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Harley Bye Bye

harley on trailerSo not the best photo but the sun was bright, the camera so so, and the nut behind the lense to hot to care if it came out super fantastic LOL.

Yes, here is the photo that marks a major deal in this life of mine. The Harley loaded on Billy’s trailer headed off to Nevada. I am still kind of bummed about this. Thinking last night after they left I realized that not having a motorcycle at any particular time is not really that big of a deal. During the years I have chosen not to ride or not to own a bike for different reasons. This time though it is different, I did not choose to not be able to ride, MS choose it for me. This is the piss off!

The blow was softened because it was Billy taking it away. We share many awesome memories that envolve motorcycles. When Billy was a kid we would jump on my bike of the time and go riding. It was neat to find out that he considers those times as some of his special moments growing up. We use to ride throught the foothills and discuss the way the temperature layers worked always trying to hit the nice cool spot to pull over and enjoy the smells, fauna, and fora.

Billy truly is the only one who “gets” how hard this is.  It is closing on something special we shared. Now that he is all grown up with a family of his own, he just like myself understands that riding as a passenger is not an option, we are both to hung up on image and control for that. I know, I know it is silly but hey I am being honest. My partner does not get it really – gets that I love to ride and the frustration of not being able to do so –  but to says it is only a piece of machinery that no one here is using.

Part of me hopes that he does not end up having to sell the bike to raise some bucks (we shall know at the end of the month) so he can enjoy the ride. The other part of me hope he does sell it because he has two kids under 18 and I have turned into a nerdy old fart that worries about the dangers. Hypocritical as it sounds what is good for me is not good for those I worry about and love – LOL.

Orange You Glad I Typed

orangeHere is one of my favorite orange shots. I took it in 2007. it was one of my first macro shots that captured what my eyes and brain were seeing.

I loved the powder laying there, the pollen, ready to perpetuate the species.

I have always been fond of bright colors. Orange is one of those colors that I can not wear – it makes me look jaundice, as do browns, and yellows.

Noticing the little things, the small  details that many pass by, comes naturally to me. I miss being able to hike somewhere and find the little hidden gems.  Colorful moss on a rock, rusty old nails along a shore where a town used to thrive,  and birds resting after flight.

Sometimes it really pisses me off when other blogger s with MS write about all the cool things they are doing.  I get jealous. Then again the MS Societies pamphlets, videos, etc. usually show young, good looking people that relay a positive outtake – good PR? Trying to keep us positive?

I am not so positive about my vision doing wonky things.  I hope sometime this summer my eyes will be clear and my balance and legs muscles will allow me to get out and snap some shots.  My camera has the fully automatic mode but it just kills me to dumb down and use it.

I had a dream the other night were the orange flowers were turning into the orange logo’s of MS. I woke up thinking how crappy that was. There I was hiking up a hill and every time my lens was focused on the poppies they turned into out of focus MS logos! How suck-o is that??

What In Your Cell Phone

I decided to clean out the photos from my cell phone.

It is kind of a log of where I have been. Who knows what possessed me to shoot some of these pics. There are all the standard pics of friends to use on the caller ID so I can look down and see whose calling.

There are pics like this one taken when we brought the boat home after my buddy won it on Ebay for me Click on it to hear one of my ring tones

boat and fishing in the dark song

And then there is this shot taken when I got stuck in the middle of some police action zone and could not go foward, backward, so I just had to sit the bored and curious at the same time. I bet you can guess the ring tone for this one.

police and bad boys song clip

gauge snowroad
road1 snow

I do remember the temp gauge. I finally got my truck doors un-frozen enough to actually get inside. That is what the gauge showed after it had been running for about five minuets – it seemed like forever as  I was dang cold.  This California gal so does not do snow storms well – burr . …

Well those are a few of the 500mb of photos on my cell phone.

Ring tones are a whole different deal. I have more ring tones than stored phone numbers. I don’t have a good reason for any of this. Just so you know I don’t (oh gasp) have internet access activated on my phone. I don’t use it as an ipod because it kill the battery too fasts rendering it useless for its primary purpose – a phone.  But when I am bored or decide some moment must be noted I do snap away and I will confess that I do have a video on it from Happy Feet because it cracks me up.

It is amazing what I have stored on the flash card of my cell phone, useful and useless. Cleaning out my cell phone is way easier than cleaning the closet. But it is just as cluttered.

I remember when you actually dialed a number.  I suppose I could have taped a photo of something to the phone and listened to the radio . …

Themes that go Snap

Obviously,  to those of you who view this site every once in awhile the new theme is gone. It displayed odd in IE and I spent too much time trying to figure out why the recent comments would not align correctly in the container.  Odd it is that I never found a site, including the theme authors, that displayed recent comments. Umm I think that is a clue … oh snap !

I am hoping that this theme will work out.  From dark to light blog goes. I sort of like the cleanness of it.

I hope to decide on a color scheme soon.  I am partial to the bright greens, my favoite color is blue, but I am leaning towards red? Or, maybe an orange shade. Decisions, decisions, . …

photo of big ugly head statue in fountain

Oh yeah check out the search feature and tell me what you think of it.  I like playing with the blog and content tabs and then looking at the results of the “whats the connection” link – very cool to me.  How about you?