Thursday, July 31, 2008

A very interesting monument




My first thought was: holy cow, that must have cost a ton of money. Followed by: boy, their family sure loved them. Then I studied it and began to wonder about the look on the man's face. Just what is he thinking about? His sentiment at that time must have been very relevant to the person(s) who designed this grand monument. So much so they wanted to share it with anyone who might come across, as I did.
I showed it to my husband and, almost immediately, he said: "she must have been a nag.” Funny, but I am sure that they would not use a monument of this scope to communicate such a message.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

It's been awhile

since my last post.

My life is busy, sometimes too busy. As time goes by the more I seem to take on, trying to experience everything while I still can. There is a song I listen to from time to time - “When the Crowds are Gone” by Savatage, that contains the line “I wasted my time till time wasted me”. I don’t ever want to think that I wasted the time I was given.

In July, besides all the gardening and my normal daily job, I spent three days at the Rothbury Festival, volunteering for the “Green Team”. Which is a glorified name for manning a recycling/compost/garbage station. It was a fantastic time even if I did have to work part of it. There were 40,000 attendees, primarily in their early 20’s and every one I meet/talked to was nicer than the one before. It gave me so much hope for our future generations. And I was starting to really worry about it given some of the people I have to deal with in my day-to-day endeavors. Here is a link to my Rothbury blog, which shows some of the pictures I took.

I also spent time at the Muskegon Bike Time weekend. I am not a Harley girl, but I love to people watch and, boy oh boy, can you get a lot of people watching in at a motorcycle gathering. I volunteered for this event too, but only for 4 hours. Unless you count the 20 or so hours before the event that I spent making my first ever movie showing how Harley Davidson fork springs are made.

Quite a year so far, my first web site, my first blog and my first edited movie. Hmmm, what’s next?

To keep with this blogs theme, I came across this monument. I just don’t know what to say about it other than I sure like people with a sense of humor. What do you think? Is she there?