Well, I liked the quality of light so much in the photo I posted yesterday that I went back to the same spot 6 mornings in a row to see if I could get something better. In particular, I wanted more shoreline water to show. And this is my next best effort. The casual observer may see little difference between this photo and yesterday's post. And, in fact, there probably isn't - except that I liked the clouds in the previous post better. But I like the dark, wet shoreline in this one.
01-01-12 The Wine-Dark Sea
"The wine-dark sea" is an epithet that Homer used to describe the Aegean Sea. I doubt that Homer's Odysseus ever sailed the waters off of the Yucatan Peninsula, but if he had, would he have heard the sirens' song as I have? Or the mermaids singing?And now, because I can't stop the chain of consciousness that wells up from my distant college past from time to time, I am compelled to quote "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" by TS Eliot:
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.I do not think that they will sing to me.I have seen them riding seaward on the wavesCombing the white hair of the waves blown backWhen the wind blows the water white and black.We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown."
But I am not Prufrock, nor was meant to be. . . .
Reprise: Where I Dream
I hope your year was productive and rewarding.
Reprise: Into the Woods
I'm gone for a few days and so I'm reposting a few from past years.
Reprise: Enthralled
I'm gone for a few days and so I'm reposting a few from past years.
Reprise: Bookish
I'm gone for a few days and so I'm reposting a few from past years.
Reprise: Majestic
I'm gone for a few days and so I'm reposting a few from past years.
Reprise: The Butterfly House
I'm gone for a few days and so I'm reposting a few from past years.
Reprise: Plumeria
Serpentine
I am about to take a week off from my blog, though ou won't notice this because I am posting a week's worth of photos today. Everyday, a new one will magically appear at midnight GMT. I am posting these photos with few comments, but you don't come to this blog for the words of wisdom, do you?Happy holidays! I'll be back on January 1, 2011.
A Perfect Setting
Everything about a meal at Cathy & Bill Zs' house it artful. (A word?) The table was set beautifully but the food was even better.
Humane Society?
Compositionally, this isn't a very good photo. But journalistically it gets by because it does tell a story, even if you didn't know that is was taken along the Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain. It is a photo of a mendicant (more rudely, a beggar) and his best friends.I suspect that some may ask if he would have to beg if he weren't trying to feed 4 pets. I would ask instead, "What do you value and how much is it worth to you?"