While hanging out the laundry this morning, feeling very overwhelmed with I have to do today, I missed a wonderfu Kodak moment. I looked toward the workshop just in time. There's a 9-10' volunteer sunflower with lots of smaller flowers instead of one big one, growing by the windowless window. On the sill sat Camelia, the landlord's barn cat, grooming herself, while her baby was nursing. What a sight! The cat was facing out and the baby was stretched out along the sill. Anyway, by the time I got the camera, they left the window. Any other missed moments, or perhaps you have a looked just in time moment to share

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), August 02, 2000

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as i was reading i just pictured each detail in my mind. what a truly pleasant thought. thank you for sharing it.

-- Amber (ambrosia75_@hotmail.com), August 02, 2000.

Cindy! I know what you mean. About 8 months ago, I was always needing the camera for pict's of some sort or another. I finally bit the bullet and bought a fujji digital camera dx10. I carry that dude everywhere with me now--if its a little stroll to the grove of trees north of the house or to town--it goes along. I have found it to be invaluable for those times when an "occasion" comes up. In fact, it got so bad that my lil dumplin kinda thought i was goin nuts. She ended up getting one too. Of course, you just can't stop with the camera. She had already bought herself a puter, next was a scanner, extra memory cards for the kodak and then the cd burner. That woman has really gone overboard with this kodak moment stuff. Not much gets by us old duffers anymore. She had several cd's full of picts and a whole host of 8X10 photo paper absolutely full of her "kodak moments'. Most of the picts are of our grandkids. Lots of fun. thanks for sharin, Cindy! old hoot gibson Matt 24:44

-- hoot (hoot@pcinetwork.com), August 02, 2000.

I think that's why most of us that post here live the lives we do. So we can take the time to notice things like that. Too many people these days are in such a big rush that they never see those things.

-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), August 02, 2000.

On a tangent, that "many heads" sunflower sounds a bit like a Jerusalem artichoke. If they'll volunteer to grow there, it's worth knowing.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), August 02, 2000.

Dopn, this is definitely a sunflower The flowers are bigger than I described. Jerusalem artichokes grow wild around here and I have a patch, also. Thanks.

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), August 02, 2000.

I had an aroma moment this morning! I was picking strawberries, and was experiencing such a moment of grace! The earth was warm, the sun shining; there was a low buzz of insects...just a real good feeling of the essence of summer! And then the smell of all those ripe strawberries....

Wish my nose had a camera!

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), August 02, 2000.

Cindy: Not long ago a friend ended his life. I still dont understand. As long as there is coffee in the morning, walks to take, children to look at and all the simple things ...well thats enough!! You say it better than me.....thank you.....Kirk

-- Kirk Davis (kirkay@yhoo.com), August 02, 2000.

Your words do justice to the sight;I also can just picture that moment.How sweet! My missed Kodak moment was at the zoo.Last year,during the Memorial golf tournament of all times-TERRIBLE traffic,we took our little ones to the Columbus Zoo.It started out to be quite a frustrating outing.We had to park far,far away because it seemed that nearly every school in Columbus had picked that day as their end of the year field trip!Buses everywhere!We managed to have a pretty good time anyways.I took tons of pictures.whenever I could,I had my camera at the ready snapping pictures of all the animals we had seen- and then it happened!While poised in front of the plexiglass,camera in hand,waiting for the perfect shot of the cougar as he crouched on his platform-he sprung RIGHT AT *ME*,smacked into the plexiglass and took off.There stood I,finger on the "trigger",too startled to "shoot"!The one that got away...ah well!The most important thing is our daughter,especially,really had a nice time.She now has her own photo album filled with pictures of "her" animals-well most of them anyways!BTW,It took us over 4 hours to get out of Columbus!I'm so very thankful to live in the country.How very peaceful it is here. ~God Bless, ~~~Tracy~~~

-- Tracy Jo Neff (tntneff@ifriendly.com), August 03, 2000.

Aaahhhh! That sounds so sweet. Thanks for the picture Cindy. I knew I would feel better after I heard from a few of my friend. A while back, we were in the garden and I looked up to see my little girl sitting in a chair with a little grey chick she was raising between her feet.She was bare foot and giggling because the chick was picking at her toes.I know I'm her Momma but it really was cute.The collie was laying beside the chair,and there they were " a girl,her chick and her dog" It was SOOO cute. ( DID I SAY THAT ALREADY? ) I stood there for a few moments just watching. Then all of the sudden the dog LOST HER MIND and grabbed the chick and ran. It was sort of amuseing looking back, you talk about tranquility being broken. We all started running and hollering BAD DOG! Of course she dropped the chick.Thoroughly slobbered, though other wise unharmed. Still don't know what got into that dog. She must have been sitting there twenty minutes before that happened. Well maybe you had to be there to see it but it was definately one of those moments. Love ya'll Thanks for being who you are.

-- Bonnie (josabo1@juno.com), August 03, 2000.

In the catagory of "most memorable missed photo". The one that still gets me. Driving down the road, passing a field of the big round bales that have been arranged in their rows for storage. Twenty five giant chicken hawks,sitting on the bales, all facing the sun that had just come up. Every one of them sitting there with their wings stretched open and wide to warm in the sun. Looking like a bunch of vampires getting ready to fold up and call it a night.

Son said, "We could go home for the camera!" It was twelve miles, we knew they would never be there when we got back.

If you're in to pictures, - so are your kids, and they will come flying to scream "Get the camera."

I read this great article in a photographer's mag. The photographer was driving down a sleepy, shaded residential neighborhood. His four year old is with him. The four year old exclaims, "CAT IN A BOWL!"

The photographer looks, and - sure enough - on a front porch of a house is a big old cat - asleep in a great big bowl that has been left there. Parks the car and goes flying with the camera. Is back in a jiffy - says "Cat in a bowl -- In the camera!"

That story has stuck with us. Here at our house, when we have captured the great pictures - the really great ones - we say "Cat in a bowl -- In the camera!" We all know what it means.

-- homestead2 (homestead@monroecty.net), August 03, 2000.

One of my "missed" moments was last year in Conn. My oldest daughter's best friend was getting married. We were staying at this wonderful Bed & Breakfast and it had been a long but nice three days. It was mid Oct., the leaves were in full color,cool and getting dark fast. There were 6 young adults(all in their 20's), me and the owner of the B&B sitting on the "glassed in" porch, talking and laughing about things they had done as kids! We all got very quite...Up the rock fence, a gray squirrel came, making so much noise it was hard to hear each other! It ran up the great oak tree and out on the limb right in front of us and chattered! Again and again baby squirrels came to her and began nursing!!!! Less than 2 feet from the glass. She paid no attention to us and began to bathe them as they nursed! Finally,after several minutes, she scampered off up the tree and her little brood followed! We all started laughing! One of the young men said "I think that was the greatest show on earth"! We had camera everywhere and not one of us wanted to move~ we were afaid to "break" this moment!!!

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), August 03, 2000.

Cindy, what a site! Wish I could have seen it but I'm so glad you were able too, and please don't forget to smell the roses!

-- b.williams (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), August 03, 2000.

I love those moments. I actually got to capture one of my favorites. I was eating supper, and wound up with not enough appetite to tackle the whole second hamburger, so I just ate the meat and left the bun. As I was finishing up, the phone rang, so I set the plate with the empty bun on the ottoman, and went to answer it. When I returned, I found a kitten curled up on my plate napping, using the bun as a pillow. Too much cute!

-- Connie (Connie@lunehaven.com), August 03, 2000.

I saw kind of a kodak moment last year in Huntsville AL, where I work. Our company had just opened a plant in a new industrial park on the northwest side of the city where there is still rich cotton and soybean fields. I was on my break and saw tractors and cotton pickers in these small scale farm areas ( most are family owned, 1000 acres or less, much of it leased) and towering in the backround the saturn v launch vehicle at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center. I couldn't help but feel as if I were viewing 100 years of Madison County in a straight line, cotton.soybeans and the stars. Seeing those family farmers also reinforced my views against industrial farm corporations.

-- Jay Blair (jayblair678@yahoo.com), August 06, 2000.