Friday, 6 July 2018
Several things about these numerals aging in place on this wooden phone/power pole are interesting. What compelled me to photograph it was that the body of the pole is clearly significantly eroded, leaving the metal pedestalled on the original surface.
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Pretty sure this is the Heracleum that is not friendly to the skin–sap makes the human skin photosensitive, causing blistering and burning (wild/cow parsnip).
A couple of years ago I saw one flourishing over the hill, but this one is by our beach!
Pondering how to carefully remove the plant with no…downstream negative effects…no burns, skin blistering or brown streaks that can last over a year!
Moon over Whitefish Lake. Which used to have whitefish in it, I have read. Most people don’t call it that anymore…because? no whitefish? I prefer the old name to the modern one: South Manistique Lake.
Thursday, 14 June 2018
“Only the Princess matters.” Line from: The Princess Bride,” in the scene just before the Battle of Wits scene, in which we learned about Australian iocane powder.
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
You can never tell what advertising you might encounter on the open road. Here’s a well-logo’d giant wrecker. On the lower right: PERT—Peachtree Environmental Response Team. Huh. Also in green: Certified WRECKMASTER. And we waited alongside this vehicular power house at a mundane red light. Just our modest/tiny sedan.
Later, whew, some gorgeous sky.
Zoom zoom.
Monday, 11 June 2018
Someone thought this lone, highlightable, benefit might cinch a deal—fast. Turns out maybe the rate’s too high or something else, as this sign has been posted for a while.
Yeah, and a flower photo. Interesting color. Light plum? Blushing orchid? Rosy something?
Thursday, 7 June 2018
I was out early as temps were predicted to reach 90°F, and the low-angle sunlight was stunning on this lily.
Indoors, I did some reading about khirigsuurs, Bronze and Early Iron Age civic-ceremonial monumental stone constructions in Mongolia I’d not “heard” of before. I did not find out how the word is pronounced, although GooTranslate indicates it includes Mongolian, but the software/database doesn’t “recognize” the word khirigsuur.
Monday, 4 June 2018
Ether in the 17th C was everything between things. I heard the title phrase somewhere, noted it, and forgot where I heard it*. Well, it’s noted again, for whatever it’s worth. Is this ether more like the sunlight or the shadows? Still pondering…but not tremulous (timid, nervous, shaking, or quivering) in the pondering.
* Yeah, should have noted source as well as phrase. My bad.
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
Plants typically have multiple names. For example, these look like lupines, but are not. They are in the greater legume family, however. They provided a good blue dye, hence their name: false indigo.
And this dogwood is the Korean type, aka kousa* dogwood.
* How did autocorrect change this word to “mouse”? Or, why is that a match? This is not the same kind of multiple names as with the false indigo….
Thursday, 3 May 2018
These are tiny, delicate blooms in a lovely shade of kinda-pink. That’s an official color name IMHO.
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
The other day I learned that the city of Santa Fé’s architecture overseers permit forty-four shades of adobe, whether of clay, or of the far more common cement stuccoing (if I have it right).
I realized by the end of today, that I had a bunch of shots with different adobe(like) walls in them.
So, here’s a chance for you to compare shades/hues/tints/colors.
What names would you use for the various, um, terra cotta shades?
It seems I also managed to get a bunch of flower pictures today.
The flower colors—and organic shadow shapes—do highlight the natural light brown shades of the walls.
I also like the weathered wood matched with the adobe.
This building is not unusual in having different parts/wings/walls in different shades, and in having the normally shadowed porch the lightest shade of all.
That large tree-trunk shadow is from a cottonwood, álamo in Spanish.
This is probably some kind of ornamental apple.
Here are shade-variations on commercial buildings downtown.
Upon reflection, photographing the adobe walls was easier than naming the shades, and far more interesting.