FRENCH BRAID

"French Braid" (9-15-16 013v2) is one of many shots I took of the spine of this waving palm frond. It was actually great fun to stand there, waiting for the wind bursts to stop and leave that spine at rest (oh so briefly) in full view again so I could snap a pic. Also, the shadows on this frond varied as there were other palms in the periphery also getting moved in the breezes. My first thought on seeing this frond was "Zipper!" The black and white versions (regular and inverted) actually look more like zippers. This one, especially once I'd done some minor fussing at it, began to look more like a french braid. (Something I've never learned how to do or had done with my own long hair, though I like the look.)

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NO WAY OUT

The original for "No Way Out" (9-15-16 018v2) was taken yesterday and just worked on this morning. Not a whole lot, though. Some cropping, color saturation, some use of the diffuse filter, and a little sharpening.

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LIFE IN THE DEPTHS

"Life in the Depths" (5-7-12 11877ev7a) was just now morphed from an old version of an even older photo of mine. And, as I often say here, I liked it much more when it first popped up on my screen. However, there's really no pleasing me these days, no matter what. (I'm beginning to think S.A.D. is making my miserable state of mind even worse.) Yet it does still have its appeal, mostly the colors.

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THE SUN'S FOOTPRINTS

"The Sun's Footprints" (9-12-16 001v2) is from a brand new pic, and just "finished" this morning." I've posted many other pix here of this building as it's being constructed, as it's right across the road from our community's front entrance. I so mourned the loss of the distant mountain view as it slowly disappeared. But, as with so many changes in life, I've grown accustomed to this building's presence there. And now find myself (as many other fellow residents here do) grateful that it's looking rather decent. There was a time (a couple times) as its outside walls were being worked on when it was a rather sickly pink. Ack. But it's turning out to be a neighbor we can live with. And I can still see a bit of the mountains off to its left. And as I trundle home from my long walks to the ocean, I can clearly see a lot the mountains off to its right.

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OH, NO, NOT AGAIN!

"Oh, No, Not Again!" (9-6-16 002v6) was just morphed yesterday out of a new pic. I increased the color saturation a bit this morning, as I wanted to emphasize it's sort of explosive aspect. I really wanted to call this pic something like "Re-Traumatization," but that's a very awkward and not very poetic title. Although what I've been going through with respect to old and repeated trauma in my life (the unconscious source, I'm sure, of this morph) isn't very poetic, the pic just seemed to need a less heavy handed name.

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PIX OF GANESH CHATURTHI ALTAR w/ poem

As I said I would, I've posted (above) a pic of how my Ganesh Chaturthi altar wound up after five days of the festival.

This next above pic is a close up of the gifts I offered to Ganesh (one per night). They are (left to right in foreground) a black glass five-pointed star, a metal dragon figurine with a crystal ball in its forearms, a piece of bismuth (in gem lore, said to help with weight loss), a pendant made by a friend with a photo of mine in it, and a charm of the Eiffel Tower. And below is the poem that grew line by line, as I placed each gift on the altar, not knowing yet what gift I'd choose for the next night:

FIVE FOOTPRINTS LEFT BY GANESH

out of the abyss of a black star
an impossible dragon carrying
a crystal rainbow that radiates
possibilities beyond any craving
and generates a joy as sweet
and bright as a Christmas orange
that cradles the foreign country
of the future deep
within its curving

I'm not surprised I felt prompted to chose a tower for the last gift, given the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 Twin Towers disaster is today, and I lived through it as a resident of New York City back then. Here's a link to the post I just made in remembrance to my dreams&poetry blog. (Fair warning: it's intense and lengthy writing, with no accompanying photo.)

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