Two events, Gallery Hop and a small car show. All cut short by a gully washer.

[alfredo]

Olympus EPM2 and Sigma 30mm 2.8

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[Solly Mack]

1. I like them all but # 2 draws me in and keeps me there.

I could happily sit there and watch the world.

[alfredo]

2. Thank you. I love the light there.

[Solly Mack]

3. That light falls just right and you've captured

both the lonely and inviting aspects with it.

[alfredo]

4. I like getting to the Gallery Hop early to catch the light in that gallery.

[ohheckyeah]

5. I like the gallery the best, too.

It's really interesting and a great play of light and shadows.

[alfredo]

6. There's two stories and two spiral staircases. I didn't photograph them this time.

One was an enclosed spiral. It has three rectangle portals that overlook the ground floor gallery.

[ohheckyeah]

7. I'd love to see them when you do photograph them.

I love black and white, light and shadows, and spiral stairs.

I've been rather limited in my time and ability to get out and take any photos and I'm missing it.

[alfredo]

8. The placement of the art and the lack of patrons to frame

In the portals made me decide not to use them.

A persistent knee injury has kept me off the streets.

[ohheckyeah]

9. I understand...

sorry about your knee. My back has kept me off the streets for about a month.

[alfredo]

10. It's not bad now. Have you gone to physical therapy for your back?

[ohheckyeah]

11. More times than I can count.

I have a back full of metal from surgery and there isn't much that can be done - the surgery was 20 years ago.

I do stretching exercises but when the there are storms all around us it doesn't do much good. Nothing does. I just have to wait it out.

Honestly, I haven't had a pain free day since I was 16 (which was many years ago.) It's just a matter of degree.

[alfredo]

12. I suffer from chronic pain too. I dive into it and let it have its day.

Mine is degenerative disc disease, nothing dramatic as having a lightning rod in my back.

[ohheckyeah]

13. Degenerative disc disease

doesn't sound like any fun at all. I'm sorry you live with pain. Most of the time I handle it pretty well and sometimes I just want to scream. Narcotic pain pills don't work for me, so it's usually me and ibuprofen.

I wish medical marijuana was legal here. At least maybe I could laugh about the situation.

[alfredo]

14. MM cuts the anxiety associated with chronic pain.

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” Hunter S. Thompson