silliness (me, silly? why, I never!)

Earlier this week at baseball practice, I was playing on nearby playground equipment with Julia. For fun, I decided to do a cartwheel. Then I did another. And another. And my arms didn't break!!!! I don't know how pretty they looked, and judging from this picture (taken today), I'd guess not so pretty. I was out for a walk by myself and a moment of lunacy overtook me and I decided to make my 365/daily picture of myself one of me doing a cartwheel. I'm on my way back down at this point, and had hoped that the timer would go off when I was completely upside down. I laugh when I look at this: my hair, my face, my arms, my shirt, my legs. It all makes me laugh. It all makes me happy. I can't believe that I can still do cartwheels!!!!!

Allerton Park

If Allerton Park was still a private residence, I think it would be in my top 5 dream houses. The house is huge (which makes no difference to me) it's the woodwork inside, the windows looking outside and the acres and acres of land that turn me on. Ideally, I'd like a house so far removed from everything that I could leave the curtains open all the time and not have a thing to worry about. I could watch the world go by. I could keep up a net to play badminton, have a swimming pool, have room to play, . . . I'm really dreaming here. First of all, it would have to be one heck of a lottery that I would win to make the dream come true. And if I did win the lottery, I'm not certain that I'd spend the money on such a thing anyway.

There's a Fu Dog garden at the park that I visited today with my kids and my friend Beth. All the dogs are different, or at least to my eye they are. I'm not certain why, but I think this one is saying "Yeke!"

crop

I was catching up with my 365 set on flickr (and by playing "catch-up" I think I defeat the whole picture a day concept) and liked the looks of my clavical (isn't that what this area is called?). Anyhow, I cropped it down to show just the one part. I got some sun today since I went for two walks in the glorious sun. One was just a typical mid-day walk to get me a few minutes out of the office, the other one was a meeting that we decided to take outside and we were able to walk around while we chatted about a project. Nice!

My Work Face

Ever wonder how your co-workers see you? I decided to find out. It is, of course, very literal and gives no insight whatsoever into what they think of me.

Spring sprung, then went away

With the sudden burst of warmth over a week ago, and the below freezing temps since then, my poor tulips are sad. They blossomed so quickly. One day they were barely breaking through the ground, then they were blooming. Then they were frozen.

Tulips are my favorite flower. They are simply beautiful. I love other flowers as well, don't get me wrong. Someday, I'd like to fall in love with a flower with a longer life-span than the tulip. If this were my private blog, I might write something at this point about how that sentiment could be applied to my life in general. And then I'd point out, to myself, about how far I've come. Thankfully, this isn't my private blog.

Long time no post

I have been accused, on more than one occasion, of taking life too seriously. I have also been accused of not taking things as seriously as I should. Sometimes I feel like all I say to my kids is "no" or "don't" and I worry about that. Then I realize that I also say "yes" quite a bit and that we tend to have a lot of fun together. This shot is from a week or so ago. We were all getting ready to go to school/work. I opened the blinds at the front of the house, letting in a flood of intense spring sunlight that shone on the shades across the room. The shadows were so well defined that I had to grab my camera. Jasper jumped in to be part of the shadow play. Is that taking things seriously, or not seriously enough? No one was late. We had a little fun.