A walk in the parking lot.

I had to take my son, David, to the doctor yesterday morning because his eye was swollen, red and irritated. He has no insurance so we went to the medical center by Fred Meyer's on 72nd. I had my camera along because I try to ALWAYS have my camera along. I told him that I would take a photo walk while I waited for him. He did not like that idea because he felt that the neighborhood around there had really deteriorated in recent years, and so, he admonished me. I do know that area has deteriorated a lot, but my plan was to walk IN the parking lot so I told him that. He looked around from the car and said, "Oh. I don't see anything to take pictures of out there." I said, "Don't worry. I will find things and the walk will be good for me. I'll stay right here in the parking lot between here and Fred Meyer." He was OK with that and went in to see the doctor. I got out and took my walk. Here are some of the results. Amazing what you can find in a parking lot.












This was not staged. They were really sitting there just like that.


















Obviously, I played with this one.


And this one.


But this was just growing out of the top of a trimmed hedge like a rebel.

October

I so want to do the October blog, but can I really handle 61 days of blogging with all I have to do right now? Plus, I would have to pre-write for the days that I will be gone to the ocean. I guess not. I will save my energy for November. I should have a lot more free time by then because I'm hoping to finish up most of my project stuff on that week off minus the four nights and three days at the ocean. Nine minus three leaves six whole days. We will see how much I can do. It sure helps having the boys here.

Scarecrow

Long ago, but not far away, I used to do ceramics. I would go weekly to this nice lady's house and buy, clean and paint ceramic figurines. It was a fun artistic pursuit and I made a lot of cute things to use during holiday seasons. I painted a really nice scarecrow and a lovely witch on a pumpkin for the fall season and halloween. Sadly, I got rid of the witch during a witch hunt. Sometimes people get some crazy ideas. What can I say?
I still have the scarecrow, however. Well, I technically don't have him. I let Keri keep him after Thanksgiving last year or maybe the year before. She always liked him and I can still see him when she puts him up at her house. Since I am giving her sister one of my paintings I figure it works out quite nicely that they will each have a piece of my artwork.
We went over to Keri's the other day for Logan's birthday and she met me at the car to tell me that she had a surprise for me. She took me in to see it. It was a nice surprise. I had entered both the witch and the scarecrow in the fair back when I first made them and they both won ribbons. The scarecrow won a BLUE ribbon! I was so excited! Her dad was going through things and he found the blue ribbon and brought it to her for the scarecrow.

Doesn't he look lovely with his blue ribbon hanging from his arm?


And here is his backside.


I think he looks pretty good for being over thirty. He's probably at least 37. I would have to go research some pictures to remember the exact year. Or maybe I scratched it into the bottom of the piece. I'll have to look next time I'm over there.