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In a month I shall be a gentleman of leisure. Well, perhaps we could de-emphasise the gentleman bit, but I shall have retired from my paid job. So I enrolled in a course to learn to be a nature guide, or “Guide Nature”. It’s a 2-year course with some 500 hours of lectures, field trips, and preparation of a memoir describing a tour that the student has prepared. Those 500 hours don’t include private study, and judging from the reading they have already given us, I’d say a 3 to 1 ratio of study to lectures would not be too much.
So the treat is the opportunity to learn some geology, geomorphology, ecology and biodiversity (yes, even after all these years, there’s stuff to learn), botany (aargh!), zoology, ethology, cosmology, astronomy, teaching, guiding, dealing with people with difficulties hearing, seeing, or getting around, local history, and the sociology of nature and our attitudes to it. And I’ve probably forgotten a lot of the things we’ll be studying. Oh, and the best treat of all will be the first guided tour I give after I get my license.
The trick, though, is learning how to learn again after all these years. With the exception of a competition to become a European civil servant, in the last 30 years I haven’t sat through a lecture on which I’d be tested or studied for an exam. And for just as long, I have had a recurring nightmare on the theme of being on the eve of an exam for which I haven’t studied…
Oh, and another trick is that the whole thing is in French, so out with the feldspar and in with the feldspath, out with the bark and in with the écorce, out with the oak and ash and bitter thorn and in with the chêne et la frêne et les épineuses.
But of course, I get to drink lots of coffee, and that is indeed a treat.
ODC-trick or treat
Anatomical Anomalies: Eyelip Disease: This disease begins with small, itchy, pimple-like boils around the mouth, followed by an uncontrollable appetite for gossip. After 1-2 weeks, the boils pop and small, fully functional eyeballs emerge.
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Here are two shots of basically the same location. By changing the DOF slightly I get two different views.
Viewfinder app settings: 6x6, 150mm lens, Portra 400 emulation; quick edit in lightroom app for iPad.
using a mysterious watercolor like medium i created this character study. some stuff i loved som i hated but overall i think its a fine exploration
I haven't posted in quite awhile due to a lack of interest and maybe other priorities.
One of my main priorities these days is getting rid of accumulated junk! This includes old clothing, like this satin gown. I realized that I acquired WAY too much clothing and accessories over time, and it was taking up lots of space. Some of my clothing was improperly stored, so it isn't worth wearing anymore. Other items, like this gown, I decided to donate to the thrift store community. That's where I found it to begin with, and that's where it's headed to once again.
One thing that was sobering was dealing with the sheer volume of clothing I acquired and making decisions about what to keep. Believe it or not, I threw away about 45 large bags of clothing -- the kinds of contractor bags that landscapers use to haul away leaves.
My process of shedding goes on and I make more secondary choices about what clothing I have left. I still have far too much.
Another sobering thing was realizing how much money I had spent over time at thrift stores. It never felt like a lot on any given day or week, but over time it does add up. Part of me would like to have that money back so I can go on a few fun trips or get something else really special. But I realize that buying clothing a bit at a time over the years somehow relaxed me and gave me something to look forward to.
Enough self-therapy. Here's to shedding my excesses!!
Found this one when l was looking through shots, from last summer, in order to make some promotional material for this years live racing season at Fort Erie.
The checkered pattern is what caught my eye and is caused by shooting through a wire fence.
The Art Of Drowning
I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.
After falling off a steamship or being swept away
in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn't you hope
for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand
turning the pages of an album of photographs-
you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat.
How about a short animated film, a slide presentation?
Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph?
Wouldn't any form be better than this sudden flash?
Your whole existence going off in your face
in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography-
nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned.
Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance
here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,
an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,
dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.
But if something does flash before your eyes
as you go under, it will probably be a fish,
a quick blur of curved silver darting away,
having nothing to do with your life or your death.
The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all
as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom,
leaving behind what you have already forgotten,
the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds.
Billy Collins
Studying is a tool that opens doors to the future and success, but above all it opens doors to knowledge.
Explorer's Highest Postion#279
This was taken at the pool at my apt complex. My upper division Econ 184 final is tomorrow from 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM. I put together the powerpoint slides that are up online and binded it together so it'll be easier to study instead of scattered papers all over. This was taken during sunset (as you can tell by the color of the sky). It was very relaxing and easy to study.
A reflection for the start of the Academic Year in Washington DC:
A wonderful painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of Saint Augustine. He is shown deep in thought with his quill poised as he works on one of his writings. It seemed to me a good image of what we will be engaged in this academic year!
At the Center of Marine Biotechnology in Baltimore, Valerie Huse studies halophiles, which are organisms that thrive in environments of extreme salinity. The higher the salt content in a medium, the more likely you are to find a halophile growing there.
She is shown here working inside a refrigerated incubator.
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Not quite enclosed for a quality focused study. But good for thinking of ideas as you stare out the window.
Studio time and a sketchbook pomegranate study. These actual dried pomegranates were snipped from a bush right outside the studio...and included a small bulbous grey spider which crawled out of the pod painted in the lower right corner. I am NOT a fan of spiders..so he was wisked from the scene immediately! I went with paint straight in...and added some ink flourishes as decorative highlights. Another day in paradise? Ahh...You betcha! .:)
"Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.” ~Hermann Hesse
For this one-day oil study of a light complexion, I used Yellow Ochre with a dab of Terra Rosa to get the hue, moderated by Titanium White to lighten and reduce the chroma. For the darkest shadow, I dropped a touch Terre Verte (soft green) into the mix.
Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen
27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 inches)
I did some rearranging in the study today and took an old desk from the spare room, removed the castors and base and put it up at the window so I actually have a nice view when working at it. Beats the hell out of the window-less office I have at work and works very nicely with the new Macbook Pro and external keyboard and mouse.
(This is also my first photo uploaded directly from Aperture using the Flickr Plug-in for Aperture. Worked very nicely indeed!)
Project: Utata Thursday Walk #470
Spotted this young woman taking a break from studying in the library at California State University Fresno.
115in2015 45 Do Not Disturb
My "tool kit" for studying Japanese had changed since I've been working with my tutor a while now. Here's what I currently work with the most. Those two books I got to match the ones she was using with me in our sessions. The ipad is going to be extremely helpful once I get all my notes onto it. For now I just put a photo I took during one of our sessions. She uses a white board to show me sentence patterns and sometimes also in a "pictionary" type of way, because she prefers to describe what words mean by using Japanese, and not English. Doodling helps her convey meaning without using English also. She speaks English, of course, but for the sake of my advancement the more I can study Japanese IN Japanese, the better I will be at the end of it.
note* If you are a beginner in Japanese, please don't rush right out and get these books just because I use them, these are used for advanced beginner and intermediate level Japanese (also, the books themselves have no English at all in them). I love them and highly recommend them, but for beginners, you may want to start with something different.
...Oh, also. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good 電子辞書? ... even an app for ipad would work. I can look myself, but I thought I'd collect some opinions first, if you have used them and like a particular one. My DS has one (and I guess I could continue using weblio on my ipad), but I need one that also provides English examples.
This is a photo I've wanted to take for a while. I was going to upload it in b&w, but when I edited, I just liked the dramatic editing more than the b&w.
It's interesting, light on one side. dark on the other. unintentional, but I really like the touch.