Thursday, 21 January 2016
I don’t mean close-up with a microscope, but at close range with the eye. Here are two fruits: rambutan and guanabana. Both tropical.
And here are two fishes, dried butter fish and scad (fresh). I am not familiar with either, whether they’re marine or fresh-water, and what part of the world they’re native to. (And I’m not G00gling them now….)
My ignorance is thoroughly revealed.
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
You’d never guess by the grey, gloomy afternoon we had that we enjoyed several very brief peeps of sunshine in the morning.
Even, for a few moments, we saw sleet in the rain. [BTW, I don’t know how the camera made our white car look dark grey or black in this photo.]
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
It WAS cold overnight, and nippy even in the sun today. Somehow, I still managed to be surprised to find myself walking on frozen ground in a nearly sun-free alley, and to find the giant ice-lozenge in this blue-blue, sturdy birdbath.
Monday, 18 January 2016
This pinwheel caught my eye, spinning in the sun, and I thought, gee, I’ll make a video! (I rarely think about video-making instead of stills unless The Guru is around…and I was walking alone.)
As I strolled over to compose the shot, the pinwheel stopped. Completely. And my video-inspiration evaporated.
Sunday, 17 January 2016
Rusting bird in a shallow birdbath…metaphor for…????…the stability of iron molecules???
Getting on toward sunset…loving the reflections on the power lines.
Waning light at The Stacks…not gonna be seeing this very often or ever going forward.
Friday, 15 January 2016
A very rainy morning yielded about 2pm to no-rain and temporary clearing, and I strapped on my walking footwear and headed out. This is the sidewalk-puddle I was looking into when the sun first emerged.
The sun did last through my first tour of the park. It has a special basin for collecting storm water, which today, briefly, made a good reflecting pool.
By the time I made my return loop perhaps fifteen minutes later, the sun had faded, yet I was still able to see shadows in the park path puddles (say that three times fast!).
By the time I got home it’d been grey for quite a while, no more sun, just overcast. I was encouraged, though, since the rain did not return.
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Beautiful sunny day, and I took advantage of it for an early afternoon ramble. I found a power-pole festooned with lines and a light and maybe that’s a transformer, too. That’s not the simple one to three lines passing straight by that I remember from The Old Days.
Then, around the corner, I found another pole, with fewer accessories on top, and a Man on a Ladder—not a mechanized ladder, just the regular painter-carpenter kind—checking out the lowest level of technologies. I think his work is related to the coming fiber-delivered communication options we keep hearing about (foot-tapping impatience…).
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Walking by this healthy stand of bamboo, I thought, why aren’t the world’s ecosystems dominated by cockroaches and bamboo? Or, more abstractly, insects and grasses?
Or maybe they are, if you ignore the little-ees, the viruses, bacteria and their ilk. Which seems like a lot.
A bench and a water feature elevates this front yard to fancy. Needs a touch of weeding, though. Love the cushions.
And I’m so excited: I found out the other day that this is the turkey-tail fungi…I didn’t expect to see one until late next summer. I was wrong.
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Loving this corner storefront, with the clock on the sign. The building’s now eclipsed by most of its neighbors. Cranes are filling in the empty spots. The airspace above the roads is webbed by trolley and stop-light/signage wires.
Although just above the docks, I’m guessing that Berman Luggage most served Seattle’s residents and not visiting sailors.
