Musings
Dunno if one can judge one’s own brat-ness. Now it’s morphed into demo(b)rat, I’ve read. Pardon me, I’ve gotta go study up on Charli XCX lyrics and the meme-world.
BTW, it was rainy all day, with a few breaks of drippy grey. The rain barrel had surface bubbles, which I never remember seeing there before.
I used the noir filter on this shot. I don’t remember ever using a filter on a shot I’ve posted here before. It’s a visual reference to today’s sunlessness. Unfortunately, the noir takes away the iridescence. So much of art—and life—is trade-offs.
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Hmmm; that changes things big time.
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World’s slowest hummingbird. 🤣
Posted at 8:32 PM |
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Pareidolia is not psychodelia. The word I encountered today was pareidolia. This word is not in your everyday vocab? Not surprising.
It’s the idea that you, for example, look at a cloud and see a figure, face, a shape you can identify. But it’s just a cloud, and the figure is something that your brain came up with.
This word surfaced for me in an online article titled “Conversations with Caves…” by Izzy Wisher and others (here) The discussed pareidolia related to how the painted figures were placed on the concave and convex shapes of the rugged surface of cave walls. This happened a long time ago in the period archaeologists call the Upper Paleolithic.
Anyway, going forward…I’ll be trying to remember the word pareidolia. Relevance to today? Today, we had a relatively even overcast, so shape identification would have been…difficult.
Posted at 9:28 PM |
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I call this the movie-star house. That’s because over the last six or so years it’s commonly a short-term rental to movie stars. The real ones. Like Oscar nomination types. I’m glad these folks like our neighborhood.
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Our Left Coasters departed today, and left behind this image of the gorgeous 4th fireworks across Puget Sound.
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We went on a wee tourist loop after lunch. We walked around under overcast skies at the Carter Center.
Since the place was closed, our focus was outdoors, and the Left Coast family learned viscerally what high-heat-and-humidity is like to breath and stroll in. We found this Peace Bell Tower, that I had never seen before as it was dedicated not long ago in 2022. The bell was cast back in 1820, and the government set it aside to be melted down during WWII, but somehow it remained intact. And now it’s in ATL.
Posted at 9:03 PM |
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Look at all the visual contrasts! Color, shapes, living vs inanimate—the whole shebang!
Fireworks began precisely at 9:15pm, and they’re now booming in various locations in the southern direction…with nothing sounding in the northern quadrants. This is audio contrasts?
Posted at 9:44 PM |
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This chain is becoming abundant along I75 and I don’t know how far afield. We hadn’t stopped, but today was the day The Guru said: their price is good.
I thought we were just getting gas, but he wanted to make a quick tour of the sales floor. Wow. I decided the establishment seems like a combo of a convenience store, truck stop, and Walmart…plus barbecue. And almost everything has the logo slapped on it.
My theory is that it’s an inside joke that the figure is in a circle…a visual play on buckyball. I am mystified as to why it is wearing a baseball cap.
Posted at 8:12 PM |
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This was one of those days when the weather seems okay first thing in the morning, then goes toward the breezy, which turns to windy and rainy, and darned unpleasant. I took this picture when things were still mild.
Any potter makes a big pile of discards. Some can be converted into yard-art, especially by a loving mama. I’m sorry the dragon-face to the right is out of focus; I don’t quite understand how the focus got so shallow.
Posted at 11:09 PM |
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