Monday, May 14, 2012

It Didn't Happen

Yes, I rode to work today.

"Sort of a waste of this good weather, isn't it?" he said. I knew what he was talking about. The weather here of late has been the kind of weather you travel somewhere else to experience. Sitting inside the Courthouse all day, while I wouldn't call it a waste, doesn't seem to be the best use of this priceless weather spell we'll been experiencing. I am so grateful for being able to ride to and from work on days and weeks like these. My commute time is certainly not wasted.

On a forum I frequent I often hear, "If there isn't pictures it didn't happen." I don't have pictures but I did see a white Volkswagen Beetle today. It wasn't one of the new ones, nor was it one of the older ones. What made it unique was the red painted on stitching along the hood line. It made it look like a baseball. When I reached for my camera, I discovered I'd zipped up my jacket withthe camera inside. Oh well, there will always be a few that get away.
  • 56F/13C and plenty of sunshine for the ride to work.
  • 79F/26C and still plenty of sunshine for the ride home.

4 comments:

  1. I agree, the best time of the day is the ride to and from work.

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    1. Sonja,
      I find just having the ride home to look forward to can make an otherwise dreadful afternoon more bearable.
      ~k

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  2. Years ago I used to have a "problem" with photography. It was a bit OCD because I had a hard time enjoying beautiful things without that camera in my face. So I worked on that obsession and felt much better- many years later. So to those people who have a camera stuck in their faces and make that "no picture-didn't happen" remark, they are foolish and missing the important lessons in life. One lesson being impermanence!

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    1. Martha,
      Another problem of photos can be the turning memories into exercises in facts. Memories, it seems to me, need be naturally fuzzy and idiosyncratic. I'm aware of a family whose family albums came fuel to prove points rather than images to slide into the remembered and the what could have easily been.

      Thanks for the post. Good thoughts.
      ~k

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