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By Silver Blue
….it just makes sense. Seriously.
I used to collect these little fellows. They’re called “Cherished Teddies” and they’re made by Priscilla Hillman for Enesco (the same people who bring you “Precious Moments”). He’s one of my favourites, and the only to star in a photo that has actually been in the Galley Gallery (as I call the kitchen artwork). I snapped him shortly after my kitchen was renovated.
But since man cannot live on cuteness alone, how about a serving of Lettuce Shrimp Wraps?
Served with fried rice, they’re really easy to make, and … might even give you a reason to kiss the cook!
Silver Blue, who wonders what I have that is quick, cool, and healthy for dinner. I know! A smoothie!
The light is brief, don’t waste it…
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1…the taste is sweet, so taste it, so I said, I understand… you see, I’m dancing as fast as I can.*
Leaving the house this morning, I spied a rose in bloom…laying back in the rosemary. A Rose in the Rosemary…and while I rarely will alter a photo, I thought by adding bokeh (throwing the outer part of the photo out of focus) and blending to white just seemed to capture the mood that I was envisioning in my head.
An update on dad, from a phone call with him after he talked to his cardiologist on the phone. I’ll admit I don’t understand this. The “widow maker” is whistle clean. (For those who don’t know what a “widow maker” is — this is from the Wikipedia: A widow maker is a nickname used to describe a highly stenotic left main coronary artery or proximal left anterior descending coronary artery of the heart.
This term is used because if the artery gets abruptly and completely occluded it will cause a massive heart attack that will likely lead to a sudden death. The blockage that kills is made up of platelets streaming to the site of a ruptured cholesterol plaque. Even a small amount of plaque in this area can (for a variety of poorly understood reasons) rupture and cause death; bypassing chronic blockages or trying to open them up with angioplasty does not prevent heart attack but it can restore blood flow in case of a sudden blockage or heart attack. An example of the devastating results of a complete occlusion of the LAD (Left Anterior Descending) artery was the sudden death of former NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert.
From the minute a widow maker hits, there is a five-minute window of time to get to a hospital or receive emergency care.)
Another bypass is perfectly clean. The triple bypass done with the radial artery is supposedly 100% clogged, yet the heart is perfectly healthy and receiving a completely adequate blood supply (through a “retroflow”) with no ill effects, and no effect on his health. He and mom will go see the cardiologist on Sep 2 and believe me, SHE will get answers.
I don’t understand it, so there must be something he might have misunderstood or wasn’t explained properly.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/idafaic.mp3]Silver Blue, who is thankful for every day I have my parents, and who wishes I could have been a better son in the times that I wasn’t
(* “I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can” – Juice Newton)
Spreading some family love
By Silver Blue
This is my dad. I love him dearly.
He goes in for a “non-emergency” heart catheterization today. I will be there with him for spiritual support.
Silver Blue, who says life is short, speak kindly, and love with abandon.
Long ago, and oh so far away…
By Silver Blue
The year was 2003. The location: Jackson Brewery, New Orleans, LA.
One of the most artistically pleasing photos I’ve taken.
Everything about this photo works for me. The sculpture, the architecture, the colours, the impending storm. Of course, this was pre-Hurricane Katrina. But even then…
Sure, I could have edited out the street post, but there is something about the juxtaposition of it, in the middle of the photo that … well, take from it what you will.
Silver Blue, who thinks that sometimes I think too much.
6 years, almost 100 lbs
By Silver Blue
and I have about another 40 I want to drop.
So, I was 36 on the left, 42 on the right. I guess perhaps things DO get better with age.
Silver Blue, who really wishes that taking OFF the weight was as easy as packing it on.
It’s magically delicious!
By Silver Blue
Salmon and latkes.
Yeah, not something that really would go together, unless you think about it really. I grated ginger overtop.
With fresh green spinach, yellow peppers, orange carrots, and red tomatoes, it was practically reading like a box of Lucky Charms on my plate.
Silver Blue, wondering what dinner’s going to be, because it’s…. still too damn hot to do much cooking.
Can’t you see I’m falling apart?
By Silver Blue
…armed with love, I could save my heart, but on my own I just can’t make it, I’m too weak to fight, so take it…*
Some shots taken in the backwoods of North Carolina in February 2007. The heart and soul is still in this buildings, but they slowly die…
For whom does the bell toll? No one, it would seem.
A former filling station/convenience store, perhaps.
Another shot. Someone’s trying to keep it from falling apart, it would seem.
I knew the housing market had crashed, but this is a bit extreme. But these places sit…and slowly fade away.
I loved this shot, for it’s simplicity and…
…because the curtains in the upstairs windows that remain are billowing out of the broken glass. I wonder what memories were made here, that have been lost to the ravages of time.
Silver Blue… who realizes that people are very much like these photos… sometimes, they can be just an empty shells of their former glory.
(* Blue, Wham!)
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/wblue.mp3]The lack of posts
By Silver Blue
…is due to the fact that my eyes have been CLOSED for most of the weekend. Had a case of something hit me and I’ve been in bed for most of it.
TMI? Perhaps.
But just to show that I’m not completely nuts:
Oh wait. Maybe I am. These were delicious spiced nuts from Bardo’s Edibles and Elixirs in Norfolk, VA, for my birthday this year. While I wasn’t where I wanted, in my heart, to be, I was able to celebrate with friends, and that made a difference.
Silver Blue, over and back into bed.
It may look like a massacre…
By Silver Blue
…but in fact, it was the very VERY first cake I made from scratch. A génoise cake, meaning one that has no leavening agents in it other than firmly beaten eggwhites. It can flop on you, but mine did not.
It’s a three-layered white chocolate génoise, with a strawberry glaze atop. I made it for dad for his birthday in 2008. He liked it so much that I wasn’t allowed to take it back home with me!
Same goes for what I made him for father’s day that year: Strawberry Mousse Chocolat. Now this does NOT look like a massacre… it looks like… heaven. At least MY take on it.
In the springform pan:
With little stars of freshly beaten, sweetened whipped cream atop.
Unmolded:
You can see the layers of strawberry mousse and the chocolate brownie bottom. Finally:
All decked out on Mom’s china. It was a Father’s Day to remember.
Silver Blue, who is thankful for every holiday I’ve gotten to spend with my parents.
Not so birds of a feather…
By Silver Blue
I associate closely with Cardinals because they’re the state bird of my birth state, and therefore… one of the few red things I affiliate myself with. So much more interesting to align with, say, the Blue Jay, given my affinity for all things blue.
This photo was taken at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in the spring of 2011. As you can see, one of the parrots they have in captivity was paid a visit…by a cardinal. They posed for several photos, and then the Cardinal actually descended to the ground under the parrot to retrieve lost seed. The parrot seemed to pay the Cardinal no mind.
Therein is the lesson to be learned: if it’s not something that affects you, LEAVE IT BE.
Silver Blue, who thinks its time for one more glass of iced tea prior to bedtime.
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