Daily Photos

< September 2014 >

September 1, 2014
Labor Day in downtown Dayton. Here we are waiting for it to stop raining. It`s helpful to have someone behind me prompting a smile. It`s raining again, but we`re partially under shelter. Another day, another ginger.

September 2, 2014
I came across this happy couple on a trash can downtown. You know where I`m at (see November 13, 2013). Where Easter eggs come from. No. Just no. A spider web within a spider web. Two different spiders?

September 3, 2014
I tend to crouch down a lot. William Holden. Dennis Hopper. Audrey Hepburn. All the cool cats live in Dayton. I ran across the street for this shadow. On the outside looking in.

September 4, 2014
I think that people who eat donuts, like smokers, should have to pay more for health insurance. I`ve stood up there and taken pictures looking down. Congress has a Constitutional right to legislate, exclusively, for the good of the general inheritance. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Dayton, September 17, 1859. I know a little Greek. How about you? Don`t fail to notice the spare tire.

September 5, 2014
I allowed myself to be photographed by a Nikon camera. CWW. First Friday at the art gallery. Contemporary art photography. I`ll bet he eats donuts too.

September 6, 2014
It`s a house, and it`s blue. And there is art inside. Dirty Pillows (mixed media) by Charmaine Renee. Ticky Tacky Houses (found materials) by Charmaine Renee. And the artist herself, Charmaine Renee. Feel free to pull up a chair.

September 7, 2014
Knock on wood. Contemporary art photography. If I repeat it enough, it may become true. If I had a day, that I could give you, I`d give to you a day just like today. JOHN DENVER More contemporary art photography. Now give me an exhibition. All those years in culinary school have paid off.

September 8, 2014
WHOOSH! I am a rock. I am an island. PAUL SIMON Just another shattered dream. Migration is going slowly this year. He politely asked me to e-mail the pictures I took of him.

September 9, 2014
The new managers of my creepy parking garage painted lines on the floor for the first time. It doesn`t help. Insect eye. This took many tries, and my camera battery was dying. As I walked past this diner downtown, the owner saw me coming and locked the door, even though it was only 6:30. That reminds me: I should probably clean the shower.

September 10, 2014
They were dropping all around me as I took this picture. I despise spiders, but they keep nasty bugs under control. I think we`re seeing curiosity here, not fear. Not my size, sadly. The earth swings back toward the long season of death.

September 11, 2014
This bird cooperatively flew into my rule-of-thirds zone. We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors. GENESIS 37:3 Visitors are rare at the Adam Alonzo Photo Museum. Morning windshield.

September 12, 2014
Hanging around downtown Dayton. Mick and the boys played RiverScape. Blondes have more fun -- until it rains. Enthusiasm!!!!! Do you know `Stella by Starlight`?

September 13, 2014
They sat when it was cloudy and flew when it was sunny. The humble, but very plentiful, cabbage white. A caterpillar`s to-do list: eat, eat, eat, eat and then eat. I am grateful for the time, equipment and skill to capture this photograph, and for a very cooperative swallowtail. Fueling up for the long trip to Mexico.

September 14, 2014
Final approach. Science says light travels in a straight line, but it curves. Paint the sky. Through the dirty basement window. There`s a`nothing can harm you with your daddy and mammy standing by. DUBOSE HEYWARD

September 15, 2014
The angle of afternoon light worries me deeply. Puddle sky. He traveled in a cloud of smelly cigar smoke. Raindrops, not dew. It`s mid-September and I`m sitting under a blanket.

September 16, 2014
It was cold. It was getting dark. But it only made Katie`s fair complexion more stunning. She looks familiar (see February 12, April 29 and 30, 2007; September 28, 2008; and July 17 and 19, 2010). Katie was the first redhead I ever photographed.

September 17, 2014
The web keeps the bugs away. The fence keeps the panhandlers away. ReflectionssnoitcelfeR It was a challenge not to cast a shadow or fall in the river. Weathered Jack. Maybe there`s a way out of the cage where you live. SARA BAREILLES

September 18, 2014
I caught the last thirty seconds of their performance. Thar she blows! Karl Wallenda`s grandson prepares his next adventure. The guy in the hat store said it looked great, but I dunno. No matter where I`m employed, I work with eskimos.

September 19, 2014
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely. JOHN DENVER Think this is a fake bird? Don`t be so gullible. The birds can fly south. I have to stay here and be cold. Hope you don`t mind I invited a few feathered friends over. You`re so vein.

September 20, 2014
`Like, meow.` Photography gives me a buzz. I bet it tickles. Susan`s days are numbered. Home is where the nest is.

September 21, 2014
The silent darkness creeps closer and closer. Any cryptologists out there? This monstrosity could save your life. END OF SUMMER SALE. They finally decided to put it back.

September 22, 2014
Fourteen-story failure in downtown Dayton. The musician`s paycheck. Washboard virtuoso. It has been sunny all week. Reading the book, watching the movie, listening to the opera, shedding a lot of tears.

September 23, 2014
Superheroes. Teamwork. `I got this.` `I got th -- OUCH!` Four arms weren`t enough.

September 24, 2014
This tiny bag . . . . . . expands into this big bag. You know you want one. Going places. Do you know that Milt Jackson tune `Sunflower`? A branch of the military.

September 25, 2014
Dappled. Is she helping him or hurting him? It`s hard to say. Sunset boulevard. This was only one of many. Words to live by.

September 26, 2014
When all else fails, take pictures of water (see September 2, 8, 11, 15, 17, 18 and 19 above). Behind bars. If the bugs decided to gang up on us, we`d be in trouble. It took a couple of days for me to like this picture. But this picture I liked right away.

September 27, 2014
Rend not the oak and the ivy in twain, nor the swart maid from her swarthier swain. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Many years of nuts have fallen on this grave. Life goes on. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Writing the final chapter.

September 28, 2014
Not me. YOU bob for it. I will try to enjoy fall this year, so I`ll hate only one season. He`s just nuts about fall. I got some long distance photos with my close up lens. Thistle be the last picture of the day.

September 29, 2014
Be vewwye kwyitt! I`m huntin wabbit. The synchronized swimmers prepare for their routine. If something catches my eye, I take a picture of it. Welcome to the city. One man`s treasure is another man`s trash.

September 30, 2014
Better call Orkin. Impaled. Paul on a wall. Sunset in the city. Birds with four wings?

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