Sometimes, you just feel like being emotional...
Sometimes, you just feel like doing nothing at all...
Sometimes, you just wanna lay there and watch the clouds goes by...

Honor, Respect, Love

Respect them, Honor them, love them. Because they are, afterall... the only Hero we, as Americans, really have left.

Happy Memorial Day.

Taken in downtown Shreveport, LA. May 22,2009.

Dream of the Stars

I love the classic romantic quote just as much as the next guy... but today this quote really hit home. Also check out my photoshop skills. =]

Relationships don’t work they way they do on television and in the movies. Will they? Won’t they? And then they finally do, and they’re happy forever. Gimme a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren’t right for each other to begin with, and half of the ones who get married get divorced anyway, and I’m telling you right now, through all this stuff I have not become a cynic. I haven’t. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate covered candies and, y’know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don’t care, because I do believe in it. Bottom line: it’s couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time. If it’s right, and they’re real lucky, one of them will say something.
- Dr Cox

lay your head next to mine and we'll sleep one good sleep tonight.
fall asleep, love, to forget or to dream ... fall asleep to leave this world behind.

and i wish for you, friend, to lie down in peace and i wish for you always to know that as long as we'll dream under these stars in the sky that we've seen since the day we were born ...

... to move but don't move too fast for your dreams or your grandest of plans.

dream of nights of fireflies and skies so clear, so untouched. dream of a time, of a place for us to live, so free, so free.

just as quick as you can fall asleep.

i imagine this song being sung to a child sleeping out and looking up at the stars and realizing how large and incredible the world is. i used to get scared looking up at the stars at night because it was like looking at billions of other worlds ... it's easy to get so caught up in the gears of life (work, school, obligations, responsibilities) that we lost any sort of creative ambition or desire for ridiculous adventures, and so the only time we have to imagine is when we sleep. i originally had a line in the song that said "its so sad to only dream when you sleep," and i really think it's true. maybe if we allowed ourselves the time to take a step back and realize how wonderful our world can be (if we stop destroying it, that is) we could dream up all kinds of things for ourselves.
-Lullabies-Defiance, Ohio

Jazz

Due to his addiction to destroying our antique furniture... and not to mention destruction... We had Jazz declawed today. I miss my baby so much. At 4 he was still groggy but doing well. I signed him up to get as many painkillers that were allowed. I feel so bad.. but I also recognize that this will make our house more peaceful. This has also made me realize that I dont want to cover up my Jazz tattoo.




I cant wait till he comes home.

love is a flower

Didnt ya know, I'm a gardener. =]

Salvias and Bees! Some of these photos took real courage since I'm scared senseless of bees.






My bat faced cupheas. Do you see the face? These babies are kind of delicate and I'm very proud of myself for getting them to bloom.

This is Carl... He was figuring out where he was at. We saved his life from getting crunched on our sidewalk.


After he figured out he was in a photoshoot he started posing.


Then we put him on a leaf and let him be a happy snail.