Falling down the mountain

Happy Birthdays

Today's post is for my twin surf buddies who hit abig birthday ending in zero. Surf on Tony and Bill!!!

Whatta way to go

 Today's post tips the trucker's cap to Seasick Steve who reminds us that NOW is the time and TODAY is the day.

"Twenty five years working for the state

Saved all your money, got a good rate

Always thinking 'bout that pension plan

The day of retirement, the promised land, well

Got a finish off that swimming pool

Get some umbrellas, don't wanna be cool

Remember to take them fishing trips

You never had time for, this is it"

"The day of retirement have finally come

Get a gold watch and your work is done

One month later your heart give out

What was all that planning about?

What a way to go

What a way to go

What a way to go

What a way to go

Well, they finally lay you in the ground

Your wife and the children standing around

Now they got that pension plan

Rather have you, don't you know it, man"

from What a way to go by Seasick Steve

Rupert from the Saltwater Cowboys going hard at Noosa 2013

Hava go

I hear a lot of talk from people who don't surf saying they'd like to try it and despite my encouragement, there's often more talk than action. It's the same with life in general - a lot of talk but not a lot of follow through execution of the talk.
This post is for those who get off their backsides and have ago at stuff in life that's a bit out of their comfort zone. Congratulations.

Monochrome Monday (zen puppy)

Meditating after a fashion 

while the full moon clocks off 

and the autumnal sun grumbles out of bed

Im trying to calm the rabbit warren 

of thought that's my mind. 

It wants to flit from the past 

to some imaginary future 

where I'm older than old 

(I'm already old). 

I tell it to get back to the present.

Rod and roll

TGIF (Dazed and confused)

Sun came up this morning,

but I never saw it.

Slept in three hours

past my get up time.

Got up dazed and confused.

Felt like the middle of the day.

So here's a quick couple

of Kodachromes

from the film archgives.

TGIF

Tree

Deep Winter Six

Shuffle Time

The kookaburras outside are complaining that it's only 8 degrees above freezing and winter hasn't started. The sun is sleeping in. My joints are creaking as I light the gas stove and to percolate the first of several coffees. Last night I bailed on my Monday run-shuffle exercise thing. Too cold. Too tired. Too late. But this morning, I'm on it. I want to be able to surf like this as long as I can. 

Monochrome Monday (filmless Atlas)

 I still use a number of film cameras on occasion - usually when the light is perfect or I need large format in the studio, but for the rest of the time, I heart digital and my darkroom-in-a-box.

mmmmm

I am the walrus

"Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun. 

If the sun don't come, you get a tan 

From standing in the english rain. 

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen. 

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob."

"Expert textpert choking smokers, 

Don't you think the joker laughs at you? 

See how they smile like pigs in a sty, 

See how they snied. 

I'm crying. "

"Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower. 

Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna. 

Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe. 

I am the eggman, They are the eggmen. 

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob. 

Goo goo g'joob goo"

from I Am the Walrus by The Beatles

Word Wednesday

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