13: Bottle This
1. My energy is better at night. In the morning I sometimes wake-up feeling like I have leukemia, which is why I hate going to bed because I hate waking up, and the later I stay up the more I hate waking up.
2. Taking pictures is a lot like writing. You have to have the camera ready to capture the shot that will likely change in a matter of seconds, like you have to be willing to immediately write down creative thoughts that come and will be soon forgotten if you don’t.
3. I come from a time and place where Jimmies are little chocolate sprinkles and Johnnies are hospital gowns (as well as the names of brothers), where the packie is an ABC store, a bubbler is a water fountain, jeans are dungarees, soda is tonic and people say on a perfectly nice day, “I wish we could bottle it.”
4. The weekend was filled with Feelin’ Groovy HERE and Highlight Highflights HERE.
5. It’s funny how a wristband can either mean that you probably had some fun last night or that you have recently been in the hospital. The one I’m wearing now is “Baywatch Orange.”
6. How did I miss that The Doors played at the Surf Ballroom in my small little beach town of Hull, MA when I was a teenager? I practically lived at the Surf every weekend during high school. I remember the Ram Rods well and saw so many of the bands that THIS Ram Rod musician mentions. But I also missed Sonny and Cher when they came. I may have seen Jimmy Page but wouldn’t have known who he was because is was before he was part of the Yardbirds or Led Zeppelin.
7. Hitchhiker: Poetry went to Woodstock / It hitchhiked to Yasgur’s Farm / Got an autograph from Mickey Hart / but marched to its own drum /Poetry drank Southern Comfort / with Janis Joplin and Hendrix / It evaded the draft / Got a backstage pass / Went to college but flunked middle class.
8. I’m reading blogger Jenny Lawson’s book Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. In the introduction she warns readers that the book is like Little House on the Prairie but with more cursing. Well, it’s giving me whiplash, not because of the swearing but because of the unrelenting far-out humor, much of which is in footnotes and parenthesis.
9. So, you heard about Bruce Jenner? He just came out as a Conservative Republican. 
10. It’s true, but seriously, I agree with Portia de Rossi when she said, “I know how difficult it is to come out but how much worse it is to live a lie,” and Oprah, who said, “All of us deserve the right to be loved for who we are.”
11. I call THIS picture “The Latest in Outdoor Lawn Furniture,” and the one above is called “Black Gold.”
12. “The proofreaders are playing the ping pong game of proofreading, glancing back and forth from page to page, the chefs are dicing celery and potatoes, and the poets are at their windows because it is their job for which they are paid nothing every Friday afternoon.” – from Monday by Billy Collins
13. Below is “Getting Our Ducks in a Row.”
April 29th, 2015 4:02 pm
As always, dear Colleen…a wonderful eclectic T13!
That first picture, by the way, is just Beautiful, in every way……I always love seeing your Chickens and with those gorgeous lavender blossoms—–it is true perfection!
April 30th, 2015 12:44 am
I’ve had both creative thoughts and great photo ops pass my by in a blink more times than I can shake a stick at. Sometimes I wish I had a camera built into my head that I could plug into a computer just so I could capture it all.
April 30th, 2015 4:42 am
Re #1: This usta be me. Now I’m the opposite. My night owl’s asleep by 9:45 & my writer’s up a t 4.
Go figure.
April 30th, 2015 5:20 am
I always carry a camera, just the small one, because you never know! That garden soil looks lush and so neat. Your red bud is just a day or two behind those down here. Hubby hates to go to bed and hates to get up, while I am just the opposite. It is 5:20 am and dark outside while I read this.
April 30th, 2015 6:58 am
ooh the redbud how I cherish and miss iot the way it dots the mountains
April 30th, 2015 9:30 am
I keep a camera in the car, and one in the kitchen, and one in my office. I have one on my Kindle Fire but I haven’t figured out how to make it work properly. The other day I missed great photos of a hawk because I had all of my cameras charging up and the only thing within reach was my video camera, which also takes stills, just not very good ones. So I caught the moment, at any rate.
April 30th, 2015 3:10 pm
Looks like someone is ready to do some planting. Not quite time yet here, but soon… My T13
May 2nd, 2015 9:31 am
#1. Morning for me these days.
#2. I see things as the pictures they would make.
#3. This is great.
#6. I did get to see Sonny & Cher. I also saw Roy the boy Orbison.
Not the Ram Rods though. Nor the Doors.
#9. Ugh.
#10. But this is true.