ABC Wednesday – K is for ….

1969 Karmann Ghia

Konvertible??? No, this week letter is K which stands for Karmann Ghia by Volkswagen. I have to tell you that as a youngster during the 1970’s muscle car era I sure did not understand why anybody would want one of these. I guess now that I’m old and dumb instead of young and dumb I can appreciate the styling and lines but I still don’t get paying a premium for a 60 horsepower engine. I just love the baby blue color of this car, the bright chrome bumper and the little turn signals.

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Ruby Tuesday 2 – Centennial Park Clock

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A strikingly red clock in Centennial Park near the Pearl District. I’m guessing the downtown employers may have installed it to make sure their lunchtime geocachers, bloggers, and runners don’t take too long to get back to work at lunch.

I doctored the photo up a little with some of the tools available at ipiccy.com. I amped the color, darkened the edges, and added a little fabric texture. SOOC is lots of fun but hey so is playing with the effects. (Notice that I didn’t call it “enhancing.”)

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Waviness

It is time for Ashley Sisk’s Scavenger Hunt Sunday again. Ashley for being a very nice young woman sure provides challenging items for us to go hunt. At least they are challenging for me.

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Asian, I really had to did down deep for this. This is a photograph of my great uncle Rollo. My father tells  me that in this Photo my uncle is in Manchuria back in the 1930’s. The children are Japanese schoolchildren. Now, I don’t understand all that but there it is. Uncle Rollo was a naval officer who fought in the Pacific in World War II and eventually rose to the rank of Admiral. Next time I visit Dad I’m going to scan a bunch more photographs. He has pre-war photographs of receptions at various officers clubs in the Pacific from Manila to Singapore. The officers are very dashing in their uniforms and their wives are wearing very elegant gowns. Its a way of life that has disappeared I think.

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Wavy, what’s wavy, if you were expecting pictures of my wavy hair I’ll just let you know that I don’t have any, hair that is, especially wavy hair. This is a picture of son SuperPizzaBoy on the beach near Carlsbad, California a few years ago.

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Draw? How about some chalk art?

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Soft, nothing softer than a rose petal is there?

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Texture, Sweetie and I went to Eureka Springs, Arkansas a couple years ago for a weekend. One of the sights of Eureka Springs is a statue of Humpty Dumpty on a brick wall. And then I applied a brick wall texture to the photo. That is about as good as it gets in my artistic endeavors.

That’s it for this week’s roundup.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

The Ultimate Life by Jim Stovall

The Ultimate Life by Jim Stovall is a novel about living, getting, and giving back. It is about a crusty old oilman named Red Stevens. Red is a multigazillionaire who has died and in his will he left the just a few gazillions to his greedy heirs and the bulk of his estate to a grandson, Jason Stevens. However Jason has to show that he has learned about the gifts of life and further demonstrate that that he knows how to teach others about the gifts

Well, old Red’s other heirs wanted all the gazillions of dollars and are thus trying to overturn Red’s last will and testament in court. The judge hearing the suit is the narrator and so he has to oversee the education of young Jason and test whether Jason is meeting the tests.

The gifts that Jason must learn are things such as Work, Money, Friends, Learning. There is a chapter for each. It opens with a court session where Jason demonstrates that he has learned what the particular day’s gift is and is then directed by the judge to go out and demonstrate that he learned how to teach that gift to others.

I loved the book. Mr. Stovall has a gift for writing and moving the story along. He also has a great sense of humor. The courtroom repartee between Jason’s lawyer and the greedy heirs’ attorney is really funny. He also writes with a gentle good humor and I just felt good by the time I finished the book. Mr. Stovall has a talent for showing how things like work, giving, gratitude, learning, and problems,  are really blessings to be learned and passed on.

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Skywatch Friday – The Downside of Daylight Savings Time

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Spring is here, the days are longer and it is warming up and all that is a good thing. Along with that comes daylight savings time and that is another good thing except that it is the end of my sunset photographs. I love my job but not enough to stick around another hour or so to take some pictures.

Speaking of that. After eleven years of a great view I am moving into an interior office from my cubicle by the window. I will miss my view but I am kind of a “just tell me where you want me to work” kind of guy.

Skywatch Friday