Showing posts with label spider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spider. Show all posts

Thursday, October 27, 2016

My Favorite Yard Haunt 2016!




It was hard to get up this morning.

I slept okay, but had busy dreams that I wanted to keep dreaming.

I felt a bit like a record that started from a standstill and sloooowly sped up to regular speed.

I got into my car, feeling like I did not have enough energy to get through the workday ahead, when I saw what is now my FAVORITE YARD HAUNT OF 2016!







It wasn't because of any particular decoration or even the yard haunt itself, but the fact that it was there, blinking from across the street between two of my backyard neighbors. As I was driving to a day of work that I wasn't looking forward to, I saw this gaudy, blinking reminder that it is still Halloween Season for a few more days! Plus "On the Sunny Side of the Street" by the Manhattan Transfer was playing on WITT! I love that song.

It was enough to make me stop and take 2 short videos of it so I could remember it and so I could share it with you.

I drove by it again this afternoon.





Not really much to look at in the daylight. A grim reaper guy, a giant spider with a red butt, a generic Jack Skellington-looking guy with a hat, and the Staypuft Marshmallow Man. Kind of boring actually, but this morning it provided me with a moment that I can only compare to the scene in a Christmas movie where the main character sees a Christmas tree light up, and everyone knows that it will all be okay.



Click here to see and read about my favorite yard haunt from 2015!  I've driven by several times to see if they put it up yet this year. Either they have not or the person who put it up last year no longer lives there. It makes me a bit sad, but this year's favorite mostly makes up for it.








Sunday, August 21, 2016

A Few Quiet Minutes

I made another youtube channel.

This is one I've been thinking about for a while.

I often notice that moments of quiet are worth paying attention to.

I want to share some of the quiet moments I experience with people who are interested.


Here is the channel: A Few Quiet Minutes


And here are the videos I've added so far:














I like these videos for what they are. I don't know that they capture the moments the way I want them to, but I think it's as close as I can get it.


Please subscribe if you are interested, share with those that might be, and take a few minutes to yourself.



I'll add more videos as I find quiet moments I think are worth sharing.









PS: Please subscribe to my other youtubes:
























Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Day 257 - Halloween Spider (a poem) - 9/15/2015







Scary spider, spun your web

over my pumpkin patch,

The summer season's on the ebb

you watch over this batch.

this batch.

you watch over this batch.


Your solemn guard you stand.

'til Halloween and pumpkins picked

May your web stay strong, each strand

and all of the insects tricked.

'sects tricked.

and all of the insects tricked.


But are your intents unscrupulous?

Your form a fright to see.

I don't mind you being poisonous

if you stay off of me.

of me.

Just stay the fuck off of me.