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I finally got a chance to shoot a few portraits of my granddaughter. In this shot, she was sitting on a sofa with a black cloth draped over it. The cloth wasn’t actually large enough to cover everything it needed to, so I used a “clone” tool to copy parts of the black cloth over the background. The light hitting her head was from a window that was behind and to the right of this picture. Originally, the window was visible in the picture. I rather like it this way.

Those of you who have been keeping track have no-doubt noticed that I haven’t posted a “Pic Of The Day” in over a month. The reasons are many, but the chief one is that the inspirations have been few and far between. I came to the conclusion that as much as I enjoy taking and posting pictures here, when I set myself a daily deadline I ended up putting myself under so much pressure to get it done each and every day that it just wasn’t fun for me any more. Since my personal enjoyment is 99% of my reason for taking pictures, imposing that deadline effectively removed my reason for taking pictures in the first place.

Therefore, I will continue to post pictures I like here, but I refuse to pressure myself into an ulcer if I don’t get it done according to a “schedule”.

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No, I haven’t actually abandoned this blog. It’s just been one of those weeks. Sunday was one of those days when I had everything to do and nothing got finished. Monday I had to get a flu shot. There was a time the idea of me getting a flu shot was laughable. I once got over the German flu in an afternoon.

That, however, was a long time ago and, medically speaking, a lot has changed since then. Now I’m one of the people recommended to get a flu shot even when there aren’t enough to go around.

Since taking that infernal shot, I’ve been feeling sleepy and dragged out. Today, to top it all off, I watched helplessly as my throat clouded up and my voice left for sunnier skies. My throat doesn’t hurt a bit, but I can’t talk above a whisper, and I still feel like I could sleep for another month.

Flu. Shots. Suck.

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I saw this at the local graveyard and thought it was really cool. The stone has been there so long that all the writing has been worn off of it, but somebody’s still leaving fresh flowers on the grave.

Like I said. That’s cool. That speaks volumes about the way that family, or at least one member of it, feels about their ancetrry.

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I’m posting this rather late tonight because I made another one of those five-and-a-half-hour-each way trips to Missouri to take my daughter back to school. I really don’t mind the trip, but it sure guarantees I won’t be getting much else done that day.

This plaque was at the graveyard we went to the other day. I really liked it. When I got home, I read it to my wife and told her it was signed “HARLEY” and that was the only name on it. At that point, my daughter piped up and said, “No, it said CHARLEY. There was moss covering the C, so I rubbed off”

I was standing there thinking, “AFTER I took the picture. THANKS.” Really, I was glad she went with me, if for no other reason than the fact that she seemed to enjoy pulling weeds off of the headstones of veterans.

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You know you live in the middle of nowhere when there’s a donkey farm named Silly Ass Acres less than a mile from your house.

I got this shot on the way to the graveyard the other day. I didn’t get any new pictures taken today because my stomach has been playing games with me since last evening. Frankly, tomorrow isn’t looking so good either.

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My daughter and I went to a nearby graveyard yesterday afternoon. I was there taking pictures when I normally would have been working on a POTD post for yesterday.

On the way to the graveyard we passed this beautiful old bard with a horse standing in front of it. I stopped to take a few pictures of it and when a woman came out of the house to glare at me I put the camera away and left. I got home and discovered that she had called the police because she thought I was taking pictures of stuff I was going to steal.

Note to self: Before taking pictures of other peoples’ property, knock on the door and get permission so they don’t think you’re a thief!

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Hi. My name’s Mollie Beth and I’m four an a half months old. Grampa said I could be a “gest blogger” today, so I wanted to share this picture of me that Grampa took today. My aunts were having a birfday party and Gramma let me try some yummy stuff she called “frost sting” or something. It was really good and it smelt good so that’s how I got some on my nose. I really liked the frost sting, but after that Gramma made me take a bath and that wasn’t so much fun.

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I drove to Missouri today to pick up my daughter from college for the weekend. On the way home we stopped in Rolla, Missouri so she could pick up something for her sinuses. Getting back into the car, I happened to look up and see this upside down billboard.

I’m still trying to decide if this was an incredible screw-up, an advertising company’s subtle “drop dead” comment to a deadbeat customer, or someone’s brilliant advertising gimmick. What do you think?

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Mom has some cats living in the barn out back. They are the descendants of a couple of strays who appeared there a few years ago. She can’t stand the idea of them going hungry or being put to sleep, and they won’t leave since that’s the only home they’ve ever known, so Mom uses this big white metal bowl to give them some crunchies every afternoon.

Apparently, on days like today that are just a little cooler that sun-warmed metal bowl must be pretty comfortable.

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What happens when you’ve got two kids in the high school band and they both practice their instruments (on different songs) at once? Most people would call it chaos. DeeDee, Mom’s golden lab, calls it an invitation to sing with them.

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