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< June 2015 >

June 1, 2015
OBSOLETE OBJECTS: typewriter. OBSOLETE OBJECTS: turntable. OBSOLETE OBJECTS: Rolodex. OBSOLETE OBJECTS: cassette tape player. OBSOLETE OBJECTS: pennies.

June 2, 2015
Just words today. Good advice from a window. Conflicting advice from a different window. Student loan payments begin in 90 days. Positive reinforcement from a stranger.

June 3, 2015
There was a swarm of kids roaming the sidewalk asking for money, so I shot this safely from across the street. I really hope he`s not planning to eat anything he catches. Water is truly worth more than diamonds. Fortunately we have more water than we have diamonds. City traffic rushes past while I kneel on the sidewalk.

June 4, 2015
Coming in low over the Great Miami River. The hunger of the beast can never be satisfied. In a word, today was HOT. Ponytails in motion tend to stay in motion. I`ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought I`d get an e-mail from you again.

June 5, 2015
Urban waterfowl. What kinda gee-tar is that? I certainly hope you brought a towel. Sometimes Siri can`t help you. Some sort of scavenger hunt was going on downtown and overzealous participants were running through traffic.

June 6, 2015
I`m happier taking pictures than getting my picture taken. I`m glad some people allow me to photograph them. [Insert person here] Have you met my friend Flora? I found this robin bob-bob-bobbin` along in the park.

June 7, 2015
Sunday morning in the park with flowers, birds, fish and screaming children getting their photographs taken. Water striders are our friends: they eat bugs but not us. Can I get just . . . a bit . . . closer without falling in? No, that`s fine little girl, just scare away the big dragonfly. I`ll take a picture of this dumb flower instead. Water molecules have a stronger attraction to each other than they do to the air, contracting into droplets like this.

June 8, 2015
Beneath the Oldsmobile. From fairest creatures we desire increase, that thereby beauty`s rose might never die. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I stand near the birdfeeder long enough, I get might this. The best time for vagrants to rummage through our garbage cans is right after the neighborhood garage sale. I try to create an illusion of flowers growing in a field, but most of my flower photos are taken on urban sidewalks.

June 9, 2015
It ain`t supposed to be pretty. This paint is peeling in an appealing way. The random patterns of nature. Your Rose of Today. Bumblebees buzz around my porch in the summer and don`t bother anybody, but today they`re dead on the sidewalk. Maybe somebody was bothered after all.

June 10, 2015
The destruction of the world is largely due to automobiles. The destruction of the world is largely due to automobiles. Say NO to automobiles! Some people work hard while I wander around aimlessly. The Oregon District up close.

June 11, 2015
Leafy landscape. I`ve gotta pick up Betty Lou and take her to the sock hop. Watch Out for Motorcycles. I just sat and watched the birds for a while this morning. This rabbit may have felt bored by me and my camera, but not threatened. This is one of about 50 pictures I took of it.

June 12, 2015
Photographing this sweet smile once a year isn`t enough. There are many beautiful things in my neighborhood. This is much better than my last shot (see June 6 above). They say Audrey Hepburn died in 1993, but I`m not sure. Why are you reading this? Just look at the picture.

June 13, 2015
Trust no one. Have you met my friend Lacy? Cat with Limestone -- an installation. Ready to serve. This rabbit wasn`t as calm as the one on June 11 above.

June 14, 2015
`Do you mind? I`m busy here.` My National Geographic Field Guide to Birds failed me, but Google came through: it`s a blue-gray gnatcatcher. I had the garden to myself until 9:00am, when two other photographers showed up and began shooting portraits. This is a good visual representation of my piano skills. And then I shot Bambi.

June 15, 2015
I`ve felt that way. In the backyard. Living wall hangings. I`m the impressionist photographer. Wipe first before sitting.

June 16, 2015
This was after I got rained on. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: `It might have been!` JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER You`re GIVING AWAY `Weapons Systems of the U.S. Army,` Harry Potter and a biography of Herbert Hoover? For stars fall every time a lover has to face the truth, and far too many stars have fell on me. DAN FOGELBERG My neighbor the painter and her multi-colored phone.

June 17, 2015
After the daily downpour. Newcom Park in a water droplet. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain, and the itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the web again. Nature has taken its course (see May 3, 2015). This was in my bag of `baby carrots.` Childhood obesity is real!

June 18, 2015
Keeping up with the Jones Street lilies. It sounds impossible, but I`ve seen it many times. A bug is sitting on a flower before and after I take a photo, but it jumps up at the very moment the picture is taken. Undecided. How do you tell what time it is on a rainy day? Bugs for breakfast.

June 19, 2015
This fence will exist longer than this flower, but flowers will exist longer than fences. Ready to pounce on me. Eww -- that settles it: I`ll never let a starling kiss me. When an Army Ranger aircraft circles overhead with its side door open, just be patient and keep looking up. The hazards of urban parachuting.

June 20, 2015
I knew this was a bad idea (see June 16 above). An advance scout looking for something to latch onto (see July 11, 2012). Poised on the boundary between spring and summer, I am no longer SAD (see October 15, 2014). So, it rained a little. I never touch the stuff myself, but it`s a nice gesture.

June 21, 2015
i’m gonna rise up be a trumpet in the morning. ARTHUR BROWN I`ve felt that way too (see June 15 above). It usually takes lots of pictures to get a good one like this. Fortunately it doesn`t cost anything to take digital photos. FIRST DAY OF SUMMER! So fragile . . . don’t break it (see November 16, 2008; August 28, 2009; and November 19, 2009).

June 22, 2015
This species of woodpecker isn`t supposed to be in Ohio. Pretty stuff in ugly places. `Don’t fence me in!` Sunrise on a stalk. This cardinal was loudly singing with a mouth full of bug.

June 23, 2015
It would be a shame if someone looked at this photo and assumed it was the result of luck and not careful effort. The accountant`s nightmare. Your daily sunflower. Virtue on Van Buren Street. Vice on Van Buren Street.

June 24, 2015
I saw this from a distance and immediately felt very lucky. Your daily sunflower AND your daily bee in the same shot. Do you remember that movie `Sphere`? Urban canyon. Fine -- hide from me.

June 25, 2015
Where berries are ripening, waxwings come to feast in amiable, noisy flocks. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA Men will never rest till they`ve spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. WATERSHIP DOWN Lovers of rotting fruit and tree sap, Red Admirals are sociable and easy to spot. THE LIFE CYCLES OF BUTTERFLIES It`s growing in the street right up through the concrete, but soft and sweet and dreaming. PHIL SPECTOR Main Street, City of Dayton.

June 26, 2015
I`m still editing photos I took two weeks ago (see June 12 above). The most time-consuming task is to look through hundreds of similar photos and choose the best ones for editing. Detail of Kelley`s dress. And that`s me in her eye. The end result for one photo, and there are 39 more to go.

June 27, 2015
I`m not sure everyone in this picture is having fun. Lots of people paid money to dunk the school principal. The key ingredient of funnel cake. It`s June 27 and I`m wearing a sweatshirt and a jacket. Musicians are the quiet and introverted type.

June 28, 2015
This bee was too soggy and groggy to fly, but one did come after me today, which is pretty rare. I backed off. There were no mercenary photographers in the park this morning, trying to take pictures of screaming children. It was just me and the singing birds, the buzzing bees, the silent butterflies -- and a dog barking in the distance. Daisy, Daisy, I`m half-crazy all for the love of you. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. HENRY DAVID THOREAU

June 29, 2015
What`s going on here is more important than anything you or I did today, but hardly anyone is concerned. Bathtime for birdie. Honeybees are a rare sight this year. Someone needs to invent a car alarm that detects cats. The shed is empty. Let`s lock it.

June 30, 2015
Signs of summer. Do the dew. Go to where the food and water are and just wait. Bees are more likely to pose for photos in the morning. What squirrel?

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