Archive for the ‘scenery’ Category
Posted in Art and Craft, museums, scenery on 3 September, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Delayed opening
Posted in Backstory, Rennovations, scenery, tactless observations, travel, tagged blue, brick, gentrify, industrial past, lost, railroad towns, riverfronts, rust, wabi sabi, weathered, wooden on 16 April, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The warehouse has been empty so long that the floor joists have rotted…but the shell is still here, and the town seems to be gentrifying just up the block. So maybe this will be repointed, and revived as…something other than a place for swifts and swallows to hide, in between their forays down to the waterfront to chase the mayflies and junebugs?
Catch and release
Posted in Art and Craft, autumn, into the woods, Nature, scenery, Uncategorized, tagged autumn leaves, autumnal, yellow on 6 November, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We were walking in the woods yesterday, along an old rail-line that echos the banks of a local reservoir and park. There were some art installations on display, but the real show was the back-lit splendor of the beechwoods.
As we walked along, bittersweet breezes sent leaves skirlling downward. I caught an oak leaf and stuck it in my hat. I caught an ash seed and made my own little tableau…
Minor Sacrifices
Posted in Art and Craft, Backstory, My brain, rocks, scenery, tactless observations on 12 September, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’ve never tried sleeping on this rock, but it does regularly get anointed with oil. Call this offering ‘The first fruits of lunching’, as this oil is from each jar of peanut butter I open here. Yes, I know you’re supposed to stir it in….but we don’t need those calories, and the peanut butter works just fine without the separated part.
I think the local squirrels are more impressed by my actions than any Deity. But you never know….
Memory, enhanced
Posted in Nature, scenery, travel on 2 September, 2016| 1 Comment »
Spikey bits
Posted in Art and Craft, Nature, scenery, tactless observations, tagged cacti, Denver Botanic Gardens, Gardening, green, hot glass, red, white, yellow on 19 July, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We joke, sometimes, about cats lying on their backs “with all the pointy bits [pointing] up. These cacti hardly have any section that is not being pointy in multiple directions!
And for good measure, here’s a spikey thing by Chihully:
Higher ground
Posted in Gardening, Nature, rocks, scenery, tagged blue, Gardening, Paths, travel on 16 July, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Suspended and in motion
Posted in Backstory, My brain, scenery, tactless observations, Uncategorized, tagged betwixt and between, bridge, clouds, midnight rocks, orange, sunset on 20 June, 2016| Leave a Comment »
There was the trainride and the van ride. Old friends in new settings that were really their native settings. There was the bomb scare, and the concert. The lunch and the revelation. A visit to a building that hadn’t been there 15 years ago, and to one that’s been there for over 100. Reuniting participants in a one-sided crush. Watching behavioral loops ossify and tighten. Crying and singing and SINGING and sending music out in as many directions as possible.
We were going about 45 mph when I snapped this. Maybe you can see the time distortion through the lack of crispness in this image?
I’m kind of surprised there was any definition at all…
Spring Things
Posted in birds, Elsinore, Gardening, insects, scenery, Uncategorized, tagged bees, change, green, spring, Xylocopus on 23 March, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Spring Singer alerted me to the emergence of this year’s first crop of jousting carpenter bees [Xylocopus] in regional gardens. This afternoon they are bumbling in and around the magnolia blossoms and riding the willow catkins, which bow under their weight in the March breezes.
At least, around here, at the moment, those are ‘breezes’. I understand Colorado got a blizzard, and sections of the Northeast got a recent blast of snow.
Big bees, little bees; it’s been a good day for watching wildlife in the warming weather. A wood thrush poked around in the leaf litter by the back fence. White throated sparrows haven’t disappeared yet, and the downy woodpeckers are tap tap tapping to see what might be waking up under loose bark. Cardinals, blue jays, song sparrows…. Squirrels, rabbits, and oh, I hope that was something other than a rat — aren’t those supposed to be nocturnal? Couldn’t it be a stoat, or something more pleasant, with a brown agouti coat and bright black eyes?
We’ll see.
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