These are morning water drops on a budding spring flower. Another morning walk photo. I am enjoying these now, I am up to averaging 8 miles a week. That's a lot better than 0 miles a week. Anyways it is also incentive to take photos around the neighborhood of Mountain View, CA.
So I always found this sculpture off Edith and San Antonio Road in Los Altos, CA to be too happy. I guess if you live in Los Altos and can afford public art you would be happy too. America you gotta love its irony.... get it... huh huh irony, a sculpture...
This was right outside my apartment. These 2 birds look like they are communicating as to where to get food or where to fly next. Anyways it is really hard o get these birds to stay steady. Day 179 is done.
I managed to capture him in mid stride. This was during today's morning walk. The squirrel was really fast.
This is the nephew just chillin' watering the grass. He was watering the herbs and strawberries with my brother-in-law and I happen to take a snapshot of him doing it. It is pretty amazing he is about to turn 1.5 years. He has his own vocabulary and he knows a lot it is really amazing how fast kids grow up. Pretty soon he is going to go to school and do all that cool kids stuff. Today he is watering plants, who knows what tomorrow's adventures will be. Anyways, it is Memorial Day and we get a day off here in America for the men and women who died for this country. Kudos to the young men and women who have died for this grand experiment called "America."
Anyways, I was just thinking about American dreams recently and I think they are more like modern American nightmares of oppression and bondage. People get BS/BA degrees, then either PhDs/MBA/MS/MD degrees, then most often these Americans end up at some dead end job pushing paper or pushing people to do work for rich people to attain more money and all that jazz. So I really don't get it, for example getting a house is essentially a form of bondage (30 year mortgage? What the hell happened to owning your own land, IN ACTUALITY THE BANKS PWN YOUR ASS). Also getting a gig with a good 401k and benefits is "the American dream." How can retiring at 65 be a dream? I say F-that, I say experience life, because when you are 65 you are not going to care about some presentation, or some good work you did unless you solved some big ass problem. Most people don't solve big ass problems, they solve trivial ones no one cares about and then you turn 65 miserable with a 401k, but so what? You can't take it with you! How can you be a self-made man, if elitist market the fact that in order to be "successful" you have to look, feel, think, and do like the next shmuck from the cube next to you? IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!
I've been in a selective coloring mood. There is a lot of intensity with his look in this shot. Check out the original. He is a real picky eater. He doesn't like just dry doggy food. He is a typical Filipino doggy. For meals, his palette requires rice and leftovers of people food. I had to break out his emergency canned doggy food so that he would tonight.
