“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: You may be freeing him from being a camel.” — G.K. Chesterton
“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.” — Samuel Beckett
“Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches a lot about your destination.” — Drake
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” — Winston Churchill
“We’re all just walking each other home.” — Ram Dass
“Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott
“I don’t exaggerate – I just remember big.” — Chi Chi Rodriguez
We have been growing a variegated Bower Vine with pinkish flowers for three seasons, this being the third. It has been a disappointing performer up until now. This year however, we tried something new! Like any vine, we supported this one on a trellis. Each year the vine would grow long and unwieldy, but would not cover the entire trellis as our Snail Vine had done on it’s support.
This spring we decided not to let the Bower Vine grow as tall as it wanted. We began clipping the long tendrils as soon as they reached the top of the trellis. Much to our amazement and delight, the plant put the energy into producing copious blooms. It is understandable that a more mature plant would generate more flowers, but this vine had produced only a sparse display of a few flowers a year and the memories of last year’s bloom are vague to say the least.
Below is a closeup of a cluster of this pink Bower Vine’s flowers. The dark purple throat is beautiful!
The second picture (below) gives a better view of the plant and the contrast between the flowers and the variegated leaves. There is one school of thought that variegated plants do not bloom as much as their non-variegated cousins, but this year that does not seem to be the case.
How do you think the color of the flowers look contrasted with the variegated leaves?
There is an interesting issue involved with personal privacy and photography nowadays especially when considering the popularity of street photography and recent attempts in some places to outlaw the art form.
Photographer Arne Svenson has created a project called “The Neighbors.” He has focused his lens on the lives of Manhattanites, apparently his neighbors, by photographing them with a telephoto lens through their open windows.
If this were you in the picture below, would you be offended? Would you feel that your privacy had been violated? If your face was identifiable would that change your opinion?
As a fan of Edward Hopper and other artists who depicted day-to-day life in a stylized fashion, I enjoy these photographs and appreciate the artistic vision behind them.
According to this post via PetaPixel, two of Svenson’s neighbors pictured in the project sued him claiming their privacy had been violated. For now, however, the courts have decided that the work did not violate NYC’s right-to-privacy law which prohibits using a person’s likeness for commercial purposes without permission. Svenson’s work was declared “art” and not used for “‘advertising or trade'” purposes.
The ruling may not be final as the door appears to have been left open much like the windows in the pictures. There is no easy answer here. Read some of the comments and you can see that this raises many issues which will only get more complicated as technology increases our ability to reach further into the world undetected.
“Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.” — Alan Sakowitz
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something molded.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” — Oprah Winfrey
“I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.” — Bob Hope
Those who play the sport of Pickleball learn early that it is a fault to step into the kitchen after hitting a volley UNTIL the ball is dead. So the question arises: “When is the ball dead?”
According to the International Federation of Pickleball (IFP), p. 29, Section 8 – Dead Ball Rules:
8.B. A ball is not declared dead until it has bounced twice or has violated one of the fault rules (See Section 7).
After a second bounce or if the ball has violated one of the fault rules specified in Section Seven it is declared “dead!”
Photography, as a powerful medium…offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” – Ansel Adams
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” — Mary Tyler Moore
“You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.” — Edward Abbey
“As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.” — Bertolt Brecht
“The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble…We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table.” — Warren Buffett
“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.” — C.S. Lewis
“Just because you got the monkey off your back, doesn’t mean the circus has left town.” — George Carlin
“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” — Robert Brault
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” — Tom Lehrer
