*Snap Snap Click Click Click*

 I like photography. Alot. I like to just walk around and snap pictures of things I think are fabulous. If I'm taking pictures of people, I don't like them to pose. I refuse to take the shot if they're posed. I love candid pictures of people. That fantastic shot of a man staring at his wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/dog etc... when they aren't looking with nothing but pure devotion on his face. The twatwaffles in action. Whether they are terrorizing each other or simply making each other laugh uncontrollably, Those are the moments you want on your wall.

 Now let's switch to nature shots. You can get alot from just snapping pictures of something weird you see just laying around or something beautiful that you have to pull the car over and get the shot of it. I like getting shots of just about anything I can find. Some people may not find cemeteries beautiful, however.....

 One of my favorite places to go really. Years and years of history.

 Then again, There are animals and woods and just nature. Different seasons give you different enviornments. Spring gives you flowers in bloom and bright green backdrops.

 Summer gives you ripening fruit and great shots of family having fun...

 Fall gives you a plethora of photographic fodder. Too much to list really. And apparently I have no Fall or Winter photos on this big black magic box. Drat. I'll do a Fall/Winter blog later.

 Let's not forget animals. A trip to the zoo can be a photographers dream.

The point is....You don't have to have people sit in a chair or wear matching white shirts with their khakis to have a great picture of something. Just grab a camera, Point and shoot. You never know how great it will come out.

It's almost that time again!!!

 Fall! The best time of the year. Cool weather, Beautiful trees, Crisp breezes that do magical things to your sheets on the clothes line. It's a fantastic time of year. Warm enough to enjoy the day and open all the windows and just cold enough at night for a jacket and maybe an extra blanket. (Or just some extra snuggly stuff *eyebrow waggle*).

 Unfortunately for me. This glorious time of year doesn't begin to be glorious until around....Thanksgiving. You kinda start to feel it around Halloween, But then you realize you are still sweating out your entire weeks intake of fluids while you are trick or treating.

 In a nut shell. I. Hate. Summer.

 I have lived in Florida all of my life and I despise summer. Don't like to sweat. Don't like to be sunburned. Don't like that uncomfortable chafing that happens to the inside of my thighs. Now let's add in some humidity. No amount of hair gel will keep that shit from frizzing. Make up? Every fall I have to search for mine because it hasn't been used in 6 months. Sure, you CAN wear it. But it melts off by 10am. That is the reason some tourists think the south is being invaded by zombies. They come down here and at lunch they see women with hair that looks like a blob of brown,blonde,red cotton candy and half of their faces melting off.

 And let's not forget about the bugs in summer. Flies. Flies love heat and humidity. They are everywhere. You can't kill them. More come. Like zombies. Ants. Ants also love heat and humidity. And they also love the spots on the counter where the freakin Twatwaffles leave those damn tops of the popcicles that they cut off. Now, There are 3 pests in Florida that you just have to learn to deal with as they come. Flies, Ants and......Palmetto bugs. Those lovely, huge, cockroaches that come in, Drink, and leave! I hate those damn things.

 Now this final bug deserves a paragraph all it's own. Skeeters. Or as we like to call them around here. 747's OF DEATH!!!!! I think I saw one carry off a puppy the other day. And now we have West Nile popping up again. And what do they give you as adivce to avoid this? Well, You have the usual, No standing water. Bug spray. Stay inside during the evenin. And my personal favorite, Wear long sleeves and pants. In Florida. In August. It's 37,462 degrees outside with 105% humidty! I'll just stay inside thanks.

 Now can someone tell me why stores stop selling summer products, ie bathing suits, pool supplies, flip flops in August? There is still a month and a half of technical summer. And another 3 months of Florida summer. Is there a reasonable reason for this? It sometimes keeps me awake thinking of this. Because not only do they put my flip flops on clearance in July, But they also put jackets, sweaters, and all winter stuff on clearance in January. When it starts getting cold here. We get a surprise freeze in February and it's a riot.

 Anyway, I seem to have gotten off course.

 I'm not so patiently waiting for Fall. I want to make my house smell like a red hot and hang my lovely fall decorations. I want to put my pumpkins out and start taking pictures of a southern fall. I want to make my wreath and hang it on my door and I want to be able to light my fabulous candles, Open my windows and hear some say "Wow this is nice" when they see everything I did to my house just for fall.

 But come October 1st, It's Halloween all the way baby!

It's Over

  I know I'm late on this. But I have needed a little while to deal with my own sadness and stuff. I'm not good at dealing with change. People taken from me. It hurts. I don't care for it. After so long of being together, It was just too painful to address at the time he left.
Now. I think I'm starting to deal with the loss.

 Harry Potter. A love afair that interfered with Loser and the Twatwaffles at times. (Mom's reading darlin, Have a bowl of cereal.) They knew when I got a new book that I wasn't to be talked to if that book was open. I have been known to throw things when interupted. I love all of the books. I love all of the movies. Yes I cried when characters died. Yes I celebrated when He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was defeated once more. Yes I got a little misty eyed when Harry and Ginny finally realized they needed each other.

 My fabulous housemates can't seem to grasp my fascination with Harry. I don't care if they get it. Reading the books gives me a chance to run away to a magical world and be there instead of here. If only in my mind. The movies are another way for me to relax.

 So when Loser said "We're going to see HP7 pt 2" I was fantastically excited. I'm not able to go to midnight showings or the day it comes out. I see them when I find time to go see them. And we saw it in 3D. It was wonderfully done. And I cried. Quite a few times. Loser went with me and saw it, But it's really not his thing. The whole time he's saying "You're going to have to explain this to me." 
  
 But then again. Half of the time when we go see a new one, I'm sighing and sucking my teeth over something they left out of the movie. I couldn't believe they left out most of the wedding, And Harry's birthday party. That was disappointing. 

 But that's ok. I plan on making a pilgrimage to Universal soon. Well, Probably not soon. I want to go after the new has worn off so I can spend 3 days there and not fight people to see the smallest attraction and be pushed along. I hate that. Me and Loser and maybe the kids (They don't like Harry as much as I do. Breaks my heart) 3-4 days, and all the Butterbeer I can drink. Oh I can't wait. 

                                         

                         *for those of you who don't know what this picture is, YOU SHOULDA READ  THE    BOOK!*