Zoooooooooom!

Does it get any funner than this? 

Alchemy

Alchemy (noun): a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life.

Ancient alchemists used chemicals and science, originally in an attempt to turn lead into gold. In a similar vein, I'm using chemicals and science, hoping to turn my green-black pool into blue. It's Memorial Day, which means time for the pool cover to come off. I've poured $300 worth of chemicals into the pool, and now it's a waiting game ...

I hope I do better than last year. 

Newton's First Law

An object at rest tends to stay at rest ... at least until after the object has had a nap!

Connections

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It's not the spiral of rings that are connected here, but rather the boy with his toy.

Submitted to Macroday.com (my very first entry ... on any photography site ANYWHERE!). Thanks, SaturnGirl, for the connection.

Talented

Went to Daddy and Sue's B-Day party yesterday. Daddy's birthday is on the 9th, and Sue's is on the umm, err, the 17th?? But we've always celebrated them on a shared day for as long as I can remember. In later years, with everyone out of the house, we crammed my birthday in, too. That didn't happen this year, although my baby sister, uncertain if she would see me in June, brought me an early birthday present -- two presents, really:

A thermal coffee mug (*wrinkles nose*) with my birth sign on it, an idea that she probably got when she started visiting my blog. And while I'm not a big coffee drinker, I absolutely love the mug (honestly, the neatest thing about coffee drinkers is that they get to drink from mugs that have really neat art on them). My new gemini mug is very cool, and will keep my cokes well-chilled!

But even more cool was the digital scrapbook (CD) she gave me, which was like a magical walk through time. I spent a bit of this morning sneaking peeks at it while at work. I really like it! Here's one of the photo's from the bunch:

That's me, as a young teen-ager, at one of my favorite (?) haunts. I didn't copy her entire scrap image here, but there was an inscription on the bottom of this picture that read, "Talented: We all took piano lessons, but you were the most."

Awwww, thanks, kiddo ... I really like BOTH gifts, a lot!

Honey

This is Honey, one of two dogs at the PureGemini household. Honey is a retired racing dog, and she knows how to take it easy. While Tucker will run at the end of his lead, pacing back and forth the entire time he's outside, we just put a walking leash around Honey's neck, drop it on the ground, and she's off to find a nice spot in the sun. This pic is a couple months old -- snapped in March -- you can tell by the yellow grass. I love this look in her eye, "Ohhhh, sunshine -- so nice to be out of the house for the afternoon."

After the Storm

Today's blog was going to be entirely different, until this remarkable image appeared in my front yard. It's funny how you start to see things differently when you look with a photographer's eye. I was excited to see the rainbow, but disappointed that the sky wasn't blue on both sides of that color spray. I wonder if that's true of all rainbows. I was amazed at how bright the red maples were at the foot of my driveway, with the setting sun dazzling through them -- these are colors I expect to see in fall, not in spring!

This is my first "rainbow" shot, and I'm pretty happy with it (aside from the utility pole and powerlines going through the middle of it). But now I want to find more rainbows, so I can add to this new collection.