Collage: The Daily Post Photo Challenge, 13 July 2017

What is a collage? In the words of Michelle Weber over at The Daily Post, it is “an assortment, a collection, a hodgepodge.”

Here are a couple of shots that show a collage:

• The printed dress. So fabulous. The wearer was self’s niece, Rina. We were having lunch at Boiling Crab:

Rina Villanueva, July 2017

• An assortment of reading matter: Everything from a Playbill to a book written by someone she used to know in college, Rick Manapat. The book, History of Negros, is about an island in the Philippines called Negros (The Spanish gave it the name, in the 16th century):

What Self Found in Son’s Room: July 2017

• A collection of roses on a hat at the recent exhibit “Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade” at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor:

Woman’s Hat, circa 1910: The artist went by the name “Madame George”

Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.

“Our Gracious Dorotea”: from Self’s Novel-in-Progress

To help self write a love scene set in 18th century Spain, she turns to poetry.

The title of the chapter she is working on today is Our Gracious Dorotea. The poem is this:

Perhaps because within myself
I had already chosen your portrait
here they are in fields of thought
one thousand and a thousand more red poppies.

— Domenico Adriano, excerpt from Da Papaveri Perversi, transl. from the Italian by Barbara Carle

Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.

Three Bridges

“. . .  capture any type or style of bridge where you are . . . ”

— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post

Bridge Over the Sacramento River (Self loves the vibrant yellow):

Sacramento, July 2017

Another type of bridge: the stairs spanning the lobby of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art:

Stairs to Upper Level, SFMOMA, June 2017

Finally, Waterloo Bridge in London. The bridge is special to self because it’s the one she has to cross every time she watches a play at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Waterloo Bridge, London, June 2017

Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.