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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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