Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven: Blindness

The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence, and this is what we have made of it.

~Jose Saramago, Blindness

Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Six: Dangling

This is just the dangling cord to some equipment.

Here are some other shots from the same day, too:

Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Five: Goodbye, TV

I had borrowed this TV (circa 1983) from a friend for a few years, but since the switch to digital signal, it doesn't work any more. At least not without buying the converter box, and I am not interested in buying stuff for the TV that I barely watch. So here it is strapped into the front seat of my truck as I took it back to my friend.

Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Four: The Veil

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Three: Meat

Cory and I went to east Arlington for Thai food and then walked around the little shopping center. Apparently, one place there sells MEAT.

Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Two: Color

Seek the strongest color effect possible.. the content is of no importance.

~Henri Matisse

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

~Pablo Picasso

Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

~Carl Sandburg

Day Two Hundred and Fifty-One: Change

I've had this change purse since I was a little girl. It's really too small to carry enough change to be useful, but it's so cute.


It was probably a gift from a family member. I have always loved cats and so for years and years, any time any family member gave me a gift it was something cat-themed, about cats, or in the shape of a cat.

Day Two Hundred and Fifty: Love

Cory looking at me. My favorite little detail about this photo is that you can see my reflection in his glasses. Aww.

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Nine: No Entrance

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

~Czeslaw Milosz

Sometimes I feel like that's what I'm doing in my photography: glorifying things just because they are. There is, after all, so much worth noting (if not glorifying) around us every day.

On this day, for instance, when it was time to take some pictures, I just went for a brief walk down the street and found several things worth photographing. Here are a couple more photos from that walk.

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Eight: Coats

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Seven: Lines & Light

Cory and I went to the Dallas Arboretum. I'd never been there before. It was pretty nice, even if it was too hot. This is part of an exhibit representing The Little Prince (but I couldn't explain how it did so).


We also saw some baby birds in one of the little houses representing Texas/Dallas history.

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Six: Model

I took a lot of pictures of Gracie on this day and she looked so pretty in all of them. Maybe she should be a cat model.

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Five: Empty

I took this between semesters at my university library. It was virtually abandoned. I mean, who would come to the library when classes aren't even in session? Besides me, of course.

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Four: Under

Cory and I went to a park near his apartment and went for a walk. We didn't walk too long, though, because oh my god was it hot!

This is as far as we went before we had to turn back and go someplace cooler.

Level & Tap

One of my recent photographs (Birds on the Wire) is up for sale at Level & Tap. This is exciting, not only because I could potentially make some money from sales through the site, but also because I really like a lot of the photographs featured there, so it feels nice to have had my photo chosen to be part of the site as well.

Go check it out!

Project 365 - May 2009

It has taken me a while to get even this caught up, but I have finally finished editing and uploading all of my Project 365 photos for May. Here they are.


Hopefully, I can finish catching up before the end of June.

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Three: Birds on the Wire

Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.

--Leonard Cohen

Day Two Hundred and Forty-Two: Up Close and Personal

I was so sick. I stayed in bed all day (even skipping a rehearsal) with my kitties and some crackers and Sprite.

Day Two Hundred and Forty-One: Caterpillar

I had to drive out to the far side of Burleson for a rehearsal but I miscalculated the time it would take to get there, so I got to wander around and take pictures of construction machinery (no one was working on the site at the time and really all I went near was this one machine, parked alone on a hill).

Day Two Hundred and Forty: Sky High

Driving home from Cory's, I stopped at a couple of bookstores in Irving and spotted this parking lot carnival setting up. Of course I couldn't resist taking a few photos.

What's really strange is just a couple of days earlier I'd told Cory how much I wanted to take some pictures at just this kind of carnival.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Nine: Looking Up

I was sick for a couple of days before this. At this point, after a couple of days in bed, I was finally starting to feel better.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight: Cloud Atlas

"Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds."

~David Mitchell

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven: Chim Chiminey

Man, I did not feel good on this day. I only took three pictures and this is the only decent one.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Six: Planetscape

My reading lamp at Cory's against the apartment wall looks rather like a planet surface with a really near sun.


Or maybe I've just been reading too much science fiction lately.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Five: Window

Hmm. Apparently, I don't have really have anything to say about this. But I like it.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Four: Rock!

Cory and I went to dinner at Nonna Tata, a wonderful little restaurant in Fort Worth. Afterwards we walked around for a while and I took some pictures. This is part of an abandoned building just down the street.


This shot of razor wire against the sky was a close second choice for photo of the day.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Three: The Observer

I know I just posted another Gracie photo for my Project 365 a couple of days ago, but this one just turned out so well I couldn't resist it.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Two: Steering Wheel

I took this photo while sitting in my truck in the parking lot outside Cory's apartment. I could've gone in but I really wanted to finish the interview I was listening to on NPR with Mark Bauerlein, the author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). Based on the interview, which really frustrated and angered me, I'd say this book sounds like little more than an aging man bitching about how his generation was so much better (smarter, more motivated, etc.) than the young punks these days. Jeez.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty-One: Shadow Gracie

Gracie in my window. She's pretty even without color.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty: Act Your Age

Navy propaganda in downtown Dallas. Taken while driving.

Day Two Hundred and Twenty-Nine: American Bank

Cory and I stopped at a Cracker Barrel to eat on the way home from Austin and this American Bank was across the highway from it.