Beads and Bangles
If you like succinct then this post is for you.
Its been raining and horrible for a few days, and I have been slouching around at home. Bereft of subject matter I resorted to the Christmas tree.
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Cloud Pump
The enclosure in the foreground is a pump or lift station for the Harling Point sewer. The clouds are the same ones featured in a recent post of a crow calling, one of my favourite pictures. I doubt that this enclosure will ever feature again in my Harling Point photographs – how could I get a better setting for a shot of the local septic system?
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Motorcycle Frost
I previously posted a macro study of water drops on my son’s motorcycle cover which protects his new bike from the elements out on the patio. As I said in that post – its like a bad dream for any parent of a teenage son when they buy a high-powered motorcycle. We braved the boxing day sales to buy body armor which helps with our peace of mind, a little anyway. Better than nothing.
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Knit Clicker
As I have previously shown, the textile arts are a large part of my surroundings. These pictures are of my daughter who visited for the entire day on Christmas. Between helping out, and eating, and celebrating, she filled time with knitting. If you listened very carefully you could hear clicking of the busy needles. Knitted things featured prominently among the presents given and received and were much appreciated.
My Roving Eye
A couple of days ago there was a pile of roving on the kitchen table. It was being used to make a needle-felted reindeer for a doll story, which can be found here. The making of the reindeer was necessitated by the lack of anything suitable in the shops, and as my wife had already started the story and then discovered that no reindeer were to be had (contrary to previous years). So, some manufacturing took place on the kitchen table, a not uncommon scene though never before has a reindeer emerged from all the activity.
I was setting up to take pictures of the glass candy canes that were also on the table and which I featured in yesterday’s post and was momentarily distracted by this wonderfully soft pile of colour and texture. A big difference in subject matter in just a few minutes.
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Candy Glass
Frequent readers will have noticed over the past few days that part of the top image has been serving as my header, in the holiday spirit, and all that. These are glass candy canes, about the size of the typical edible variety. We used to be able to buy them in Oak Bay at a very reasonable price, and over several years stocked up on a bunch of them. Then we would give them away as presents to friends, sometimes to people that dropped by over the holidays, that kind of thing. I have heard from some of these friends that they have used them ever since as tree ornaments and that they are among their favourite things on the tree. Which is a very nice outcome from a simple act.
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Aerial Landscape II
I have been experimenting with the idea of minaiture aerial landscapes. This idea came by chance from some unintentional aerial views that I showed in a recent post with mossy landscapes. Today I show a lake with cloud reflections blurred by a breeze (which is in fact exactly what happened)
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