Howdy When I wrote Laura Rodley that I wanted to post "Burdocks," she replied that the timing was apt since the burdocks are blooming now. I also asked for photos since I don't have any pics of horses; I was so glad I did because she provided a photo of her horse Cinnamon who is beset with burrs. She also provided photographs from the 90th Annual Chincoteague Pony Penning. If you'd like to learn more about Chincoteague ponies, read Laura's articles "Chincoteague Pony … [Read more...]
One of my least favorite things about summer
Do you have tinnitus? Well, I do. Maybe that's why these buggers bug me so. We get the 17-year cicadas in droves around here, and in off years, like this summer, we still get enough to be annoying. Here's hoping the noises in your head are more pleasant. Cicada song drills into my skull, the noise unwinds a hot thread-- along these nerves. Harsh, grating jackhammer drone never fades. Like trepanation it’s pressure incessant that bores into my brain to … [Read more...]
Do you know how you look?
The other day in the paper I saw a photograph of a politician, an older man. It wasn’t a posed picture; it looked like he didn’t know he was being captured on film. The snapshot was anything but flattering. Every facial feature pointed downward. His eyes were cast downward. But more than that, his wrinkles and creases seemed to be weighed down, sagging, and his chin, in a giant flattened pout, had rutted into a circle of wrinkled flesh. The picture was so bad that I felt … [Read more...]
Glimpse of solace: photography experiments
July is flying by. Hope you are busy and having fun.. Also hope you have time to play. Today and yesterday were the best days of summer here so far -- skies were blue for a change. I was out on the deck fooling around with my camera (and a kaleidoscope) and reading T. C. Boyle's latest book (The Harder They Come). Anyway, here's what I came up with. … [Read more...]
Ed Paschke Art Center
Last week I visited the Ed Paschke Art Center in Chicago’s Jefferson Park neighborhood (5415 W. Higgins). The storefront museum is open seven days a week from ten a.m. to seven p.m. It’s free. For those who do not know about Chicago artist Ed Paschke, he was a contemporary (1939-2004) artist who lived in Jefferson Park and taught at Northwestern University. Here’s the Wikipedia link. You may want to take time and see all his art on digital display. The art center has a … [Read more...]
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