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Proof Of Summer

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:44:20 +0000

This was so beautiful, and the colors are quite true. Enjoy a short respite from your work and look at what just went floating by as a token of summer. It looked like a gigantic mound of electrified whipped cream floating by.

The Last Of Summer

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:56:02 +0000

We, like so many of you, have been experiencing a very hot and miserable summer. Temperatures have stayed in the mid to high 90′s and it has been very dry. There is an abundance of cadmium yellow flowers about. Rudebeckia, ligularia desdemona, the end of the sunflowers, the occasional black eyed susan, and zinnias. All thick petaled and drought resistant flowers with a smell of pollen and a great attraction for bees. There is a rose coming out every once in a while but the predominant scent is dry earth, pollen, dried leaves. Hard to be more descriptive than that.

And the sky is a very cobalt blue with the heavy cloudlessness that shows you autumn is close. It’s almost as if someone pasted a fall sky on a late summer landscape.

My husband and I went out night before last and gaped at an amazing cloud formation going by. It looked like it could have been painted by and early 20th century artist. It was one of those Midwestern nimbus structures that are more like cathedrals than cloud formations. The colors were ethereal blue and mauve, and while it manifested itself there were flashes of lightening darting thorough its chambers. I got it on video and want to show it to you. It’s not as awe inspiring as the real thing but still worth looking at.

The Difference In Atmosphere

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:16:32 +0000

Today it is warm and somewhat dry in Cincinnati. I went to the Possetorium and was testing out a few new accords I have when I remembered I had to bring in something from the car. I walked outside and WHAM one of the accords hit me in the nose!

What happened? Scent gets up your nose and hangs out in your sinuses, too. Its a chamber up there and in one atmosphere you either get used to the scent OR it is stuffed up in one of the cavities. Once you change your atmosphere, whoosh, out it comes and you smell it again because it starts to blow over your scent receptors.

You might think that’s neat, or it might remind you of eating something which comes back later to haunt you. In any event it’s an interesting aside about certain fragrances.

Of course, I find this happens a LOT more frequently with the heavier elements, the bass notes and musks in general. It seldom happens with a top note (like lemon oil).

And if you notice it closely, the fragrance is just a bit different outdoors in the sunlight than it is inside in artificial atmosphere. That might be due to heat or some other part of the whole, and it is noticeable as well.

Of course, you can get this effect if you just get a tiny bit of the component on your nose or around it, too. That is more common. But every once in a while, the bass notes flex their muscles and it’s fun to notice and admire.

One Amazing & Good Thing

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:59:56 +0000

I found my college friend again after many many years. I did truly miss her and we were very close and then in the way of young folk drifted apart to get married, have kids, work, do all the usual things. I found her again on Facebook. We even met soon after because she had family in Cincinnati. I felt very lucky.

Then I started to do the Halloween 2010 update which was to include scenes from Spring Grove Cemetery. Her relatives are buried there and I went to find them and photograph their resting place. I did find them without any trouble at all and it was quite a moving experience. Though I didn’t actually know them, that gave me a connection which was quite heart warming.

Happy Labor Day

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:12:52 +0000

To everyone who celebrates Labor Day, I hope you have a good one. I am going to be taking the day to learn as much as possible from the stack of books I have accumulated and to tend to the photos I look on Saturday for the Halloween Series at Possets. I want it all to look nice, and it sure will.

So hooray for all of us, we are heading into the Autumn time now. Summer is still with us but not for long so enjoy to sight of flowers, dark green foliage, fighting hummingbirds, quiet trees and the occasional yellow leaf. Things will be changing soon enough and excitement will break out again in nature and at Possets, too.