They Just Keep Coming

A church, a dove, and iridescent clouds.  Today's post was yet another one that recalled to mind the Covenent after the Flood.

"Devant moi, le déluge."

 

Related posts:  How Appropriate;  Another "How Appropriate"

Untitled VI

I guess I could've titled it "Yes, It's This Guy"...

Reflection On An Empty Shop Window

looks like a rabbit hole I could jump into.

Long ago, when I was still a child in Seoul before moving to the U.S., I watched this animated cartoon on TV that had to do with characters jumping into a shallow puddle on the street.  If they got it timed just right, instead of landing on wet pavement they would fall through an interdimensional tunnel and end up in a whole other world in a parallel universe.  How I longed for a chance to partake in that adventure!

 

Just Coined Yet Another Neologism

Decomposition of organic matter produces heat.  On rare occasions compost heaps have been known to spontaneously start smoldering.  So I've come up with this:  "ROT is HOT".  

Moon Over Pine Tree

 

Just Some Random Shots

from my walk around the neighborhood this afternoon.

 

An Acausal(?) Connection

Moon and giant bowling pin.

A Puffball's Bones

An X-ray image of a dandelion puffball reveals its skeletal structure, which ominously resembles a crazy staring eyeball.

Or perhaps the image of Polyphemos the cyclops in this famous painting by Odilon Redon.

Moon Through Leaves

 

At 7:39 PM, on Friday the 24th of April, 2026

Dizzying Moon

 

At 7:30 PM, on Friday the 24th of April, 2026

Red-Footed Little Bast_rd Checking Me Out

Strait Is The Gate*

I'll bet anything that door hasn't been opened in quite some time.

*Thank you, André Gide

Pas De Deux

 

Azalea Season

I continue to be slightly under the weather, and I've also stayed awake all night for several days in a row, sleeping during the day, so lately my outdoor activity has been drastically curtailed.  But today I felt a little better than I've felt in days, so I went out and took a light walk around the neighborhood.

I'd thought the azalea season would have been mostly over while I've been self-confined, so imagine my surprise and delight (nay, shock and awe!) when just three blocks from my door I turned a corner and beheld this sight!

Haven't Posted One Of These In A Long Time

Verbal synchronicity!

Just now I was checking out the blurbs on my YouTube recommendations and simultaneously listening to a video about a movie.  Just as my eyes alighted on the words "...blah blah ever made", I heard the narrator in the video say "...blah blah ever made".

(By the way, the movie review was of Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky and the video recommendation was about The Ambassadors, the painting by Holbein the Younger.  I guess they both deserve the hyperbolic description in their respective ways).

Errant Pareidolia

No idea what this used to be part of, but now it sure looks like a face groaning "Ughhh...".  Maybe it was struck by that rock (that Goliath-style rectangular "bruise" high up on its head does look rather suspicious).

Related post:  Monster Eyes In The Sidewalk

When Mars Still Had Canals (Mod Photo VI)

[Caveat:  The image of a canal-ridden Mars used here is not taken from any authentic source, whether drawn by Schiaparelli (the first astronomer to detect the canals of Mars) or by others after him;  it's just a random old texture I had in a 'storage folder';  when I started fiddling with it I was actually going for something completely different, but then the image took an unexpected turn of its own, as often happens]

The Sun Of Tartarus

This image is an old one.  So old in fact, that I was very surprised to find I had never posted it here.  But I checked three times to make certain and the results were negative, so here it is, belatedly.

Another Dream Image

Chess? Checkers?

Or some other game that I've never heard of?

 

Jeez Louise

Exploring old rundown buildings as I like to do, coming upon a likely candidate with an ominous shadowy staircase, starting to climb down -- then suddenly realizing I'm being watched, have been under watch from the moment I took the first step inside.  By an upside-down cartoon character.  With huge round staring eyes.

Almost had a heart attack.

The Term "Real Life" Is Usually Reserved For Hard-Hitting News Documentaries...

But just sometimes, Real Life can also mean something humorous.

I'm pressing on the upward way

 New heights I'm gaining every day...

I'm not formally religious, but I am friendly disposed toward a few select religions, Christianity being one of them.  When I saw these two iconic objects fortuitously juxtaposed in the golden light of the setting sun, it was the best visual pun on a hymn ever. 

Errant Shoes

I was on my way out when I came upon this pair of runners in the lobby.

It was late afternoon and the lights hadn't come on yet, hence the bad lighting despite my effort to lighten the images.  Anyway, a couple of hours later I came back;  now the lights were on (still not great though) and the shoes were still there in their corner, but in the meantime someone had taken the trouble to straighten them out neatly.