Shine On

Captured through the car window 70 MPH.

Thar She Blows!

Gray whale off the coast of Oregon 8/11/11

Nostalgia, Part 2

My 1st camera.

I'm participating in The August Break.

Nostalgia

Those were the days.

I'm participating in The August Break.

Electric Dance

Participating in The August Break.

Traveling Paws

We took the little dog with us on vacation.

What? No seat belt?

He rode in his crate between the front seats.

He didn't like this at first, but wised up pretty fast.

He found he liked to look at stuff.

Let's go down there.

Let's go down there.

There was a lot to look at. He was up for anything we were up for.

And usually faster too.

Now, I'm not saying my dog is smarter than yours,

Yeah, you are.

but he learned the time to start fussing to get out of the car was when the GPS Lady said, "Recalculating."

That would be because we were ignoring her instructions, had changed directions and were about to stop.

Let's go down there.

Recalculating.

Life's A Beach

View from our vacation window.

Or should be.

WTF!

No. Seriously. I mean it.

I'm standing in the toothpaste aisle of Target, trying to remember what else was on the list that I forgot at home.

Just never mind about that.

A woman walked up to me and asked if I could help her.

I'm just out of the gym, wearing shorts, a short-sleeve linen shirt and Chaco sandals. My hair is south of good grief, but at least I'm clean, having oh-so-recently showered.

The woman is holding a small box of something and she says,

"I'm going to use this denture cleanser to clean my son's retainer every morning, but I don't know how it works. Do you just drop in the tablet?"

Now I thought, but didn't say --

HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW? 

I looked at her. Looked at the aisle display and glory be, the display we're standing in front of is dental floss on the top and false teeth supplies on the bottom.

I didn't sneer or anything, I swear. She kinda leaned away from me when I replied, "I think so."

Then, she was gone, and I'm left wandering the aisles of Target, wondering exactly how old do I appear.

 Wandering and wondering.

Concluded it was proximity to said product that caused this unfortunate incident.

Next time I need to ponder in a store, I'm going to stand by the condom display.

Black Velvet Pencils

I'm still getting hits on the blog from searches for Black Velvet Pencils.

Here's what I said.  True Love Lost.

If you want to buy one or more, go here.

Paper or Plastic

Dance

Look

Through the window into Montana's past.

Road Trip

Brought a GPS along on vacation. Hoping it could direct us through Portland with no diversions.

I thought it would be nice if it could show us where we were over a map of where we were going. That would be helpful when we're paged to the Back of Beyond.

Doesn't work like that.

A lot of the time it looked like this.

Follow the pink ribbon, Dorothy.

 At least we hadn't fallen off the pink ribbon into the uncharted white space.

OTOH, the view out the windshield didn't offer a lot of info either.

Not Kansas, it just looks flat.

Elkhorn

One of Montana's most famous ghost towns. Ruined as a ghost town as it has a thriving little community there now.

Fool's Names

... as my mother used to say, and fool's faces are always found in public places.

Or in this case, idiot sentiments.

Found this scrawled on the interior of a building in a ghost town.

To learn how to spell remember.

Today is Someone's Birthday

Shades of the Past

Column Width

Us or Them

Someone else having Dachshund Adventures.

Cracked

Light Source

Pegasus