Musings

This shop space had a restaurant, then another restaurant, and another, just a long series of dining establishments over the last few decades that I’ve been watching. Then, with the January 2020 new year, one moved out, and we began watching that space. Soon, dumpsters showed up and workmen closed the sidewalk and raised dust…for quite some time. Then the dumpsters and workmen disappeared, no restaurant opened, and all has been quiet for months.

I can’t remember if these ornate frames are from the last restaurant, or the almost-restaurant. Now, they’re just waiting…to be wanted?

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Apologies for turning to commands. But, it’s often a good plan to think 🤔 about what a sign says, and its particular context. 😀

In the first photo, the sign to the left of the door is promoting Impossible Burgers. The sign to the right is advertizing for a leasee. And, indeed it is impossible to get burgers here. 😢

And this: Sotheby’s advertises the FINE homes it sells. This, with the boarded up windows, is not a fine home. It’s a junker. And, IMHO, it’s a poor lot, with an apartment complex uphill to the left, at least a dozen units, students and young professionals…so, not a quiet block. Maybe there’ll be a Sotheby’s fine home here in the near future, but “fine” is degraded a bit, I think. 🙄

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At least, that’s my explanation for why these two signs are four feet apart in the same cheese-case.

What doesn’t make sense is that not far away is a huge zone of multiple well-stocked buffet tables with at least sixty-seventy bins of food (partly) protected by a sneeze guard that was there pre-Covid.

Another example of logic in 2020.

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Remember January of this year? We were not living like we were on the precipice of a descent into a pandemic. We ate out that month, two fancy meals…. “Ate out…”—slow and casual dining, too: sounds radical today!

…and I had a beet salad each time. I do love a beet salad. These are proof.

Today we watched “Freight trains and monsters,” an episode of “Yellowstone.” There was no beet salad, although there were campfire biscuits. Neither beet salad was a freight train or a monster. BTW, that refers to non-preferred horses in the barn….

Posted at 9:03 PM | Comments Off on Reminiscence

Metaphor for my day? Mossy concrete and a low wall. Invasive ferns. Dangling ivy. Accumulating organic detritus. Other unidentifiable bits of life in a shady urban spot.

In a very good way.

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Painted public errors can haunt you.

Antenna problem with temporary fix.

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I typed in a name for this photo…I thought I was creating “skyline,” but what I made was “shyline,” which is a lovely error. Overcast equals shy? Still pondering….

Sigh. Mmmmm. Cat loveliness.

Posted at 10:18 PM | Comments Off on Moments

I’ve been eyeing this driveway and steps combo for years, watching the concrete degrade and thinking somehow there’s a photo here, but not finding a way to capture it. This comes close.

This is easier to grasp: leaves (almost) the size of a manhole cover! Ehem, sewer access lid…whatever.

Posted at 7:50 PM | Comments Off on Perspectives

I often find insects on my flower photos, and here are three insects: the large one under the cap on the tissue ring on the stem, plus the two darker dots on the cap-top: insects.

Is this a metaphor? For…what?

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Such a colorful flower (bud).

It makes such strange seed pods. Note texture, size, surface (aka total morphology)…little spikey pillows with pointy tongues.

Much more interesting than reading about fomite transmission rates for Covid-19—be much more worried about aerosol rates!

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