On the road again

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flying, Miami, postaday2013, traveling, walking

The baby girl and I are once again traveling, this time to Miami, Florida, to make sure that the University of Miami is the best place for her and the place that she would rather be to continue her studies and cement her future in the study of Marine Biology. We arrived early this afternoon and we have been walking around reconnoitering , which is actually a French word “reconnaitre”, to better acquaint ourselves with the city. Monday we have an appointment with the powers that be and hopefully we will go back home with the definitive answer of her housing, her financial aid and her happiness with the city of Miami and her potential new school.

I have to say that when we got to the hotel, I went to my email, opened an alert about an article in the Huffington Post written by someone I follow, and I saw the headline “plane crash in San Francisco” It is really off-putting to read about an airplane crash just an hour after you get off your own plane. We even had turbulence taking off and landing and scary thoughts had crossed my mind.

We saw a lizard and I would have taken a picture, but I was too slow on the uptake. I saw a toad by myself on the way to CVS to get snacks, we have a refrigerator, and once again, I was too slow on the uptake. These little guys are quite feisty and I am not.

Daily prompt: Turning the tables

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behind the camera, in front of the camera, postaday2013, subject, writer

Are you as comfortable in front of a camera as behind one? Being written about, as well as writing?

I don’t have the eye for photography, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying myself; taking pictures of places that I have seen, people that I love, food that I have prepared and flowers that I have nurtured. I would always much rather be behind the camera’s lens than in front of the camera, posed and prodded into producing a smile for posterity. Some people have an affinity for the camera and its fickle lens, sadly I am not one of them. My baby girl on the other hand cannot take an unflattering picture. The camera loves her pure and simple.

When it comes to writing, I also like to be behind the pen or the keyboard. I have very rarely been the subject of a letter, I cannot complain however of those few times that I was the subject, because they were each and every time very kind and complimentary letters. I don’t need to be written about, I much prefer doing the writing about others.