Showing posts with label car shots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car shots. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2011

linked: from the car

5/13 Post edit: So for the last two days Blogger has been not working and so any attempts to post and link, etc. were met with an "error" message. This original post below was lost and so I had to go back in and rewrite write the portion of it that had been saved. Such a PAIN. Anyway, here we go again...
(And Friday's post will be up tomorrow. We're flexible right?)



After fifteen years of marriage I can still say that one of my favorite places to be is alone in the car with my hubby. Sans kids. With music of our choice. Or a perhaps a little driving in that beautiful, glorious silence.

It is a rarity, one that we did not appreciate until we no longer had it. That first day we drove home with our son from the hospital with him fastened securely in the infant car seat, we entered a completely new world of the driving environment: one that is filled with kid noise, kid's music, passing of snacks, refereeing of squabbles, fielding questions, and fishing for lost sippy cups, dropped pacifiers, and blankies. Like I said, one cannot learn to appreciate what one has until it is reduced to a scarcity.

On Mother's Day I had a couple of hours of that glorious car space with just my boyfriend.

And it just so happened that my blogging link-up partners, Stacey and Michelle and I had just decided that our "linked" assignment this week would be "from the car."

There could not have been a more perfect time to pull out my camera.



I am anxious to see what "from the car" moments Stacey and Michelle captured this past week.

Head on over to their May 12th blog posts and view with me!

For Michelle's post, click here.

For Stacey's,  post click here.

Happy Friday,
T

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Through my windshield


This is how I passed my time while sitting at a very long light. Random indeed. But when you are impatiently waiting (and waiting) and you notice your camera sitting on the seat next to you like a trusty, reliable passenger you take the cue. The moment was like a message you know? Maybe some secret conspiracy between the traffic signal and my camera?
 
Signal: Hey! Canon...yeah, the one riding shot gun.
Canon: Me?
Signal: Yes you. 
Canon: Yeah?
Signal: She's oblivious to the moment and she's ignoring you.
Canon: I know. (pouty face) She loves me, but she's often too preoccupied to notice the possibilities. I feel so limited.
Signal:  Oh get over it.  I'll go over my time limit and you try to get her attention.
Canon: Got it. Will do...

Whatever it was, I stopped being impatient and opened my eyes to the moment. Wonder how much I've been missing?