Failed Experiments
On the first day of the big vacation, I decided to document my trip by taking a photo more or less each hour of the day as I went through my days. Those photos would be a journal I could use to blog about my trip. This photo is the second of the series from the first day, taken just past Meridian Mississippi. I had to stop and buy some gasoline, and get refreshed, so I took the road a bit off the expressway and ran into a little campground. In front was some very accessible, photographable wisteria. I like wisteria, for the name, which sounds magical, and for the bloom which reminds me of grapes on the vine.
Alas the photo journal only lasted one day. And the blogging while traveling didn’t work well at all. The connection to the internet on the ship was slow, expensive, and pretty hard to justify spending as much money as I did trying to do it.
Anyway, I’m going to continue to plow through all my photos, best of 10, and publish one a day, so we’re thick into the travel photos for a while. I think I had something on the order of 400 photos, so more than a month of trip photos. I’ll enjoy the walk down memory lane.
Home late from the quilt bee… worked about three hours getting the paper cleaned off some paper piecing. Still not finished! I’ll be glad to finish this and get on to the row robin. I’m down to two weeks and counting, and have only a vague plan. I’ll get some of it going tomorrow… I hope!
We did get started talking about oil spill stuff a bit. One member of the bee is the mother of the president of St. Bernard Parish. He’s taken to living out in Breton Sound as the oil disaster continues. It’s not like we have to solve any of the problems in our quilt bee, but everyone knows people who are affected. And they sounded like they’re not eating much sea food this year. I continue to eat a bit of gulf shrimp, but I never did eat much. So a fried shrimp po’ boy now and again won’t do me enough damage to worry about.
July 3rd, 2010 at 11:18 am
Not a failure when you have a photo op like that. Stop obsessing on whatyou might have done and enjoy the memories, please. The oil spill is a tragedy that will effect us all in one way or another. And again, the biggest part of it right now is volunteers doing recovery while those in charge place blame.