Just your standard Flowering dogwood in northern Alabama.
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Mar 16
Playing it low key
One of the reasons for the recent cat-in-car pics was to help remind her that the car wasn’t a bad thing. We took a four-hour trip to the family this week and brought Allie. So she was fine in the car, because she is familiar with the whole thing. She fusses getting in and is fidgety and vocal about the whole thing for the first three or four miles, but then she’s completely comfortable with it. I might stress about her stressing about the ordeal more than she does.
She sits in the back. She lounges in her carrier. She does laps from the backseat to the front passenger seat. (We keep her out of the driver’s seat, as we sane people.) And then she’ll get in the passenger floorboard. She’ll sit up and watch the world go by. And she’s has figured out that she somehow fits underneath the passenger seat. How that can be comfortable, I’ll never understand.
But she has a lot more room here:
That’s in the guest room at my folks’ new house. She’s a good house guest, too.
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Mar 16
Another sign
We’ve returned to the land of my people.
Actually we were about an our from the ancestral homelands when I took that picture. But whenever you see Sun Drop you can’t be too far away. And we arrived safely about an hour later. And the why of all of this will be amusing, dear reader, in a few days.
Also, if you aren’t familiar with Sun Drop, you’re missing out. I don’t drink sodas anymore. Haven’t in a decade. But every now and then, when you get the memory of a good taste in mind, you think about it. Sun Drop is one of those tastes.
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Mar 16
Signs of spring
You’re always looking. Because you have to put the cold weather behind you. And, in truth, it has felt like spring for a while now. But you don’t trust it until you see it. Because you need to see it. You have to put that cold well behind you. And seeing it does that, even if it seems like you see it later these days.
Probably you don’t see it later. Maybe you just start looking earlier, because that breakout means more and more.
So here they are:
And another:
Also, military maneuvers. Seems weird, but that’s part of it in this part of the world. While this guy is getting a tow, seeing the reserves on their rotation is another sign.
At the start of the season, you’re excited for any of the signals.
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Mar 16
Timing is everything
Walking from one room to another and you see the dangling cat pose:
Now the key to getting that shot is being casual. I’ve learned that she’s learned to not care for having a phone in her face. (She’s OK with an actual camera, which makes noise, for whatever reason.)
You walk by, and then you pull out your phone and open your app and then you crouch down and casually frame the shoot and shoot a few frames.
So you have your safety shots and you think about moving in a little closer. Tighter compositions, you tell people continually. And then:
You hit the sleep button on your camera, because it won’t get any better than that.
