Monday, July 30, 2012

Green




This post is for Liisa who lives in Finland but likes the green market. I set out thinking I would do a green post...as in corn


and peppers


and more peppers


not to mention cucumbers and


cauliflower.


My interest in green is flagging care of basil and parsley.


Beets offer a little relief --serve with chickpeas balsemic and olive oil.


Chives are good in potato salad.


Gave up with green as blown away by sunflowers


with bees on



and veggies with color in


a melon


and then a little bit of blue which we'd missed.



Friday, July 27, 2012

Seaside




"Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
I do like to be beside the sea
tiddly om pom pom tiddly om pom pom"


On Wednesday the water was translucent and crystalline


the shadows were so crisp and sharp


and the crab shell wore leopardskin


and the little bits of stuff arranged themselves like still life almost.


what a lot of yellow shadow from such little yellow legs!




A sand dune



Clear light by the snack bar


I could stare at the water for hours...



Friday, July 20, 2012

Field Trip: Metropolitan Museum





The flower arrangements are always astounding, dramatic and exotic. You could go to the museum for them alone.


Of course, on a vacation-time Thursday there were a million billion people there, and most of them were taking photos on their cell phones --just like me. Never quite know what to look at, since if you look at everything you get major  sensory overload.


So looked at the modern photos exhibit, then retreated to the Spanish courtyard


to see the young man playing music.


Such a pretty young saint! You can look through the porthole in her chest to discover that she is a reliquary and has real bits of bone inside.....



No one there for an instant.


Then looking down at the hall


and wondering which particular treasures were absorbed that day.



Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Robert Moses




In the pavilion are the fixings for a classic barbecue 


beginning with beer --and plenty of it

photo Robert Schmid
but the beach itself (looking west) was deserted except for the birds.


Lots of birds. The terns have little teeny tiny legs and walk very quickly.


The seagull wants out of the picture.


Reflections on wet sand.


Lots of people by the lifeguard stands


and brothers making a castle


with a tunnel that the seawater runs through


until it collapses as these things tend to.


The life guard adopts a quaisi-heroic posture


as the firemen cook on the world's biggest grill.






Sunday, July 15, 2012

Into the Woods




 Lisa Hermanson and I went wandering in the woods behind the house she grew up in and which our family bought from hers. A sort of sentimental journey in what is now the Betty Allen Nature Preserve.


Moss, ivy, poison ivy, jewel weed, grass, sticker bush, grass 


fern


extreme vines


fern


woodpecker real estate, PI


path, roots



Photo by Lisa of me in the stream that ran through our property. The low bushes on the right are spice  bushes whose leaves smell delicious.

The pond is sort of scummy and muddy


and the swan really didn't want us there.