Long ago, when I was a girl, my grandmother had a plaque that said, "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get." That often seems to be my life. When I started updating my website, I promised myself I'd put together a blog post at least once a month. So far, I've (mostly) kept that promise. This month, I just realized I need to do some additional research on my planned post, and I'm suddenly down to my deadline! What to write about???
The purpose of my self-imposed deadline here is twofold. I want to improve my writing skills, and I want to try to diminish my procrastination skills. So far, the procrastination skills are still working overtime! So is my [self-diagnosed] ADD (I actually have no idea if I have ADD; maybe it's simply laziness and a lack of focus). But my ability to keep on task has been terrible during the pandemic, although I can't really blame it completely. I've always been a better employee than my own boss. I always preferred to read rather than do homework; to be out driving and walking and taking pictures rather than sitting at the computer post-processing those images; and even vacuuming floors rather than working on my taxes. So, I'm grumbling as I go about trying to come up with a not-quite-ridiculous blog post.
On a more positive note, here is an older project I worked on for a competition several years ago. It was an attempt to take a single image and see how many ways I could make the original photo look different by using different texture effects and processes. It was accepted into the show, which was certainly gratifying; however, I haven't done anything quite like this since then. As the title indicates, the idea of hot-air ballooning seems like fun (and no, I haven't tried it - my camera is afraid of heights!), and the project was a fun learning experience for me. I also ended up liking several of these as stand-alone images, although they aren't on my website just yet. Another self-imposed deadline: post those images this week.
I'm attempting to get to know a new image processing app as well, with the hope that it will give me a boost of inspiration. Maybe I'm just in the end-of-winter doldrums creatively. And working on 2021 tax preparation has not been helping my mood at all. Fortunately, that task will be done soon - but in the meantime, I'm grumbling. In Colorado, we're in one of our four roller-coaster weather seasons; today has been really spring-like and pretty; but I'm here typing instead of walking. Actually, I love the weather in Colorado. I seldom grumble about our weather because we have such a wonderful variety - I've literally experienced warm sunshine, rain, sleet and thundersnow within an hour!
This post has certainly not been particularly focused - just about as random as the images I've included. But I do have to say this image of a window box full of nasturtiums always makes me smile. Maybe it's because the pretty flowers seem to have overcome some pretty long odds in that container in front of a house I believe was empty, and that they were not only blooming but appeared to be thriving. That somehow feels like many of my friends during the pandemic - dealing with some pretty tough changes to their lives, but finding ways to thrive in spite of it. Can't grumble about that!
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