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It's been really warm here lately, and there are just a few patches of snow left, mostly where someone plowed and it piled up at the edge. I think we're supposed to get the snow you're getting now on Saturday.
Now this is a subject that I can really relate to. I know Rave has already addressed your post but I'd like to add....
Rave has found what works for her and is happy. I haven't and I'm not happy. What would make me happy is a place like she has, away from people and noise and surrounded by nature. A lake or river on it would be perfect. I'll never have that so I'll never be happy. The best I can hope for is when BF sells his house and finds some property in the country and builds 2 houses on it. Yes, 2 houses. We've been together for 6 yrs but I couldn't live with him. Not only because he is a slob but I need my space just like Rave does. He treats me like a goddess so I don't want to be too far away from him but I don't want him around 24/7.
So the point is, solitary is best for some but it's not for everyone. I have several close friends and family that I don't see or hear from very often and that sometimes saddens me but I would be a lot sadder if they were around all the time. I love my peace and quiet, when ever I can get it in this trailer park, and I cherish it. Those are my brief periods of happiness. Of course getting vapemail makes me happy too.
This is why we understand each other so well. I do wish that you could find happiness now though.
A little while ago, I looked out my window and there were 2 deer in the yard. There's a doe with a hurt leg that I had seen before, but not in a while. I kept wondering if she was still out there, since she can't run like a normal deer. I think she must have been hit by a car and injured, and the leg never healed properly. I see so many deer carcasses at the side of the road as I travel about. Sometimes they seem to be on a suicide mission, the way they'll leap in front of oncoming cars. I remember a couple of years ago, the herd of deer that live around here would cross our street every morning in one direction and come back across in evening. They would stop at the edge of the street and look both ways before crossing! Unfortunately, the deer haven't been doing that lately.
So the hurt doe was back, and it looks like she had a fawn who is still with her.
After running out to get photos of the deer, I was entranced by the water droplets hanging from the trees, so I ran around the yard photographing them.
And just as I was coming back inside, I noticed water dripping into a puddle off the roof.
So, Celtic, you don't have to live way out in the woods to see deer in the daytime. I see them in the yard quite often.
Absolutely stunning!! These really made me smile.
We're coming out of a warm up here too, but there's still some snow - especially on North facing ravines. Just a few minutes ago, we had a brief snowball storm. Yes - snowballs!! Weird.
You mean those little ones? Not big, like you make with your hands to throw at someone, right? We get those little balls often.
They were just huge, poofy snowflakes - probably 2" around maximum, but they looked ginormous.
Oh. I thought you meant little flakes that are actually balls. I think several snowflakes get bound together somehow and actually make tiny snowballs. When they hit my bare porch, they bounce and roll.
I love those huge snowflakes that fall gently. They are so pretty.
Another thing I like is to stand in a pine grove when the snow is falling and hear it hissing through the branches.
I guess you can tell I don't get grouchy when it snows. I just don't drive anywhere till the roads are clear. I hope the next time it snows, it's warm enough that I can venture outside with my camera. I just wasn't going to do that in subzero temperatures, though I did see people out for walks during the cold spell. Brave souls!
You probably don't know it but you keep providing me with drawing material. This rain drop is awesome. It's in my bucket list with that winter snowing river scene.
Thanks for that.
Sandy just has an incredible eye for this stuff. I like that she notices the little things that are so often unseen.
You probably don't know it but you keep providing me with drawing material. This rain drop is awesome. It's in my bucket list with that winter snowing river scene.
You're welcome to use whatever I post. I like how the trees were reflected in the drop upside down.
Thanks, Rave. I love noticing little details. I think the camera helps me focus on stuff I might otherwise just pass by.
One of my earliest memories is when I was very little and got up while my parents were still asleep. I ventured outside, and beside our house's driveway was a privet hedge separating our yard from the neighbor's. I walked down the driveway and stopped to gaze at a perfect, newly woven spiderweb in the lower branches of the hedge. On the filaments were dew drops, and each was a prism of rainbow colors from the early sunlight. I squatted and gazed at this phenomenon and was totally entranced by it.
I think that might be the time my mother told me about when a neighbor found me wandering around outside in my pajamas and took me home to my parents. I don't remember that part, but I do remember the spiderweb.
Thanks and yes, the trees in the reflection is what really caught my eye. I see a lot of things differently since I started drawing. Like riding in the car I find myself studying the cloud formations. Good thing I'm not driving.
This way of life actually enables me to function. I am free to socialize, but if I become overwhelmed, which I often do, I can walk away from the computer. And, to me, the friends that I have here are no less "real world" than if I were talking with them face to face. I'm able to fulfill my need to be with other human beings - laugh with them, cry with them, be supportive, even love them. I can be myself here. Face to face, I tend to withdraw inside of myself. The internet has freed me.
This'll make ya laugh (and we could probably use that right about now): If it weren't for the internet. More specifically FarmersOnly.com, it would have been nearly impossible for me to have found a person that I can be with one on one.The poor guy had to talk with me for literally months before I would agree to meet him in person. I had to find a person that would understand and accept how I am, and go fishing and camping and enjoy other outdoor activities with me.
Now this is a subject that I can really relate to. I know Rave has already addressed your post but I'd like to add....
Rave has found what works for her and is happy. I haven't and I'm not happy. What would make me happy is a place like she has, away from people and noise and surrounded by nature. A lake or river on it would be perfect. I'll never have that so I'll never be happy. The best I can hope for is when BF sells his house and finds some property in the country and builds 2 houses on it. Yes, 2 houses. We've been together for 6 yrs but I couldn't live with him. Not only because he is a slob but I need my space just like Rave does. He treats me like a goddess so I don't want to be too far away from him but I don't want him around 24/7.
So the point is, solitary is best for some but it's not for everyone. I have several close friends and family that I don't see or hear from very often and that sometimes saddens me but I would be a lot sadder if they were around all the time. I love my peace and quiet, when ever I can get it in this trailer park, and I cherish it. Those are my brief periods of happiness. Of course getting vapemail makes me happy too.
Can So Understand - BOTH of "YOU" ! ! !
The only difference for "Me", is that these days - I am only more social when I really have to be now and living in a city environment (which I need to do for "My" own sanity at times) I have found many different ways to be alone even when there are too many people around "Me" . . . AND - I probably will never ever live with someone again . . . Be With Someone - YES . . . Live with Them - I DON"T THINK SO . . . Just Sayin' . . .
The best part is even when I am by myself alone - I am not "Loney" nor really alone - I HAVE "ME". . .
More importantly, although it has taken "Me" a very long time - I Actually Like "MySelf" too . . .
YEP - I totally agree - She sure does . . .
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I have found many different ways to be alone even when there are too many people around "Me"
I would love to hear how you do that. I'm going to a gun show Sunday where there are going to be a LOT of people and noise. If I hadn't been invited I wouldn't be going but my brothers and I are gun lovers and they wanted to do something nice for me but I'm dreading it.
. . . AND - I probably will never ever live with someone again . . . Be With Someone - YES . . . Live with Them - I DON"T THINK SO . . . Just Sayin' . . .
Same here.
The best part is even when I am by myself alone - I am not "Loney" nor really alone - I HAVE "ME". . .
My thoughts exactly.
More importantly, although it has taken "Me" a very long time - I Actually Like "MySelf" too . . .
Good for you Uncle.
Necessary 10 chars!
Now back to my Polar Bear with 2 eyes! 8-o
Will you share it with us when it's done?
If it passes Rave's critique.
I didn't even show her the last one when it was done because it was a disaster. It would have been really cool. There was a huge full moon with a wolf's face on it but I just couldn't get the damn eyes right so I erased the whole wolf and used a silhouette of a wolf and that turned out fair but I really screwed up the Mts. & trees so nobody gets to see it. I really want to do trees so I need to do a lot of practicing on those.The Only Way to DO It - Is to turn to "Yourself" and look within "Yourself". . .
OH Yea - Besides Building a "Mental" WALL inside your mind - LOOKING CRAZY and LIKE A MAD MAN - Helps too . . .
BTW: Always been a "Pacifist" (Remember - I'm an old "Hippie") - but after being threatened to be killed (and by a blood relative & supposed "Family" Member) and seeing how CRAZY PEOPLE really can get when a Hurricaine is about to Hit/Has hit Florida (I was up North when "Sandy" hit there and the people there weren't as bad as it is down here at all) . . . I'll take one of those GUNS ! ! !
Just Sayin' . . .
The Only Way to DO It - Is to turn to "Yourself" and look within "Yourself". . .
OH Yea - Besides Building a "Mental" WALL inside your mind - LOOKING CRAZY and LIKE A MAD MAN - Helps too . . .
BTW: Always been a "Pacifist" (Remember - I'm an old "Hippie") - but after being threatened to be killed (and by a blood relative & supposed "Family" Member) and seeing how CRAZY PEOPLE really can get when a Hurricaine is about to Hit/Has hit Florida (I was up North when "Sandy" hit there and the people there weren't as bad as it is down here at all) . . . I'll take one of those GUNS ! ! !
Just Sayin' . . .
"turn to "Yourself" and look within "Yourself". Does not compute.
I'm always inside my head. I'm a thinker but I can't block what's outside my head. 
I only have 1 gun now and nobody is gittin it!
Oh...and I know all about walls.
Can So Understand - BOTH of "YOU" ! ! !
The only difference for "Me", is that these days - I am only more social when I really have to be now and living in a city environment (which I need to do for "My" own sanity at times) I have found many different ways to be alone even when there are too many people around "Me" . . . AND - I probably will never ever live with someone again . . . Be With Someone - YES . . . Live with Them - I DON"T THINK SO . . . Just Sayin' . . .
The best part is even when I am by myself alone - I am not "Loney" nor really alone - I HAVE "ME". . .
More importantly, although it has taken "Me" a very long time - I Actually Like "MySelf" too . . .
I'm really quite relieved to read this. I was a bit worried about what your take on all of this might be because I know that you are professionally trained to understand human behaviors. My behaviors never have, nor ever will be considered "normal". And ... I don't care. I'm happy.
It is easy for most to have a great time at a party, but it may be very difficult for them to have an equally good time alone. I prefer solitude and wish more than anything that I could get it again! As much as I love my son and his fiance, I will be very relieved to have the house to myself again when his house is built.
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