Welcome to the rt tulley photography blogIt features photos, text, and poetry.November 15Hospitality
I am thankful for hospitality. Hospitality sends the message that you are important guests and that you are welcome visitors. It says that you are important enough to care about. It accepts you with open arms.
Red doors signify many things but one of them is hospitality or simply welcome, please come in. In colonial America a red door meant a safe haven was on the other side of the door. In China a red door represents welcome and luck. If a church has a red door, it means that beyond the door there is the protection of God. My fraternity in college, Sigma Phi Epsilon traditionally has red doors. And finally, in Scotland, if someone has a red door, it siginifies that they have paid their home off and are debt free. The most welcome sign of all!
This is a red door at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge.
red door
red door says come in there are friendly people within it says open me and stay a while it says we want to make you smile it says god will protect you and watch over all that you do the protective hand of god all this in one crimson façade. © rt tulley
November 14Spice
I am thankful for spice, more specifically, Louisiana hot sauces. The spice of life! Spices of all kind flavor our food and make it better tasting. Of course, in Louisiana we have our beloved hot sauce, with Tobasco being the grandaddy of them all. Viva the spice! I don't like to smother my food so that it is so hot that it is unpleasant. But I like a little bit of hot sauce. And anyway, capsaicin is good for our health, as there is evidence for its topical effectiveness in dulling pain from shingles and other ailments, as well as its ingestion having possible anti cancer effects and an ability to burn fat and to have other weight loss effects. The sensation of heat or burning comes when it binds a specific neuroreceptor responsible for burning type pain and activates those neurons.
This is a display at the Louisiana State Museum of Louisiana hot sauces.
hot sauce
in a fit of male bravado i had to prove my worth so with smugness i downed a teaspoon of tobasco to show my right of birth at first there was no real effect and i gave very little sign until the redness crept up my neck and my mouth gave a whine which very soon turned and became a full yell my dining companions looked at me as a strange silence in the room fell i conclude that no amount of macho can succeed in outlasting that pain or overcome or even equal my curious absence of a brain. © rt tulley
November 13Golf Clubs
I am thankful for golf clubs. Because, of course, golf could not be played without them. I like just about any kind of golf clubs. The manufacturers will have you believe that you need to get the latest and the greatest for better distance, forgiveness, and accuracy. I have bitten on those PR promos before, but, to tell the truth, the clubs don't seem to make a big difference in my game. It is what it is, no matter what clubs I use. I suppose that is because my game is beyond helping!
This is a photo of some antique golf clubs that I keep in my office at home. Some of them have hickory shafts, so you know they are old. The light woods with the bright red-orange insets are actually clubs of mine that I used in high school/college. The tall black driver was my father's, as was the putter in the front.
golf clubs
golf clubs of every kind used to forge a great golf game i love golf clubs of every kind to me they are all the same but ed has his favorite club it is his hand wedge he uses to throw the ball close when behind the hedge derrick has a foot niblick to kick from out of trouble he likes to look like he is walking at a speed that is double and jason he’s the best he likes to drop the ball down his pants leg when he is standing tall golf clubs of every kind used to forge a great golf game but the cheaters are cheating themselves and themselves they do defame. © rt tulley November 12New Job
I am thankful for my new job. Today, I will be re-entering the work force from semi-retirement. I have taken a position as a research chemist with the Louisiana Department of Public Health Laboratory where I will develop and validate new methods of analysis. There is a lot of excitement and a little trepidation as I enter into an unknown job. The laboratory is currently in Metairie so I will have to commute until they move to beautiful and large lab facilities in Baton Rouge. I am crossing my fingers and praying that the move will be as soon as possible. There is always the fear of the unknown when you enter a new job but I feel confident that the job and I are well matched.
When I thought of me re-entering the job market, I thought of midnight bowling. Isn't that a natural progression of thoughts? If you didn't follow I will try to explain: when you go midnight bowling you are tired and it is late (analogy: I have a few years under my belt). But the lighting is colorful, bold, and vibrant and loud music is playing so the location is a treat to the visual and auditory senses. And then there's the bowling. I admit I am a bad bowler, but who doesn't look forward to the possibilities of bowling a strike or a spare? So, thus, it is with my job opportunity.
The photo is of my wife's cousin's daughter Jeannette showing her bowling form.
it’s a job but somebody’s got to do it
years and years of preparation you have groomed yourself well getting up at the darkest hour before dawn up with the morning alarm bell you make your preparations to go out with the rising sun you grab that trash can put it out for the morning run so you smile and head back in knowing that your job was much fun back to bed for a few hours resting after a job well done. © rt tulley
November 11Woodworking
I am thankful for woodworking. It is a mild hobby of mine. I have always enjoyed constructing things from wood. When I was in college I made a record/stereo cabinet. I have also built wood fences for my house. I have always wanted to make picture frames and hope to do that one of these day. I am not saying I am any good at it but I enjoy cutting, nailing, and nailing or screwing wood together to make something.
Anne and Hawley Wolfe, my church's minister and his wife and good friends, recently bought a house near City Park in Baton Rouge. Hawley wanted to make one of the bedrooms into his library. But there were no bookshelves. I was most happy to help them build some. After finding some good plans for the use of plywood, Anne and I got busy planning, measuring, calculating, cutting, gluing, and attaching boards together with screws. While I cut the wood, Anne glued and attached the pieces together with screws. The plan calls for vertical frames with dividers for each shelf. When the frames were made, we rasied them and attached them to the walls. All that is left is to cut the majority of the shelves and attach them. Later down the road Anne and Hawley have the option of adding decorative wood moulding or borders. All in all, it was a fun project and we got a product we can be proud of. And it feels good to do something for friends.
hawley’s library
life is a library with books on shelves that educate and inform and entertain ourselves the librarian arranges and catalogs them therein so that we may read them and use them ourselves within to create our own stories from the fuel and the fire to tell others of the good news and to teach them and inspire. © rt tulley
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