What a pain it must be to be planted in one spot Best Seat and have to watch this everyday.

Imagine being beautiful...all the time...hair always in place, dressed in the finest, stylish clothes, having the attention and adoration of a select group of friends.  Sounds wonderful...except for the fact that you can't move unless someone moves you.  You can't put into words the things that you want to say...and even if you had the words...they would fall unsaid, silent from a mouth incapable of movement.  Imagine never being able to have one original thought pass through your head.  Never being able to run, jump, laugh, sing, shout or enjoy all of the other things that children get to do everyday.  Imagine having to be dependent on everyone for everything everyday for the rest of your existance....hoping against all hope that the day never comes when you're forgotten and tossed aside.

Imagine the pain...Imagine the hurt...Imagine the feelings of rejection......  

This day arrived today for Victoria

I know that are many out there that these pictures will cause alot of pain and suffering..............but I don't care, that's what the challenge is all about!!!  I'm not going to tell you to look away....I want you to look...I want you to be miserable.....So just look..........and SUFFER... ahhhhhaha...HaaaaHaaaaHaaaa....AHHHHHaaaaaHaaaaa.....I hope this makes you hurt!!!!!   AHHHHHHaaaHaaa
Ouch
OUCH

Ohhh the torture of it all....

Into the great wide open
Under the sky so blue
Into the great wide open
A rebel without a clue...

Great Wide Open
Landed
 Home in the Sky

Something to be said for "simplicity"

I left the house today and turned the corner about 300 yards from my driveway and came across this beauty sitting by the side of the road....I just couldn't pass it by.

Firestone
This Way
Sleek

Swift Messenger

It's back to the old stuff...back to the old me

Baby, after all these years you still have that Gleam in your smile
Honey, I swear, you're the only Grill for me
And you make my life Shine
Did I ever tell you that you are the wind beneath my Wings?

This is kind of an invisibility thing...kind of...
There's something still there wrapped up in our memories...in our lives...in our soul...of those who touched us.  I've read a number of tributes here lately that speak of those loving moments that linger still in our lives...

This is for my dad...six years gone now, and I miss him...but he is still every bit in my heart.
These have nothing to do with him personally...but it speaks of a time of reunion....

Flew the Coop
Flower Box
Even the Stone Will Cry Out
A Day of Angels

The beauty of it is I have the confidence of a great joy and hope

...well kiddies yesterday as I left you we were part way to my destination.  So as I left the lake the scenery started becoming more and more dramatic and I began to see sights like these mountains cutting the sky in half.  Just after I jumped back into the truck I turned another corner in the road and see this Panorama and around the next corner  Mountains .... and this...More mountains ..... and these across the valley and this place to cool off

All of these lie at the foot of Mt Baker in northwestern Washington....it (Baker) towers over all of these "hills"....I don't really have a picture of it because it was covered with clouds the whole time...I have a couple that I'll post tomorrow that might add some perspective to it...

The other morning (Friday) I decided that I needed a day off.  I wanted to go to one of my favorite places which is about 2 hours from the house...so I got all of my gear together...loaded up the truck and got up early in the morning and took off.  I got about a mile from my place...looked in my rear view mirror and saw the morning coming together nicely.  About a half hour later...after my first cup of coffee and 15 miles later I saw this beautiful valley with all of the early morning mist still clinging to all of the tree tops.

Still a little later in the day I came to this wonderful mountain lake...it was awesome...I had it all to myself....except for two bears that were on the other side...didn't want to get too close to take their pictures....  About 30 minutes later I got back in the truck and went a couple of miles and had to stop again for this view......all of this and I still haven't made it to my destination.............tomorrow I'll give you the next few miles of my trip.

Bugaboo, tomorrow I'll show you where I go to cool off on those hot days.  Here, if it gets to be 75 degrees, it begins to get a little uncomfortable.  a couple of weeks ago we set records here when we hit 97 degrees.  I thought I was dying....

I went on a road trip today...(more to come on that)...but I stopped to eat at an old "roadhouse" grill.  It was pretty eclectic....but over in one corner there was this old antique, beat up piano that I thought was kind of cool.

Pedals
This is Key
What you see is what you C
Hammered

Here are some things that I shot while driving around the other day...

The Front
Wheel Cover
Steered In the Right Direction
Fuse Shun

And now for something completely different......

A little PS work....
Birds of a Coming War

Fields On Fire

A place for old memories....

My Bench

What dreams are lost,
and hopes bound...
what promises knotted,
what loves fettered,
untouched...unexplored
just beyond
the unopened door???

Knob

Unopened Door

Nowhere to go but Up

This is what happens here if you Sit Too Long

This reminds me when I was a little younger and quite a "swinger"....

Well Rounded Swinger