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Sunday, April 29, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 29

Lines

A wall facade in our house

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Due to intestinal difficulties, I was unable to respond to all comments on yesterday's theme.
I'm feeling a bit better and will post replies all comments when I can.
Thank you for your understanding.
- 00dozo

("Get me a bucket.")

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 28

Outlier

This is Shaboo. He is one of the six dogs we have.

Shaboo is very hard to photograph not only because he is all black but also that he won't sit still for two minutes when he sees me pointing a camera at him. After chasing him back and forth from room to room, I was only able to get one good shot.

He doesn't play with the other dogs. He sits off by himself, is very quiet and only barks when he thinks it's absolutely necessary.

All of our dogs have nicknames, some have more than one and all of them, except Shaboo, have the same nickname when that dog is in my way, doing something to piss me off or if I can't immediately remember his or her name.

Shaboo has only two nicknames: "Monkey boy" because he tries to talk to you when he wants attention and sounds like a chimpanzee; the other is "Ghost" because you can't see him in the dark and will appear out of nowhere. You can't even hear him coming (or going) because - believe this or not - he trims his own toenails!

In the group of dogs, he is considered to be the Beta male. But when our Alpha dog passes, I doubt that Shaboo will want to fill that position and I don't believe he will mind if our other eldest dog takes over.

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Friday, April 27, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 27

Nude

Awkward?

Well, it is nude.

It was either this or a bowl of raisin bran. And while raisin bran isn't technically "nude", the raisins looked like a bunch of rabbit turds.

I didn't want to spoil anyone's breakfast.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 26

My Toothbrush

I know, I know. Even with such a simple theme, I'm late again. But in my own defense, I was having trouble uploading photos from my camera - I think my USB cable went on strike in protest of this idea.

So, there you have it.

In all its glory.

My toothbrush.

Ew.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 25

The Future

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 24

Crowd

"Re: Apologizing In Advance..."

This is a visual representation of what I found in my Inbox this morning.

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(My apologies for not commenting on everyone's photos yesterday but I was sooooooo tired I hit the sack early. I didn't even get around to responding to the comments on my blog. I'll be catching up today.)

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Monday, April 23, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 23

Fish Tales

After a long day of not-so-successful angling, boisterous laughs flourish around a campfire in Algonquin Park. The fire starts to cast ominous shadows upon pitched tents while men share their best fishing stories on this Victoria Day Weekend, better known in beer imbibing circles as The May 2-4 Weekend, and being the year's first holiday weekend that breaks up the boredom of long and cold Canadian winters. This particular Monday is unique for it actually falls on Queen Victoria's birthday, May 24th and a good reason to take that extra
"2-4" along for the trip.

Not everyone went fishing, though. Some are at home making coleslaw, macaroni and potato salads, arranging the condiments and stacking the buns in preparation of the evening's fare for the requisite holiday weekend backyard barbeque. Others are enduring the holiday traffic, travelling far distances to open up the cottage and vacuum up the hibernating houseflies before their reanimation. Some wrap up the day by tossing a line into the nearby lake or river.

But knowing each other too well, none of the men sitting around the campfire are easily taken in by the others' tales of the "one that got away" since the fish in those same stories increase in size with each telling: the twelve ounce perch has gained a few pounds and the four pound pickerel is now the size of a sturgeon. By the end of the evening, one of the members of the group will have earned the nickname, "Ishmael".

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Note: This is an edited repost of an story I wrote for The Mag (formerly known as "Magpie Tales").

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 22

Portrait

"It's Tozo ... Double-Ow! Tozo."

My mom just came up with that. "Tozo", that is.

It's day two. I hurt. I hurt all over. The foot is just fine (thanks for asking) - very minimal pain, if any, but the rest of my body is aching. The soreness from pushing and hopping from place to place, inch by inch with the walker makes me wish I had been pumping iron before the accident.

My butt even hurts. It hurts because I no longer have a walker upstairs and have had to bum it back and forth from my bed to the washroom a couple of times. I might just risk using the crutches tonight, and for anyone who has never used or needed crutches, it's not as easy as it might look.

As for my foot, I only suffered a small fracture that also caused a tiny bone chip in the fourth toe. The hospital fitted me with a "soft-cast" (which is code for: just another thing you will be tripping over in no time) and should come off in about four weeks.

Needless to say, I didn't get a photo for today's theme but improvised to get the quasi self-portrait above.

I promise not to take any more shots of my foot.

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 21

Moon

Okay, so here's the thing. Last night there was some lightning and thunder in the area and at around 11p.m., there was a blip in power which interrupted our internet reception.

Chase (one of our dogs) is terrified of thunder and sticks to me like Velcro whenever there is a storm.

I went upstairs to reset the cable box with Chase in tow. I didn't realize that the cord from telephone that sits next to the box got stuck between my toes and my sandal. As I turned to leave, the cord snagged my foot and I tried to stick out my other foot to gain my balance and avoid falling on my ass. No such luck. Chase was right behind me and, to avoid falling on her, I ended up contorting in such a manner that I literally bent the toes on the unstuck foot back toward my knee, and then I fell on my butt.

Five minutes of cursing and wails of pain ensued.

To make a long story short, I was unable to come up with any sort of photo for "moon" today, mostly because there was no moon last night (it was overcast anyway), but also because I think I may have broke my foot.

Luckily I had the foresight to buy an extra walker for my mother for the upstairs area and, even though she can no longer climb stairs, it certainly came in handy today.

I await delivery of some crutches so that I can enter the hospital with what's left of my dignity (and without having to fight with the walker) for x-rays.

I'll keep you posted.

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Friday, April 20, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 20

Bird

This is not a dove. This isn't a close-up. This isn't even in focus.
This is, however, the only bird shot I had for today's theme.

I am an idiot.

I had the perfect opportunity to get a close up, focused and clear shot of a bird and I blew it. When I entered my room to go to bed on Thursday night, I startled what I first thought was a "Money Bat" (a Black Witch moth common to the Bahamas that can grow very large in size) since there was all this flapping going on. After turning on the light, I discovered it was only a mourning dove.

Knowing that it wasn't going to leave the room because it was too dark by then, I left it perched atop one of the ceiling fan blades to stare sideways at me (you know, in that creepy head-bobbing way that mourning doves do) for the rest of the night.

There it was, the following morning, sitting on the ceiling fan. So, I opened the door to the balcony to allow the dove to regain its freedom and then plodded off downstairs to grab my morning coffee.

As I sat at the table sipping coffee and clearing the sleep out of my eyes, I glanced over to see what was up and coming in the list of ~~tortures~~ themes for this challenge.

And there it was: Day 2o: Bird.

Needless to say, the dove had already flown the coop.

I am an idiot.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 19

White

There are many beautiful white things:

The White Cliffs of Dover,

white chocolate,

white knights,

white unicorns,

white noise,

but there is nothing like digging your toes into the

white sands of the beaches in the Bahamas.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 18

Fire

So, my backyard bonfire was a bust. The nice little campfire I built in my portable charcoal barbecue burned too quickly and, as I added more fodder, the wind picked up, snuffing out the flames, creating billows and billows of smoke that wafted into the house. Luckily nobody suffered any ill affects from smoke inhalation.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 17

Time

Time.

There doesn't seem to be enough of it.

It eludes me. It hates me.

It is my nemesis.

I will be late to my own funeral. It's inevitable.

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Monday, April 16, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 16

Ordinary Matters

Sunday dinner. For some, it's truly ordinary. For some, it truly matters.

I really had no idea as to how to interpret today's theme so I took this shot last night of the dinner table arrangement we never see at our house. We had Sunday dinner with our visiting Canadian friend, a quasi-relative if you will, and it's a very rare occasion that my mother and I ever get out together.

It was fun. I made a point of replacing the Scary Glass at the place settings for me and my mom with shorter ones but "Margo" (not her real name) said she was fine with hers. I chuckled sardonically and with Margo sitting opposite of me, I thought her glass would be safe from my reach. It was. Halfway through dinner, Margo dumped her own glass over, spilling wine all over the table.

Sunday dinner. Ordinary matters.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 15

Wood

Trees are still made out of wood, right?

Before y'all start asking me what kind of tree that is, it doesn't matter. The islands of the Bahamas are comprised of limestone, a form of calcium carbonate. Basically, they're rocks. Because of this, the depth of topsoil is relatively shallow, forcing the growth of trees to spread outward as shown.

Some of the more mature trees will develop very intricate trunk bases with very lengthy root formations. The one I was hoping to photograph for today's theme is presently covered in yard cuttings (I wasn't going to risk getting a centipede sting clearing it away) but I'll try to post a photo of it in the future. It's a fig tree, one of the oldest and tallest trees in our yard and one of its roots extends to a length of approximately ... wait for it ... 42 feet.

Heh, heh.

(And just to satisfy those of you with inquiring minds, the tree in the photo is a Poinciana. One of its empty seed pods can be seen at the bottom left and the tiny weed-like things seen between the roots at the upper left, centre and lower right of the picture are saplings of the same tree.)

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 14

Forty-two

I'm pretty sure there were no lions in Camelot.

"Hitting the wall" is a term used to describe the point at which a long distance runner or cyclist experiences extreme fatigue and, in some cases, hallucinations due the loss of glycogen in the body.

This term might be appropriately applied to this 30-day 'Marathon of Madness' to describe the point at which a participant may experience extreme exhaustion and, in most cases, hysteria due to the lack of photographic ideas for the daily themes.

I hit that wall yesterday. With very few hours of sleep and having so many things to do, my thoughts were in a deep fog leaving me completely desolate of ideas for today's entry. But just as I was about to succumb to the pressures of this challenge, a vision appeared in my mind. Like peering through the mists of Avalon, there it was: My Camelot!

Many of the houses and residential complexes here on our island are surrounded by walls, some being more ornate than others and some, like the one in the photo, slightly on the extreme side of exterior decoration. This is a private complex, is surrounded by four walls that are similarly adorned and is named "Camelot". Really!

As for the number of lions appearing on the pillars and in reliefs along the walls, I have no idea. I lost count at forty-two.

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Friday, April 13, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 13

Pleasure

Only In Canada, eh? Pity.

If you've ever spent an extended period of time away from home, you probably have experienced a bit of homesickness. Moving to another country, on the other hand, can greatly enhance one's yearning to return to that place of familiar people, sights, sounds and smells so much so that some will return, even if it's for a mere visit.

I miss many things about Canada (and, yes, one of those things would include snow) but try as I might, I cannot shake my yearnings for certain foods that are only available in, or from, my native country. I probably won't get to enjoy my favourite pizza, Chinese food or chicken wings for quite some time (delivery or take-out is clearly not an option and a visit home would require me getting on the plane which is definitely "not on my dance card"), so I ~~bribe~~ rely upon the graciousness of my visiting Canadian friends to ~~smuggle~~ bring down certain items that will satisfy my cravings, even if it is only for a short period of time.

But the pleasure is exquisite.

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 12

Fear

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

There are many things that I fear. The fear of flying, for example, is at the top of my list and will avoid it like the plague whenever I can.

Another thing in the top ten of my list is the fear of publicly humiliating myself. As an example of how I might accomplish this feat, I give you what I call, "Scary Glass". These items, collectively or singularly, are like my kryptonite. I have this unconscious tendency to "talk with my hands" and if a Scary Glass is within arms length of my body, it will - quite unintentionally - get tipped over, resulting in excessive spillage, inevitable shattering and attracting unwanted attention to myself.

Accordingly, I try to have all beverage vessels in my immediate vicinity restricted to the height of the glass shown in the background (you'll notice its thick, heavy stable base).

Oh, and in case you're thinking of inviting me over for a party sometime, Ming vases, lamps, your grandmother's fine china, among other items, can also be categorized as "Scary Glass".

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This is part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge, spawned by Ziva & BonyMike (a.k.a. MikeWJ). Please visit the others that are contributing to this lunacy:

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 11

Wheels

As you can see, I'm totally committed to this challenge.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

30 Days of Photographs II - Day 10

Waiting

(I'm late as usual. Sorry to keep you waiting.)

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