Month: December 2013

Daily Prompt: Precious

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Molly, not a person per se, but a family member indeed.  I also call her my BFF.  We adopted Molly 9 years ago from the Arizona Humane Society.

I had been looking for a female black and tan dachshund.  Wanting a dog so bad and missing multiple opportunities of adopting a dachshund, I took a Friday afternoon off to once again check the shelters.  I was in luck!  I walked into the kennels at the Arizona Humane Society and there was Molly in a kennel.  She had only been there a few hours.  Still wet from being dipped due to ticks on her.  The information about her was handwritten, they hadn’t had time to post the printed sheet normally attached to the kennels.  Immediately, I wanted her even though she wasn’t a purebred dachshund.  Molly is a dachshund/beagle mix.  She was whining and licking my fingers.  After filling out all the paperwork and paying the fee, it was time to take Molly home.  We walked out to the parking lot, opened the back of my SUV and she immediately jumped in.  She wanted out of there!

A few months later we decided to take her to obedience training, she was 16 months and full of dachshund and beagle energy.  We spent 5 months taking obedience training all the way though the advanced class.  She was a diva at training!  Always the star of her class.

She has brought more joy than we ever could have imagined over the years!  So many stories to tell about Molly….that could be a whole separate blog!

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In the early years, I'm innocent
In the early years, I’m innocent
Taking a break from watching out the window
Taking a break from watching out the window
Always makes the most new friends
Always makes the most new friends
I'll look and perk my ears for you
I’ll look and perk my ears for you
A big attitude
A big attitude
No, I won't look at the camera
No, I won’t look at the camera

After Visiting the Infamous Bridges

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After visiting the infamous bridges of Madison County, I wanted to watch the movie, at least for the second time.  It was several weeks later when I actually rented the movie.  When the movie first came out, I went to see it and loved it.  Even bought the book and read it too.  My perspective was completely different watching the movie after having visited the bridges and now being a photographer myself.  It was interesting to see the angles used in filming the bridge scenes, both at the Holliwell Bridge and the Roseman Bridge.

In the scene where Francesca shows Robert where the Roseman Bridge is, I got the biggest chuckle out of the wildflowers he picked for her.  You know the one’s where Francesca tells Robert that they are poisonous as a joke.   I had seen the purple flowers growing along the sides of the gravel roads and highways when I first got to Iowa this fall.  Several times I asked people “what are those purple flowers I keep seeing alongside the road?”.  Funny, everyone said they didn’t know.  When I finally saw some up close I immediately thought they looked like desert chicory or white tackstem that we see in Arizona in the spring, both of which are white.  So. one day I picked some and went to the County Extension Office to inquire.   And sure enough, it was chicory that I was seeing.  Once I told everyone that I had picked some and went to the County Extension Office, they said “oh, I didn’t know that’s what you were talking about”.

Sometimes seeing a movie or reading a book for a second, third or fourth time, you pick up on details you missed before.   Especially if it has been years, your perspective has now changed due to more and different life experiences.  Had I not recently been to Iowa, visited the infamous bridges of Madison County, picked and photographed chicory, I may not have noticed the wildflowers Robert picked for Francesca were chicory.

Curious about my day in Madison County?  Read my post Not Just Bridges in Madison County.

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