Before you read my story click on the TGO Photo Club’s page in the left column. Dave Cesari presents pictures of a Great-blue Heron and a Great Egret – each caught a bad invasive fish in our Florida waters – He tells us a little about it on the Photo Club’s page.
MY STORY: Yea, it is almost Jan 1, 2019. Do you love the start of a new year? – and of course you can look forward to each new season of the new year – come to think of it, each day you can be looking forward to the start of a new day – but most of all, remember this moment is really good too.
New year’s resolutions are always fun – add one or two of these to your list of resolutions and, also, you can add them to your list of the life’s principles that you live by:
- Have a routine
- Have a lot of outside activities
- Have commitments
- Have friends that laugh
Part of my routine in the morning is to enjoy practicing how to digitally paint with PhotoShop before heading outside for a long bike ride. But before heading outside for the bike ride I am committed to the TGO Photo Club – I promised to update their blog with any photos sent to me. And, as my friends know, I try to laugh with them a lot.
Please read on and look at the photos below:
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First, “Happy New Year 2019” – This dove somehow jumped out of my hand, into my PhotoShop digital paint brush, and onto this blog! Maybe it is representing a bright new yea.
Now the question: Do cows keep secrets? Heather knows I love cows – maybe even better than I love puppies. Any way, she sent me, for Christmas, a framed photo of my (our) Cardigan Corgi Dyna (Dyna passed away 2 years ago at age 17) and a book titled “The Secret Life of Cows” by Rosamund Young. Yo, that is a nice Daughter.
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I know cows have secret lives. Each cow has secrets hidden in their head that drives them to be different from every other cow. – Those secrets drive them – Goofy followed me around like a puppy, number 703, only left other cows eat after she took exactly 3 bites of grain, 708 could jump a fence higher than the Texas deer but she only did it when she felt the urge to visit her son or daughter in a neighboring pasture, and my cow stories go on and on. So, I am anxious to read the book and see what Rosamund has to tell me about her cows. Maybe you will get a copy and read of cows too, as you sit by the fire up north, or by the air conditioner here in Florida.
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Dyna lived and worked with me on our Texas ranch for about 9 years – after that she lived with Heather and her family in N.J. – That is why Heather gave her son Charlie and me each a copy of this photograph of Dyna laying in field of yellow flowers.
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With the cow book and the dog in the field of yellow flowers, I was prompted to go to PhotoShop and paint this cow in Dyna’s yellow field. Since, I owned and worked with cows for nearly 35 years of my life, I might have to try it again this summer.
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Oh my, as you swing through life, routinely, go outside, only after you fulfilled your commitments, laughing all the way. Smile the next time you see a cow.
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