tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21773351843220646232024-03-18T20:47:16.709-06:00forms traced by lightKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.comBlogger5529125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-24680194416189291272024-03-18T20:46:00.002-06:002024-03-18T20:46:23.156-06:00orchid<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImUCdl0v3DApQZ_OrPwcEufXv4QncQWK_s_4mO8JeLuFdxeoS7bty1lSqaKftaiP7KlPmKeYfk5EuUsL7vzoCy3UcSnJkwNTTZ1SmIIxKK53SB0yrYDu5AO4FNWQlU627HQdeyXi_pJTBflegfSdMxnESyCmvUffW_hCOZt56Ow5C3ygMI8gDbD0T98ar/s1250/orchid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImUCdl0v3DApQZ_OrPwcEufXv4QncQWK_s_4mO8JeLuFdxeoS7bty1lSqaKftaiP7KlPmKeYfk5EuUsL7vzoCy3UcSnJkwNTTZ1SmIIxKK53SB0yrYDu5AO4FNWQlU627HQdeyXi_pJTBflegfSdMxnESyCmvUffW_hCOZt56Ow5C3ygMI8gDbD0T98ar/w293-h391/orchid.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of Alice's (many) orchids, looking happy and healthy in the morning sun. Since in my British Art and Empire grad class tomorrow we're discussing The Botanical Empire, and since I've been preparing that all day (well, when not inverted in the dentist's chair, or doing undergraduate grading), this seems a highly suitable image. </span></div><p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-41481434624348362782024-03-17T22:12:00.000-06:002024-03-17T22:12:05.060-06:00creek, coffee, view<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7im7_gXQCNwZPvDKi9zN-AVm8uvFoMiVWj6XjfYKnht6YK1KpUNVFoySwAs-6VlS4strujqVYl941f1kpPpMhj0vEC7UrHnSEtpaLpj33UZyq1AZISyTSJEvQqiDpq_xSbJg9yyORnnKqwcPKnCMF8MPmTK47ysKjcxIKeMqNObWamb6NpTJrXdHY2Go7/s1250/creek.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7im7_gXQCNwZPvDKi9zN-AVm8uvFoMiVWj6XjfYKnht6YK1KpUNVFoySwAs-6VlS4strujqVYl941f1kpPpMhj0vEC7UrHnSEtpaLpj33UZyq1AZISyTSJEvQqiDpq_xSbJg9yyORnnKqwcPKnCMF8MPmTK47ysKjcxIKeMqNObWamb6NpTJrXdHY2Go7/w363-h272/creek.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I swear I always feel more wrung out when we return from New Mexico on I-10 rather than I-40/15, but we're back! The cats, despite excellent care in our absence, are delighted to see us. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's the view of Oak Creek from our room this morning - flowing decidedly more fully than yesterday; the interior of Oak Creek Expresso, purveyors of excellent coffee and muffins; and a view from our first rest stop, somewhere on the wild mountains above Phoenix.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_6OU_lEzBOBHcnseDEBfyajKN3QhkN9sOK4FAi_TW1wRLrPg6GeXynyr2-AIoXTmjoQkVZGVbykXyCT5VDwtWdO00MVxyXjHp1o1fdjaIP7dVi88CaW6KoIpgh7GMnUvSi_d_AD246Too-qyXlpYGgSerrbs6oJODF0mxVPZ_napjZb_oPMB-bra4-9L/s1250/coffee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1250" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_6OU_lEzBOBHcnseDEBfyajKN3QhkN9sOK4FAi_TW1wRLrPg6GeXynyr2-AIoXTmjoQkVZGVbykXyCT5VDwtWdO00MVxyXjHp1o1fdjaIP7dVi88CaW6KoIpgh7GMnUvSi_d_AD246Too-qyXlpYGgSerrbs6oJODF0mxVPZ_napjZb_oPMB-bra4-9L/w366-h264/coffee.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ng5gk1HdkBFJVzttSVI3PoR93N32_MaBJdo4RKvHkZM6PDa-L-fSgkbMvLuddqN1VLO9m2zN9ZbcGpWM5hDxlYTbidxmM5HJZNvGmN_kfX58SEnmzLcETwylm0UDZochNXPtox-bcV-uX-7Wqa67c8ydf-9Z5RFPz8_1mCRttWCS65saVtsIDgu896bx/s1250/view.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ng5gk1HdkBFJVzttSVI3PoR93N32_MaBJdo4RKvHkZM6PDa-L-fSgkbMvLuddqN1VLO9m2zN9ZbcGpWM5hDxlYTbidxmM5HJZNvGmN_kfX58SEnmzLcETwylm0UDZochNXPtox-bcV-uX-7Wqa67c8ydf-9Z5RFPz8_1mCRttWCS65saVtsIDgu896bx/w362-h272/view.jpg" width="362" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-6238084182681806312024-03-16T20:49:00.001-06:002024-03-16T20:49:34.796-06:00on the road<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIy9O_L6cvNw8B_790X6uZPWnsbyPdQ2gY4Ea7REljIrKdhw_msyW4QClQAGUFBqMVmkkpgwQecnnTjheNnUTRRhUZpqTuxDEo8rlRe6_DasLACsT_3xaGSD1eisFGR1n6z1IRfJGde8-u77UN9whwIChxyrGAzZguGLmrRIfj2UPiSKJg2dgH3jfp2YyI/s1250/travel%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIy9O_L6cvNw8B_790X6uZPWnsbyPdQ2gY4Ea7REljIrKdhw_msyW4QClQAGUFBqMVmkkpgwQecnnTjheNnUTRRhUZpqTuxDEo8rlRe6_DasLACsT_3xaGSD1eisFGR1n6z1IRfJGde8-u77UN9whwIChxyrGAzZguGLmrRIfj2UPiSKJg2dgH3jfp2YyI/w382-h286/travel%201.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the road ... back to LA, via Sedona. Top - between Winslow and Flagstaff (where for a quarter of an hour it started to snow, which - since I was driving - I could have done without ... ) and then below, from our room overlooking Oak Creek, just before dinner with friends from LA/New Haven - whom we discovered would be staying at the same hotel as us, which is decidedly a weird coincidence. My father, who delighted in coincidences, would have approved ... Beautiful skies all the way; weather a bit of a gamble; can't wait to see Moth and Gramsci tomorrow ...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFe_iQHt4yFPnv8HQLqwmoNg-gKfP4oCMMr15MWkGH2_NpU5nOYteecr5EDqZMRDIUbFz0-BR_zH5HudmVQ25nUFf7uASgps2FPQC4-5oiIPWzB6bJHveHj66HWhFYzQk4padiH3DcLXB4TFabDVlZFlAfcmURpRJK2nH0ZY1SX6OuGM66S19XT_QDLu6/s1250/travel%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFe_iQHt4yFPnv8HQLqwmoNg-gKfP4oCMMr15MWkGH2_NpU5nOYteecr5EDqZMRDIUbFz0-BR_zH5HudmVQ25nUFf7uASgps2FPQC4-5oiIPWzB6bJHveHj66HWhFYzQk4padiH3DcLXB4TFabDVlZFlAfcmURpRJK2nH0ZY1SX6OuGM66S19XT_QDLu6/w378-h284/travel%202.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-30539188270843554812024-03-15T20:16:00.002-06:002024-03-15T20:16:17.366-06:00Eldorado windmill (and a baking PSA)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswflyi-oWwguagRkpKG0379tkrDg3rVHFw2_XPlJPb3ZGUNsZ_gmqxCT6_OAALmnqbGoOJOLon9FVnJTcv_tXN0gTHOpftKXYLRnEKRDNw6fDOGMU0d6C2gARJXp3_Hw3kFpgDCxsdnbparUAzYk0v3EYp6TlmZ82uWewTyRguIs9IcKEq_CugvXSXObl/s1250/eldorado%20windmill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswflyi-oWwguagRkpKG0379tkrDg3rVHFw2_XPlJPb3ZGUNsZ_gmqxCT6_OAALmnqbGoOJOLon9FVnJTcv_tXN0gTHOpftKXYLRnEKRDNw6fDOGMU0d6C2gARJXp3_Hw3kFpgDCxsdnbparUAzYk0v3EYp6TlmZ82uWewTyRguIs9IcKEq_CugvXSXObl/w291-h388/eldorado%20windmill.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">On a suitably blowy day, I at last remembered to take round the homeowners' association fees to the Eldorado Community Improvement Association's offices - not quite late. It's a mystery why the buildings here - I have my back to them - are built in Kansas ranch mode, and aren't remotely Northern New Mexican. As it is, the photo, in its black and white form, could have been taken at any time in the last hundred years, almost anywhere in the West. Or maybe not - when did parking spaces start to be designated with lines?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The windmill doesn't seem to rotate - or it would have been spinning wildly. We've been weather forecast gazing all day - we haven't left for lower land, yet, though we were tempted, for the assurance that we'd be able to get out - let's hope it doesn't snow too much in the night. One can never tell, in Eldorado.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I made some excellent maple syrup flapjacks for the road. Only ... somehow I have never realized that wax paper isn't parchment paper, and in a hot oven, it melts and sticks. Oh. So I chilled them, and have been scraping them off, and now have a very tasty bag full of granola ...</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-26388932138687045572024-03-14T21:16:00.002-06:002024-03-14T21:16:33.323-06:00railrunner views<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW5ulpP0iXtY-0YshmuGUdjMEgE8xSWX7EkbwuRQc10kVwjxRu-7elTw4WSrv85eSI2nEIBkemfmtK0xgY74raLJGBmM1zAQ9H0gjGUFK2ihVqyJAtoqnkyh-4vTLtrqFbEI9cqFaxyjRecKJfMAGRQAWTp73tIwzA68T8DVv6gHG_zcAPpBcIpzkwO8c5/s1250/railrunner%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW5ulpP0iXtY-0YshmuGUdjMEgE8xSWX7EkbwuRQc10kVwjxRu-7elTw4WSrv85eSI2nEIBkemfmtK0xgY74raLJGBmM1zAQ9H0gjGUFK2ihVqyJAtoqnkyh-4vTLtrqFbEI9cqFaxyjRecKJfMAGRQAWTp73tIwzA68T8DVv6gHG_zcAPpBcIpzkwO8c5/w366-h274/railrunner%201.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I so love taking the Rail Runner up or down from Albuquerque - one has much more of a sense of the northern New Mexico landscape passing through it, and especially going through several pueblos - Katishtya/San Felipe, Kewa/Santo Domingo - as opposed to whizzing along on the busy interstate. It was super-busy when I took the rental car back this morning - and then extremely calming taking the (free!) Albuquerque #50 bus to the station, and the $4 ride up to Santa Fe, past all the wintry cotton trees that border the fertile land around the Rio Grande. I was delighted to see so many acequias - very long-standing community ditches - filled with water, and doing their irrigation work. I actually wanted one of the new acequia-themed number plates for my new car, but I think it requires a bit of an effort to obtain that ...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf8HkSLxLZ8RQYvawoQuv9M4cSHD4VjbUSaAJH8X9J-OBRo_bkT1_VgzCsJXZl2Wb0SNYjoQ6r7Uk1sSt6meNR723NmdZe9Un0pc0mjahgIkatzaV16MO1pPlEJfAjeEpB3lGYN92sQBwUF5QJsqeO564ejx5m67dp6l67pKuBQvQtZL3rVSKKqfb5NX4e/s1250/railrunner%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1250" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf8HkSLxLZ8RQYvawoQuv9M4cSHD4VjbUSaAJH8X9J-OBRo_bkT1_VgzCsJXZl2Wb0SNYjoQ6r7Uk1sSt6meNR723NmdZe9Un0pc0mjahgIkatzaV16MO1pPlEJfAjeEpB3lGYN92sQBwUF5QJsqeO564ejx5m67dp6l67pKuBQvQtZL3rVSKKqfb5NX4e/w359-h306/railrunner%202.jpg" width="359" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb54iwzD59KAZR3nNofriKj1oQuxJVyZTCVsU4dsRP1ZjtyAmLH0go5PI2iJ4oCu5neb3tTvlbRTRdsTNEilWGsu3H1nAJeFHtorrlsZ3Fmkf7Wyj9_wCAzCkNZIGMg6j3QOryDX-LhkaEa_Lg3D9F3BhYzWZnDpQM6fHR-tCybtxYT9cJmeRzxnvCTiJ_/s1250/railrunner%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="1250" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb54iwzD59KAZR3nNofriKj1oQuxJVyZTCVsU4dsRP1ZjtyAmLH0go5PI2iJ4oCu5neb3tTvlbRTRdsTNEilWGsu3H1nAJeFHtorrlsZ3Fmkf7Wyj9_wCAzCkNZIGMg6j3QOryDX-LhkaEa_Lg3D9F3BhYzWZnDpQM6fHR-tCybtxYT9cJmeRzxnvCTiJ_/w383-h288/railrunner%203.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUVeJm9qypqjlD_bOXQyxFIjN4QAJAdyalNI0uln_dTdtcDUKyR-7rKzr7pA7rxGjUv-QyEVK76DUh_AdUR8OU_FEKEY2uVHhh8xIfkKWhnerWOFiZR3NYhpFvjTeTNzxqAYSYLU_K0AbsBCiDGkgUp2esPp687fHufhdSpMpBRC9N-OvZjLTTTclDncx/s1250/railrunner%204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUVeJm9qypqjlD_bOXQyxFIjN4QAJAdyalNI0uln_dTdtcDUKyR-7rKzr7pA7rxGjUv-QyEVK76DUh_AdUR8OU_FEKEY2uVHhh8xIfkKWhnerWOFiZR3NYhpFvjTeTNzxqAYSYLU_K0AbsBCiDGkgUp2esPp687fHufhdSpMpBRC9N-OvZjLTTTclDncx/w357-h268/railrunner%204.jpg" width="357" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-1977719662561177562024-03-13T20:35:00.000-06:002024-03-13T20:35:02.862-06:00spring weather<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngIl0pAz1mWXumxzOx4BZCLN5fxYvEzyhNLfMFbzwp8fg0XbfPusH_3D0W1HZ4J8l7y3VszPqonl5Mv-ixlaAt8fF1TUMhVxNonJQobN1aSX-JKNXCEsEfQnF6y40KDwwKf8rExc0EHA6b20mRRsNEmS_1Cuo3UIGLjDe4XFkWUL-CZIZZFwDmRTkeXPP/s1250/spring%20weather%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="925" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngIl0pAz1mWXumxzOx4BZCLN5fxYvEzyhNLfMFbzwp8fg0XbfPusH_3D0W1HZ4J8l7y3VszPqonl5Mv-ixlaAt8fF1TUMhVxNonJQobN1aSX-JKNXCEsEfQnF6y40KDwwKf8rExc0EHA6b20mRRsNEmS_1Cuo3UIGLjDe4XFkWUL-CZIZZFwDmRTkeXPP/w297-h401/spring%20weather%202.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The best that can be said of it is that it's uncertain. We keep anxiously scanning the weather forecast to see what it might be doing on Saturday, when we're due to leave, and trying to work out if it would be better to depart on Friday - even if we don't want to. I went on two walks today - deceptively potentially sunny, but with a vicious wind when one turned in one direction. And that's not counting the dramatic hail storm (when we were snug inside).</span></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1PQBbqPn2Zk2yNFyKiWN208j1Ebq7UD3OqVZE3-HdwUZtBwn7vBDk-QxSuFRhfl0QHfO29NMhJRCeb5UKDBzKjG5v_bCIRmdW3UTh8NzBa493wQL1qKjvsRYCyGnAcQkY2Un7rGmQ5ps_acV7X2l9AozBPGZAYDyoLpC9o0cfaTCKMZb7dwU-76QYpQIw/s1250/spring%20weather%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1PQBbqPn2Zk2yNFyKiWN208j1Ebq7UD3OqVZE3-HdwUZtBwn7vBDk-QxSuFRhfl0QHfO29NMhJRCeb5UKDBzKjG5v_bCIRmdW3UTh8NzBa493wQL1qKjvsRYCyGnAcQkY2Un7rGmQ5ps_acV7X2l9AozBPGZAYDyoLpC9o0cfaTCKMZb7dwU-76QYpQIw/w389-h292/spring%20weather%201.jpg" width="389" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-12593041405666317402024-03-12T21:05:00.000-06:002024-03-12T21:05:04.764-06:00a (very belated) celebration<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUn9IkCZtz5J1AsWW0fsb_9GfQVjiy0qumqLW8uPT7mooseRGD6Xn8g8RyWyF3T5UHd5J2ACob5SA_rilwePvKpTHYFkSS7q8Uv4rb_XHEggAL5j33yy9WzlUVR_A4NHXXtX6kJBdowNzIPAoaGjzO3lMMuClGBSGEoCgT5Zqyd1c9pcqsj8ACUnMOK0A3/s1250/celebration%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="950" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUn9IkCZtz5J1AsWW0fsb_9GfQVjiy0qumqLW8uPT7mooseRGD6Xn8g8RyWyF3T5UHd5J2ACob5SA_rilwePvKpTHYFkSS7q8Uv4rb_XHEggAL5j33yy9WzlUVR_A4NHXXtX6kJBdowNzIPAoaGjzO3lMMuClGBSGEoCgT5Zqyd1c9pcqsj8ACUnMOK0A3/w293-h385/celebration%202.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A dinner tonight at Geronimo's, to celebrate Alice's book contract with OUP. This was meant to have happened back in very early January, but we canceled because I thought that I'd still be testing positive for Covid (even though that in fact disappeared very quickly indeed). Anyway - here we were, and Canyon Road was its usual magical nighttime self, and the experience wasn't too triggering of the last time that we were there, which was to pick up Thanksgiving Dinner in 2020, everyone standing in isolated terror in the freezing cold road, waiting for our bags of food to appear ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was too captivated by the excellence of the food to take photos of it, but believe me, it was beautiful as well as exceptionally tasty. And that's a cocktail with vodka and cucumber and lime and smoked salt, since you were wondering.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglFtLMkynqT7unzOfSRbg16vHkFSdQXqnH2H09MEc18VkRezpKrKbcWCwBGF7VL1O7iVSCm6qR0Cg5oPBpVlxXxODyES7fyMXTKVfsOy5AgQe1K3KLki8AHQrVrF3HzSx_6yd_q3WCj5DXitXotbP7OV1d-kS-KfQ0z5L-iSJTYZlhU71R8RDCwPsjKoD4/s1250/celebration%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglFtLMkynqT7unzOfSRbg16vHkFSdQXqnH2H09MEc18VkRezpKrKbcWCwBGF7VL1O7iVSCm6qR0Cg5oPBpVlxXxODyES7fyMXTKVfsOy5AgQe1K3KLki8AHQrVrF3HzSx_6yd_q3WCj5DXitXotbP7OV1d-kS-KfQ0z5L-iSJTYZlhU71R8RDCwPsjKoD4/w304-h405/celebration%201.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-5899547055454755652024-03-11T20:55:00.001-06:002024-03-11T20:55:36.681-06:00sheaf (and a Photoshop experiment)<p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ZTuyUCIB64Q_075NJdumXaLz6eflqDzQmnTQCkRbUkKF1PtSB4NSpaQIoC49E4TKOxgKKLfuxebOGClp8Iw-vZaz7cV-wUhL65Zdh9G1yg-_2WSE71CkFzgA5tqxdqEXFxA31jpcnKyK2Lqu3JKah5B-BD6rA6cVEmxyVHHkvHHsbr5nHGMn43vFCGF4/s1250/sheaf%20experiment.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1250" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ZTuyUCIB64Q_075NJdumXaLz6eflqDzQmnTQCkRbUkKF1PtSB4NSpaQIoC49E4TKOxgKKLfuxebOGClp8Iw-vZaz7cV-wUhL65Zdh9G1yg-_2WSE71CkFzgA5tqxdqEXFxA31jpcnKyK2Lqu3JKah5B-BD6rA6cVEmxyVHHkvHHsbr5nHGMn43vFCGF4/w419-h322/sheaf%20experiment.jpg" width="419" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This morning, the sunlight was hitting this sheaf of corn and garlic stems - a rural decoration that's been here for an age, and, when I originally bought it at the farmers' market, had a whole lot of very viable fat Purple Russian garlic bulbs at the bottom - they're still there, but dessicated.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I looked at the photo I'd taken, I'd not managed to avoid the ugly (from a photographic point of view) central heating thermostat on the wall. So I thought I'd perform a rare - for me - manipulation, and remove it. And then ... I decided, instead, to use (for the first time) Photoshop's generative AI tool. And lo and behold - there's a new, discreet, electrical feature on the wall. AI doesn't quite get the perspective right - and now I wonder: was this the tool that Kate Middleton was playing with? Or what? The degrees, the subtle degrees of manipulation in the latest Mothering Sunday photo of KM and the royal children actually betrays a great deal of small scale fiddling around - so much so that I very much wish I was teaching a photo-history-and-theory course right now, and could bring it in as an object lesson ...</span></div><p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-28833866013626267742024-03-10T20:52:00.001-06:002024-03-10T20:52:47.894-06:00cheese scones<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0k6hAnbDNEZ8yuFNzOckPANDftns16UI5tSgJyHNFI7_4wHEtXfw2tNIMwhByNTtUQIp_BgBss3EhygpGrCBG3TKDdpYOZO2dMaa1aGU6oG3ehm8fo0JbGxl7cboCOHmeR0uhjNlAvue3Eo-veGsSOqIkHLKQd4UhY9FcYqxLGNJ5Do8ihEHlyuNNCMgY/s1250/cheese%20scones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0k6hAnbDNEZ8yuFNzOckPANDftns16UI5tSgJyHNFI7_4wHEtXfw2tNIMwhByNTtUQIp_BgBss3EhygpGrCBG3TKDdpYOZO2dMaa1aGU6oG3ehm8fo0JbGxl7cboCOHmeR0uhjNlAvue3Eo-veGsSOqIkHLKQd4UhY9FcYqxLGNJ5Do8ihEHlyuNNCMgY/w397-h298/cheese%20scones.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">made with green chile (and a pinch of chipotle powder) - in the running, surely, to be one of my favorite foods. They are also something that aren't at all temperamental when one bakes them at altitude. So it's a good job that I went out for an energetic walk before settling down to watch the Oscars ...</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-78795431828332714972024-03-09T21:43:00.000-07:002024-03-09T21:43:00.244-07:00a drive<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZczRgVD-C2fdsg1h8_L4-78WzGklSD1qACvGbZ242GskslBjLpk0SFq4boKCv_YJoI8uzqk37rPIfkeHZWJJB3DPHv7Idp1-5bHdKARomBFM48O6fpfDV7WtTHWWtee1aoIXNrSrDpKIVQaHe23TYHbe_0LTbLAA-w0xp-e53pmj2HQnLL7OuFHfpyxuG/s1250/a%20drive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZczRgVD-C2fdsg1h8_L4-78WzGklSD1qACvGbZ242GskslBjLpk0SFq4boKCv_YJoI8uzqk37rPIfkeHZWJJB3DPHv7Idp1-5bHdKARomBFM48O6fpfDV7WtTHWWtee1aoIXNrSrDpKIVQaHe23TYHbe_0LTbLAA-w0xp-e53pmj2HQnLL7OuFHfpyxuG/w425-h319/a%20drive.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This morning, I bought a new car - having been without one, and borrowing Alice's, for four months, for which I've been hugely grateful. And this afternoon, I took the car for a drive on my favorite road, through Pecos and up to Terrero (the general stores, there - which used to feed thousands of humming birds in the summer - is now, very sadly, permanently closed - it never recovered from Covid, and the shutting down of the campgrounds, and then the further closures because of fires). After Terrero, and up to Cowles, the road was clearly snow-covered, so we turned round. So the car has now performed on winding roads as well as on the freeway, and is wonderful ... cars have come a Long Way since my last purchase in 2007 ...</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-6680923704318827242024-03-08T20:42:00.002-07:002024-03-08T20:42:19.991-07:00"spring" break<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1R7SnzHXYhfa_-VKgYEUiYr3yy-bPDjZNXG4wbcONJ8T6Ije1Qr_8-SdwBzCVOknINABbopdYs9AmM4ghJeZeKZaoeBgKN38T1ZFA-gqAgtvqJE3kdIKxT-SpoqYGJ8T1vFcnKTiZowi8iAP-E4iyy2OgVLRyHf1J1FRGVefTvCqsie3a-o1bfhMAX4L/s3487/%22spring%22%20break%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3487" data-original-width="3024" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1R7SnzHXYhfa_-VKgYEUiYr3yy-bPDjZNXG4wbcONJ8T6Ije1Qr_8-SdwBzCVOknINABbopdYs9AmM4ghJeZeKZaoeBgKN38T1ZFA-gqAgtvqJE3kdIKxT-SpoqYGJ8T1vFcnKTiZowi8iAP-E4iyy2OgVLRyHf1J1FRGVefTvCqsie3a-o1bfhMAX4L/w321-h369/%22spring%22%20break%202.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sky didn't look especially propitious as we landed in Albuquerque; and although we managed to dodge the worst of the weather on the way up to Eldorado, this was the view from our driveway this afternoon - and yes, afternoon, not evening. I think that by now, it's about to snow ...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLyZwfD2nxyliN8B9GLIHydUVfxuX0X6fzHtOfnGwH5fLT7A8dtuK5e4pBbjkFjaJYkeXIQ4sc2Bc97DErtWHNteVx45OoFq0BiuibfM0HAOxNdxh8vJfWHgzwTHlfEoUhjFvti32ONola022PKy1bx24knqT8EIQuhD7KhpGN1ceCAuCKw4hXzK9-zU5/s1250/%22spring%22%20break%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLyZwfD2nxyliN8B9GLIHydUVfxuX0X6fzHtOfnGwH5fLT7A8dtuK5e4pBbjkFjaJYkeXIQ4sc2Bc97DErtWHNteVx45OoFq0BiuibfM0HAOxNdxh8vJfWHgzwTHlfEoUhjFvti32ONola022PKy1bx24knqT8EIQuhD7KhpGN1ceCAuCKw4hXzK9-zU5/w389-h292/%22spring%22%20break%201.jpg" width="389" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-14720865630832067042024-03-07T21:51:00.002-07:002024-03-07T21:54:35.477-07:00drive home<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBcxwtN5bL-P7HQrvW6BC2AC9NcvCSK_C2dC_SkZEJ8RGywEtQwIT_ykqdC-tjeBzSAS1WzJ6NiZPqb5tZ53Y6Y6fYAK-5JmF5zGdik-_L9YkiEgT2c_DcX9YoK6NOZfFsKxj9BTdfwSsvIDLJbNYrehQH3kXhe7Q25-pkUNEHHgWfka8swmXNJpQvseK/s1250/storm%20brewing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBcxwtN5bL-P7HQrvW6BC2AC9NcvCSK_C2dC_SkZEJ8RGywEtQwIT_ykqdC-tjeBzSAS1WzJ6NiZPqb5tZ53Y6Y6fYAK-5JmF5zGdik-_L9YkiEgT2c_DcX9YoK6NOZfFsKxj9BTdfwSsvIDLJbNYrehQH3kXhe7Q25-pkUNEHHgWfka8swmXNJpQvseK/w386-h289/storm%20brewing.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, another one! But this one was relatively short lived, if unexpected. And its cloudy drama offered the opportunity to record a very typical angle of my commute-drive home, as one comes up Benton Way, ready to turn left on Sunset ...</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-32520064939558566022024-03-06T23:06:00.005-07:002024-03-06T23:06:55.710-07:00vases, waiting<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55wLa47v-snp3-1e7El4TAI6gUqmjBE6qJ68vihDcDAkyqkQaGdjOKaCtqpJ1YeZGkYa2QBiKNzOSjaTX2-ln2XwXv2E4FbaZIw2cqeR15f3ab62VPvx8X3BmvHyiGfYN4Ft04E_nbjbLBX4WGrJE7X_ZQlHPv8Ht7vlytphJrcCN47eyZXcZckFM5h-Q/s1250/vases,%20waiting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1250" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55wLa47v-snp3-1e7El4TAI6gUqmjBE6qJ68vihDcDAkyqkQaGdjOKaCtqpJ1YeZGkYa2QBiKNzOSjaTX2-ln2XwXv2E4FbaZIw2cqeR15f3ab62VPvx8X3BmvHyiGfYN4Ft04E_nbjbLBX4WGrJE7X_ZQlHPv8Ht7vlytphJrcCN47eyZXcZckFM5h-Q/w371-h277/vases,%20waiting.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A window, on campus - with a set of flower-filled vases waiting for - for what? To grace tables? To be presented to worthy recipients? An unanswered mystery.</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-3580823088132169622024-03-05T22:00:00.005-07:002024-03-05T22:02:09.937-07:00pedestrians (and voting)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">T<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CDuCueYUR80Mtlj1j2SZtpUDcqMESvywNjOaAjeL0a6eeKpSzeJaP6H3Gjp7z-5ZUYXnNx_YGJwv4qvr8_WX54WccF8-2nlBKROTgBYdzVAcaZer5UbsW-is2rlc5Q4OxtV-F3_ZFit5GvOBwDJTqqVF6d1FDYgszyr_0p0RI407CFOFjRNfYqoK4bww/s1250/pedestrians.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="1250" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CDuCueYUR80Mtlj1j2SZtpUDcqMESvywNjOaAjeL0a6eeKpSzeJaP6H3Gjp7z-5ZUYXnNx_YGJwv4qvr8_WX54WccF8-2nlBKROTgBYdzVAcaZer5UbsW-is2rlc5Q4OxtV-F3_ZFit5GvOBwDJTqqVF6d1FDYgszyr_0p0RI407CFOFjRNfYqoK4bww/w393-h285/pedestrians.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Atypically, I drove to USC this morning down Vermont - having dropped Alice and her voting papers off on Hillhurst - and, stationery at the lights, saw this billboard: IN 2022, MORE PEDESTRIANS DIED ON VERMONT </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">AVE </span><span style="font-size: large;">THAN IN THE STATE OF VERMONT. Vote YES on HLA for Safe Streets. [The HLA measure, for those of you who don't live in LA, is to approve (or not) the construction of hundreds of more miles of bus lanes and bike lanes - when I last checked, it looks as though it's easily passing].</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I took the photo to use when opening our American Art class today in the "Picturing Democracy" course, which was - with deliberate timing - on Elections, and on the importance of visual culture in relation to them - starting, as one student pointed out, to the little white figure, which is what one looks for if one wants to cross; but quickly moving to the significance of yellow and black; the prevalence of unhoused people on Vermont, not to mention windshield washers and jugglers; the increase of pedestrians in 2022 as a result of Covid (well, maybe); and the likelihood of running over someone while distracted by a billboard ... it was one way into unpacking Thomas Nast cartoons; Thomas Waterman Wood's <i>American Citizens</i> painting and, (via Ellery Foutch's brilliant article on the topic), the visual semiotics of glass ballot bowls. It was a fun class ... (and I even had a student emailing me later to reassure me that she'd gone a dropped off her ballot paper straight afterwards).</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-1899508455585496852024-03-04T21:34:00.003-07:002024-03-04T21:34:42.725-07:00lunar new year (still)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9P4yuj7DNp7vhdmaFqtDubO8Ehq-i5RsGMsgqZu7khWdB7coRHxljKE3Vv277Tymv5Waj_VWMqU2yjUEyo7yU_8DMyxKLK2OLb4D-FgsKhI5oneQtZEYTmbZidi1DuliP40geseGt5LsnK17pwRYEU5dFpuYLlhculD2ZJtD9rWdU884tnaeMSH-Zwad4/s1250/lunar%20new%20year.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9P4yuj7DNp7vhdmaFqtDubO8Ehq-i5RsGMsgqZu7khWdB7coRHxljKE3Vv277Tymv5Waj_VWMqU2yjUEyo7yU_8DMyxKLK2OLb4D-FgsKhI5oneQtZEYTmbZidi1DuliP40geseGt5LsnK17pwRYEU5dFpuYLlhculD2ZJtD9rWdU884tnaeMSH-Zwad4/w304-h405/lunar%20new%20year.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since there are one or two houses in the neighborhood that still have Hallowe'en decorations up, the vestiges of Lunar New Year adornments is hardly remarkable. Actually, the 'hood is a veritable forest of new plants, which are being planted in front of just-bought houses; just-renovated/flipped houses, and so on. 'Tis the season.</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-85542121164356563972024-03-03T22:11:00.002-07:002024-03-03T22:11:41.287-07:00leading into the park<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyyl0QmpUV1a5WNnikwGKvxYUtpH0fOhdcla5fpAcyw6v_p7pEqhs9du2TTGY1I9La0qZ9DYpwYjrl4ZnqbcgmqZ_dxbDp4Z1N5RS-PwxZXCYvttIwrNzSfdh3WmEKCXVUZSSULXvP2-yEP1hfkxlczIFkA-0O3QBm0vUlBLt6aE3FyayiqluaqgPG2zf/s1250/leading%20into%20the%20park.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyyl0QmpUV1a5WNnikwGKvxYUtpH0fOhdcla5fpAcyw6v_p7pEqhs9du2TTGY1I9La0qZ9DYpwYjrl4ZnqbcgmqZ_dxbDp4Z1N5RS-PwxZXCYvttIwrNzSfdh3WmEKCXVUZSSULXvP2-yEP1hfkxlczIFkA-0O3QBm0vUlBLt6aE3FyayiqluaqgPG2zf/w302-h403/leading%20into%20the%20park.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's very much my aim to have our back yard looking as though it leads invitingly into Griffith Park, even if there's a wire fence between the two (complete with a large opening for critters to crawl through. I think we're getting there. And any time soon, if it ever warms up, those plants should start to grow - as it is, in the rain, its native odiferousness is very much - well, hardly on <i>display</i>, but certainly very available to the nostrils.</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-19488903315502365392024-03-02T22:02:00.001-07:002024-03-02T22:02:17.071-07:00a wet day conferencing<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKXFnzjRwwIteKBAE6L-HZ1XJRCFX2gl3gjBz1hFQ830B6lD2NZwMueF-CdXxh8GohYbQE0YK2nw6ZS_WjEyJ6Wm_obqn6LEwYvVxcHl3fgxbmHZA-wN2G404uR-201pFDivg0Rc62_gDgjFYiP6ygpgFMHCr4ds2QPBiftIK7BKfQheJ4FzwVsz2Jwim/s1250/wet%20h'ton%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKXFnzjRwwIteKBAE6L-HZ1XJRCFX2gl3gjBz1hFQ830B6lD2NZwMueF-CdXxh8GohYbQE0YK2nw6ZS_WjEyJ6Wm_obqn6LEwYvVxcHl3fgxbmHZA-wN2G404uR-201pFDivg0Rc62_gDgjFYiP6ygpgFMHCr4ds2QPBiftIK7BKfQheJ4FzwVsz2Jwim/w301-h401/wet%20h'ton%201.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A very wet day at the Huntington - we splashed over from the conference room to the American Art Gallery to see photographs by Mercedes Dorame and Cara Romero - both of them indigenous artists - in the sprawling <i>Borderlands</i> show. This big bird - and some avian friends - turn out to be part of the show, too (they're migratory), and are by my USC colleague Enrique Celaya - though I've only found that out just now when checking on Mercedes' second name ... Cara Romero spoke really interestingly in the conference itself about her practice: a member of the Chemehuevi tribe (much of whose ancestral lands are beneath Lake Havasu), she lives both in the Mojave and in Santa Fe - which explains why one of the images she showed was disconcertingly familiar to me: a print used to hang in the hair salon I went to there pre-pandemic ...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEMs1irilE4GxxKZJDDUz4ua8p5YnVccRZIGX-t77-SwN_mRIJo3tN999EexnGu9YyKgHCvU_3PLUviFqe6jk6M_sdvC2GtVNP0YTnfONzFk-kb5vXTyPYG_LNTyolV87InBxgUUYmmICcYzUg_sXKxp_poH-9-_IeZqCyUss7ZMicASYKyBfqWX_yecz/s1250/wet%20h'ton%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEMs1irilE4GxxKZJDDUz4ua8p5YnVccRZIGX-t77-SwN_mRIJo3tN999EexnGu9YyKgHCvU_3PLUviFqe6jk6M_sdvC2GtVNP0YTnfONzFk-kb5vXTyPYG_LNTyolV87InBxgUUYmmICcYzUg_sXKxp_poH-9-_IeZqCyUss7ZMicASYKyBfqWX_yecz/w289-h385/wet%20h'ton%202.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The grounds were looking good, too. There are, I promise, mountains behind here.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnHyq_kREdYWg7FCStJykJNz8WuMyqCWuSQz-lOD83RZJaHBj2lmqNRfjyohuvjovkOsU24x9m6MVxpO2W5C1SKWKdhntLe6w36Br2AnqzZs7J_D8w4R4eoFvzVtN4mZJKONcBIEK6y5ohf7j4UJnT1IzsDCaT6sdYJPkd3QJsi8tncO45f8NSgDtRvrRd/s1250/wet%20h'ton%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnHyq_kREdYWg7FCStJykJNz8WuMyqCWuSQz-lOD83RZJaHBj2lmqNRfjyohuvjovkOsU24x9m6MVxpO2W5C1SKWKdhntLe6w36Br2AnqzZs7J_D8w4R4eoFvzVtN4mZJKONcBIEK6y5ohf7j4UJnT1IzsDCaT6sdYJPkd3QJsi8tncO45f8NSgDtRvrRd/w374-h281/wet%20h'ton%203.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-61362790052073263752024-03-01T21:28:00.001-07:002024-03-01T21:28:45.484-07:00lurking in the gloom<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLO4zgPuid22cCQmXVonFtGzErrzZo1q08z1_Sb7GKTNI-vr7orBHaAogzcPYQSQ_X8ynennB-0M6IkthedIjQcnuKpQf8bw-DiWeXV5VT_Jtg4QWxTqF5iVmDfAgffMs46Yo62w7DT_sr27iOzdvIi6zHqbjDPqWhpTaaRBZ3HzJL6p0VcWqqnGo66Nay/s1270/lurking%20in%20the%20gloom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="1250" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLO4zgPuid22cCQmXVonFtGzErrzZo1q08z1_Sb7GKTNI-vr7orBHaAogzcPYQSQ_X8ynennB-0M6IkthedIjQcnuKpQf8bw-DiWeXV5VT_Jtg4QWxTqF5iVmDfAgffMs46Yo62w7DT_sr27iOzdvIi6zHqbjDPqWhpTaaRBZ3HzJL6p0VcWqqnGo66Nay/w357-h363/lurking%20in%20the%20gloom.jpg" width="357" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the Huntington for a conference - on Ecologies of Photography - all day today - and then coming away from some excellent papers to find that it's getting very dark. By now, of course, it's raining ...</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-27509482732120029972024-02-29T22:58:00.002-07:002024-02-29T22:58:41.356-07:00table!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_E6Ka6kXVnAQFtLbkHa613MkgtpZqAyA3-ZaznMs1stMgmupVo1XqBdbu0HJBoIOtL0lthp3htCdEB85tt-KlhxnQpbksP0hTIULwjWgF5zjMurtwtSL5r00TVlmzeqCX6V3hBgIrJt4S7KO3lwjkEr3eejv3pRNXJe6WCpNRWlf1Qgwk4ycpOaVVhnRX/s1250/table.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_E6Ka6kXVnAQFtLbkHa613MkgtpZqAyA3-ZaznMs1stMgmupVo1XqBdbu0HJBoIOtL0lthp3htCdEB85tt-KlhxnQpbksP0hTIULwjWgF5zjMurtwtSL5r00TVlmzeqCX6V3hBgIrJt4S7KO3lwjkEr3eejv3pRNXJe6WCpNRWlf1Qgwk4ycpOaVVhnRX/w276-h368/table.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">We're getting there! The deck furniture has started to arrive! And I was home just in time from a long long day to see it in the evening light. A little later, post dusk, two very fat raccoons waddled by, and they seemed to approve of it, too ... This needs moving a tiny bit to the left, but it's already looking very much at home: we just look forward to the weather getting a little warmer and to the rain moving on out ...</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-67979416395488208442024-02-28T21:23:00.001-07:002024-02-28T21:23:12.287-07:00surprisingly pretty!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTfYrSPxBcRyyLe43Xjlr4Mg511X4cgXMCcuzWe5LNMkp7qk8WNVvGZSUUFnBGsb5j_PEUn_11ewSDGm_IM6d0X6W8gCfKe0gG-0oD_DwBi1nCI_DD0k2QZ0bkaGa1nGTHNC5gv4tAsU0_XlTGcQeidMQUtNt0OaOMSA3WkEzcyE7fYF-vjSeA1cbIZ3Jd/s1250/surprisingly%20pretty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1078" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTfYrSPxBcRyyLe43Xjlr4Mg511X4cgXMCcuzWe5LNMkp7qk8WNVvGZSUUFnBGsb5j_PEUn_11ewSDGm_IM6d0X6W8gCfKe0gG-0oD_DwBi1nCI_DD0k2QZ0bkaGa1nGTHNC5gv4tAsU0_XlTGcQeidMQUtNt0OaOMSA3WkEzcyE7fYF-vjSeA1cbIZ3Jd/w346-h401/surprisingly%20pretty.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">You'd think, maybe, that this was served at some fancy restaurant in Hawai'i, or perhaps in Silver Lake ... but no: this, improbably, appeared in front of me at lunch in the University Club today (it's gnudi - little balls of ricotta and semolina - much lighter than gnocchi - and, apparently, the contents of a window box). I can only assume that this is the institution's latest contribution to sustainabilty, along with removing the waste bins from our rooms and installing sortable containers for different sorts of debris in the corridors. This has me concerned about the contract cleaning staff, who currently empty the bins. And, I kid you not, the university offers the rationale that walking further to the recycling boxes will benefit not just the planet, but our physical health (through exercise) and mental wellbeing (through taking a break from our work). Yeah, sure.</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-77056854275580927162024-02-27T21:40:00.004-07:002024-02-27T21:40:43.347-07:00back!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIg7zvwD5CFzPNs3Ufqvd7nME7O30YAhF1avg0KhPp9_zbngmjOhhdrKlgzbywU-MW9Ua-QsXv-VXqHA2FZoQJeavFsF9FENFjBxr4xuGaQo_81Iy3ceUNxIAdStJeDuDEWfchmglcR67Al-Bd0R7jgS-6EIWB_z3Dl8ld6Px5RaL4IVRcqPA9a4YyXqwQ/s1250/back!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIg7zvwD5CFzPNs3Ufqvd7nME7O30YAhF1avg0KhPp9_zbngmjOhhdrKlgzbywU-MW9Ua-QsXv-VXqHA2FZoQJeavFsF9FENFjBxr4xuGaQo_81Iy3ceUNxIAdStJeDuDEWfchmglcR67Al-Bd0R7jgS-6EIWB_z3Dl8ld6Px5RaL4IVRcqPA9a4YyXqwQ/w302-h403/back!.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">... and this emphatically <i>not</i> a Hawai'ian sunset, but one seen from the top of the Royal Street Parking Structure, after a long day's teaching - undergrad class on quilts in the morning, which failed to interest them at all. Two years ago, the topic was the stand-out popular favorite on my C19th US art and democracy course - a compelling argument about quilting as a cross-class, cross-ethnicity practice, with some contemporary stuff about the AIDS quilt and the <a href="https://migrantquiltproject.org/">Migrant Quilt Project</a> thrown in; plus material about crazy quilts, and the anticipation of abstract art, and missionaries forcing quilt making on native Hawai'ians, and and and. I think I'd have had a more lively class if I'd launched a discussion on scented versus unscented garbage bags. Mid-terms, I suspect. Then a three hour grad class on C19th Indian art/craft/design in my British Art and Empire course, where we ended up going down some fascinating rabbit holes (like what Australian exhibits were on show at the 1883-84 Calcutta International Exhibition - largely food and drink, it seemed, and a needlework portrait of Queen Victoria). Then a meeting with a grad student. So ... I was glad to get away before the sun actually sank. Loudly croaking frogs in the rainforest seem a distant memory.</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-88606739850290647512024-02-27T02:36:00.001-07:002024-02-27T02:36:49.849-07:00one last waterfall view<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtv-BlMjQSNCm89_BqXqx-JkIOcIqZpjbimC1ooLw3DR3Kz805g4Rt1czXqaG1qNMyFQJfsTW3KwAiHooNDtyZr5q_7i8X8Wkth1scXyleqMoDNhBUmjSB_TA8Ga0s7YfdKUknRsdwJCkiKAJj3xG9L_w2mWfLG_i6Po0xL6loNBE2zj58PV9XGHaIUnMU/s1250/one%20last%20waterfall%20view.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtv-BlMjQSNCm89_BqXqx-JkIOcIqZpjbimC1ooLw3DR3Kz805g4Rt1czXqaG1qNMyFQJfsTW3KwAiHooNDtyZr5q_7i8X8Wkth1scXyleqMoDNhBUmjSB_TA8Ga0s7YfdKUknRsdwJCkiKAJj3xG9L_w2mWfLG_i6Po0xL6loNBE2zj58PV9XGHaIUnMU/w307-h409/one%20last%20waterfall%20view.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hard to believe this was this morning ... just back home, at 1.30 a.m., to a rapturous welcome from Moth and Gramsci. But I have to teach in the morning .... </span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-8884298704607495542024-02-25T23:32:00.003-07:002024-02-25T23:32:35.274-07:00rainforest, lichen<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3BgRtnP2CvrQZwiEakCPOKYhsuxs0xyEj5rFEzYKqGxMnHix3h9B8aPc5I2jdIDj2Hg9l3sraum2hX0TC6a6JeDDTkOMmRm9XNGH5_zU2zsPcMOXaLHZlzPNVz9zvO0NezEWWtoTYMdz6ugW6haNVe45B1kRwA36mjJw8398AWz-2fd2lWRPT43TsVts/s1250/rainforest%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3BgRtnP2CvrQZwiEakCPOKYhsuxs0xyEj5rFEzYKqGxMnHix3h9B8aPc5I2jdIDj2Hg9l3sraum2hX0TC6a6JeDDTkOMmRm9XNGH5_zU2zsPcMOXaLHZlzPNVz9zvO0NezEWWtoTYMdz6ugW6haNVe45B1kRwA36mjJw8398AWz-2fd2lWRPT43TsVts/w363-h272/rainforest%201.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The view from our little rainforest cabin this morning ... and then this afternoon, when the rains came down. I spent some time today trying to draw/paint the view, which was ... challenging.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-fQ2J5GQnMZuynW2DPFuLmcdO0YAtRKz2Jle6GnDX8ZF5jG52m9-1uJipfkJMnzpVve_hwom2fqU3xfbSYfumhcul8lti4agrmypI_-cONs4ib2Flkkos8L3gdTr6KGMdCSpl3beKkrdTXkt7sM0VuDJDcnDeaUqiSbM6UhvPkNmJHcFLkf35XevzZIn/s1250/rainforest%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-fQ2J5GQnMZuynW2DPFuLmcdO0YAtRKz2Jle6GnDX8ZF5jG52m9-1uJipfkJMnzpVve_hwom2fqU3xfbSYfumhcul8lti4agrmypI_-cONs4ib2Flkkos8L3gdTr6KGMdCSpl3beKkrdTXkt7sM0VuDJDcnDeaUqiSbM6UhvPkNmJHcFLkf35XevzZIn/w367-h275/rainforest%202.jpg" width="367" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then this morning we went to one of my favorite botanical gardens, just outside Hilo, which has extraordinary orchids.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoIxyjtggZo9ut9QUNMwlgHXB2Dm2OAo45-ziIEgBjotbDZFI8cYfLYKeLr7uH8LkYVFOH1j1But6Tw3TPfbxIA9wVr4CjcotUa5H-h6YLISDhTv7k8CsrPG2qT5NWsxUUQU1kBlTEw3aMxqhg2AAV7sbKMXg6FqdkqN-zr7hTDGnawAOxQn0Q3-vO_4da/s1250/rainforest3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoIxyjtggZo9ut9QUNMwlgHXB2Dm2OAo45-ziIEgBjotbDZFI8cYfLYKeLr7uH8LkYVFOH1j1But6Tw3TPfbxIA9wVr4CjcotUa5H-h6YLISDhTv7k8CsrPG2qT5NWsxUUQU1kBlTEw3aMxqhg2AAV7sbKMXg6FqdkqN-zr7hTDGnawAOxQn0Q3-vO_4da/w270-h360/rainforest3.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">and other plants ...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieIE4uAf5HeuUA_avrELTdAHCd8RpL8rlA2o_BwTQI29f33NJ6DtGGd8Geda9xYlFYtOAkR7dpSBE9z7heo1IvJrMeV4WXPji35tHS97knnHGsigptCMPO75Kjm9Fm0-AN1RuavkUoC8oN4-DEs5nTjxnUJvu5WJ2Qq741vYdz4uW6Vx-ZIn8C6UQgtg3U/s1250/rainforest4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieIE4uAf5HeuUA_avrELTdAHCd8RpL8rlA2o_BwTQI29f33NJ6DtGGd8Geda9xYlFYtOAkR7dpSBE9z7heo1IvJrMeV4WXPji35tHS97knnHGsigptCMPO75Kjm9Fm0-AN1RuavkUoC8oN4-DEs5nTjxnUJvu5WJ2Qq741vYdz4uW6Vx-ZIn8C6UQgtg3U/w361-h271/rainforest4.jpg" width="361" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8WkovH2DAySTT5Y9-FYl_2gOatRXdMC7wH6GfPHIBLNOFz0Y3ohElJLIP4xYRghJS-8u8IZbfYzmD6I2VgusWudGBcDZWNw2-Y4orJA7rLPvIC2ptwXSr-l9r73ljUkqF2ppL47GMkQhzDZSJKNUiMeBWSj7En5ElCGN_8nvxm2FeMzWS0p210hVFRDIl/s1250/rainforest5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8WkovH2DAySTT5Y9-FYl_2gOatRXdMC7wH6GfPHIBLNOFz0Y3ohElJLIP4xYRghJS-8u8IZbfYzmD6I2VgusWudGBcDZWNw2-Y4orJA7rLPvIC2ptwXSr-l9r73ljUkqF2ppL47GMkQhzDZSJKNUiMeBWSj7En5ElCGN_8nvxm2FeMzWS0p210hVFRDIl/w298-h397/rainforest5.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">and then back to our inn/organic farm/small corner of paradise, where we walked down to the river past bamboo groves and palm trees with extraordinary varieties of lichen;</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">including lichen growing on Buddhas,</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAimkNAZbBzJ4WPrtiTw7UgSno1DKBZioDH12noRUdVQ_j-unV3Y2nsm9jyfLVeju2TjrKir1Ixiw1dAu5vEkuDfAxGTPaEwuwy1nzUGvrG6OzC5dq4lf6eN8hyphenhyphenzTT9cfWI3dBbB1aDF4b8lQtGoH28Oso2Wd0bqeM5gGGblNDk4KBFlUqBbbwTuiekEwR/s1250/rainforest9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAimkNAZbBzJ4WPrtiTw7UgSno1DKBZioDH12noRUdVQ_j-unV3Y2nsm9jyfLVeju2TjrKir1Ixiw1dAu5vEkuDfAxGTPaEwuwy1nzUGvrG6OzC5dq4lf6eN8hyphenhyphenzTT9cfWI3dBbB1aDF4b8lQtGoH28Oso2Wd0bqeM5gGGblNDk4KBFlUqBbbwTuiekEwR/w291-h388/rainforest9.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiRRMKleZjKfTBbDbs8RTcLgwx_WwsBoaf0mPKy4Abe9k-cRIqeG5nDrzi6VMn8E8DGLQk2ELc69AD-qPF_b1jitN6wDFnxk0c1c-KHXQHcGG4wtHwKyKRIrNKyUCECGdGROmEmx1CifLqUs2NHnjtI_4zPwqrTIbRejtlmFnQ-Kx0M2L9QQ2UWiu9k70/s1250/rainforest11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiRRMKleZjKfTBbDbs8RTcLgwx_WwsBoaf0mPKy4Abe9k-cRIqeG5nDrzi6VMn8E8DGLQk2ELc69AD-qPF_b1jitN6wDFnxk0c1c-KHXQHcGG4wtHwKyKRIrNKyUCECGdGROmEmx1CifLqUs2NHnjtI_4zPwqrTIbRejtlmFnQ-Kx0M2L9QQ2UWiu9k70/w289-h385/rainforest11.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">No wonder this property manages to be off the grid, with self-sustaining hydro-electric power (as well as some solar panels, though I'm not all that sure when the sun shines).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwiw9jsi2IxRpR6O_HMBtKHdYjA6Ie3avpYip8ThCA9LvP9hNXH5OSfg6Chw8B_R20BgAWlY0L9TO1DJHaVFwczyW2o5jN_Bb-ZT6TQvqr1F4H3TcfaJFxKVmOA0_D-OaGBHjEgszx-8AnxAxsiDJOTwjBToqUhNNkBOrXMTlRZ5SMCbC2M17eTQsVcMNl/s1250/coffee1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwiw9jsi2IxRpR6O_HMBtKHdYjA6Ie3avpYip8ThCA9LvP9hNXH5OSfg6Chw8B_R20BgAWlY0L9TO1DJHaVFwczyW2o5jN_Bb-ZT6TQvqr1F4H3TcfaJFxKVmOA0_D-OaGBHjEgszx-8AnxAxsiDJOTwjBToqUhNNkBOrXMTlRZ5SMCbC2M17eTQsVcMNl/w360-h270/coffee1.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Somewhere in the middle we had some excellent home grown, home roasted Hilo coffee.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our last night, now, with frogs chirping away outside ...</span></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-7528357271484934672024-02-25T00:36:00.003-07:002024-02-25T00:36:41.079-07:00both sides of the Big Island<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEmBmEG1Ibta6xbsG7FrXcHPcB_rI5dRGIQDis8o9haMXwfuV29OvGF_1qfxihcFtb_ipN4ur6Z14PdkFt8r3wnwRB0JBmuJOcXddS1YKwVA_kBxb4a29fQ1GkgiOdCrbw1IHlZhwxnuz46iSPaLcA8fdUWtTW8cbbcbiU1XtsFEPe-qpAS4_lhP9fVIE/s1250/alice%20and%20alice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEmBmEG1Ibta6xbsG7FrXcHPcB_rI5dRGIQDis8o9haMXwfuV29OvGF_1qfxihcFtb_ipN4ur6Z14PdkFt8r3wnwRB0JBmuJOcXddS1YKwVA_kBxb4a29fQ1GkgiOdCrbw1IHlZhwxnuz46iSPaLcA8fdUWtTW8cbbcbiU1XtsFEPe-qpAS4_lhP9fVIE/w385-h289/alice%20and%20alice.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And here is Alice, and, er, Alice, on the lanai of our little cottage in the very wet rain forest somewhere inland from Hilo. Alice 2, who is black and furry, is sitting on a cushion on the left, and adopted us as soon as we arrived. We hope we are going to be able to sleep tonight - the frogs are <i>very</i> loud, and we can also hear the waterfall - (which is beautiful) -as is the pitch pitch dark.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Earlier, seeking a bit of sunshine, we went over to the west coast, and found a beautiful almost secluded beach near Spencer State Park - reached by walking through an apocalyptic post-fire (August 2023) landscape.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEKtHnrgsS2Vku21_CxcyGV071kdT2f2p2KOX1dechfxIg4HmGvu5_18tGCJGI9VW9geARNMQqQNQwUPfRtd6pKIbixjQzHHlZuLOfEycKRF8xt47vs90HxrwBhqZj0lUoJDnccD023v5wQsMJ7b-xqLNkxKT7K2viZRKUSC26hVeUvPyF1vi5ubq7ktK/s1250/post%20fire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1250" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEKtHnrgsS2Vku21_CxcyGV071kdT2f2p2KOX1dechfxIg4HmGvu5_18tGCJGI9VW9geARNMQqQNQwUPfRtd6pKIbixjQzHHlZuLOfEycKRF8xt47vs90HxrwBhqZj0lUoJDnccD023v5wQsMJ7b-xqLNkxKT7K2viZRKUSC26hVeUvPyF1vi5ubq7ktK/w371-h274/post%20fire.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And this is the view from an overlook, en route,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ggQQBY_GdquQBe6O0KEJIW0hEMoS8llX8tr6hDDZ6WnHnkpCkX_SoH3zakQn9h9TyT3Ng0ft3gJ4mMLz3mcr6fOoGO9ENW11EVF3szn18tFulKVVhy2heHJA_qr8XoXlx3JUiaukzOyjOqAtxd9Eh4WQjdbPYD-fW0PdMYkujt4rIizgSQswYnchDdNg/s1250/overlook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ggQQBY_GdquQBe6O0KEJIW0hEMoS8llX8tr6hDDZ6WnHnkpCkX_SoH3zakQn9h9TyT3Ng0ft3gJ4mMLz3mcr6fOoGO9ENW11EVF3szn18tFulKVVhy2heHJA_qr8XoXlx3JUiaukzOyjOqAtxd9Eh4WQjdbPYD-fW0PdMYkujt4rIizgSQswYnchDdNg/s320/overlook.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">and this is the view from our lanai -- that is, our deck. Not bad ...</span></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbhFwu6RWoNN22-IiYkXpmviYxwxklxXiBGnd9PubrFVqZ6Hz4JTrjRWGS5xucLYJs7lBTEPrC2p8S7V6Hdf6hond_RCq9uTPh_rN7ZAZ0s-uf8WxkNb-RE-hd4ycguKAIcoKwHv4k6bsB8C9dKUavraKWtQodOdKGHdKe8zrWiHE2H1kGLR6HBGL7Ufob/s1250/view%20from%20lanai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbhFwu6RWoNN22-IiYkXpmviYxwxklxXiBGnd9PubrFVqZ6Hz4JTrjRWGS5xucLYJs7lBTEPrC2p8S7V6Hdf6hond_RCq9uTPh_rN7ZAZ0s-uf8WxkNb-RE-hd4ycguKAIcoKwHv4k6bsB8C9dKUavraKWtQodOdKGHdKe8zrWiHE2H1kGLR6HBGL7Ufob/w293-h391/view%20from%20lanai.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177335184322064623.post-84472753478167798412024-02-24T00:56:00.001-07:002024-02-24T00:56:23.813-07:00bits of Hawai'ian nature<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8aWeramRK9y5Dhs6Bkj0WXTwLKdFRQN6nw7AUnrT6fcYZpQ-xIL5FlNnrWJJZAlfk7FBRumIS0JEtjctPbkIYH1nYXEL_r0JXLl5J_HLnAdlk8tP8ZiIPsyO5GR5Okqqsf8HAo7hQuvIaMkDfbTp_biaUj4vbksKuXcCk_OWdIyX_1Cm_5yqDE6W7RaCf/s1250/moonset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8aWeramRK9y5Dhs6Bkj0WXTwLKdFRQN6nw7AUnrT6fcYZpQ-xIL5FlNnrWJJZAlfk7FBRumIS0JEtjctPbkIYH1nYXEL_r0JXLl5J_HLnAdlk8tP8ZiIPsyO5GR5Okqqsf8HAo7hQuvIaMkDfbTp_biaUj4vbksKuXcCk_OWdIyX_1Cm_5yqDE6W7RaCf/w291-h388/moonset.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was up early enough to witness a magic golden moonset. After that ... one of the hotel ponds, which rises and falls with the tides, even though it has no outlet to the sea; and some steaming volcano views, both in a huge but distant crater, and rising up from sulfurous holes in the ground.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghecy9V_L47UH4uDqAJzgbA3lOWyLp_wLjwHPGvTVshjjzyD58Mq42R5ako47pjTr4f6GFARPEqu8IlK7CGv-qDcFMufUWhOnRfm-McmvWZmQh1iFPJcuf__wgTrS9zYxBBiQMz24KyeK-S_vfm7kpGKxFjJb944UzVIjz05Kqd4K9pd_LaJtLz5wQTRHo/s1250/hotel%20pond%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghecy9V_L47UH4uDqAJzgbA3lOWyLp_wLjwHPGvTVshjjzyD58Mq42R5ako47pjTr4f6GFARPEqu8IlK7CGv-qDcFMufUWhOnRfm-McmvWZmQh1iFPJcuf__wgTrS9zYxBBiQMz24KyeK-S_vfm7kpGKxFjJb944UzVIjz05Kqd4K9pd_LaJtLz5wQTRHo/w281-h375/hotel%20pond%201.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKbFeqifadht0Mj3pPVppr9FSdTB1PBb3JoWEA5Q9Vr5raeXiHutCv7pLTm18sij6GlnIGzPuX7pl13PxXE97WRChe1tyQDXWCdRkwJ4Kog95X_U-ZfGA6FSyK8XUyiv3kcTNWCY50TZClxrzOlxhJLIpum36MatrxJzsXuILoougibwmbKulUqQ0m-Dl/s1250/hotel%20pond%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1250" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKbFeqifadht0Mj3pPVppr9FSdTB1PBb3JoWEA5Q9Vr5raeXiHutCv7pLTm18sij6GlnIGzPuX7pl13PxXE97WRChe1tyQDXWCdRkwJ4Kog95X_U-ZfGA6FSyK8XUyiv3kcTNWCY50TZClxrzOlxhJLIpum36MatrxJzsXuILoougibwmbKulUqQ0m-Dl/w349-h262/hotel%20pond%202.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdOfwVepg8LJXkj0wUbIywSWCi5GJDHiAgeMNZmw-DqANcKGnlZCQzBTQM4yjRs3bs3jiUczPZ7UBJe0oz7SNGikYE9tedDqXMJ53S_fCBuh4opEe24BjK0I9KJhqNy_MNBEXF8PT722wyDx643OOk-nyxrlvoyfgAErwc3QrX-Y0eqId4X0HrTttH-nI/s4032/volcano%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdOfwVepg8LJXkj0wUbIywSWCi5GJDHiAgeMNZmw-DqANcKGnlZCQzBTQM4yjRs3bs3jiUczPZ7UBJe0oz7SNGikYE9tedDqXMJ53S_fCBuh4opEe24BjK0I9KJhqNy_MNBEXF8PT722wyDx643OOk-nyxrlvoyfgAErwc3QrX-Y0eqId4X0HrTttH-nI/w290-h387/volcano%201.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZJXntRSdHTNVTzI6KliUTSU2hFuWqwbdTXT8793f3OMUQtKS64sP3fea2-8EVg39XrxSSu24igyK6Cl4tf0qs1h2audS1ckYOqtoYNm6CMPkM9kgp3r4oT_3y9oHXy03IdhLxUgsvvqnI7QoQu7qaOMtbug-zbP5NrWClnrbTfSCu1QkJPYDshZ447aG/s1250/volcano%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="938" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZJXntRSdHTNVTzI6KliUTSU2hFuWqwbdTXT8793f3OMUQtKS64sP3fea2-8EVg39XrxSSu24igyK6Cl4tf0qs1h2audS1ckYOqtoYNm6CMPkM9kgp3r4oT_3y9oHXy03IdhLxUgsvvqnI7QoQu7qaOMtbug-zbP5NrWClnrbTfSCu1QkJPYDshZ447aG/w268-h357/volcano%202.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.com0