Telephones

Telephone is an amazing bit of information

You never know what you will hear

It maybe good news

Or

Bad news then it maybe something funny.

Telephone

Has come such a long ways

Remember when you use to round it up

Hanging there on the wall

Sharing your conversation with all.

Telephone

How did we do with out them

My Grandma had a black one that sit on a table

Nice sturdy big phone

Lots of conversation went through that phone.

Telephone

Remember when you could see a pay phone

Usually at the Gas Station

So convenient to drop some coins make that call

Letting love ones or friends know this n that.

The other day there in Redding we stop

In a Serve It Your Self Gas Station there before me

Standing all alone was a

Pay Phone

I can remember there would be at least two or more.
Looking so sad and lonely all alone

Standing there not able to move

Watching phones traveling with their masters

All day long as they pass by giving him a wink

He may look sad and lonely but not really

For he knows not everyone has a cell phone

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He is there to serve

Knowing he is giving a helping hand.

Telephones have come a long ways in the old days

They were just use for communication

Keeping in touch with family and friends

Now they are use for entertainment and communication

From iTube to Facebook lets not forget the newspaper too

All those lovely photos to texting and music too

The

Telephone

Has become an amazing bet of information

Much more than communication

Wonder what my Grandma would say to day

If she could see what phones can do today

by Ranie Patridis

The Joys of Spring!

I dream of Spring through the Winter months

It seems as I get older
The days get longer.

Maybe it my joints
Complaining and groaning
Telling me it is hard to bend.

I don't know

Just wish that Spring has Sprung

I dream of warm days cool evenings

Listening to the frogs sing  as it warms up

Watching those little heads pop out of the ground

to bring you joy a smile comes to your face.

As Spring gets close the days get longer

Here in there we have more sunny days

A bit of cheerfulness finds it way to you

The first blooms to pop up are my Miniature Iris

Reminds of a friend no longer with us.

Who would know the Sun

Would be taken over by the Clouds

Tis over cast and dreary

My spirit falls down.

Not feeling well to day

The wood stove a going it is nice and warm

Sinus acting not helping a bit at all

As I sit and doodle

The art shows my feelings

They say April Showers brings May Flowers.

Now its raining cats and dogs

Tis a dark and dreary day

I wonder how my poor little iris are doing

Afraid to go out and check

A few day later the Sun pops back out

I venture out

Only to discover that my poor little Iris

Did not do so well.

A sadness comes over me and I think to myself

Wow! Its Cold!

Out here!

Why is it not warming up

The Sun is out shining giving no warmth.

Went to bed that night

Woke up to snow.

That day it snow some more

Getting deeper by the inches

Snow is beautiful

Makes everything nice and clean

But oh is it cold to be out there

I prefer my warm little shack

With the good olé wood stove

Just a cranking a way.

Again my sinus bothering me

Been rough for a couple of months

Wish this sinus would disappear

As I'm thinking how bad I feel

I set down to doodle

to keep my mind off of me

What is that I'm a hearing?

Oh know!

The wind is blowing!

As it get stronger and stronger

I hear branches falling

In my mind I see the tree's bending

As they struggle to stay upright

I fear that my flowers that I have left

Are blowing in the wind.

Landing
Know one knows where

Surely where ever they are

It must be warmer than here.

As I struggle with this sinus infection

Finally went to the Doctor

Gave me some antibiotics

Hope that does the trick.
They say get a Neti Pot
Wash that nose away
Oh my!

For in about 2 weeks or more

I'll be off to Monterey

There we are holding our

1st Annual

California AFA Gathering

Where we shall have

Workshops and Demos

All gathering around to trade and play.
Dare I say I do feel better!

There you have it
The
Joy's of Spring!

In The Foggy Mist

Early in the morning

as the fog dances in

there is a feeling of quietness

that leads to a eerie peacefulness.

The trees are grateful for the mist

they graciously extend their limbs

reaching, reaching for the dew drops

from the falling mist.

In the early morning in the foggy mist

if you look carefully

very carefully

you may see a Trinity Fairy

dancing in the mist.

There she is, do you see her?

Dancing away in the mist.

Funny about the early Foggy Mist

it lets your imagination

works it best.
~Ranie Patridis

NOT BY BREAD ALONE

If thou of fortune be bereft,

And thou dost find but two loaves left

To thee-sell one, and with the dole

Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

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But not alone does beauty bide

Where bloom and tint and fragrance hide;

The minstrel's melody may feed

Perhaps a more insistent need.

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But even beauty, howe'er blent

To ear and eye, fails to content;

Only the heart, with love afire,

Can satisfy the soul's desire.

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James terry White

Butterfly Zentangle

With Spring here now it is the beginning of Summer

I decided to host a

Butterfly and Dragonfly Zentangle challenge.

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At the time I was doing this my computer went down. Boy is it hard to host a group when you can not share anything.

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This is one of my drawings that I did I'll be sharing the others later.

SELF-RELIANCE

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities:

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Self-discipline

and

Self-reliance

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The process of developing them together

in balance is called maturing.

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J.W. Jepson

JOY RIDE .....

As I continue my saga of Joy Ride I left you at the Restaurant where we had a delightful lunch. We all had fish n chips the best I have ever eaten it was really good. We left there started heading home just as the fog was beginning to come in. In some section it was very cold thankfully I had my sweat shirt on. We headed back to Hwy 36 to come home. On the way back as you can see in this picture we stop up on South Fork the guys were checking out our trike trying to figure out why they kept smiling gas. That my hubby showing the best side of him looking under the trike. we discover later that it had to do with the reserve gas tank. We believe we have the problem solved hopefully. Well that is the end of this saga we had a delightful day still put a smile on our face when we think of it.

Joy Ride....

As I continue with our story, Rhonda and I was looking over the side of the wharf looking for seals. We did not see a one. We looked and looked then over on the beach we saw a seal in the distance we decided it must have been dead. But I couldn't figure out why people where over there staying a good distance from the seal. I wish I had gone over there now and taken a picture but I did not instead I kept looking down upon the ocean looking for a seal. As you see in the picture I took pictures of the rocks and ocean instead ..giggle.. it was so much fun and can you believe when we finally left the wharf to join the guys at the resturant off in the distance just about where we were there were 2 heads bobbin out of the water!

Joy Ride

Mike and I have been riding on Sundays with a group of friends. We have been having so much fun. On this little ride we went to Trinidad we ate at a little resturant on the ocean had the best fish n chips. Fantastic! Rhonda and I walk down on the wharf to see what everyone was catching. Well we did not see anything it appears that nobody had caught anything yet. The children were having a blast fishing. I decided that I should take some pictures for inspiration for my drawing. I thought to myself well, here is a boat I've been wanting to try my hand at this. This was all I needed to pull my camera out. I started clicking here n there all over the place. As you can see it was a beautiful day. The coast was clear as a bell, the fog was out. But by the time we left and started heading back home the fog was coming in. Boy is that fog cold and damp.

A Touch of Spring

Walking out in our lower paster with the dogs, I was admiring all these very tiny, I mean very tiny little yellow flowers. You know those that are very low to the ground. When looking at them it looks like the fields have a yellow carpet. Well that is how mine look at the time. I took my Coolpix P4 took a few photographs I was very please how these pictures came out on such a small camera. I do not know the name of these very small delicate flowers, they were so beautiful.

SUN RISE

One morning and Mike and I were going over Hayfork Summit at dawn I kept looking at the sky. The clouds were going by towards the East I couldn't help notice the sun trying to peak through. Then as I look more to the East you could see where the clouds had not quiet reach that far you could see the redness from the sun on the valley floor. With the mountains looking dark the sky so alive it was just beautiful, just beautiful to behold.

And they say....

And they say, those that keep busy stay out of trouble. Well you can say this for Tom Blackburn I don't know how he could get into trouble with all the work he has put into this trike. I can't wait to see what this will look like completely finish. Nice trike Tom!

My Day Sunday

Wow! What a wonderful day. We decided that a group of us was going to go for a motorycycle ride on Sunday. As the plans got underway I realized that I needed to go to our 1st Art Showing at the Hayfork Enchanted Florist and Tea House to view my friend Diane Glass art. So I politely informed all the riders they needed to meet us at the Florist shop and we all had to go in and look at Diane art. Oh by the way she has a beautiful blog site Artstanding Stranger she is also known as Glitter Crow in different art groups. We have the cutest little Florist Shoppe the owner Jan Rafferty she also serves tea too and she likes to display Art from our little town. Jan is such a beautiful wonderful person. The shop was full of Diane art and beaded jewerly, not to say the little 4x4 chunky pages and ATCs so much more.

Chatty and Glitter Crow aka Artstanding Stranger

Between us is a face of one of her pieces of Art. Diane like to take pictures of her relatives does like an abstract art with them. She gives them different types of bodies and emebellishments. They turn out really nice and the table beside us is full of her beautiful beaded jewerly.

Some more of Diane Art and jewerly.

Very nice indeed.

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Then off we went on our ride. There were 4 motorcycles or trikes in our group which included 6 individuals. We had a blast we took off to Mad River to a little hamburger stand and had lunch. I wasn't to happy with my lunch I had a Turkey Melt, very bland and dry. I won't try that sandwich again. From there we took off to Wildroad we stop at the little store there picked up something to drink for us it was lemon Lime Gaterade, big drinkers we are ..giggle.. then we came on back to Hayfork, got gas, we are now ready to go on our next little skirting. Hey, tomorrow I will share with you all the trike that Tom Blackburn is building boy is it amazing. Right now he is driving it with just a frame body, he will be working on the fiberglass body soon. Till we meet again everyone, have a great day!

MYSTERY

As Mike and I was coming home, along the way we would stop taking pictures of interest. On this one, we found a beautiful rock chimney standing all alone. As we were walking around it, you couldn't but wonder what story this chimney could recall.

Rock Chimney

Standing all alone it had a air of mystery.

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Now as I was taking pictures Mike kept teasing me that I might fall into a septic tank the lid of the tank was off of the septic now were is that septic I don't know! He was so concern about it that when I turn around to take a shot at him I caught him

Mike Yawns

yawning, boy does he have a BIG mouth! He should be tired we drove over 180 miles this day. Did we both sleep good that night.

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Now isn't that a beautiful Trike we just love it.

Digger Pine Cone

This past weekend, Mike and I spent riding on our Boss Hoss Trike. We road over 200 miles practically in a  circle. What I mean on Saturday we left for Redding, from there we went to Red Bluff from there we went to Wild Road back to Hayfork and home. Then On Sunday we took off to Weaverville drove around the lake and back home. The days were beautiful up in the 90's a bit warm but oh so lovely. You know we have Spring Fever bad! Coming down Wild Road we stop by Hayfork Creek to rest and to admire the sites. I happen to see a Digger Pinecone ..giggle.. I had Mike take a picture of me with it. This pine cone was as large as my head if not larger....

Digger Pine Cone

Can you imagine one of these falling on your head!

Photograph using my Nikon Coolpix P4 Camera.

TURKEY CHASE

As most of you know I live up in the mountains in Northern California. Up here we have wild turkey's. We just love them, you will see them out in the field every now and then, mostly lately though they have been near a neighbor of ours. The Old Tom, must be lonely, for his ladies are nesting right now. ..giggle.. For some reason this fella chases white vehicles and we happen to be one of those white vehicles. So this one morning I took the camera and and took a few pictures here is one for you.

Old Tom

Isn't he handsome!

Well, it is back to working in the yard for now.

Picture taken with my Nikon Coolpix P4 Camera.

Juanita Iris

I was delighted this week to notice that my first little miniature iris has bloomed. I am hopping to that I will get more these little iris are so special to me.You know you never know what you really have till you loose someone close to you. For me that was Juanita Irvine. Now let me tell you she was a character she was a bit hard to get to know, but, once you did, well, she was special. Before she died a vew years back she gave me some of her prize minature iris. Now whenever they bloom, I say, Hello Juanita how have you been and in my mind that little iris says back to me: "It's about time you got out here working in your yard!" now that is exactly what Juanita would say. ..*smile*..

Juanita Minature Iris

So far I have not seen any of these little iris in any of my flowers catalogs...If I ever find them I'm going to snag them I just love them. This picture was taken with my Nikon Coolpix P4 a delightful little camera!

FALL BACK

Spring is here! So what do I do, take pictures of my minature iris started transplanting some candlesticks I have then today I got to looking back on some photographs that I took last year. I love Fall, the colors here changes to orange n yellow to brown so pretty. We have a huge Oak Tree down in our lower field that every year I try to take a picture of. When that ole Oak Tree started to change colors it is so beautiful we take so many things for granite every time I see this Oak Tree I smile quietly saying to myself have a good year my friend.

Photography by Ranie Patridis

Yahoooo I'm Back!

Yahooooooo! I'm back!

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Can you believe it, my computer is fix and I love it.

Wow, does it run nice!

Did I say I love it..

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While I was down I had the opportunity to go with Mike for a ride out into the country side. Of course you know that I am going to bring a camera with me. The weather has been so unusal here, one day maybe a week it will be very warm so spring light it is hard not to get Spring Fever then the next day or week it will be freezing. This weather has just been amazing.

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Here is a picture that I took early in the morning, from Hayfork Summit looking Eastwards title:

Sunrise

This was taken with my Nikon Coolpix P4 a great little camera!

A BIT OF COLOR

I know it is WINTER most everyone is knee deep in snow, well maybe...giggle..

So I thought I share a photograph of

FALL

 This was taken in my garden area.

This photo was taken with my Coolpix P4 it is such a good little camera.