Dress, spangled
Monday, 14 November 2011
With instructions from The Guru, I made a three-party phone call—successfully!
And it had nothing to do with this sequined dress in the window of a shoppe (had to have an e on the end, I’m sure!).
Musings
Sunshine on grey
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Thanks, new iPhone cam.
We did the unusual today—we went out to lunch.
First, though, we visited a Buckhead art gallery to see Diane’s photographs. I love her images, and these were all landscapes, and gorgeous.
Then, since we were in la-di-da Buckhead, where we almost never hang out, and fine restaurants abound there, we picked one on a side street at random and were quickly seated. This was the view from the window next to our table, and I’m not sure why the arrangement/color of the vehicles caught my eye. But what made me want to photograph it was the linear greyscale visuals across space in the midst of the cars….
Meanwhile, I ordered the soup of the day, which was a pureed roasted beet soup. A pleasure.
And, as you might imagine, not grey at all.
So-o-o glad to be home!
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Photographic memory of the northland….
Periodically I try for a still life photo. The light was most-excellent in person, and looks like crap here.
Meanwhile, today was catchup—laundry, a bit of shopping (especially grocery), pay a stray bill that can’t be paid online (but it’s coming, we’re assured), breathe deeply—that kinda thing….
Sit and watch the world go by
Monday, 8 August 2011
Everything around here feels like the epitome of mid-summer—in the mid-continent’s temperate Midwestern climate. My soul is pretty darned still, and I am amazed. The stock market is a distant, nebulous concept.
Surprise find
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Great morning ground fog, with quiet, both of sound and activity. Except for the deer I scared up while stalking images with the Canon. This is the remains of another that I found just like this, nestled up against the base of an old apple tree.
Blue light (special?)
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Surprise of surprises! A soaky rain graced us in the late afternoon! I see the outdoors as more green than blue-hued, however.
Same flavor—that’s good
Friday, 8 July 2011
We all want to spiff things up, yet maintain continuity in the good parts. In Il Gattopardo (translated as The Leopard, but it really refers to a serval cat), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa has Tancredi say “everything must change so that everything can stay the same,” and I think this is the marketing version of the same sentiment….
The fish, however, is making the big (involuntary) change. But not into my basket. We came home with veggies, citrus, and tofu—the kind of strange mix that comes from not having menus in mind when browsing well-stocked aisles.
Two confessions (that are true)
Sunday, 24 April 2011
And L came to brunch with this lovely seasonal decoration….
We brunched today at The Relatives’ and we brought fruit salad—and managed to forget the melon. Of course, with the whole pineapple in the mix, it was “super” without it!
Plus, I wanted to confess that I read Robert V. Camuto’s Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey (2010) and he says that Marsala that’s labeled fino is cooking wine (there), and that’s all there is here in my price range, so, I confess—I’ve been nipping on cooking wine. !!
Aurum topper
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Georgia’s capitol dome rises above a now-abandoned above-ground human hamster-tube/habitrail/hobbit-trail.
That’s the Georgia dome—the one covered in gold and not the one that hosts athletic events.
I always look at data in Wikipedia with a suspicious eye, so this may be in error, but the WikiPee “says” that by the end of 2009, humans had mined 165,000 tonnes* of gold. As of the end of June 2009, the IMF held 3217 tonnes or just under 2% of the estimated total.
Just to continue with scattered information: the WSJ is reporting that there’s a new iPad on the way that will have more, more, more (capabilities), and weigh less and be thinner—plus have at least one camera.
* A tonne is a thousand kilograms, or about 2200 pounds, which is about one long ton, commonly called a ton.
Lighting by Ma Nature
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Seems to me that certain colors in certain light situations just are not captured accurately by our (digital) cameras.* The “little” one, the Lumix, has a hard time with deep blues and purples. It looks like the “big” one, the Canon, struggles with the reds, although it’s pretty close (this is natural sunlight).
* Could also be that I don’t know what settings to use, and that the camera sensor systems are tip-top.