Bella the cat with the lynx ears, Emma her sister, and Grace the dog
Month: July 2012
Canon Canonet Q117
this was a popular compact 35mm film rangefinder camera….
Kodak Hawkeye Flashfun
my first camera, took 127 film and flash bulbs
shore edge
Image = shore edge in front of my home on the eastern end of Georgian Bay, which is the east end of Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes of North America. I have been living up here 100 miles north of Toronto for twelve years (fulltime). My family rented here in the sixties and then bought a lot and built this cottage in 1969-70. It is a beautiful place and I am fortunate to live here.
until the shore growth got high enough to hide predators, families of Canada Geese would amble in to crop away at the plant life…..it is fun to watch the tiny golden goslings mature into as of this week nearly full-sized geese.. the neck stretching guard adult geese are careful in their watching and quickly sound the alarm when they dont like something in the area, which produces a mad rush and much splashing as the family skedaddles out into the safety of the bayy
Sony H50 camera
manipulated landscape shots
rusty pen work
my glasses
three holes in bowling ball, an odd dialysis treatment
A little trouble to get started with dialysis treatment using my fistula today: two nurses worked it out though and I ended up with three holes not the usual two. My pump speed was excellent 420-430 and I cleaned 106 litres.
coming down the pike:
- anigoplasty to fix a narrowing in the fistula
- trip to Toronto, for a final check on my healed heel
- end of August surgery to remove most of my parathyroid glands
- seems we have lost one of our dialysis patient team to home hemodialysis, this program is ramping up in this area of Ontario – I will miss yakking with him in the waiting room
parathyroid removal is common related to hemodialysis
some ink sketch bits
picked up an old sketchbook to do some drawings and found these little bits, which I liked enough to post.
beating Auden – a writing game
I have this small writing game I play in my head. Some days I keep score and other days I let W. H. off the hook. Apparently, W.H. Auden would work at his writing for five hours a day, several cups of tea, an ashtray or three of cigarette butts, and some benzedrine. At least some kind of pill, my memory may be playing tricks with the exact concoction he used. Other writers would write 1500 words exactly, Hemingway pencil to paper and stop in the middle of an idea so he could begin again the next morning without hesitation. Many writers have many rules and rituals, magical potions and incantations, sharpening ten pencils was one I liked. Shelby Foote wrote seven days a week and every day of the year in a writing room where he slept. He would not stop, for fear of the energy needed to regain his momentum. He wrote his three volume history of the American Civil War with a dip pen and a bottle of ink. You will likely recall him with his insights and syrupy drawl speaking as a talking head on Ken Burns‘ Civil War documentary on PBS. Check out his history of the Civil War, a masterpiece.
I am writing less these days and that is despite having more sophisticated electronic devices on which to scribble. A writer tries to find a way to make the effort of writing seem less difficult than it is. I went back in time and tried pencil, pen, typewriter. I am considering a digital voice recorder or voice recognition software so I can just talk to write. More accurately, mutter. I can confess confidently that I am evolving into a true muttery, ill, curmudgeon with all the trims and accessories. Acidic manners and hair trigger rigged rants available 24 hours per day. The odd bad joke. A few million regrets and a surprising amount of wonderment as I read both history and new fiction. I even bemuse myself with thoughts of more positive political results both nationally and locally. Still an opti-cynic as someone labelled me thirty years ago, an optimistic cynic.
I get to the end of the day and consider the writing score: yesterday was Auden 5 me 1. One hour spent writing. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t equate my puny efforts with Auden, He is just my way of keeping score.
Blackberry tablet camera shots
RIM Blackberry tablet camera shots – watercolour effect-ed by uing the app Pencil Camera
my view of the dialysis clinic during my dialysis treatment and a late night kitchen self-portrait- I was in the kitchen for the strong overhead lighting, not for a midnight snack
Bluetyger - William J. Gibson's Notebook 