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Riding the alligator.
Riding the alligator. accelerator…. alligator… escamator… oh whatever…. you know what I mean. p.s. My kids used to call this an alligator. I also remember what they would scream when they saw a fire truck…. this is a family blog so I won’t say here. What funny names did your kids use? From Instagram – Northern… Continue reading
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Ah, Decor
As everything seems to be going LED, it is interning that I see these old-timey bulbs popping up everywhere as decor. They certainly are not being used to light a space, to get the old feel and see the filament you need to keep the wattage low. Now for the silly….. I’ve even seen the old-timey bulbs as LED…… Continue reading
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View from the HI in RI.
Until you stay the night at a blast from the past. Staying the night at the main hotel in downtown Rock Island, even with the very nice updates, is a bit of a throwback. It reminded me of the hotels I would stay at when I was a kid, elevators with backlit pictures of the… Continue reading
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The Conference.
Conferences can be both exhilarating and difficult…. Pick the wrong class and well… the mind wanders. A little bit of mental downtime – forced to sit in one place for 2 hours and not use your phone is good for the soul. And sometimes I notice interesting things. Continue reading
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Dusk’s Dancing Light
Late dusk blue light accented by leftover Christmas lights. The change of season or more specifically the change in the quality of light from summer to winter is what I love most about living in the North. The short days of deep winter with its blue light, sun low in the sky adding warm accents. And the… Continue reading
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The Orient, or something close.
It doesn’t matter whether the restaurant is old or new, small or large… usually, there is some part that is really unique. The old ones, that we would frequent as kids, had the time to test Americanize interpretation of “China”. This style probably goes all the way back to the 20s…. you know…. octagonal windows, bamboo everything,… Continue reading
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955