Cellpic Sunday

Cellpic Sunday — 06/04/23

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John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. I thought this might be fun so I decided to join in.

For three years, from 2010 through 2013, my wife and I were bicoastal. We had a house in Massachusetts and a condo in San Francisco. Twice a year, we would pack up the car and our dog and drive across country so that we could spend the relatively mild and snowless winters in San Francisco and the warmer summers just west of Boston. We would typically make a ten day each way trip out of these cross-country drives, always taking different scenic routes, avoiding interstate highways. And we’d stop along the way at various national and state parks.

The photo below from atop of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge was taken with my iPhone in August 2013 as we were heading west. It’s located about 10 miles northwest of Taos, New Mexico and it stands about 650 feet high above the Rio Grande River.

If you wish to participate in this fun cellphone photo prompt, please click on the link to John’s post at the top of my post to see his photo and to read his instructions.

Cellpic Sunday — 05/28/23

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John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. I thought this might be fun so I decided to join in.

This photo of Pier 39 in San Francisco shows a pier that is jam packed with sea lions and some seals. I took this snap with my iPhone 8 Plus in October 2019, almost four years ago. What you can’t appreciate by looking at a photo of all of these sea lions is the din raised by their barking. It was loud and almost constant.

If you wish to participate in this fun cellphone photo prompt, please click on the link to John’s post at the top of my post to see his photo and to read his instructions.

Cellpic Sunday — 05/21/23

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John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. I thought this might be fun so I decided to join in.

My wife took this photo early one evening last week. She noticed this large, hairy spider clinging to the outside of the glass slider that leads from the master bedroom to our deck in the back of our house. We confirmed that this is a tarantula spider, and this is the first one we’ve seen this year.

It’s actually kind of unusual to see a tarantula climbing up a glass slider, and even more unusual to see one before sunset, and yet even more unusual to see one at this time of year.

Why? Because these creatures are nocturnal and they live in underground burrows and rarely come out much before sunset. About the only time you see tarantulas above ground is during mating season, which is typically in September and October where we live. That’s when the mature male tarantulas are on the prowl for females and will leave their burrows to find female tarantulas to mate. Female tarantulas stay in their burrows most of their lives.

So was this tarantula in the photo an outlier? It wasn’t underground, it wasn’t dark, and it’s still at least four months before the tarantula mating season actually starts. Personally, I blame it on climate change.

If you wish to participate in this fun cellphone photo prompt, please click on the link to John’s post at the top of my post to see his photo and to read his instructions.

Cellpic Sunday — 5/14/23

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John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. I thought this might be fun so I decided to join in.

Yesterday afternoon I was sitting by myself in my audiologist’s office. I had just completed a hearing test and she was in another room futzing around with my hearing aids. Right across from me was this canvas and I thought it was interesting.

As I was waiting for her to return, I was staring at the painting and thought that it was a representation of our human connectivity. No matter our size, shape, or color, we are all connected in some way. Some of those connections are strong, represented by thick black lines and dots. Other connections, represented by thinner lines and smaller dots, are less strong. And, as in society as a whole, there are a few that are not connected at all.

That was about as deep as I got in my thinking before the audiologist returned to the room and strayed playing the “Can you hear me now?” game with me.

If you wish to participate in this fun cellphone photo prompt, please click on the link to John’s post at the top of my post to see his photo and to read his instructions.

Cellpic Sunday — 5/7/23

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John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. I thought this might be fun so I decided to join in.

I’m not normally the type who takes photos of every meal I eat at different restaurants or at home and post them on social media. But in January of this year I was in the hospital for two weeks after I fractured a hip. I had been complaining to my wife about how awful the meals had been.

But then, on January 20th, the sixth night of my hospital stay, I had this plate put on my bed tray.

It looked absolutely delicious. A generous piece of moist salmon with a salsa topping, diced carrots, diced beets, and white rice sides. I thought that finally I’d be getting a decent-tasting meal. I was so excited that I took this photo with my iPhone and sent it to my wife. She responded by texting me back, writing, “Looks yummy. Let me know how it tastes.”

A few minutes later I sent her this one-word text: “Inedible.”

If you wish to participate in this fun cellphone photo prompt, please click on the link to John’s post at the top of my post to see his photo and to read his instructions.