Friday, February 1, 2013

Just to prove I'm not dead

At least not yet.

But I do seem to have abandoned blogging for the most part.   Just spending a little more time in the real world -- not that any of you are not real!  More time with grandchildren and also getting out with the camera a bit more and trying to learn something about High Dynamic Range photography.  But not getting very good results yet. 

I do miss reading blogs and I do miss so many of you. 

It was also scary to come back today, look at my last blog and see that it had been spammed by several people selling money making ideas and porn.  I deleted them but wondered whether they have also hit earlier blogs.  Damn.  Why can't everybody be nice?  I guess there are just so many people in the world that there have to be outliers to the statistical niceness bell curve. 

I've also been spending more time in the woods behind our house. 

 


I discovered last October,  that it is a lush battleground between vines and trees. It has been urging me to experiment with a photo series that I think of as "The Codependency of Vines and Trees." 

Ah...codependency...so many blogs could be written about that.

I'm not getting the images that I see in my mind yet but I'll post a few.  There are some things that don't convert well from idea to image.  Vines on trees may be one of those subjects.  Too busy!  Too messy.  But I guess that's also true of codependency.  

Anyhow...


 
 
 
Bagman and Butler aren't here right now but they send their regards.
 
BAGMAN: "WE ARE TOO HERE!  WHY ARE YOU SHUTTING US UP!!!"
 
BUTLER: "Easy does it, Baggie.  He just doesn't want to put in the extra time and energy to let us dialogue."
 
BAGMAN: "Lazy bugger."


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  1. Well, I am sending my regards to Bagman & Butler, too, hoping they are well and have not forgotten about their faithful readers!

    I like the vine and trees pictures. Especially the last one shows very well how entangled vine and tree can become. Quite like life and all the different requirements and roles it puts our way, isn't it?

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  2. I think the relationship is sybiotic not codependent ???? looked it up just to see how rusty my high school biology is.... can we remember 1967 - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/symbiosis
    the only thing is that the definition says 'unlike organisms' are a tree and a vine unlike? dog and tree / bird and tree / human and dog / but tree and vine....?
    missing the boys also. As we often do - I did a post today also. did a FSO several weeks ago - just made myself do it - but the topics for the past two weeks not interesting enough to sustain my ambitions. Looking into taking a photography course.... checked at the ART institute of Houston. actually went for an interview.... then lauphed myself silly - a bachelors of art / photography $87000.00 - if 21 and gave me a career okay - maybe, but for an old (er) persone no way.
    had to google HDR also to see what you are talking about. so are you trying to use a digital camera or have you pulled out your 35 mm. did you buy a new camera? for this purpose. Have put some thought into that also. but am in holding pattern until I feel the right direction to go.
    missing you; blogger friend (s)

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    1. am reading "Into the Dark" (mystery police story) by Alison Gaylin: .... pulling up infront of an old three story walkup, she sees that it is covered in vines and thinks..."literally crawling with ivy.... seemed like a symptom of decay, the plant devouring the frail builiding, pulling it back into the earth."
      love a well turned image.

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  3. I saw you came and visited Barry's blog.. I remember meeting him when we're all still awed at the friday shootouts.. here we are again, but one participant missing and that's Barry. I was then in China and he's gone when we migrated here in Canada. Exact time of his demise, 2009. Anyway, nice seeing the exciting bloggers coming back.. except the spammers.. nice to see you again bagman and butler..

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  4. Hi Mark! I seem to also have fallen off the blogger earth. Glad to see you still around!

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  5. Most of the time my blogger spam settings filter out the junk --- I wish I knew how to block anonymous comments, because that's most of the spam.

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    1. go to blog dashboard, to blog name in question, left hand side, click settings, then to comments, and check a higher level of security, the first one is to allow everyone including anoymous, second is registered users, I have check that one on "flowers' and no mor anonymous comments.

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  6. Baggie misses me. :)

    This is the first time I've checked in with my blogging buddies in probably a year. Glad to know you're doing ok!

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  7. Hi Mark, QMM here. So good to read your post. I was thinking along the lines of Librarian, how beautiful the co-dependency of the flora as opposed to the co-dependencies of life, such chaos is hard on our health. Which proves it is all in the way it is looked at and handled. I truly miss your presence in our weekly get together. I also think we need some new topics. I am beginning to notice some of them have come around about three times in my time of participation. Don't really understand your terminology about the photography but good luck. Take that time with those grands, soon as mine are, they will be grown and on get to see them on special occasions. No more tea parties and big box tents. Blessings
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