life dust...it must have a purpose

  The pictures below are not meant to be beautiful or even interesting

scroll down for the detailed explanation. Think pieces, and glimpses, and life ticking away. 

These are my phone pictures from the past couple years. 

I love trying to remember why the heck I took each one.

I am not sure what I was aiming for, my awesome sweats, or my feet-

 I am sure I saw something fascinating  on the ground? Dirt? Grass?

The ghostly white foot again or the dog being  doglike to the other dog...Sheesh. Fascinating.

                                        

Ghostly images at the Gorge-this was pretty cool. Shadows. Sunset. Can't

                          go wrong.

                                

      A typical out the windshield pic by me. It was like the blanket of nasty

                             had an abrupt end in the distance. I liked that thought I guess..safe driving? Probably

                             not.

                           

   Feet again. Half boat, half ocean. My first ferry ride by myself.

Famous windshield pic again. Amazing clouds enhanced by a

                        thrilling in phone editing app. Yee haw!

                       

Its all about the pen. and light. who knows.

                                                   

Precious pink and white cadillac- and my lame shadow- not what Iwas hoping. But contrast and shadow. Important.

                                   

My original sketch for BJ's and My sculpture..which I drew in the car, and  sent him this for a visual of my mental plan.

                                 

Feet, Kankles, and mint. Mojito's anyone? My garden pics that  no one cares about but me. Joy!

                                

Sad little pink oasis of advertisement for a green salad in the midst of a blinding white blizzard.

 

Dagdagan fireworks craziness. July 4. I thought they looked like falling stars.

                            

Love this pre bloom state. Just waiting for the next morning and you know   they are just waiting for that moment, the one I always miss.

                            

Scrumptious Mike Hiler mug that was shamefully at the Goodwill! I, rescuer of all discarded treasures, snatched it up in horror and took it home for a MERE 99 cents. Disgusting! Mike- at least you know it has a DECENT home now where no
         one would even think of sending this to a thrift store. Good grief.

Sweeping up the dust.

 I have been really pondering lately the purpose of certain events and transpirings in my recent history..oh my am I thankful for most, but others I have yet to determine my thoughts on. Such as, "why would I" "how could they," and "I wish I never..." These things I guess I will never really know I guess, they are the unknown, the grey area of life.
Anyway, for business purposes, mostly, I seem to always be documenting visually things that make impact on me.  Whether it is someone I am commissioned to photograph, or something that just randomly causes my attention deficit mind to linger on long enough to think, "oh! I need to remember this!" I credit the wonders of the iphone for most of the things I have been able to catch in this way. Without that little device, I may have missed my beautiful birthday cupcakes, or the wheelbarrow by Mel's house that someone was growing onions in, or my children's first day of school escort, Ironman!(aka their little brother)..(well I would have gotten the beast out to take a picture of that, I have to think..) But now I can keep a running log of things that make my eyes happy.  I synced my phone to my computer this morning and rolled back through the seemingly countless images that are consuming most of my phone's now well outdated 3g memory space.  I noticed that I have a strangely large amount of photos of my feet, laced throughout crazy blurred out the car window cloud patterns..and every living organism sprouting in my yard for the last 3 springs.  The images have covered most of the last 3 years.  How amazing to see what has affected me in that time, and to think back I realize there was a lot going on outside the frame of these frozen seconds.  We had a hospital stay, surgeries, my Grandparents passing, amazing new friends come into our lives to stay, and others go away in haste, philosophy shifts, financial stress, successes, failures.  But throughout all this, there are the lasting images, the ability to look back and see what are the things that make us stop and want to remember, and largely, through photos or even paintings, whether you are a professional or amateur or just out grabbing the here and there photos with your phone, you are remembering what was important..aside from all of lifes ridiculous curveballs. I think you are inadvertently proving to yourself that you KNOW and want to REMEMBER what is important and that is the little things, and on my phone they are children, our truest friends, flowers you see on walks, something crazy you've never seen, expression, and even just light streaks. My favorites, though, are when my kids steal my phone and take pictures of just anything and everything, truly, they find everything cool- even the fact that mom has some phone they can run around taking pictures of whatever they want, and I find them later...what I wont post is the ones they catch of me when I have no idea. Looking dazed, confused, and usually on the phone. Ha.