Just a song, before I go

[pecunium]

Well, a few pictures.

In the course of my various back and forths to the bunker, delivering things to storage, and arranging some already present, I took some photos.

I don't know if it's my mood at the moment, or a more general interest in the decaying flowers;; those blooms which are past their glory but not yet destroyed, the decrepit, which are still showing the signs of what they were, but I saw that the poppies I've been trying to grow for a few years finally managed some success. They are pretty enough, when fresh, but the way they look when they are just past it is something I've always found intriguing.

That,and the seedpods are just cool.

Flander's Fields


Tipping the Velvet


At home I have onion blossoms (they are perrenial, after the second year they bloom. Each year after that they send up a bloom from the flower they started the year before.

Bees, spiders, hoverflys, wasps, aphids, and I know not what all insects, take advantage of them. Planting flowers is one of the best things I can think of for those who want to take pictures of insects.

Jodhpurs


I also took a last look at the container-cars the Southern Pacific is still parking near Maia's folks' place. They rust is brighter,and the spiders have most decidedly set up shop. I treated it to the Kodachrome look. Something about it darkens the images, so I have to tweak the exposure. Thank goodness for RAW.

Cobwebs Kodachrome 200


If all goes as planned/hoped for, I'll be travelling on Weds, and in Tennessee Thursday. I might get online tomorrow, but I have a bit of packing still to do (my bags are ready to go, but the small bits of crap... the things which resist sorting, are still taunting me by not being boxed up for the bunker).

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Where in TN are you going to be? I lived in Nashville for 26 years, and have a number of friends in the area still, plus a few in other cities. I'd be happy to make introductions.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

The last photo--WOW! Not that the others aren't great...

[songblaze.livejournal.com]

Dying poppies are most definitely very interesting.

Unfortunately, I seem to be allergic to all of the varieties of poppies I or my mother have attempted to grow.

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

My next tattoo will be a poppy on my wrist, for a large, complicated and tangled number of reasons - but they include my grandfather, my best friend, history, my own near-death, and the War we know them for.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Oak Ridge.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

What is it about the last photo which moves you so?

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing it's partly because I really enjoy wandering around the farm photographing old machinery, because of the pattern of circles the light makes on the wheel, the way the patterns altered by the wheel, and the contrast of the bright sunlight (I'm assuming it's sunlight) and the dark stuff in the shadow.

Also, it simply gut-punched me when I first saw it.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Well... Color me pleased. It's so rare one gets to hear of a visceral reaction to one's work.

It is sunlight, shot was taken about noon. I was trying to get a more crystalline shot of the cobwebs, but contrast being what it is, the dark ate them.

For farm machinery:



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