Shape-layers
Monday, 29 August 2016
As far back as I can remember, I liked the juxtaposition of round and angular geometric shapes. What does it mean that these these forms are common on ancient pottery, if decorated at all….
Musings
Sky vs sky-in-puddle
Monday, 15 August 2016
My photos from this morning’s walk were mostly mundane and uninspired.
These two, however, have something going on, both with the sky and quite different.
Disguises
Friday, 12 August 2016
I saw this out of the corner of my eye and had to back up to make sure what I was seeing. Yup, contact paper that looks like a brick wall. I agree with the idea; this is better than a grey metal box, especially for a spot you see near-daily—plus this is a big utility box!
This stump is losing its battle with the fungi. Their function in the wild is as part of the army of living things that breaks down dead things. I’m no specialist, but I counted five visually different fungi in the process of turning this oak into dust.
Reflections/reflecting
Sunday, 7 August 2016
I can tell the sun angle is shifting—and the day length is…diminishing. Sigh.
I believe I’ve posted a similar photo before…apologies…but I find the decorative spider-work visually compelling, draped over these meticulously shaped fine-leaved bushes.
Duos (sorta)
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
When I left this morning, the temp was below 80°F (whew!) and I saw the dew thick on the windshield. Liquid diamond?
In the oblique light, I found this gnarly trunk with a fern platoon casting pointy shadows on it.
My eye got distracted as I walked by another stand of ferns by bright pink that my brain could not associate with fern botany. I looked closer and discovered that it was a bloom-cluster from a crape myrtle that loomed above.
An awakening neighborhood
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
After rounding a few corners in the early-light, and encountering dogs secure behind yard fences that barked at me, I rounded the corner by this and heard an engine running at a constant speed. Then I saw the orange barrels in the middle of the street. What’s this I thought. Not sure; the pump is down in a very low spot that used to be a parking lot behind a small apartment building. I can assume it has collected rain, but I’n not sure why this time it was decided to pump it out.
Elsewhere I encountered the sun, out to warm me since 79°F is apparently not warm enough…but the backlit dogwood leaves it created rather took my breath away.
Sky light
Sunday, 31 July 2016
Sometimes, I find reality between the cracks of MaNachur’s displays. From our domestic location, both sunrise and sunset require special effort to see. I felt like I was in a below-the-roof room in a European B&B when I spotted this vision of the dusk sky (instead of my upstairs bath).
Picnic anyone
Saturday, 16 July 2016
The sun broke over the trees this morning, finally lighting the dew-wet field of grasses, sweet peas in bloom, and milkweeds with wide leaves.
Later, it looked like we were preparing for a yard sale, except that the items were junky or weird. Some has been purged, and the remainder, is separated from a veneer of dust and cobwebs, and replaced in the entry-porch.
This is Day 1 of a two-day project; stand by for more tomorrow.
More vocab
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
This is the kind of plant I’d look up starting with sedges. I think of sedges as funky marshy-land grass-like denizens. Maybe these cotton-top, stiff-stemmed plants?
I found out the other day that there are kinds of insects known as sedges—a new one on me. I got this from a fly-tying book on what the insects and the fishing-flies that imitate them look like—not actually how to tie them.
Later, I checked the big world of the internet, and found out that bug-sedges are what I have heard called caddis flies. Their wings fold into an inverted V making a lengthwise ridge above their backs.
Tuckered
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
We did a big walking/hiking* loop that gave us fine views of the Grand Portal of the Pictured Rocks. In some places the sandstone(?) is more colorful than here…. And, yes, that is the color of the water along here.
My fitbit is cranked, having today logged in excess of 30K steps and 70 flights (of imaginary stairs), with 250 active minutes (these are KW levels). And that is why I am [see title].
* Including dancing over exposed roots, slogging through both soft sand and many mucky spots. Feet tired. We have decided that if we do this hike again it will be in October when the biting stable flies have abated and the temps have dropped.