People, second post, more eastern Kentucky moments

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        More, more, more! With my current (but temporary) lack of mobility, I am enjoying "being with" these folks whose photos I have taken, usually spontaneously. Thank you all!!
       

friendly fellow woods photographers

a  friend's January visit here, from Oregon

big 80th birthday party

the birthday girl

her daughter, Sandy, at a 4H competition

Sandy's granddaughter, and her 4H prize winner

Junie, at his home (with my granddaughter!)

 

Jean, of the photo Jean's jeans....

 

Jean's jeans (one of several versions over the years)

Jean's husband, Garry, has died, and it has been hard for everyone:

Garry's nephew

Garry's daughter with Jonathan, who was like a son

such a smile!

For some reason, I find this guy hilarious -- very rooted in the community, for sure.

 

artist and quilter

Jennifer, friend and artist and clear thinker

         Next week I will do more grandchildren, and other kids.  Then the last week will be folks I have visited in different places.  By then I should be back on both feet, instead of only one, and back out in the world. With my camera!  Hooray, hooray!

People, instead of places

post #432
      Recently several regular viewers of my blog commented on how they enjoyed seeing photos of people as part of last week's post.  Since I still can't get outside with my camera while my broken left foot continues to heal, I thought I'd take advantage of this time to hunt up more of my people photos to post. Showing them here will happen over a few weeks --  
       At first I wasn't sure how best to group them. I started by scanning through the last five years, mostly, so that's something in common, but many are Appalachian based, others are from trips I have taken to visit friends and family, including grandchildren, and some are purely random. You can find your own explanation for the groupings.
       I enjoy catching a moment, unplanned, and informal, taking my chances. I won't be giving out names, because that is not the point here. Making these photos is my idea of fun, so what I am sharing is what I see as I live day by day, where ever I happen to be. I thank my subjects for their patience with my efforts. I do try to give folks a copy of good photos but I am slow and sometimes disorganized about doing that, so enjoy what you see here. Remember that clicking on one photo will line up all the photos along the bottom of the screen, so that the photos can be viewed in a larger size. As always, if a photo of you shows up and you are not happy about that, just let me know so I can remove it. Easily done. 
        So, onward:

a boy in a truck with his dad, in Lexington, KY

while at a rally in Frankfort, KY, against mountaintop removal mining

neighbors visiting neighbors

Thanks, Bonnie, for helping me out last week!

 4H Fair:

cousins, taken a few years ago

being at the cemetery for his great grandmother's burial

While at a festival in Sandy Hook, KY, these three couples, on motorcycles, allowed me to film them, and they set themselves up just like this. Later I was able to figure out who one of them was, so I could give them a copy of the photo. It turns out they are extended family members.  Let's hear it for small towns!

mothers day, a prom and graduations

post #431
       Sunday evening has come and is going. It has been a full day -- phone calls from my two kids, my sister, and from a friend in Lexington, two friends from nearby coming by to help me and visit, since I am still healing from the broken foot. (It has now been 3 weeks since I have been upstairs in my own house. It's getting harder to remember to keep weight off the foot since it is less swollen now and there's no on-going pain. But it will be awhile before it heals enough to allow me a more regular life.)  
        Even without Mothers Day, I have felt I wanted to share some family photos, mostly of kids. Having a close call of any kind, including falling down some stairs, can make one appreciate some of the daily things we might be unintentionally taking for granted. So I rummaged around in my photos to find a few images that spoke to my current pensive condition. 

 

feeding young'uns

feeding young'uns

a photo from a few years ago -- and this weekend his college graduation!! 

I meant to add this photo to the Notre-Dame post of a few weeks ago.

          I know I won't be able to resist adding a few photos during the week to come. Advice of the day: be careful walking down the stairs.....

still spring, even though my left foot now is healing a bit of broken bone

post #430
        Ten days ago I didn't get to take a "visit family" trip and still today I didn't get to go to a family 8th birthday celebration nearby, but even so I am lucky. I only have one stop-and-pay- attention injury, to my foot, to deal with, for at least a month. I am not contagious. Just slowed down by a crutch. Learning new skills. Grateful to be in one piece. Still wondering about the meaning of life.
         And I am still watching our democracy either implode or grow stronger in reaction to extreme provocation. Any elected person who can't even say the words "CLIMATE CHANGE" out loud gives me the shivers. What price are we paying for such defective magical thinking. No matter how high or how low, it's too heavy a price.
        So here today are some photos "just because," ones I have taken along the way, from the moments that happen as we are living our lives and trying to be good to our one world.

SPRING 2018:

SPRING 2019:

         

SPRING 2017:

SPRING 2016

          I am grateful for all the help I am getting in response to my current (temporary) period of reduction in mobility. It is definitely humbling to have to avoid weight bearing walking as much as possible. However, I will be well enough on May 21 to go vote, even if it is "just" for statewide offices. As ever, we all need now to "Vote as if your rights depend on it." Which they indeed do.

winter remnants, renewal preparations