synthaetic synapse

as you wake this golden morning
and slowly get out of bed
squinting at the light
that streams from your window
and stretch
and yawn
as you breathe in the ocean air
filling yourself
with the wonder
and the glory
and the beauty
of the world
reveling in the simple joy
of being alive
remember this
and hold it to your heart
that you may never forget
because i think of you
and i wonder how you are
and i wish you were with me
so that you could feel
what i feel
and know what i know
so that you
almost awakened
with sunshine filling your eyes
could see what i see
and experience some small portion
of my world

because it’s 30 fecking degrees
where i am
and the damn wind
is blowing so hard
there’s snow stuck to the windows
on all four sides of the house
and you’d seriously be most welcome
to shovel the snow out of our driveway
for the thirtieth time this year

bah.

a truly anomalous event occurred here over the past couple of days. the snow was not unique, but the snow-without-wind most certainly was. usually, the wind is blowing strong enough when we get snow that i rarely have to shovel off the back porch and only parts of the driveway. but this time, we had a nice, gentle blanket of snow on everything. one might even say it was quite picturesque.

but did i manage to haul my stupid ass outside with a camera and take pictures of it before the wind started picking up early this morning?

hell, no.

did i even manage to have a camera in the car this morning, when the clear sky and the early-morning frozen fog would have been so picturesque, even with the slight wind clearing the snow off the evergreens, fences, other other surfaces.

no, i’m apparently WAY too intelligent for that. gah.

so, in potential partial recompense for my stupidity, here are a couple of things:

Thing 1: guess who has the cover of this month’s issue of Toy Trucker Magazine? The cover story is on the collection of Paul Westhoff, who is a friend and the owner of Hard Tops of Sioux Falls. I do their business cards, too. Look ‘em up and call ‘em and ask ‘em why they don’t have a website of their own! (i kid, i kid…)

Thing 2: ~from our recent trip up to Big Stone Lake for Thanksgiving. i have several plans for this photo, so this is kind of a sneak preview of an original that will probably never be released itself. in the background, you can see the point of land which is the subject of Big Stone Autumn. several of the trees back there were severely damaged by an ice storm last winter, so my plan to do a seasonal round of that point from the same vantage point were made moot. which was kind of okay, because the marks i made for the tripod didn’t last….and my father-in-law’s dock is a seasonal thing anyway. it’s not like it goes into the lake at literally/exactly the same place each year. so, i’ll be picking another place, or places, along the shore for that endeavor.

which reminds me. i need a sugar-daddy to buy me a GPS that’ll work with the cameras. i’m WAY too cheap to buy one myself, you know….