Musings

I tried some filter fun with some naturally distorted images (through dirty window-glass).

As you can tell, I didn’t spend long at it.

I like parts of both, but neither more than the other, on balance.

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Painted public errors can haunt you.

Antenna problem with temporary fix.

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The title nails it (if I do say so myself). Decorative maple, with a few seed/helicopters (bright red).

Evergreen showing new green (pushy, up-and-coming, feathery) and old green (tired, monotonous, inflexible).

Hedge-trimmed something…with a few blossoms…rather a mixer.

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Closeup of mottled paint on a mailbox.

Sidewalk chalk art.

The crazy, topsy-turvy, chaotic, yea dangerous times…a version of the blues…and blues in the photo selections…somehow these linked in my mind.

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While out for my walk, I experimented with portrait mode on flowers again.

Also shot old school.

Night light fun: computational photo. I’m pretty sure the metal steps are painted black. The red came from fancy-SUV taillights, but the blue is a mystery to me.

Before I walked, I encountered a quote from Autumn de Wilde, director of the very recently released movie “Emma,” Jane Austin retold. She told the New Yorker/Sarah Larson that for the decor of Emma’s home: “I wanted it to be like a pastry shop. I told my departments, ‘The colors need to feel edible.'” I wondered what the most edible colors are. She went, the article says with a pink and green combo. Hmm. Depends on the food, but the flower and the lichen-on-brick seem to offer workable shades—the staircase not so much.

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I experimented with portrait mode today, using flowers as subjects. And a bee.

Twins.

Ruby camellia. Didn’t work as well with the nearby vegetation.

This one didn’t work either, with the wood-chip background so close, but you get an idea what the programming is optimized to do. Ugly, and I’m a fan of evergreens.

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Hanging out. (The bee.)

Hanging on. (The leaves.)

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Light refraction.

Fern stomata.

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Apologies for going on about the weather, but today’s highs and lows were about 20°F lower than yesterday’s. Didn’t have frost on the car window yesterday….

Cold snap may have played in this camellia flower drop.

Random artsy photo: close-up of rusty yardart.

Rotate ninety photo: nothing more needs to be said. [Shadow has a lumpiness because I had lifted my hoodie sweatshirt to around my neck; gives me superhero shoulders.]

Title refers to a general lack of intellectual astuteness evidenced lately on this-here blog, and hypothesizes about why.

Perhaps the warming weather trend will provide a boost? On the other hand, we already have more rain this month than the January average, and more is coming this week. Eek!

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I found several homeowners deconstructing last month’s seasonal decorations. But this bauble bush survives intact.

Of course, we know that month after month is a continuum, but our human brains want to categorize and divide. Perhaps last year was layered and distorted and not straightforward?

And this year will be bright and clearly defined?

Time will tell.

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