Wednesday, December 31, 2008

December 2008, Part the Second

Here we are, having completed a short and ponderous journey through 2008.
There are 158 photos on this web-page, a bit shy of the expected 365, but all in all a good effort. As for the future, I am not sure...of course I will continue to take photos but may not post as many here. I will think of something to amuse myself in 2009. We might as well enrich ourselves in the three (or more) years we've got left.

That said, I love you all quite a bit.


Home

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This is the house where I grew up. I call it home, but I've called a few more places home, too. So its "My house at home" and will probably soon be "My parents house". Its a strange world we live in, to have dual homes.




Wall It In

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It is important to photograph things that disturb you. I find this extremely disturbing for reasons I can't fully explain. Wall it In? Would you ingest this?




Baking 2

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My mother is one of the best bakers I know. Seen here over a cranberry upside-down cake, preparing pie crust as Lucy the Cat looks on.




Baking 3


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Said pie. Its a winter fruit pie, with apples, cranberries, prunes, golden raisins, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel...its award-winning, actually, and feels so good in your belly on a cold winter day.




Milkweed

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Seeds gone, snow as fluffy as they once were.




Papa-San

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Waste of a good chair if you ask me.




Garlic

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Oh, what the heck. Here are the health-benefits of garlic. Its pretty awesome.




Gus 2

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There is nothing like the sultry look of a happy cat, with, as Oscar Wilde penned, "eyes of satin rimmed with gold"





Geranium

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Have you ever noticed how green becomes so rare and so precious in the heart of winter?
For that matter, so does sunshine.




Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

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So here I am a year later. Far better traveled, a little older and, in truth, a bit wiser. I've figured some things out this year. I've been aimless and let down and lonesome. I've been jubilant and glad and awestruck. What more can you ask?

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