Words, wool, daydreaming, cooking, crafts, and books (or do those count as “words” too?)
Life continuously seems stuck between the old and the new. New glass in an old rehabbed building reflects the old weathered red brick of an even older building. We live, we learn, we constantly rebuild our lives. Even sinkholes let us rebuild. I could take a ring road around the city, but I’d only be stuck in traffic, missing the morning light as it warms the bricks and makes the windows dazzle. (This picture was taken last year on March 17th, on an earlier St. Patrick’s Day).
I’ve been thinking about “red” and looking at my bookcases, and in my dresser to see if I have anything (beyond lipstick) that would work for the red theme. I’ll be shooting most of my pictures (that aren’t outdoors) on a small side table that’s seen a lot of wear, because it’s a neutral surface that gets light.
In the meantime, here’s a link to my red collection on flickr. Enjoy!
Virtual sweets for everyone! I hope you have a happy day.
Springtime arrived
With riots of red, pink, blue blooms,
All jostling in the daylight.
While at night, the white roses
Gleamed and the scent of phlox
Insinuated into the sky.
(C) rjn, May 27, 2011
Since I’m not the Gardener, I can’t really tell if this is an azalea or a rhododendron. Project Spectrum 5 has started, with red as the first color. [And, somehow, I lost the rest of this post, so I'm typing like mad to reinsert the quote I found, at least.]
“Bees and butterflies are generally not attracted to red flowers because they lack visual sensitivity to that color.” David Lee. Nature’s Palette: The Science of Plant Color. Published by University of Chicago Press, 2007.
There are lovely places to hike near Lake Champlain. These boats were pulled up on a rocky ledge on the banks of the lake. I’m going through my pictures of sunsets over
the water, woodsy trails, wildflowers, and interiors from the Inn I stayed at. All very lovely. Some of them are appropriate for Project Spectrum and I’ve put them up on my flickr account on the sidebar. 
Some may show up on these pages when they seem appropriate.
I guess it’s the sign of a good trip if you’re already hoping to go back again and figuring out ways to avoid lots and lots of driving.
It’s hard to believe these were real — but they were. Lovely red berries that captured the light and made me think of beautiful, clear jelly. This photo was taken during a short trip to the woods surrounding Lake Champlain. We saw many many rowboats as well as sailboats on the water. Dodged a couple of rainstorms, and survived one huge thunderstorm. Luckily, not that many mosquitoes saw me.
BTW: Lake Champlain is skinnier than I remembered. I must have been near it in the past and just thought it was a wide, huge river. Of course, that would have been riding with the family in my teens, when I probably had my nose in a book reading about ancient Egypt or Sumeranians.
Edited to add: This may be Japanese Honeysuckle fruit (it’s an invasive).
It does not appear to be any of the following: elderberries, red currants, vibernum, winterberry, or dogwood. However, I could be wrong. I am not a horticultural expert, and I do not believe these are edible berries at all (in fact, they seem to fit the bill of “fit only for the birds” and poisonous for the rest of us, since no one in the forest seemed to be eating these.)
Here’s a lobster in an unusual location — right outside Baltimore’s Penn station.
No, not the one in NYC. And sometimes people refer to all the stations on the Pennsylvania line as being Pennsylvania station, so I’m always in a perpetual state of confusion about which station is which. (NYC or Philadelphia or Baltimore or Wilmington, Delaware or even D.C.)
Seen during ArtScape. This was one of the art cars. Hopefully this red lobster (who was animated enough to drive over, even though it’s evidently been cooked) will head off to Massachusetts, where it will fit in better than in the blue crab state.
The fiberglass claw on the door was a great touch.
Found on a recent roadtrip out into Western Maryland — a red caboose from the days of the Western Maryland Railroad. It’s part of a park in Hagerstown, MD. Lots of steel for PS4 Fire there as well….
These are the wheels of the engine that they’re trying to salvage after years of abuse, when it was used as a piece of playground equipment, etc.
Red is an attention-getter — a glowing stoplight in the dark, a showstealer among a crowd of black dresses, the promise of ripe fruit, the glow of embers in a campfire that emphasize the night. And, sometimes, it’s a big old flag of “do not touch”.
In this case, our friend Virginia Creeper. Some people can touch it. Not me. But I will admit that it’s very very pretty. Of course, so is poison ivy.
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