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..the daily life of a hermit and her dog ...
River Echo
September, 2010
Welcome to Oma's World.
Welcome to Oma's world: a hermitage set on a pristine lake, nestled in mountains, surrounded by trees and inhabited by Oma, Kenya (her own dog) and the dogs she looks after.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
My Other Blogs
Kenya
My Lady of the Lake
Some of My Regular (and Occasional) Haunts
About Me
- Oma
- ... a woman who has been many women and will likely continue to metamorphose right til the end ... I have been a mother, a grandmother, a writer, a teacher, a traveler, a nomad,a hermit, a dog sitter, and a sporadic folk artist wannabe. Right now I am also a tiny-time-chef and caterer. Who knows where my travels will lead me as I travel down the final stretch of life's road?
Blogs for Writers
Followers
Something I Noticed Recently
- "A first draft is a work of construction. A seventh is the work of an artist." Barbara Kingsolver
Kenya's Sleepover Buddies
- Peach, a gentle 5 year old Lassie-type Collie
- Oberon, King of the Cat Fairies
- Corey, a 7 year old Golden Retriever
- Kitty, AKA Button, 8 weeks
- Tom Cat, 1 year old... run over November, 2010
- Olive, the 2 year old black lab
- Chelsea, the old and lumpy black lab on steroids
- Mica, the Siberian Husky
- Maggie, the two year old Berner
- Stella, the 7 month old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy
- Tango, the Ancient Sheep Dog, now deceased
- Zeke, the Nova Scotia Duck Toller, now deceased
- Henry, Marta's Golden Retriever
- Lulu, the tiny Cockapoo puppy
- Havoc, the Doberman
- Remi, Sarah's Golden Doodle
- Tango, the Golden Lab mix
- Teddy and Shea, Tammy and Carlos' dogs
- Nina, the Chocolate Lab, now re-homed because of viciousness
Blog Archive
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2010
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November
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- Grey Days ... No Thoughts
- Well, it really is upon us ...
- Death and Decay ... Happens to All of Us
- This Post Brought to You by the Letter P
- Doggone it!
- November Rain ...
- The frost is on the pumpkins ... and everywhere el...
- My own form of bee keeping ...
- Chelsea and Gramma ... who's in love, eh?
- More About Singleness After Sixty
- Don't get out much ... but when I do ...
- Movie and Book Reviews
- November at Pike Lake
- Nuthatch
- A Day for Remembering
- Self Portrait
- On Writing or The Freedom to Emit Brain Farts
- Lazy Weekend
- Indoors and Out
- Waking up over tea and email on a Saturday morning...
- Procrastination by Strawberries
- Nimble
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November
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Films I am Watching (reviewed are starred)
- Blood Diamond
- Amazing Grace
- Rosenstrasse
- The Blade Runner
- My Cousin Vinnie
What I am Reading These Days
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather o'Neill
- Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote
11 comments:
Are you attempting to adjust the web-cam in your bathroom?
I am shocked! A web-cam in the bathroom? The very idea!
No ... a friend who travels solo a lot explained how she gets self photos by holding her digital camera in one hand and pointing at herself. My camera is much bigger and not as easy to use ... but I thought I would try it with two hands ... one to click the button and the other to help hold it steady.
Perhaps someone else should take the picture, unless you like looking like a gargoyle.
Cheez! With friends like you two, who needs enemies? Gargoyle indeed ... and one with a web-cam in her bathroom!
And here I thought I looked cute!
You can't see my wrinkles at all ... just that damned age spot.
You do look cute, it's just your arms' placement. Try one with arms bent slightly, out in front of you....? Age spots, Smage spots. No worries. I didn't even notice.
I'm just spoofing you both ... I am finally as comfy in my age spotted wrinkled skin as I once was in a snuggly buggly sleeper (about 65 years ago!)
But you are cute. A cute age spotted wrinkly gargoyle adjusting a web cam.
Hmmmph!
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That is the best I can produce for a straight up grin!
It wasn't lopsided till it posted!
Hold the camera in front of you at arm's length. Then turn your head away from it slightly, but look at the camera. Set it on portrait lighting if you have that feature, or stand in soft natural daylight. Try several shots at differnt head angles. You'll quickly see what angles flatter, and which ones can be cruel.
Dead on from above - unkind, fron below - ghoulish, close up flash is brutal for older faces and not nice even for young ones.
Play with the camera and it will be your friend.
I will try but this is a heavy camera ... not as easy to manipulate as a small digital point and shoot.
But really I was just having fun ...
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