The host of this challenge, Travel with Intent, has a gallery of haunting photographs on this week’s theme. Check them out!
Morning Sky, 2 January 2023
Parking Garage, Berkeley
Category: postaday
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My first introduction to the work of the late Santi Bose was at a gallery in Manila called Sining Kamalig. That’s where I saw the Blue Room. I begged my parents to give me the painting for my seventeenth birthday.
A few years later — surprise, surprise! — they bought the companion painting, the White Room, for me. I brought both paintings to California with me. They are among my most treasured possessions.
mixed media, early Santi Bose. Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six Word Saturday
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Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts gardens, leaves and berries as well as flowers. To see entire list of accepted flowers, click here. Please do not submit photos of trees that don’t show colorful blooms or autumn colors. Leaf close ups are always welcome.
— Cee Neuner, Flower of the Day ChallengeThe garden is pretty dead right now, the only bright spot are these holly berries!
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Thanks to Wind Kisses for hosting this week and for coming up with the awesome prompt, MESSAGES!
Here are a few “message” pictures from self’s archives, all places in California:
- sign inside a restaurant in Mission San Miguel Arcangel, California Central Coast
- sign in the lobby of the San Jose Convention Center during Adam Savage’s SilCon 2022
- Fro-yo cup, downtown San Luis Obispo
- Sign commemorating the original Facebook Headquarters, Emerson Street, downtown Palo Alto
- Traffic sign, Kasten corner of Main Street, Mendocino Village
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Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six Word Saturday.
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Here’s how Cee Neuner introduces the challenge:
- This week our topic is Legs and Feet. If you are wondering, yes, shoes on feet count for this challenge. I so hope you have some fun with this topic.
Last June, self saw a fabulous exhibit at the Legion of Honor: Guo Pei, Coutoure Fantasy.
Gold was everywhere! Even on legs and feet! For example:
Self is in love with the gold booties.
Stay tuned.
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Self’s roses have a few scattered blooms, but none look good after weeks of rain and high wind.
Here are All Dressed up and Chrysler Imperial, from early this morning. Normally, Chrysler Imperial is a deep red, but the bud seems to have frosted over, wonder if it will open at all.
Posting for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day:
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It’s been a while since self joined Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge. This week’s challenge is Pick a Topic from My Photo.
She thinks she may have found a picture. She took it when she overnighted in Cloverdale, at the Pinschower Inn (a lovely Bed & Breakfast, highly recommend!), just before Christmas. The grounds are lovely. There’s an arched trellis over the path to the main house. And these espaliered — self wants to say roses but she thinks they are — maples.
Anyhoo, the thin metal wires are barely visible, except on the posts.
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Aside from that very unique name for a spaceship, the ship itself is alive, sentient, its inner walls actual skin. The governing intelligence is not a computer, it is AI. If someone spits on the floor, that spittle is immediately absorbed and analyzed, to ascertain whether that person’s health falls “within expected parameters.” The plucky crew (Plucky crews seem all over science fiction these days) boards to escape an attack on TwiceFar Station, at the outer edges of the known galaxy, after the death of the ship’s captain — but not before the captain gives the crew the magic password, I believe in miracles. It turns out that the password is code for: I’ve been murdered and these people are trying to steal my ship; go directly to the prison planet. All arguments are futile: the password has been given, the ship cannot deviate from its course. Luckily, the crew includes two entities known as Thorn and Talon, twin children sold to the Holy Hive Mind by their mother. Thorn and Talon are made into the Holy Hive Mind’s “shock troops” — they can transform from human into battle lion, “fierce and nigh unkillable, with a lion’s ferocity armored by nigh impenetrable magic, fangs and claws metal augmented, deadly.”
Let’s see what Thorn and Talon can get up to, shall we?
Also: self is so dense that she didn’t get the connection between the song (You Sexy Thing) and the password (I Believe in Miracles). Thanks to Tony Robles for sending her the link to the song.
Stay tuned.
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Self is in a nostalgic mood this rainy, gloomy Sunday in northern California.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s One-Word Sunday. The theme is SKYLINE.
Here’s Southbank by the Thames. Took these pictures leaving Shakespeare’s Globe after a play. The bridge is the old Blackfriars.
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