Remembering the texture of moments
Posted on | November 27, 2005 |
I’m feeling mostly better today, and tomorrow we’re our way back north. Towards our small, busy apartment; towards the unfinished business with the house and work; towards heaps of christmast cards that need mailing and cookies that need baking; towards snow; towards days without the joy and distraction Bean’s grandprarents bring to his life. But also towards our morning ritual of a walk downtown and coffee; towards our cat’s soft purring; towards friends; towards home.
Already the walk along the the canal on Thanksgiving day is just a collection of snapshots. Memory. Autumn, still clinging to tree branches. Canada geese in droves along the edges of the water.
self portrait. windy hair. up close.
concord grapes against concret.
autumn still lingers. leaves like bright flames over water.
a tangle of grass seeds like delicate jewlrey.
bird berries.
burgundy leaves. some small insect’s feast.
tree berries. sliver and knobby against dark water.
bird’s nest. lonley and dark in the twigs against the sky.
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November 27th, 2005 @ 2:43 am
Great photographs! I love the concord grapes…the color and composition are very dynamic.
November 27th, 2005 @ 3:31 am
beautiful! love the bird berries.
November 27th, 2005 @ 3:50 am
I’m with courtney…the concord grapes photo looks like a painting! Hope you have a safe trip back home.
November 27th, 2005 @ 6:10 am
The wonderful thing about going away is getting to come home afterwards
November 27th, 2005 @ 9:06 am
wow…great pictures!
i loved the concord grapes
and isn’t it funny about
going home…its nice to
be able to leave,
but its great to come home
November 27th, 2005 @ 10:20 am
Beautiful photos. Your talent constantly takes my breath away. These should be in galleries everywhere.
Have a safe trip home.
November 27th, 2005 @ 11:12 am
Lovely photos. It’s comforting to return to our rituals…even as much as we sometimes like to escape them…
November 27th, 2005 @ 12:10 pm
I’m leaving today to head home after a few weeks of being away from my apartment, and while I’m loathe to see three weeks’ worth of mail, and tend to my dying plants and pick up my car, etc etc etc, it’s GOOD to be going home to my own little nest.
You reminded me that I should make some cookies. I haven’t eaten cookie dough in a while
November 27th, 2005 @ 12:24 pm
Seeing family and friends is wonderful, but there’s nothing like that feeling of getting home too, is there? Especially when you feel sick. Hope you have safe travels home!
November 27th, 2005 @ 6:32 pm
As my MIL says, ‘It’s always nice to go on holiday but just as nice to go home at the end of it.’
Beautiful photographs.
November 28th, 2005 @ 1:57 pm
Gorgeous photos… I love all the varying colors and textures.
November 28th, 2005 @ 4:02 pm
just gorgeous photos and such lovely descriptions.
November 28th, 2005 @ 9:37 pm
once again, some gorgeous pictures. seeing your pictures has inspired me to go out and finally get myself a decent camera to start clicking.
November 29th, 2005 @ 2:16 am
Exquisite textures.
I hope you are home safely, and the business of the house is underway!
November 30th, 2005 @ 11:51 pm
so glad you are feeling better. and such lovely photographs, so very lovely (especially the self portrait). speaking of photography, I too enjoy your random graffiti shots… love to find someone who enjoys it as much as I do. to answer your question, yes. I do know one. I married a graffiti writer… (you can see his work by clicking on ‘canon’ under the graffiti/street art section of my links).