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And so begins…
By Silver Blue
…the pattern of me taking Fridays off during the summer. Fridays will be designated as “Silver Blue’s Photography Days”. Yay!
After working exceedingly late last night, I’m exhausted tonight. Ergo….
A moment of Zen.
Candles are really good for bringing one back to centre.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/sbw.mp3]Silver Blue, who really does need to slow down and come back to centre.
I spy with my little eye….
By Silver Blue
….my state bird, the one I’m closest affiliated with, the Cardinal.
He was sitting up in the birch tree at the Botanical Gardens, attempting to play coy. 🙂
Since I’m going to be working later than normal tonight, this is as much of a blog entry as my brain can create.
Silver Blue, who will see everyone soon!
Interlude…
By Silver Blue
….a photo of Roxette Bunny™ and Forester Bear together, before Hurricane Isabel in 2003:
Roxette Bunny™ and Forester Bear on their way home from New Orleans (at the Cincinnati Airport):
At the food court.
Waiting for the plane to arrive….
Flying Delta to get back home.
You know it’s so good to be back home again.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/tt-sgtbbha.mp3]Silver Blue, who reminds you that your family is who you make it to be. Even if it’s plush animals.
Look, up in the sky!
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1It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No….it’s Super Moon!
It…doesn’t look so super does it? Maybe some music?
By the light of the silvery moon…
And the sun’s turned off.
When the moon is high,
And the sun’s turned off.
[“That’s one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind”]
Sous les nuages de la nuit (Under the clouds of the night,)
je marche vers la clairière. (I walk towards the clearing.)
D’un éclat argenté je la vois, (In a silver burst, I see her,)
la lune. (the moon.)
Elle porte les voiles de l’éternité, (She wears the veils of eternity,)
son auréole embrasse les étoiles, ma lune. (her halo embraces the stars, my moon.)
(Sarah Brightman, “La Lune”)
Come on, Moon. Don’t be shy.
May 5, 2012 brought the perigee of the Moon – the time when it is full, and at its closest orbit to the earth…a phenomenon known as the “Super Moon” – it looks larger and brighter than normal.
The super moon doesn’t always happen at the same time each year. The last one occurred in March, 2011.
So, since it was rainy and cloud covered on Saturday, I missed the super moon. 🙁 But… last night, the night after, the clouds broke for 8 minutes between 10:23 and 10:31. Sure, the moon was no longer Full, but Waning Gibbous. It didn’t matter. I wanted to try for the photo I’d been dreaming of. Doing my best, with a 600-1300mm lens, I snapped and snapped, and PRAYED I had the manual focus set right.
Each photo came in clearer… until…
MY MOON!!!!! My SUPER MOON!!!!! I had my shot! Moments later, clouds covered the moon; however, my photo had been achieved. I was able to head back indoors, put the tripod and telephoto lens away, and go to bed, knowing that one more thing on my bucket list had been crossed off.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/sb-ll.mp3]Silver Blue, who remembers on April 9, when I first took an intense interest in photographing the moon…and how far I’ve come in such a short time.
When dining…
By Silver Blue
…atmosphere is a good deal of the experience.
The food plays a good part too, but all too often you’re shoved in a cubicle with antiseptic lighting that takes all the fun out of eating. Fortunately, not every place is like that. Well, at least, not yet.
Hope you’ve had a good weekend, dear readers. It’s going to be an early evening for me.
Silver Blue, who wonders where his time off went.
Soon to be lost…
By Silver Blue
…to the march of time.
Norfolk, VA. Granby Street. The Riverview Theater.
From http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1598 :
Closed theater; 1 screen. 685 seats.
Photo from when it was open: (this is from the cinematreasures site)
Another classic Norfolk movie house, the Riverview Theatre was a roadshow theatre that kept a reserved seat policy and showed 70mm films such as “Cleopatra”, “Lawrence of Arabia” & “The Sound of Music”. In later years, the Riverview Theatre became a live theater venue.
Supposedly, from the comments on that site, the theater has been (or soon will be) condemned. It was on the market (with a far, far too small parking lot) for a little over $770,000.
I just … I feel sad that places like this, though they are small, are discarded due to “bigger, better, etc.” People seem to have no desire to preserve the past.
Therefore, I will bid a fond, yet early farewell to a theatre that I never set foot in, yet seemed to have a lot of character (and I’m sure, in its early days, lots of class, too!)
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/onasill/4011016591/ I found the following two photos, where the marquee had all of the lights!
(You can see the glass doors here that had been painted with the Riverview logo…)
and…
The sand keeps creeping through the hourglass…
Soon… all we’ll be left with are photographs, and cookie cutter buildings and places to go.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/s-lp.mp3]Silver Blue, who misses the past so very, very much.
Taking the night off.
By Silver Blue
Sorry folks, but I’ve been in the heat all day at the Botanical Gardens. Had a blast, but the heat has gotten to me. So… I’ll give you two photos to tide you over:
Three beauties in a row…
And an egret in flight.
Okay. Okay. Two more. The stone lions I’m so fond of:
and a solo shot:
I think I boiled my brain today. Still…. the beauty of the 903 photos I took (and am still sorting through) will be with me long after the season has passed. 🙂
Silver Blue… who looks at every new day as an adventure!
In the garden…
By Silver Blue
So, I’m late getting into the container garden thing this year. I normally start from seeds, but one thing or another got in the way this year and so… the container garden was from fully sprouted plants. I chose to go container garden because I can walk out the front door and harvest, instead of out the front door, around the house to the back forty and then fight ‘skeeters, etc.
Two container tomatoes…with cages, and … blooms!
Four new rosemary plants! (If only I could figure how some people have them as perennials and not annuals, I could save some $$.
Three German thyme.
Sweet Basil, Plants 1-3.
Sweet Basil 4-6.
…and Sweet Basil 7-9. I grow a lot of basil because I LOVE PESTO. I make a really mean grilled pesto pizza with Parmesan cheese.
Mexican thyme. I believe in having an international garden. 🙂
Finally…
Common Sage. Yes, the name on the little tag says “Common Sage”. What would make it “uncommon sage”? If it could sing and dance?
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/eytwc.mp3]Silver Blue, who looks forward to the bounty of tasty goodness this will provide, plus, being able to water the plants and enjoy them in the stillness of morning.
A three-peat.
By Silver Blue
I’ve been blessed in winning the Outstanding Classified Staff Member of the Year award three times where I work.
1998-99:
Presented by Dean J. Taylor Sims.
2006-07:
Presented by Dr. Michael T. Zugelder.
2011-12:
Presented by Mr. John F. Keeling, Jr.
Maybe Patti Labelle is right.
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/tawiy.mp3]Silver Blue, who bids you peace, happiness, and the ability to find the winner in you.
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