January 9, 2012

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Clothes shopping in AM: running shoes, jeans, shirt, unders, gloves.
Studio: email, Journal, RS review.
Work with Betty.
Dinner @ Legal: haddock, mashed potatoes, broccoli, Vouvray.
Discovered The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, Pterror Over Paris.
Full Wolf Moon.

Image ... New building at the Pru.

December 24, 2011

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A Yellow Warbler landed on my hat while I was sitting in the sunroom the day before last. It then flew off to the nearby fence where we both had a good chance to look each other over and get an ID. I feel blessed when birds perch on me, chickadees and titmice among the others. They don't do it lightly, although perhaps by chance.

A night of rain that evening and the garden is now flooded again, but only partly this time. The paths and patios are passable, if sort of soggy and squishy.

Working on Roofscape #1. Learning code. Marking up. Swatting bugs. Introducing and editing content. Writing new work. Back in the saddle. Fun. Of sorts. I love the challenge of coding.

Working at the Y. They're going to kick us out any minute now. Head home for the holidays. Good for them. Fellow sufferers. I've got to stop by the garden. Back anon. After these holy days. Everything closed now as if in mourning. The Puritans had it right. On the subjects of sin - and Christmas - they nailed it. Avoid both. They lead down the same path. As Niebuhr famously said, "The only provable assertion in all of religion is the existence of sin." Amen.

Image ... Shop window at the Pru.

December 18, 2011

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The Higgs Boson, an elusive subatomic particle who's existence has been theorized since the 1960's as helping to give mass to matter, may have finally been spotted at Cern, the super particle accelerator array straddling the Swiss-French border deep underground. Here's a video describing the possible discovery.

Meanwhile, I'm flying along learning XHTML and CSS. Very exciting. I've always loved programming. This will bring Roofscape up to current standards and lift the design and functionality of the magazine by several notches.

Very chilly today. Must be in the 20's with some breezes, even real winds at times. Worked at the Prudential Center's 'Winter Garden', Panera and YMCA. Snell Library at Northeastern closed today.

Began moving titles and content into Roofscape #1, while working with CSS coding learned this morning - 'span', 'div' and 'float'.

I do, however, suffer from being at computers for hours on end, a physical unease and mental fatigue. Maybe we all do at times, but some more than others.

March 16, 2011

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Quote of the Day
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates

Image ... Kitchen window, the Pru.

January 13, 2011

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Nor'easter blizzard blanketed Boston yesterday with about a foot of snow driven in on high winds. Pavement, my regular morning hang, a coffee house, was closed. Retreated to the Prudential Center and took refuge in the (closed, opens at 4:00 pm) bar off the Sheraton lobby. BPL and TSP boarded up too.

Quote of the Day
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard

Image ... Trees in the snow. Prudential Center, Boston.

January 9, 2011

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Quote of the Day
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

Image ... Prudential Center, Boston.

November 21, 2010

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Quote of the Day
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

Image ... The Prudential Center, Boston.

July 14, 2010

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Away five days, camping out four nights, with flood, heat, fog, humidity and broken heart. On retreat. In retreat. Thinking anyway. Struggling. Oh, and my bike's broken too. Reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s autobiography. Second time around, now back in the middle of Montgomery. Made some photographs.

I really enjoy this picture. It's so crazy simple, but still somehow satisfying. It's the Pru and whatever that new building is called that's next to it. It has a name, but no one knows it. I love it though.

For months I've been receiving mysterious comments in Chinese. I plug them into WorldLingo, a free online translater, and they invariably come out something like this (a response to the entry of July 8) ...

Whish does recommends the BLOG person bracing cold to be really prosperous left.

... in other words, cryptic and/or ridiculous, but with a Confucian air - or an air of confusion. Definitely lost in translation.

Spent the day writing as the rain spit fitfully. Nothing important or serious; just jottings, observations, thoughts. Returned home, finally, taking the train from Southie, downloaded and edited photos and wrote some more.

Quote of the Day
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
Frank B. Kellogg

Image ... Prudential Center, Boston.

May 5, 2010

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Early, an inky blue sky. Yellow moon shing through the hemlock. Chattering chorus of birds. Wind sifting the trees. Surf of distant traffic. Sweep of jet. Yap of seagulls circling in the sky.

Dug out the composters further and added to planting beds. Chopped up the raspberry canes in Chychy's garden and spread over muddy areas on public path. Weeded her garden.

A work crew cleaning out the gardens in back of us cut off the grape vine on the uphill side of Chychy's garden. Now there's no privacy. I'm highly annoyed. On the other hand, they did get rid of that damned multiflora rose that was always invading. We're going to plant a lot of Scarlet Runner Beans.

Freddie dropped in and spent an hour or so on a work break. Neighbors - Mike, Ron, Richard B., Richard D, Tom, woman across the way. Visited Richard Barry and had a chat.

9:00-65°. H-79°. L-49°. Sky-100% clear. Wind-SW, 5-10. RH-low.

Image ... View from the grape arbor in the garden.