4 posts tagged “neighbors”

I have not been around on Vox very much recently and just wanted to let all my neighbors know that I was thinking of them.

I hope everyone had a very nice Valentine day. I spent the day with good friends. We saw an afternoon movie and then stopped for dinner before heading back home.

I decided to be a little creative and started a new group. Missouri and other 'Midwest' neighbors I know there is one other Missouri group on VOX, but it does not seem to be generating very many members so I thought I would start one that included Missouri's Midwest neighbors. I have a picture on it right now that is not a very good one of the Arch. I will have to look thru my old photographs and see if there is a better one that I can use as the profile photo. Who knows I may have to plan a trip downtown to get a new photo. It is always kind of ironic to me that when you live near a major tourist location, you hardly ever go to it if at all but if you are from out of town and especially out of state you are very interested in going to see this tourist spot. Well that is how it is with me, for most tourist locations in Missouri, but the Arch I have been to a few times, I just seem to take all my pictures of the area around it and not very many of the Arch itself. If any one has some Arch pictures they would like to share feel free to do so.

I have been slowly  trying to catch up with my Vox neighbors. I have let so much time slide by since I did any posting of my own. I have started commenting on other blogs, but I still did not feel ready to create my own post.

I am still a mix of jumbled thoughts, but Thanksgiving gives me something I can use as a focal point.

I have so much to be thankful for that I know I could never think of everything to be able to write it all down. There are many things that I am sure I would totally overlook and not realize just how thankful I should be about them.

I will always be thankful for my family, past and present. I am thankful for my friends, they are such good friends that I often wonder if I can ever be as good a friend to them as they are to me.

I am thankful for the 'Good old Days'. I am thankful for each new day.
I am thankful for the bad times too, because they help me to appreciate the good times.

I have noticed recently that my eyes are getting worse and I am in definite need of a new prescription for my glasses, but despite this I am thankful that I have eye sight at all.

I am still working, I am truly thankful for that. It is still iffy as to how long it will last, but I know that my coworkers/project managers are trying to keep me working. I say a silent thank you for that each and every day.

My parents are each in good health for their ages, this is definitely something to be thankful for.
My sister and I still get along more often than we don't, this is also a plus.

I have pets to snuggle with and to cheer me up when I am feeling down.

I have a wonderful neighborhood here on Vox and I am thankful to Six Apart for making this possible.

I am thankful I have a home, I have electric, I have water, I have heat, I have food in the pantry and in the refrigerator. I have a car that still runs, with only minor repairs so far.

I am thankful that despite problems here and there with my health, none of the problems are so severe that I can not enjoy my life.

I am also very thankful that I live in the USA, and that there are people who work everyday to make sure I do not ever loose the freedoms I get to enjoy.

Okay when I first read the theme WPG presented for the first post in Photo Quest I could not think of something to take a picture of. At least not anything that I thought was photogenic enough or that really reminded me of someone that I cared about our admired, other than other photographs. While I was out this week I bought myself some flowers to cheer myself up and the more I looked at the flowers I was reminded of an elderly neighbor that I used to take flowers to every holiday. She was like the neighborhood grandma and she loved flowers, but as she got older she could no longer go out and work in her garden. As she got further on in years it was even harder for her to see the flowers outside very well. I knew how much she loved her flowers and all the bright colors, because this was a joy that both of us shared despite our age difference. I am not sure what inspired me to start taking her flowers, but I started doing it when I was in about 7th grade I think. At first I would just cut some blooms off of Moms roses and go across the street to the other neighbors house and ask for a couple cuts off of her flowers. When I was in high school I started buying bouquets at the local grocery store. Every time I would show up at her door with the flowers she would give me the biggest smile and the warmest hug. I think on some small selfish level I did it to get those hugs and the fact that I loved the flowers just as much myself. There were times when I just could not decide on just one bouquet so I would buy more than one and then rearrange the flowers to look there best as one unit. I knew right where the vases were kept and I would put everything together in her kitchen while she waited in the front room. There was a couple of times that I got so carried away that I had to use 3 vases to put all the flowers in. Oh I also would get her a mylar balloon on many occasions. She saved each and everyone one of the balloons after they went flat. She kept them on the spare bed. I am not sure what ever happened to all those balloons when she passed, I am sure they got pitched by her son when he cleaned out the house.

So in memory of a great lady that was like an extra grandmother to me, and who liked all the colors and beauty of flowers as much as I did, I present some late entry photos of flowers.

The first ones are with a flash.

The next ones are without the flash.

And here are a few showing the use of a zoom.

I only have a point and shoot digital camera so these will have to do for showing different settings.

ps: I tried to take some macro shots but just could not hold my camera steady enough to get a decent shot, maybe next time.