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Winter's Tale

My poor ipod took a nasty fall last week and died. The little frowny sad x-eyed ipod icon makes me sad. I’m a sucker for sad anthropomorphized objects. I kind of knew it was a lost cause, but I took it to the “Genius Bar” at the Apple store at the King of Prussia Mall anyway. I got the outcome I expected and walked away with a new ipod, recycling the old one. Which is fine, except the new ones don’t work with the camera adapter anymore, which is a bummer. The old ipod made a great storage device for photos while traveling. So now I need to figure out another way to store photos while on the road.

Oh, and it was raining and I took pictures of raindrops on the car window. And I remembered how much I dislike shopping malls. I go to one maybe twice a year when I need something, and almost always walk away feeling grouchy.

Today I took the train downtown and walked from 30th St. Station to 50th & Baltimore and back, taking lots of photos.  There’s something pleasing about wandering randomly and looking for interesting things to photograph. It makes me very aware of the details of my surroundings, and also aware of how much I just filter out on a daily basis out of necessity. You can’t go around noticing every little detail of things every day. I got about 200 new photos, some of which are good on their own and will be posted on my site sometime soon, and some which are just source materials that will appear in new digital collages at some point.

I took a lot of photos today, but this was the most interesting. It is a car-window shot after a rainstorm, and was not manipulated aside from a slight increase in contrast. It looks like something I spent lots of time manipulating in Photoshop!

Wheel of a lunch truck- combining two of my favorite things- circular patterns and rust.

Lovely sky this morning while waiting for the train. The weather has been really warm these past few days.  It feels more like April than February.

This is a super-boring photo but it pretty much sums up the day. My wrist was still hurting from falling on it while ice skating, so I had to wear this lovely wrist splint all day. I usually only wear these on both wrists at night. I also woke up with a horrible headache. But I did go to Dick Blick during lunch and buy a lot of new canvases and paint. I just remembered my high school art teacher who used to always crack jokes about the name “Dick Blick.”

Pretty blue stuff on the sidewalk for melting snow.