get out of town

Went exploring up at Alder Manor yesterday. This morning we're off to beautiful north western New York. Please god let it be cooler there.
See you next week.

Happy Friday.

A simple thing I made to take home a bit ago. I love coleus so much - this is a variety called "marmalade..."

No it's not, I just made that up. I don't know what variety it is.

And I didn't take this home, because as I look around this morning, it's no where to be seen
It's not wilting in the corner with sludgey water stewing like pea soup as it should be in my house which is clocking in at a friendly 92 degrees at 9:00am.

This arrangement got tossed I guess. Where is it right now? mixed with other Saipua debris in a big plastic bag in or on it's way to a landfill to steam and putrefy under 100 thousand tons of waste.

It's hotter than hades here and I'm cranky as all hell.

secret REVEALED

I HATE SUNFLOWERS!!!

So take you're "Blossom hats" and 90's era perfume and shove em where the sun don't shine!!!

*all of these flowers are locally grown by the every inspiring River Garden; and available Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Greenmarket in Union Square

memories of green

been taking most of the month off work. living out of my overnight bag, traveling around and visiting.

every year this happens, summer creeps up on me and I find myself resigning to it. at last. like falling hopelessly backwards into a feather bed.

i feel very fortunate to spend so much time outdoors in the real world. nature; the crazy constant thing we fight against. but to sit in it and maybe to

to start to be pulled under its spell of hypnotic delights
some of which oddly get caught in the web of my mobile phone's instagram
go figure!

on awareness

Been thinking about animals.
When we got Nea almost three years ago my main hesitation had to do with her dying one day, and how hard that would be. Selfish isn't it?

When I go to work, she wants to go too. When I take pictures of flowers, she's always trying to get in the damn photo.
One time we were doing a shoot here and she insisted on having her paw in the shot. Finally the photographer had to politely ask me to take Nea home.

One day Nea will likely get sick and die. She doesn't think about it, and that's nice for her. She just sort of enjoys the day. Panting silently most of the time, her eyes sliding shut until the UPS man walks up.
Then all hell breaks loose.
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I can't stop thinking about Gus and this bit of animal behavior science:

"A 2005 study of elephant grief, reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, confirmed what experts have long sworn, that elephants pay homage to their fallen, visiting the remains of even long-dead relatives, and gently turning over the bleached bones with trunk or foot. Biologists tell of gorillas banging their chests with yowls of anguish during a wake for a fallen friend, of sea lions wailing when their babies have been mutilated by killer whales, of grief-stricken monkey mothers carrying dead infants around for days, of geese singing both halves of a duet when their partners have died..."

been to canaan

Banana and I went to Blacksburg over the long weekend. We used to live there.

we both worked shifts at bollos our old haunt to make some paper ->

MYRA! ->

took over aaron's show at WUVT and made it good again -->>>

this is what 30 looks like -> looks damn good right?

went to a party at BJ's in Riner->

my old apartment ->

Some things change, some things stay the same.

[Here you go.]

one year ago today

it was fun to work on a wedding with nicolette