A Visit To HongJeCheon Falls

I was hoping for some luxuriant autumn foliage, but here the trees were only just starting to turn.  Maybe I'll come back in a couple of weeks.

Jovian Moon

Streaky clouds made an ersatz Jupiter out of the Moon.

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One shoe for sale.  30,000 KRW.

If you're missing a left shoe, you're out of luck.

Yet Another Ghost Of A Staircase

But a decidedly odd one.

 

Another Card From The Mystery Deck

 

Impressive Sunsets

First, shot from my balcony yesterday:

 

Then, today I went a few blocks down from my apartment and saw this (there had been a heavy cloud cover all day with no rain and I was feeling a bit glum, but come late evening everything changed);  you want a spectacular sunset? wait for an overcast day!

I crossed and re-crossed the street a bunch of times just so I could record the colors deepening as the sky darkened over a few minutes:

An Accidental Juxtaposition

that had me floundering in pop-philosophical and sort-of-mystical musings.

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I Was Surprised And Delighted

to come across these beautiful big flowers in the sidewalk while walking along a stream in Jegidong, Seoul.

[There were also flower tiles in some of the sidewalks in my own neighborhood of Goyang, but they were small images inlaid into individual tiles just a few inches across, and for some reason a year or so ago the city chose to pull them all out (why, oh why?)]

Then as I walked on I saw the images were all elongated along the y (vertical) axis, and realized it's (presumably) so that people walking by the stream would first see them foreshortened to their proper proportions as they walked along the narrow sidewalk.  How thoughtful!

My Errant Jacket

This Errant Cardigan someone misplaced was going to be the post today.

It looked to have been there for a goodly while too, judging by the leaves it had collected.

But while I was out walking earlier, I lost my own jacket.  After an hour and a half of walking I was getting pretty hot, so I took the jacket off and slung it over my shoulder bag.  Then, a while later I reached into the bag for my phone camera, and realized it was gone.  I retraced my steps for a considerable distance, but no luck.  It was lost.

Now there could well be some other blogger somewhere uploading an "Errant Jacket" post.

"Magpie Under The Half-Moon"

Related post:  Moon King

A Tease

Teasing's great, but there'd better be a payoff at the end😉 

Errant Heart II

I USED TO WEAR MY HEART ON MY SLEEVE

but no longer.  It kept falling off.

 

Above The Line & Below The Line

Having briefly worked in the moviemaking business (and actually done a bit part opposite no less than Gene Hackman!), I got to learn some of the industry's jargon, including "above the line" and "below the line".  The former refers to the major cast, the director, the writer and producer.  The latter is everyone else, including the technical crew, the small-parters, the "extries", etc.  Today I persuaded Selene to play both parts for me.

Errant Quokka

 

Curious Cloud

Wonder what could have caused that?  Looks as if something burrowed or ate its way through the cloud.

Or maybe something invisible fell through it?

 

A Sliver Of The Setting Sun

 

What Was Left Of A Dove

 

Related post:  Errant Wing

After The Rain V

 

Eve, The Serpent, And Adam

Years ago, in the hand-to-mouth period between grad school and stable employment, there was a time when I thought I was in a relationship with someone.  What it turned out to be though, was just her nursing a "crush" on me.  On little ol' cotton pickin' me?  Does that sound weird?  Anyway, it turned out she had been having some unrealistic expectations of me, and because of it I had been introduced to her father and she had been introduced to my mother.  But of course it did not last.  I was not who she thought I was and could never be.  I don't know if she ever was who I thought she was, because I never really got to know the real "her".  It all came to a head one night when something that started out trivial suddenly flashed into a full-fledged explosion.  That's when we realized we were not a couple.  I never saw her again.

It seems rather unfair now in retrospect, but I confess that at the time I felt I was a victim.  After all, so my reasoning went, she had approached me first, she had made the initial moves to make me lower my guard, and had done all the work to pull in innocent, inexperienced little me, then when she found out what I was really like, ditched me -- and over ideological issues that didn't even need to matter in day-to-day real life!  Well, live and learn.

Here is something I started after that climactic incident, incorporating that idea of victimhood.  Eve, the Serpent, and Adam -- yet another unfinished project.  This is the censored version.*  I don't know what Blogger's standards are about sexual imagery;  to see the unexpurgated original, click *here.

Coming And Going

 

Getting Ready For Hallowe'en

Eager early preparations for a holiday that was virtually unknown in Korea until quite recently.  When I visited Korea some years ago about this time of year, the only sign I saw of its acknowledgement was a small, paltry display of mini jack-o'lanterns hanging at a booth in Namdaemun market.  And now look, it's a huge big deal, at least among younger people.

Select related post:  Hallowe'en 2024