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@Swede1952@universeodon.com · Mar 02, 2026
Good morning. ⛹️‍♀️🏀🍿 2 March 2026 I’ve been off the net for a couple of days. My wife and I drove up to Monticello, Arkansas, to watch our granddaughter play basketball. She’s with the Ouachita Baptist University Tigers, and they were up against the University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms. It was a good game—tight enough to stay interesting—and the Tigers pulled out the win, which means they’re headed to the upcoming tournament. The best part was the time with my daughter and granddaughter. My hearing isn’t what it used to be, and the mix of crowd noise, the band, and the cheer squad made conversation nearly impossible. When all that sound hits at once, my brain works overtime trying to sort it out, and it gets close to overwhelming. Still, just sitting with them made the whole trip worthwhile. In a few minutes I need to check on Charlie. He’s in the slammer, and I need to get over there to bail him out when they open this morning. I think they open at 0730, so I’ll call to see if he’s ready. They have to trim his nails and give him a bath before I pick him up, so it’s always smart to check ahead. If you don’t already know, Charlie is my dog—a border collie—and I call the veterinarian’s office “the slammer” when I board him there. Just a little dysphemism to keep things light “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.” — Gordon Hempton “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” — Roald Dahl “Basketball Rule #1: In this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart.” — Kwame Alexander #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #basketball #family #dogs #noise
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@Swede1952@universeodon.com · Feb 27, 2026
Good morning. 🌊🌊🌊 27 February 2026 When I was a kid in school, I used to paint pictures of the ocean. I loved shaping the waves and their whitecaps, and for a kid who hadn’t even hit double digits, I wasn’t half bad. I’d slip into the zone—so focused that the rest of the world fell away and the work just flowed. Painting isn’t a skill I’ve carried into adulthood, but that feeling of dropping into the zone still shows up now and then, even if it’s rarer than it used to be. You probably know the feeling. When you’re creating something and the knowledge, the muscle memory, the instincts—they’re all right there, lining up without effort. You’re on a roll, and you know it. Maybe it’s biorhythms, maybe it’s something else. Science mostly shrugs at the idea of biorhythms, but the truth is we all have days when everything clicks and days when we can’t seem to do anything right. Most of life happens somewhere in between. I’m not sure where I’m going with this—must be one of those in‑between days. Maybe the best way to explain “the zone” is through running. At the start you feel clumsy, every step a bit of work. But as you settle in, your focus narrows, distractions fall away, and the movement smooths out. The effort becomes its own reward. Runners call it being in the zone, or runner’s high. It makes me wonder if that state has something to do with the body’s own chemistry—dopamine, serotonin, the neurotransmitters that shape motivation, reward, and mood. There’s probably something there. I’ll have to think on it a bit more. “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” - Mary Oliver “The mind’s first step to self-awareness must be through the body.” - George Sheehan “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.” - Seneca #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #thezone #runnershigh #landscape #seascape #ocean #waves
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@Sapphire_neo@mastodon.com.pl · Feb 27, 2026
君の名は？　Як тебе звати? 春の日だった、庭に綺麗な花が咲いた朝。 Того дня небо було яскраво-блакитним. https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n440f915171c7 <> #spring #morning #beautiful #flower #bloomed #garden #eyes #corner #soft #star #eflect #like #drawn #breeze #sky #clear #blue #fragile #touch #would #break #track #dream #reality #alive #dead #heaven #earth #curse #magic #slipped
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@Swede1952@universeodon.com · Feb 23, 2026
Good morning. 😴🥱☕ 23 February 2026 The temperature this morning is reminding us that winter isn’t quite done with us yet. The sun is out, the trees are starting to sprout leaves, and the birds are singing, but Charlie and I aren’t exactly outside dancing and belting out The Sound of Music. Charlie would be fine with that, but for now I’d rather stay inside where it’s warm. Maybe we’ll head out later, once things warm up a bit. I suppose I could just dress warmly and go for a walk, but the weather is right at that tricky point where it’s hard to guess the right number of layers. Too many, and I’m stuck walking a mile feeling overheated; too few, and I’m chilled the whole way. The sweet spot is when I start out cold and warm into it as I go—but then the outside temperature rises during the walk, throwing the whole calculation off. There must be a formula for getting it just right. That’s my problem alone, though. Charlie just steps outside exactly as he is, no matter the weather, like it doesn’t bother him at all. I know he notices temperature, though. In the evenings he always finds the perfect spot in the house—sometimes tucked behind my wife’s chair, sometimes in the foyer, sometimes on the couch in the family room. I rarely ever find him in his actual bed. He moves around during the night, I think, but when I open the bedroom door in the morning, he’s right there waiting for me. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” - Annie Dillard “Walking is how the body measures itself against the earth.” - Rebecca Solnit “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” - Roger Caras “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - Mary Oliver #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #weather #temperature #dogs
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@Swede1952@universeodon.com · Feb 21, 2026
Good morning. 🌷🌷🌷 21 February 2026 Yesterday morning, when I looked outside, the post in the center of the yard—the one topped with the bird feeder—was lying on the ground. It must have gone over during the night. That redwood post had stood its ground for a little over twenty years, but eventually the moisture won. What finally pushed it past the tipping point? Hard to say. Maybe wind. Maybe squirrels. Maybe a raccoon making its rounds. I lean toward raccoon, because the overnight seed‑depletion rate has been higher than usual. Either way, the day announced itself. I knew what needed doing. I grabbed my shovel and post‑hole digger and re‑excavated the hole, going down about twenty‑four inches. Then I broke for lunch. While eating, I opened the Lowe’s app and ordered a pressure‑treated, ground‑contact 4x4x6 for curbside pickup, then waited for the “ready” text. After lunch, Charlie and I hopped in the truck, drove to Lowe’s, and picked it up. An associate brought it out and set it in the bed for me. Back home, I set the new post in the ground and packed in enough dirt to hold it upright while I leveled it. I had to remove the mounting crosspiece from the old post—held on with two 16‑penny nails. Fortunately, I managed to salvage one of them after pulling off the head piece, and that was enough to secure the crosspiece to the new 4x4. It already fit snugly, so one nail would do. After that, it was just a matter of screwing the feeder back onto the mount, and just like that, we were back in business. I re‑leveled the post, poured about ten pounds of cement into the hole, watered it in, added more dirt, and called it done. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” - “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” - E.B. White #photo #photography #photographer #wildlife #nature #morning #flower
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@Swede1952@universeodon.com · Feb 19, 2026
Good morning. ☕☕☕ 19 February 2026 The grandfather clock has just announced that it’s nine o’clock. You know, I’ve gone more than seven decades saying “o’clock” without ever stopping to think about what it literally meant. I finally looked it up: it’s shorthand for “of the clock.” You’d think I would have known that, but I honestly didn’t. Nobody ever says, “It’s nine of the clock,” do they? I don’t recall a teacher—or anyone else—ever explaining it. It was just one of those things you absorbed: you picked the hour, like nine, and added “o’clock” to signal that you were talking about time. There are things I don’t remember learning, and others I remember clearly. One of my earliest memories is of a small chalkboard I had as a child. I would pretend to write the way I saw my parents do. Only scribbles came out, of course, but maybe that was the beginning. Maybe I sensed that their marks carried meaning, or maybe I didn’t, but I imitated them all the same. That memory is vague but still there. I must have been younger than five but older than two—so probably three or four. Somewhere along the way I picked up some rudimentary math skills too. God bless the teachers. I have three granddaughters who all want careers in education. One is already a college counselor, and the other two are in college, each preparing to teach grade school. What would we do without teachers. “We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.” — Malcolm Gladwell “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Adams “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #time #teachers #plants #flowers #daffodil #lily
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@hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · Feb 13, 2026
Too pretty. Is that possible? #flower #spring #morning #nature #photography #macro
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@Swede1952@universeodon.com · Feb 11, 2026
Good morning. 🥬🥬🥬 11 February 2026 Money is a strange invention when you stop and think about it. We trade real things—our time, our labor, our needs—for little pieces of paper that we can then trade for something else. And these days, we don’t even touch the paper. Instead, we’re given digital credits in accounts held by financial institutions that promise to hand over the paper if we ever ask for it. Most of the time, though, we just swipe a little plastic card and the value moves from one place to another. I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this, except to say that most transactions now happen electronically. Maybe I’ve wandered into a subject that’s a bit bigger than I intended. I can still remember the first ATM I ever used. Early ’80s, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Before that, if I wanted cash, I had to walk into the bank and write a check, or buy something with a check and write it for twenty dollars over—back when that was common. I think it still happens, but you don’t see many people writing checks in the supermarket anymore. What really amazed me came around the turn of the century. My wife and I had just returned to the States after three years in Germany, and suddenly people were paying for gas right at the pump with credit cards. I thought that was wonderful. No more going inside, no more prepaying—which always annoyed me. You just slip in your card, pump your gas, and drive away. I’m out of room now, but I was starting to think about the full‑service stations of years past. Another time, maybe. “Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it, worry about it. And people who have, are full of worries too.” — Alec Guinness “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan “You never step in the same river twice.” — Heraclitus #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #plant #elephantear #technology #money
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@Swede1952@universeodon.com · Jan 30, 2026
Good morning. 🌼🌼🌼 30 January 2026 I want to go walking this morning, but I also want to stay warm. It’s definitely not casual‑walking weather. And here I am, talking about the weather again. I’d rather talk about anything except the news, which is distressing and depressing, though I suppose the weather technically counts as news. These days I can get everything I need by glancing at the bottom corner of my computer screen or checking my phone. It makes me wonder how we kept up with the weather in the before‑time, before all the gadgets we take for granted now. I spent most of those years in the Army, so half the time I was already outside in it. Otherwise, you looked out the window. If you wanted more detail, you waited for the newspaper, the radio, or the evening TV report. The military had its own weather people, of course, but the simplest thing was to pick up the daily paper. For me, overseas, that meant the Stars and Stripes. I grabbed a copy every morning, if for no other reason than to read the latest Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Those strips were often the most profound thing I’d see all day. As for the weather, I’d glance at it, but it didn’t matter much. The weather was going to do whatever it wanted, whether I knew about it or not, and I was going to be wherever the Army needed me, doing whatever needed doing. That’s the way it is in uniform—sometimes you’re just wet and cold. “There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” — John Ruskin “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange “It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.” — Bill Watterson #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #plants #flowers #morning #daisies #weather #army #CalvinandHobbes #stars_and_stripes
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@grickle@mstdn.social · Jan 28, 2026
Nothing going well. #grickledoodle #dragon #fantasy #badday #knight #coffee #morning #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
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