I know, it’s pretty hard to give you this photo if you object to my existence, if you are obsessed with imposing your views of exclusion on others… Perhaps you should take a breath? Embrace the diversity and inclusion?
I broke this ball while it massaged my foot, and inside made me think of the quartz geode as well as my fractured writing…
I just planted the Maranta into a larger pot, and it gave me a flower shortly after! These flowers are difficult to capture in a photo! Here’s the plant in the background: As a bonus to your visit, a visit to the Conservatory of Flowers, in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco):
I recently revived my father’s camera, a Kodak Retina II from the 1940’s, as I described in this earlier post. I am fortunate enough to have a local photo shop, called Looking Glass, within biking distance, where I could buy a roll of film. There were very few options, and I was surprised that the Kodak brand still existed. I also saw from the shop’s web site that some films were subject to quotas! I went home with Kodak Ultramax 400 film of 36 exposures. The 400 ASA number felt very high as I remembered using 100 ASA negative films and Kodachrome 64 and 25 for slides. 400 meant I could take photos in lower light conditions, faster speeds, and/or smaller apertures. It was appropriate that I would use Kodak film in a Kodak camera… I found an image of the original user’s manual (from retinarescue.com) which suggested that of course. The user’s manual shows distance settings in Feet, whereas my father’s model shows them in Meters, a sign to me it had been manufactured in Germany for the European market (and may …
I started a project to use my father’s camera, a Kodak Retina II, as a kind of post-post-modernist thing to show it how we now see the photos it took 40-70 years ago. Here’s a photo that may have been one of its first rolls, in the summer of 1949 when he worked on mining exploration in the far north of Quebec: And I already posted here some of the slides we used to see on Friday nights, helping us with the stories of our family. First I wanted to capture the object itself, the camera: from different points of view: it’s really work in progress… and the sun was setting in my window, where sits this hypoeste plant growing old… And the Kodak project will go on… Watch for progress in future posts!
Taking care of plants this week-end… After a visit at Planterday, I learned about this Anthurium that had been abandoned outside my apartment and that I had “rescued” to decorate a corner of the passageway… As it’s getting colder, it would be wiser to move it indoors, so I replaced it with a Flowering Maple that is more of an outside plant! Then I cleaned the Anthurium and the sun was setting on it, so I took some pictures: Also, I never thought I’d like to have a cactus, but these were so pretty! Apparently they’re a “holiday” kind (the flowers grow when the days get shorter and less light). This is small enough to be on a little window ledge on the side that doesn’t get any sun this season! And here’s a Dieffenbachia that I got at Planterday… Finally, the sun was setting as I took those pictures, so here’s what it looked like (this is the season of great sunsets, but somehow they always look better in person than in photos)
On my way to trimming the fuchsia, the sight of dew on cobwebs prompted me to take some pictures. Then I was amazed at the early January blooming of the red sage, which is difficult to capture.
Bibi Tiphane 