Friday, 11 September 2015
I’ve never seen anything quite like this…the water meter for a house in the neighborhood looks like it…overflowed with coagulating white…stuff. Strange.
Lots of rain lately, and that does alter the species assortment that is presently ascendant…also the dominant smells when there’s no breeze. Eau de decomposition.
I’m hearing duo iPhone purchase noises around here…the deals start at midnight! Must decide…what color?
Friday, 28 August 2015
Oblique sunlight this morning…highlighted some pleasures of being here…that have nothing to do with invasive critters, trees that may be ready to shed limbs (or worse), or other Facts_of_Life.
Not entirely sure why the window-glass fogged up; it was fine when I arose, and I sure wasn’t simmering a chicken or similar.
Thursday, 13 August 2015
Massive industrial architecture, the aesthetic grace not offered through color and finish but instead (merely—mostly) through form and iteration, continues to amaze me.
For a moment, I watched this river-meets-river scene and thought of the Selous and a tributary. It was long ago and far away when I was there…and the landscape looked sooooooo-very-different. (Critters, too….)
Sunday, 9 August 2015
I got out the camping gear, and did a first look-through to see if The Pile had what it was supposed to in it. Yup. Tent. Ground tarp. Cooking boxes (2). Sleeping bags are elsewhere.
Now to micro check all miscellany and find the sleeping pads. Latter are pretty important!
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Out (pant pant) on a side street I haven’t been down in a while, and, whoops!, geeze!, it’s blue-tarp construction-time! And on next-door houses!
I wonder if the guys on the work-crews know each other?
Or did the homeowners create a two-fer package, with their jobs underway simultaneously using the same contractor (and crews) in exchange for a price break?
As to fleurs, the azaleas are back in bloom, the repeat cycle we’ve noticed through the summers…, but this is a camellia…oh, so delightfully scented…mmmmm.
Monday, 3 August 2015
Are these pickets meant to be anthropomorphic? Or is it me?
Squash blossoms…. Of the milpa plants—maize, beans and squash—I have long felt that maize and beans are…obvious, complacent plants, while squash is the one with pizzazz. Yeah, another projection….
Saturday, 25 July 2015
I slept in (as it happens), and we went for the urban exercise option instead of my usual dawn-time excursion (pant sweat sweat). This is a reflection. All of it. Strikingly clear.
This on a day when it went up to ONLY 89°F.
Monday, 20 July 2015
Archaeologists use the term activity area for places where people do the same activities over and over. Think of kitchens…. Many types of activities have obvious and easily recognized suites of artifacts and features.
The upper photo features a front porch, a place for a wide variety of activities such as relaxing, child play, and perhaps shelling peas. This is a new porch, added to the house this spring…and it matches…nice. The second photo shows evidence of lots of ball-play. Look at all the different colors of balls! More relaxation activities….
Saturday, 18 July 2015
I couldn’t choose.
I rather like the “life” in the sprinkler-cement-rabbit shot. I also like the starkness and angularity of the patio area of the closed burger place.
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
Even if you’ve been in this space, you probably don’t recognize it.
This is the entry area of the back porch. Which is the back porch if you think of the side of the cottage facing the water as the front. If, however, you think of the main entry/door as the front, it’s the front porch—there’s only one door to the whole building.
In either case, we’ve added new rugs, indoor/outdoor that can be taken outdoors and hosed off for a serious cleaning. We also brought the long chest in the back right downstairs to make a seating area for shoe removal/replacement. So that’s new to the porch. I love the shade of blue of the box and the oxblood lid. I think my dad (not a woodworker by preference) made it for blanket storage and as a linen closet. It’s been years since we used it that way, however. It IS rodent-proof.
We’ve also begun reorganizing the functional activity areas farther back on the porch. More on that to come.