the color of oh-so-kissable LIPS

Dragon Mood? -- a bit schizoid?

Lina and Yosh, my two chicks, my progeny, dearest to my heart, are at the farm in Texas this weekend. ~sigh~ Sadly, I chose not to go, so I'm experiencing these weird here/there feelings about it all. I've called them, hmm, let's see ... uh, five times in the past 24 hours? Yeah, I'm sort of a combination stalker and wistful, empty-nest mother.

SO-o-ooo, what can I do? What's with this photo over here?

This is the front door of the farmhouse. This is the door painted the color of some classy, sexy dame's LIPS. This is the door with a paint color selected by a MALE(!). This is the door that Paul and Aaron sanded, oh so lovingly, propped up against a tree trunk. This is the door I painted, oh so pleasurably, under a tree in the backyard. This is the door with the cool, soaring-swallows screen on it that Aunt Doris bought for her mama and daddy back in the day when money was tight, mama longed for nice things and daddy was too practical to spring for it. This is the door NEXT to the post that brought out the cursing, yelling part of me, all aimed at Aaron (another story that you'll never read here).

Isn't it pretty? Don't you wanna just KISS IT?

just a few shy of infinity

Dragon Mood? -- frustrated!

Ihave so MANY pictures to download off of our digital camera, it's not even funny. Like a zillion? Which as everyone knows is just shy of the cosmic, the unending, the infinite.

Are you familiar with the word, "ginormous?" Ginormous as in gi-gantic and e-normous? Curious word, isn't it? It feels like its been thrown together, a badly-made last-minute Halloween costume, you know, and then you wonder why people look at you oddly?

Well, given how little time (or is it inclination?) I have to spend time downloading digital pix off the camera, if I continue to procrastinate, these pictures will balloon into one ginormous beast of a task! Oh, save me from THAT beast!

[UPDATE]: So, now I have a ginormous number MINUS five (or is it six?) photos to download. This goofy one of me is one I downloaded and sepia-ized. Is that a word?

Dragon Mood? -- slightly smug at my discovery and slightly chagrined at my duh-ness

Because I'm a regular reader (along with 10 million other lucky people) of Dooce, I recently learned about her winning four (wasn't it four?) Bloggies, an annual award given to best of the best blogs amidst all the things World Wide Web-bish.

It suddenly dawned on this oh-so-quick Dragon, gee, maybe I should look over what other blogs won awards? They might be interesting or well-designed or fun to read?

While my Bloggie-award-winning tour was by no means exhaustive, I did find this gem of a blog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. What little I've learned about her, I find interesting and fun and it makes me want to check back on her writing again soon. Plus, she's got some awesome photos of western skies, horses and cowboys.

And ... not to sound stalker-like, but I'm really curious where the heck she is? Wyoming? Eastern Washington state? Montana? Possibly even somewhere in California? What piques my curiosity is there appear to be no mountains or mountain ranges anywhere in her photos. Hmmm.

Check it out.

This interminable winter in lovely shades of pink and blue

Dragon Mood? -- the quietness of this photo calms me

From the talented Michigan photographer, Capt Piper, I am reprinting one of her photos from Flickr. Gosh, can this woman capture nature's beauty?