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Post by questa on Oct 28, 2017 6:37:54 GMT
Is this like putting a death curse on the one whose photo is displayed? Come on Wal-Mart, you have lots of outlets that could be decorated the same way.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 11, 2018 14:19:45 GMT
Yesterday I happened to be looking out the kitchen window at the lake cottage when I saw that a large bird was flying directly toward me. The Great Grey Owl flared its wings at the last second - when I could see the yellow of its eyes - and swooped up to land on our roof. What a majestic sight. And Me With No Camera...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2018 14:02:28 GMT
The other day I walked past a parked car with Star Wars storm trooper seat covers. A funny double-take, but there I was with no camera.
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Post by Kimby on May 26, 2018 12:36:44 GMT
Our last evening on Sanibel Island we took a break from buttoning up the house for hurricane season to take a last beach walk. It had been rainy on and off the past few days and there were lots of clouds in the sky so we weren’t expecting much from the sunset. Boy, were we wrong! As the sun neared the horizon, the gaps in the clouds lined up just right for a spectacular color show, perhaps the best sunset I’ve ever witnessed. And it went on for a long time, with clouds all over the sky reflecting pinks, oranges, reds and yellows, with some purple mixed in for good measure. We watched transfixed, while I silently kicked myself for leaving the camera back at the house.
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Post by questa on May 26, 2018 12:54:59 GMT
Maybe we should explore the possibilities of getting small cameras grafted to the shoulder of certain anyporters who titillate us with photo descriptions but were without their cameras at the salient time. NB emoji demonstrating flash photography.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2018 12:59:40 GMT
But Questa, Kimby comes up with such wonderfully evocative word pictures every time she forgets her camera!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2018 2:46:15 GMT
I just walked down to the zócalo where the teachers are all camped. I wanted to see it because a friend had described it as "the worst chaos ever" -- a reference to the fact that the teachers do this every year.
Anyway, it was as bad as she said, with entire streets blocked, vendors squeezing into every available space, and the stench of unwashed bodies penetrating past the aromas from the food stands.
My poor mutts were freaked out by the crowds, so I just did a quick survey and started back home. The "no camera" part of this is coming upon a man pushing one of those trike carts up the hill. The cart portion was completely filled with live white chickens who seemed to be enjoying the ride.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 8, 2018 6:16:57 GMT
Perhaps their very last ride!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2018 16:21:47 GMT
Ignorance is bliss!
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2018 1:26:15 GMT
I can just about guarantee that if I leave my camera home for an ordinary walk, something out of the ordinary will occur. Happened again today.
Our walk took us through the grounds of the Wisconsin Grand Army Home, a retirement home/nursing home for veterans. As we neared the chapel, we noticed a small gathering outside. Four uniformed soldiers with rifles and an officer waited on the sidewalk as a chaplain and four family members exited the chapel. Two soldiers in dress whites, one of them a woman, carried a folded flag which they ritually unfolded and held open as the riflemen fired three shots in unison and a bugler standing nearby blew taps. They then the two in dress whites ritually folded the flag back up and exchanged a series of very slow almost robotic salutes before spinning smartly on their heels and presenting the flag to one of the family members, and the funeral party broke up. There was no coffin or urn or hearse to be seen. I imagine these ceremonies happen at least several times a week, but it’s the first one we’ve happened on.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2018 1:41:39 GMT
It happened again today - another walk, another me-without-my-camera moment. Though it’s probably just as well, as I’d have embarrassed myself and Mr. Kimby by trying to photo-document all the wonders we saw today.
We were walking past a particularly nice Frank Lloyd Wright-esque house with a yard graced with interesting modern sculptures. There was a man pulling weeds out front so I asked if he was the sculptor or the collector. Actually he designs them and has various artisans fabricate them. He asked if we wanted a tour, and being total strangers and not wanting to inconvenience him we tried to demur, but he wasn’t having it. He invited us inside to a fantastic architectural wonder filled with custom made furniture pieces, stained glass windows in unusual places, decorative motifs of wood and metal, salvaged architectural elements from public buildings and structural elements (beams, mostly) from demolished factories. There were dozens of different types of wood used, and our jaws were hanging open. I ran out of ways to say “wow”! And the collections! Art objects: Large carved wooden bowls, fine baskets constructed of stitched together birch bark, art prints from Matisse and others, photos of musicians, a collection of wooden pens made from wood from each tree that died or that he cut to build his house on the lakefront lot. Pocket knife collection in an antique quarter-sawn oak dentist’s drawer cabinet, carved duck decoys, weather vanes, Turkish rugs, all beautifully displayed. We were swooning. The man loved talking about his collection, and we loved hearing about it. I just wish I had photos of it all. I’m still overwhelmed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2018 2:24:10 GMT
Two great stories in a row, Kimby. Put the camera in your purse so it will be there the next time you leave the house!
Pee ess ~ didn't you reveal a while back that you were overly attached to your phone? Doesn't it have a camera?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2018 3:32:17 GMT
I don’t carry a purse except when I drive somewhere. No pockets in my shorts and T-shirt. 🙁
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Post by breeze on Jun 10, 2018 13:06:29 GMT
Kimby, fanny pack? I carry mine over my shoulder when I want my phone or camera handy and don't have any pockets. This place sounds fantastic. And it's right in your neighborhood? Please go back and tell the man about all the avid anyporters who'd like to see his collections without leaving home, and would he mind if you took photos?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2018 13:25:01 GMT
I do have a camera pouch with a shoulder strap. But whenever I take it, nothing interesting happens. I have to leave the camera behind, it seems, to make good stuff happen! 😉
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2018 21:44:55 GMT
Here’s a 15 minute video of a bench made in the same style as a table we saw in the house we visited. It is created entirely of one piece of wood, entire, steamed and bent, with no fasteners. The table was more delicate than the bench but the process is the same.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 29, 2018 19:04:48 GMT
BTW, there is an image of the completed table/bench fairly early in the video, so if you aren’t up for the whole process, it’s worth a quick look to see the elegantly simple finished product.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2018 21:38:47 GMT
So there I am at the local street market with no camera. A lady was standing in front of a butcher's cold case that was full of all kinds of sausages. She had a little -- smaller than average -- shiny black girl dachshund with her. The little dog kept jumping straight up so she could see inside the case, her little sausage bod going up and down as though on springs. The kindly butcher did give the doggy a treat.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2018 21:51:11 GMT
I almost never go out without my camera, since you saw in person that I don't mind just jamming it in the pocket of my jeans with no regard for propriety. And yet every now and then I do go out for a brief errand without my camera, generally just a round trip to a local supermarket. You cannot imagine the number of times I have regretted not being able to capture an image that I saw during that 15 minute period.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2019 0:35:55 GMT
Coming back with the dogs from their walk this evening, we passed the cruz de piedra (not my photo) -- a popular spot for people to pose for pictures. There was a very little girl, maybe three years old, dressed as a nun, with two hovering photographers and a stage mother who fiddled and adjusted the wimple, veil, etc. The kid looked miserable. When her mother finally got the clothing fixed to her satisfaction, the child stood there in her little mary janes, quite still as directed. ......... and then they wanted her to move a few inches to the left. If I'd had the camera with me I could show you three adults all happily oblivious to a patient little girl's feelings.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 14, 2022 15:39:38 GMT
Late yesterday afternoon it was cloudy, but still with sunshine & lots of blue sky. I left the house with the dogs & when I got to the end of the block, stopped to admire the roof garden on the other side of the street. It has several tall columnar cacti, all of which were brightly highlighted by a wide ray of sun. Then I turned to the left and saw the real show. There was a huge rainbow, clearly showing all the colors and visible from horizon to horizon. Arcing over it was a bigger, wider but paler rainbow. The best part was seeing how many people of all ages had come outside to view it, some of whom were stopping strangers in order to point it out. There were lots of cameras and phones in action. One person had fetched out a tripod and another was stretched out on his back, the better to get a picture.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 14, 2022 16:04:30 GMT
Even though 95% of the time I have my camera with me, I still worry when I don't have it. For example today I left it at home -- but luckily I did not see anything that needed a photo.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 15, 2022 5:27:47 GMT
I was riding the chairlift at the local ski hill today and a BOBCAT walked out of the woods and crossed right below me, taking his time getting to the woods on the other side. Great view of all his fine feline features. And no time to get the cell phone out of my pocket to take a photo…
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Post by Kimby on Feb 1, 2022 22:23:11 GMT
We found a small octopus on the beach, and it was still alive as I could see it pulsing. It was probably 4” across, so I scooped it up on a pen shell and returned it to the water.
First one we’ve ever seen in the wild. It was so cute with its curling and uncurling tentacles. Would love to have been able to share his picture, but me without a camera...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2022 1:18:12 GMT
Coincidentally, I was just reading last night about how long an octopus can live out of water. You did a good deed!
After reading about how intelligent they are, I'll never be able to eat octopus again.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2022 3:37:47 GMT
The videos on YouTube are often quite creepy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2022 0:56:40 GMT
On the walk this evening I passed a piñata shop. It had a dominatrix piñata hanging in the doorway.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 5, 2022 1:14:35 GMT
Piñatas rebelling after being beaten with sticks for centuries?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2022 1:50:55 GMT
Oh, that is brilliant, Kimby!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 6, 2022 19:10:35 GMT
We live near to an industrial estate, mostly small units but there are some large ones. A lot of them have been having problems with gulls roosting on their roof..hundreds of them. The guano being a big problem and the birds have been getting into the roof spaces and ducts. To try to stop the birds one of the factories has a motion sensor that blares out the call of a buzzard or a red kite whenever it detects a bird nearby...another factory (a food packaging place) has invested in some huge bird of prey shaped kites that soar above the roof on fishing rod like poles. I was out walking with the dog yesterday and looked at these 5 soaring bird-of-prey shaped kite thingies swooping and soaring above the factory roof...which had a line of about 15 gulls quietly minding their own business along the ridge.
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