

and mangroves

we have a favorite beach about a mile north

that is still in the park

nobody comes up this far - we have it to ourselves

it comes with a great water view

we had a picnic and played cribbage

 I won - but not by much as you can see

the winning hand - not terrific but it did the job

always sad to leave

this is an invasive Brazilian pepper bush/tree on the beach

it is so Christmasy with the red and green

like the beach was decorated for the holiday

heading home we stopped and checked out the herons

and they checked out us

Happy Everything in 2014