Saturday: outside

[OT from cottage renovations]

the show in M^cCathran Hall went well, and after it was done and the Moon had been returned there was still some light to play with. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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2^nd Avenue

2^nd Avenue is small even among the Grove's walkways; it is no more than a couple hundred feet long and of the five cottages along it all but one have addresses on other walkways.  its greater prominence in this space is a consequence of the way in which afternoon light falls along it and the resulting effects on whatever happens to be there.  take, for example, these fallen dogwood leaves: 

Cornus florida

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the Circle

light brings out shadow and texture in these leaves, still hanging on in the Circle. 

Cornus florida

the image above shows the extent to which this year's extended drought conditions have put our trees into deep shock. 

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2^nd Avenue and the Circle

a few years ago a pair of Paw paw trees were planted next to one of the cottages on this corner.  this image doesn't show the scale of this leaf: it's nearly a foot long, a veritable leviathan among the fallen. 

Asimina triloba

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Oak Street

there isn't usually much to say about process in this space: in capturing these images I make every effort to record things as and where found.  bending aside an inopportunely placed branch for a few moments is about as far as I am ever willing to go in the direction of altering conditions and even that is with a certain amount of reluctance. 

Acer

this maple leaf is an exception: it fell from a tree at the corner of Grove Avenue and Oak Street but by the time I got there the location had already passed into shadow.  not wanting to wait for another day to try for the image I carried the leaf down the walkway where the afternoon's light was still streaming into Woodward Park.  with a utility pole guy wire shroud as a mount here's the resulting image.  you might need to click through to the larger image to see the tracery of texture and shadow and the way in which light falling on the near and far surfaces came out in tones of silver and gold. 

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Oak Street in Woodward Park

this branch has leaves in different stages of chromatic change, as if the tree were reluctant to alter its colouring all at once. 

Acer

Saturday: inside

[OT from cottage renovations]

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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window light late afternoon shadow: 

icon meme

[OT from cottage renovations]

a few days ago dakiwiboid posted this icon meme in her journal. 

"Comment on this post.  I'll choose seven userpics from your profile and you'll reply here or ... [in] your own journal ... explaining what they mean and why you're using them.  Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.  Also, feel free to ask me about my icons here, as well. "

it took me a while to get around to responding, but here are the answers. 

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	this was gift for karenleigh who introduced tadpoles into her water garden and wrote that she had gone "tadpole crazy".  such a catchy and felicitous phrase was begging for an iconpic so I took the liberty of putting this one together for the occasion and she was kind and gracious enough to make use of it.  if more of us spent a little more time going tadpole crazy, perhaps we'd all be better off.
	an expression of geekish affection.  either one Gets It or not, there's no point in explanations.  rarely used but, well, now and then it's the right thing.
	lifted from Ghost in the Shell's laughing man virus.  somebody else did a much cooler one in which the outer band text properly rotates.  used for 'net humour, for interesting hacks (in the archaic sense of the term) or commentary on technology and society.
	as one who hasn't watched television in years there's an awful lot of cultural context that gets right past me.  but I've always been intrigued by the questions raised by this glyph, the broadcast medium seal of advertising approval: if a thing is seen on TV, does that make it real?  in some way it must be related to the old book writin' don't lie.  on the 'net there is at least the underlying assumption that nothing is as it seems to be.
	for the occasional post about London, from an image taken there last spring.  all too rarely used.
	this is Spirea prunifolia, back when we had such a thing as rain.  I got very wet the day this was taken but it remains one of my faves.  used for some grovescape entries.
	Mertensia virginica is the Grove's loveliest native perennial, seen here in early blooming phase.  when it comes to Virginia bluebells I go quite cheerfully overboard.