Category: Up Close

Friday: frogs, flowers, bread baking and bike riding

(click photograph for larger view)

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Leica M, 350 mm Telyt – R

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Leica M, 100 mm Apo Elmarit – R + 2 x Apo

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Been an interesting week… which began ANEW last Saturday…
when I went to look at, and took possession of, a used, large frame (35″ inseam),
relatively current, 2008, road bike, found on Craigs List, at a price that I can almost afford.
Seventy miles, and few thousand calories burned, later; I love to ride again.
I enjoyed riding my “burro” (an early 80s Miyata Trail Runner) for the last 30 years.
But I have not “loved” riding; sitting upright; on that large cushy saddle.
Not like I loved the 70s Motobecane Grand Tour (stolen) and Motobecane Grand Record which replaced the Tour.
I’d actually forgotten the speed and efficiency of a well designed road bike that “fits.”
Now I’m remembering past rides out to Monches and Holy Hill and all around the East Side;
and biking up the Locust Street hill with little Tanya in the Canondale Bugger trailer.
So here’s my “last” bike… a Motobecane Super Strada… a decent and “efficient” rode ride.

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Leica M, 100 mm Apo Elmarit – R

A very subtle process…

this collecting, arranging and waiting.
Why would anyone pickup a couple of skeletal seed pods?
Because they whispered something to me
in that moment.
They sat around the office/studio for weeks.
A few other objects were gathered around them.
They got lost. Because they’re so light. They’d just blow away.
Then found. Waiting. I think. To be embedded in encaustic medium.
Then last evening, after completing

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the low, setting sun light flowed through the West window
whispering in harmony with the whispering seed pods
as they wait for their final rest.

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Leica M, 35 mm Summilux Asph + Leica Wetzlar Elpro VIb