a blog in search of creativity… and dedicated to my mother for her artistic inspiration
We went to the IMAX Theatre tonight for date night and saw, “Great White Shark.”
(We had originally planned to go to the Tennessee Aquarium as well, but it just was not in the cards today. We had a lot of obstacles. We’ll try to go sometime next week.)
But anyway, the show was great. GREAT!
Great White Shark!
I took the day off today to clean the house.
Yes, I’ve done it for years. I actually LOVE to clean.
It is therapeutic to me. Sick, I know.
But anyway, I stopped long enough to slice one of my pomegranates to get this shot.
Now I’m too tired to write anything else. And my feet hurt. But the house is clean. Well, part of it is.
I notice I’m on an architecture kick now. Hmm.
I’ll have to make a conscious effort to not do that tomorrow.
But anyway, this is the grainery next to the newspaper. I have no idea the name of it. But I like the silos – until they catch on fire. When that happens, we all have to evacuate several blocks. Apparently there would be a serious explosion if it got out of hand.
Consequently, we get a lot of birds in the parking lot. They love all of the excess grain.
Poison ivy grows on a mausoleum in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Chattanooga.
It’s a very old cemetery, and there are a lot of locally famous people buried there.
The primary reason I went there to shoot a photo was because there is a statue of a woman there that looks just like me. It’s spooky.
I did not find her today. I’ll have to try again another day.
This is an exterior wall of the former Ross Hotel in downtown Chattanooga. It is currently up for sale if anyone is interested.
But the bottom portion of it used to contain one of our old stomping grounds called, “Yesterday’s.” That was over 30 years ago. Argh.
Seems like…..well, yesterday.
I had no idea it used to be a hotel. I never gave it any thought past my time spent inside of Yesterday’s. It’s rival hangout was called the Brass Register a couple of blocks over. They both had bands and lots of college kids. They are both long out of business. Styles and tastes changed. Plus, we’ve had a massive renovation downtown. Places like those were no longer popular.
But back in their heyday…….! Wow. We had fun.
It would be really nice if someone could buy and restore the great hotel back to something great. From what I’ve been reading, it was quite a hotel.
I woke up early with a headache this morning, so I decided to explore the settings of my new iphone upgrade.
I mostly played around with the camera settings.
I’m trying my hand at art photography again. Not bad, but I think I’ll stick with the 35mm.
I apologize for the same subject two days in a row – but this one HAD to be posted.
I was working in the yard earlier today when I looked up and saw this scene.
My first thought was, “What on earth is he looking at?”
My second thought was:
Where’s my camera?
But I knew what he was doing. I had given him his peanut butter jar to distract him from scratching. I smear peanut butter inside old plastic jars to give him a treat; but it also gives him a big distraction since it’s not so easy to get all of the peanut butter out.
But it’s especially hard for him with the cone on his head because he can’t hold it with his paws and lick it at the same time.
This was his solution. He stood the jar right side up and licked it that way.
Told you he was smart.
Actually, he’s not a “dim bulb,” at all. Murray is quite smart. He just looks dumb here.
He had surgery on his eye and hip last week, so today was the day to get the stitches out….and to take off his lamp shade – or “Crown,” as we call it.
He was waiting Not So Patiently for the technicians to come back in. He could hear them on the other side of the door. He absolutely LOVES being at the vet. He likes the attention and the treats they all give him.
Told you he wasn’t dumb.
If you look closely at the top left of the frame, the movement you see is his tail wagging. It never stops when he’s there.
But, then again, he never stops moving anyway. He loves life and all it has to offer. The simplest thing delights him.
We should all learn from Mr. Murray.
This is the window from the Cherry Street Diner – formally the original Krystal Building in downtown Chattanooga.
The soldier eating by himself bothered me a bit. Perhaps he was waiting on someone.
One of the storefronts I have photographed for this project – Buckle Co. – has bitten the dust. So, the new owners / tenants are renovating it. Or maybe Buckle Co. is renovating. I do not know.
I also don’t know what the deal is with these pipe elbows.
Why? How many turns will the plumbing be making?
Weird!
Photos and Migraines 