Taken At The Golden Hour

 

Another one that impressed me as being fairly surrealistic/dreamlike without being overtly weird.

Errant Arrow

The Outlyer

"THIS WAY, This Way,THIS WAY, This way, this way, this..."

"No, you're all wrong, it's that way"

From The Archives, Again

Taken on one of my many jaunts to Santa Monica Beach, California.

Powerlift By A Cross

"Power in the Blood"*, I mean "Power of the Cross"^

Actually, another one from the OCD Guy walking around with a camera.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VhXwpANgI

Turbulent Skies

 

Fat Rogue

Like an obese Robin Hood...

Upside Down

Here's a view of a cicada you don't often get to see^

I promise this is the last cicada post of the year^

 

The Correct Orientation..?

Which would it be?  I've forgotten.

Another One Of "Those" Pics

Taken at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul a few years back.  Everything was closed for covid, but there was this one lone staffer continuing to do his job, whatever it was.

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Another "Brain Fart"

Just now I was reading about the history of the neighborhood in London called Whitefriars.  It seems the area had once been the object of a dispute involving jurisdiction.  For a time it was officially exempt from the city's jurisdiction due to its having been the site of a monastery which provided sanctuary to criminals fleeing the law.  As a result it tended to actively attract criminals and eventually became known for its general lawlessness.  And the term "fence cully" came into being, to describe those who dealt in stolen goods there.  I guess this became shortened to simply "fence" in modern parlance but kept its original meaning.  This reminded me of the somewhat similar-sounding word "ponce", which in British slang means a person who arranges "dates" for prostitutes and lives off their earnings.  Naturally it reminded me of the Korean counterpart, 포주 (pronounced "poju").  Then I tried to remember the American equivalent, but for the life of me I couldn't remember what it was.  After a mental struggle I was about to look it up online, but then my mind's eye conjured up an image of a typical "hooker manager" in movies -- a man outfitted in an absurdly fancy suit, complete with hat and cane, a fur coat draped around his shoulders, posing in front of a big flashy sedan -- and suddenly the word "pimpmobile" came to me and I had it: "pimp".

Interesting how in all three languages the name of the profession starts with the "P" sound.

I guess I shouldn't forget "pander(er)" and "procurer" either.

Today's Iridescence

A rainbow wing!  Shed by an angel, no doubt -- how beautiful.

"V" For Victory

 

Came across this on one of my walks.  A somewhat ironically defeated-looking victory sign if you ask me, but still.

Another One From The Archives

I hadn't meant to do anything about anything, social commentary was the farthest thing from my mind at that instant.  I just happened to come by this scene in Hollywood and it was just striking, that's all.

But I'm glad I did.

"When The Moon Shall Outshine The Sun"

Another card from the mysterious deck of unknown origin... 

Cloud Watch II

It's moonsoon season, but there's been very little rain here in the northern part of the country, at least thus far.  I understand some parts of the south have been inundated, but for whatever reason the rainclouds refuse to move north.  Every day the weather forecast predicts rain, but then later it gets pushed back a day.  It's like the punishment the Greek gods subjected Tantalus to, the torment of having relief just within your grasp, only to see it withdrawn at the last moment.

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Errant Rose

Or, if I might wax poetic for a moment -- at the risk of sounding like *William McGonagall..,

"O The Fate of Innocent Beauty -- due in no part to her own fault, she is initially praised and extolled, then as time takes its sad toll she eventually is abandoned, then briefly trampled upon and at last forgotten..."

*Fairly or unfairly, William McGonagall has come to be known as the very spirit of Bad Poetry.

On the other hand, it occurs to me that this image might well find sincere fans in Japan, where the concept of the Tragic/Pitiable Transient Beauty is actually an aesthetic ideal^

"Sugar Glider"

Doing what sugar gliders do.

Floating, that is.

*Courtesy of the internet

That Should Be Demodex Mite(s)

Very often, when I lie in bed at night waiting for sleep, I'll feel a sudden tickle or itch, mostly on my face.  I'll try to ignore it for a while, but eventually I just can't stand it any more and scratch madly, waking myself and re-setting the 'pre-sleep mode'.  I've often wondered why this happens, and last night it occurred to me to ask AI.  I proposed three possible reasons and asked which is the likeliest:

#1. Motes of dust falling on my face;

#2. Just random firing of nerve endings;

#3. Skin mites

Well, AI rejected both #1 and #3 and chose #2 as the explanation.  While dust particles are landing on us continuously, and we live with skin mites all our lives, they both are far too small and light to be detected by our mechanoreceptors.  And although random nerve firings are also occurring all the time, they cause only low-level sensations and during the hours of activity there are too many distractions occupying our attention for us to notice them, for the most part.  It's only when things are quiescent and most external stimuli are absent that we finally notice them.

Even though I've always known all humans carry microscopic mites ("mite motes"?) living in their hair follicles (daily showers will not get rid of them;  they are as much a part of us as are intestinal bacteria), nevertheless I was relieved to know that my nocturnal itching was not caused by tiny bugs crawling around on my face.

Subsequently I looked up "skin mites" and found this lovely meme:

Dramatic Clouds

 

From The Archives

 

What, you've never seen a random red flag standing in the air before?

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In My Bedroom

Somebody once asked me "How can you sleep with all those faces staring at you?"

After The Rain II

 

Clutching

 

Cloud Watch

I was just walking along when I saw this:

I had a "feeling", so I kept a watch on it, and I was not disappointed.

I don't know, a Triangular Ghost of something.  Just one of those "odd" ones without any attempt to explain anything.  Not that anyone has to...