My niece stands in front of the beautiful historical hotel we stayed in.

Enjoying a scrumptious time (Birthday girl's pick.) dining outside at a fine Italian restaurant.

Opening a special birthday gift.

Receiving a pearl ring from her mom. -An heirloom piece (A big-girl-grown-up ring) that holds much significance.

Got Style?

Hamming it up with a friend at a costume shop.

Inside the theatre! Taking sneak-photography. Anticipating a fine production.

Super super super excited!

No disappointments.

Over-the-top performances with absolute professional polished quality.

ANTICIPATION

PARTICIPATION

REFLECTION

...makes life meaningful.

Question to jenj: Why did you buy that humongo banquet sized bag of Oriental trail mix?

jenj's answer: I thought I could be disciplined enough to use the Banquet sized bag of Oriental trail mix occasionally for a special snack or pre-dinner tongue-wetter.

Reality: The bag I purchased not too many days ago is almost empty and most of the good stuff has been gleaned out leaving behind a couple of hand fulls of salted peanuts. I'm going to toss out the peanuts into the garbage. I realize this is wasteful but I have to get those last hand fulls of tasty, tiny, salted nuts out of my sight before they end up becoming a "muffin top" attached to my abdomen.

Jenj, speaking to jenj: My goodness, jenj, you over did it this week with your over-the-top carbohydrate intake. SCARY! Not good!}

With great resolution, jenj is once again listening to her inner conscious rather than listening to the nonsense of her "I'm hungry!" gullet-fixated-mindless-eat-center.

For breakfast: jenj (me) started out the day with fresh ground and fresh brewed french roast coffee; a small bowl of warmed mixed berries blended with chopped apricot; two large segments of ruby red grapefruit; Four ounces of light cranberry juice.

For lunch: jenj will have thinly sliced smoked Alaskan salmon with slices of peppered and salted tomato wedged into mini pita bread rounds alongside a handful of alfalfa sprouts.

Dinner: Yet to be announced.

How's that for eating healthy again and staying on track?

Therapy session over.

Wish me luck.

Thank you,

-jenj

Post Script: Taking off for a Saturday morning stroll or bike ride. (Yes!)

Nombre quarente (no. 40) truck setting outside another of my brother's structures.

-Do you think it was used in a destruction/demolition derby?

Be proud.

I think my brother's got a smile upon his face again. ;0)

A man.

A family.

A life-time.

A journey.

Take hold your ideas and your ambitions.

One's notions & visions & dreams can come true.

Conceptualization.

Conceive. Conceiving. Conception.

A seed.

Receive. Proceed.

Try not to presume things are impossible.

No limitations. No conclusions.

Resolve to dream...

A peep hole view from inside the dwelling.

{Eye captain, I think I see a ship sailing upon the horizon...

...Nope, only a yard full of yunke in the foreground.}

Clean as a whistle with a speckled glint of sunlight shining through.

Reminds me of that James Bond movie where Mr. Bond is about to be sliced in half

by a stream of laser light slowly moving toward 007's groin. (Movie: Gold Finger 1964)

Looking to employ go-go dancers for the prime establishment you see above - (J.K.!) ;0)

I offered my go-go dancing scouting services to my brother but he says

that he and his son rob will take it upon themselves to do a world-wide search recruiting such talent. - Go figure?...;0)

Life sprouts up through death.

Bone yard heaps of white shells parted from there meaty-sweet-mollusk bodies.

{Ceviche anyone?}

Heaps of crustaceans (Claws/bodies/legs) that used to be bright orange-red

find themselves beached and bundled into hills and hills of bleached white calcium deposits.

Classic black and white contrasting image.

The skull is that of a dogs.

The shell with the three holes was used for either buttons or board game pieces.

If you look closely at the vertebra bone (upper-right-hand-corner) you can see it's heart-shaped.

-I discovered that the vertebra has devil horns on it if you flip it over.

Hmmmmm....there seems to be a strange balance to life most of the time. Hmmmmm?

Onlookers

Rockabilly vs. Rockers.

I just love the dynamics of the (above) photo. - a juxtaposition.

I was never formally introduced to these three individuals. 

Though several smiles were brushed back and forth (transpired) between myself and the man behind the glasses during the evening's rich atmosphere.

This individual had a nice soothing comfortable way about him.

He reminded me of the character Nicholas Cage took on in the movie Moon Struck and another actor that slips my tongue at the moment.

Fireside guitar playing and folk singing took its turn blending into the early morning hours.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Check out this link to find out more about the background of the bonfire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire

 Photo Credit: Photos of Snowflake I collaged can be found here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/snowflake/index.html

                                                                       http://www.albinogorilla.dk/snowflake

Stained glass window.

This leaded stained glass window leads in and out of an artist's studio.

More to come regarding Burning Pig 2008 soon.

Be grateful today.