Comments on: Autumn in the Air

By: VStarLady

VStarLady — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 03:35:04 +0000

Steve, sounds like you need some time to play … just play. Nature knows that all things living need time to rest and rejuvenate that’s why we have winter; we need to take her advice.

By: Bryce Lee

Bryce Lee — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:24:55 +0000

Steve, it’s time young man, to not feel like an old man, a future grandfather no less.
Perhaps it is also deadline time, deadline in terms of being an editor of a regular publication
when it all falls on your shoulders to get the copy to the printer, on time and complete. Without error or similar goofs.
Thing is suspect your melachonia is not just what is happening in your world; it is all round us. That time of year when your illnesses of life don’t always seem to be yours. Time to hike oneself over to the Creamery and get something enjoyable to eat. The heck with the diet or anything else. Indulge yourself. Get enough fattening items to feed some to Junior which will not do his diet any good, but hey if you don’t indulge yourself in those good things, then give them to Junior…

Go wandering off to the local Kissell retail shop and look at all the new offerings on display, sit on a few, think of what might just be. Maybe take a day off mid-week and do nothing, stay in bed, sleep, ignore the world beyond…you’re of an age where retirement may loom in the distance, Then again what will you do after working every day is no longer an option? Or can you stay employed at the university beyond a normal retirement age????
Look at your long term options. Oh and done any photography of a non-digital nature?
Watch any prints from negatives from your Leica appear in the developing tray of late? Now that’s a magical process which no computer can provide…
Ever thought of putting a little drop of alcoholic spirit in your caffeine atSaints Cafe?

Operating a two hweeled device is not always the same old any more…is it?

By: RichardM

RichardM — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:24:01 +0000

It does sound like a trip of some sort is needed. Preferably heading south…

By: dom

dom — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:17:43 +0000

Steve, I read somewhere…..sometimes it takes more than a tankful or five of riding to put things into perspective…..

I think things will pep up for you come the first snows…..I know it will for me.

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:01:25 +0000

Steve, sometimes I wish I could just go right by work with my Scoot and just keep going.

Brent

By: Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:26:53 +0000

I live in Florida now but am originally from the Pittsburgh area and attended college in Erie, PA. I understand what you mean with the coming of winter in Pennsylvania. It is not a feeling of dread but more of melancholy, it’s the inevitable. It’s the darkness and the wet and the ever bitter cold.

It wears on us Pennsylvanians. It feels like spring will never come…but it does. And it is glorious.

By: Pamela+K.

Pamela+K. — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:07:37 +0000

Steve,
Oh WOW! You have really got ~IT~ bad. Something is really eating at you, it sounds so anyway. Of course I don’t know you personally and would never ask you to explain. But I do have a suggestion that may help. It is this… You are a photographer so go photograph some hard-core street photography. Not at States but into the inner city. Take the whole day! Strangers, faces, shoes…they all tell stories and let the images ~speak~ to you! The homeless, the lonely, the zoned out, the old ones all have their visual stories. Sometimes a look at truer misery has a way of turning us around to the positives we have and grow wary of. Autumn is not a time for all things dying. It is a time for the fruits of our labors to come to pass. A time of full circle cycles. A time to both reflect and to plan anew for the coming of the next Spring harvests. Winter is a time of waiting, hard as that is at times. Waiting to feel alive again! Me, I sleepwalk through Winter at best. I dislike the cold and hate the waiting! I spent 18 years in ~MinneSNOWta~ and 9 months of it every year was Winter or Winter-ish. Hard-core street photography at its best! Those conditions will wake up anyone’s spirits. Just sayin’, cuz I really like ya. I really hear your pain. Did you know that in the Jewish faith this time of year is the ONLY time we are commanded to rejoice?! At no other time are we commanded to do so…I think it was done to ready us for the dreaded Winter waiting 😉