Bizarre, Beautiful, & Beloved- Pictures and videos of all three

First the Bizarre.  I'll let you add your own punch line to it.

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Next the beautiful (both pictures and video)

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Little Flowers- Big City: Violets growing at the base of the Red Line Viaduct in an alley

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>Miracles and beauty are always to be found, you just have to be willing to look past the tip of your nose or the screen of your IPhone.  This healthy stand of violets is growing right up against the Red Line viaduct below the Granville Red Line station.  I took two different videos two different days in hopes of capturing both the beauty of the flowers and the context in which they are growing.

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Now the videos

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Online Videos by Veoh.com

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And now my beloved... a picture of her with the pups taking care of her, and a video of her describing her latest Migraine art therapy (and thus, describing the experience of her migraines.)


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On the videos, remember if you don't have the bandwidth to watch them on Veoh, your best recourse is to download them from my Multiply video section and watch offline.

They are also on Youtube... my username there is tourtruco, you can find them there.

When I'm not working on rugs, this is my art therapy- and I've needed it- I've been a lot sicker a lot longer than I've realized

These first are what's left of the bizarre flowers and cold cuts tableau shown in an earlier video.
On top is the original, below is my bit of fun with filters

Ultimately I'll put these together into a slide show of scenes of and views from Chicago alleys.


This is a little girl's shoe I saw in the same alley- I shot a video panning from it up and down the alley.



This is the "Dr. Seuss" tree from Snark's alley. (You ever seen this Snark? Its down on the Glenlake end.) Top is the original, below one I ran through a filter. I think I may have to reshoot this picture, maybe with a different camera. The dark tree blends in too much with the dark background. Of course, I shot video of this as well.

So... this is the art therapy I've done today... not too much. I'm a lot sicker than I'd realized... having had a day without massive dehydration has helped me realize how sick I've been for how very long. Its like I've had stomach flu for... 2 or 3 months!



No wonder I've not gothed up much until last night (Good to see you Snark and Dean)... and last night was really just half way. When all your energy goes into your crappy body, fashion and funk go by the wayside.