Welcome to the rt tulley photography blogIt features photos, text, and poetry.October 21Climbing
I am thankful for climbing. Climbing is defined as using hands or feet to ascend or go higher. This can be taken literally, ie., scale mountains or go up trees. Or it can taken figuratively to mean that you are improving yourself and succeeding. The second definition is really the one I am referring to here. None of us really wants to descend; many of us are content to keep the status quo; but those who truly succeed are those that want to ascend. Sometimes, just having the will to go beyond one's comfort zone is all that it takes to succeed. It's that first step you take on your climb.
This is a clematis flower from our garden. Bebe got me interested in this flower which I have photographed many times over the years. This photo is my latest effort. I also used the back side of a clematis in a previous photo of the day blog on 5/28/13 to represent alternative points of view. Clematis comes from the Ancient Greek word meaning climbing plant. Thus, the reason why I used it in today's photo. It is a climbing vine, in other words.
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climbing i am climbing hand over hand upward and higher got to move on up got to keep on going don’t want to go down don’t want to hit ground no time to sit still no time to for broken will so its up up and up higher and higher can’t stop can’t stop no return no tire. © rt tulley
October 20Clouds
I am thankful for clouds. Clouds can be very beautiful and can offer shade and relief from a hot sun. It can be fun to try to determine what the shape the cloud reminds you of. Although I know that clouds are just droplets of moisture or crystals of ice, they can seem more romanticized that just a little water.
I photographed this cumulus cloud one day. To me it is heart-shaped.
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i keep my eyes on the sky i keep my head in the clouds always looking ahead but always dreaming proud. © rt tulley October 19Blood
I am thankful for blood. Without blood, we would not have life. Blood is the transport system of so many things: oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose, fluid, electrolytes, hormones, waste products, to name just a few. Blood is the basis for most of the testing that I do and have done as a clinical chemist. It allows us to help diagnosie and monitor health disease. Blood is a beautiful deep red color. Amazing that people get so squeamish around it.
This is the sign on a bloodmobile that I saw one day at LSU. Donating blood is so important to those in need. It is the gift that "keeps on giving," as they say. When one life can save another life. Beautiful.
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blood what a wonderful thing it’s red and warm a flowing living breathing being it’s great for what it does it’s great because it brings life but it belongs where it belongs i don’t want to see it outside of me that is just so wrong. © rt tulley October 18Planning
I am thankful for planning. Not that I am such a good planner, but when planning does happen to take place I am especially thankful that it did and conversely, when I do not plan ahead, I am usually very sorry I did not. Therefore, I am thankful for planning. It usually makes things turn out for the better.
This is a squirrel that lives in the tree in front of my house. I've been watching him (or it could be her), and often see him burying acorns in the yard. A couple of days ago, I noticed him scrounging around the yard until he found one of his acorns and took it up into his tree. I happened to grab my camera while he was still in the yard and got this photo of him with the acorn in his mouth. So, call it what you like, but this to me is a form of rudimentary planning. He's storing the acorns away for a time when he will need them.
plans borrowed and altered from Robert Burns’ To a Mouse, 1785: the best laid schemes of mice and men/ often go awry/ and leave us nothing but grief and pain/ for promised joy)
the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray whereas absent preconceived plans of dogs and kids often leads to play. © rt tulley October 17Ties
I am thankful for ties. I don't mean neckties, although I enjoy the decorative nature of them. I mean "ties that bind" people together. The tie that binds is often used in a matrimonial reference. An old religious hymn is called "Blest be the Tie that Binds", in which the first stanza of the the lyrics reads: Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above. This speaks of fellowship of Christians in love, which are bound by a common cause. So it can be said about people. They are tied together by a common cause, like thinking, like personalities, a marriage, etc. Without ties between people, we would be loners sitting in our own little cubicle with little or not interaction among each other. We would probably work with them OK, or tolerate them, but those special bonds which make interactions between people special would not exist.
This is a photo of railroad ties that I took in Ocean Springs, Mississippi earlier this year.
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so many meanings for such a simple word you can put it around your neck a dressy look for men preferred in another use it means compete to a draw or make a knot from rope or even from string or straw but the tie i speak is the tie that binds it holds human hearts together and connects our minds. © rt tulley |
