Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Through these eyes...

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UPDATE:
Carole said my pic looked like a blues album cover, and suggested a band name and title. So here you are, Carole...


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29 comments:

  1. Today, anyway.
    Tomorrow, maybe not.

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  2. It is my turn to say I don't know what to say.

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  3. thoughtful. like you, sugar! xox

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  4. Rainy there? Whatever it is, I like it.

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  5. matching weather. we've got that too. i dig your take on it - moody, but you know it smells good, because rain does.

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  6. Bloody typical - I try to make some kind of existential angst kind of statment with a picture of rain, and the first 4 commenters live in desert environments...

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  7. I tried to go out for a paper today, but was beaten back in: my eyeballs looked like your window. When will it end?

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  8. That'll be us soon enough... stupid seasons

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  9. to me...its a pic of fragmented shattered rain droplets as viewed through a hazy cloudy distorted view in gloomy shades of grey.

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  10. Maybe you need to migrate south for the winter months.

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  11. Eryl - well it's clear and sunny here today - did you get the snow last night?

    FLG - maybe we should live in more equatorial climates, which don't tend to have such changes

    KarateMom - that's it! Reflected yesterday's mood perfectly.

    Conan - I should be living in a mediterranean climate. The only drawback is lack of money, lack of another language and Maggie's not so keen.

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  12. It is a perfect cover for a Blues album. Good eye.

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  13. No snow last night, a smattering today but it's been gloriously sunny for the most part.

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  14. Oh Kim. What a picture. No depth of field whatsoever. You have focused on the window rather than the world outside. A common mistake among beginners. Alter aperture and lens settings and we might get somewhere.
    As for the rain, welcome to Dumfriesshire. Serves you right.

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  15. I like pregnant window-rain-drops, all full of incipient trickle.

    What's the wee brown thing in the lower left? i might say it's a commentary on the jaundiced state of the current economic climate but I always did get carried away to easily.

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  16. Carole - send me a title and a band name (make them up) and I'll create an album cover out of it :)

    Eryl - I love the sun

    Dr Maroon - Once again I am gobsmacked by your understanding and insight

    Sam - On the left is the library across the road. The yellowish bit was the light on in the window. Over on the right is a monkey puzzle tree - the only one I've seen in SW Scotland, I have to admit.

    So when you combine the idea of a lonely light calling to booklovers in an increasingly underfunded and underused resource, with the foreign tree in an alien environment, we can see how the uber narrative plays out in a dark and blurry background juxtaposed with the drops in front of our eyes, distorting the life giving light, and undermining our sense of belonging in a nostlagic and unattainable Britain...

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  17. Wow, now I have to put a band together, just so I can have the album cover. That is excellent.

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  18. very cool..when I was a kid in school we had to design album covers very cool project saw some awesome ideas..this brought back memories of that assignment.

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  19. Makes me smile - it reminds me of my Gran. On a Monday - washday - when it was raining she'd turn back from the window with a tragic face and
    intone, with gloom and doom drowning every syllable -
    'Raining again!'
    You had to be there. It was throat cut time!

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  20. Rain is coming our way, too, and thunderstorms. Through Sunday night. That means mud. And muddy dogs. Ugh.

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  21. It could also be the advert for some kind of sexy men's cologne.

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  22. There's something very magical about the rain in Scotland. You've managed to capture it perfectly, and it's just how I always envisage it to be.

    If you're not Scottish, rain is just rain.

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  23. desert? i think not, sugar...this is faulkner country - verdant, luscious, fecund land...ok, maybe not in the winter, but still far from a desert. ;) xoxox

    (don't hate the playa, hate the game...not my fault it's 11c at 6.30 in the morning, darlin!)

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  24. KarateMom - maybe I should turn it into a meme and tag everyone...

    Pat - I can feel it, I can feel it...

    Debra - muddy dogs... one of the reasons pets never appealed...

    Kanani - "Gloom. Pour Hommes"

    Jimmy - at some point I may have to point out to you that although I've lived in Scotland for 21 years and my wife and children are Scottish...

    Savannah - maybe I should have said warmer and sunnier. But then most people fit into that category...

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  25. *poke* ya'll know i'm jes teasin! ;) xoxo


    (but it really was that warm anevne warmer now!)

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  26. rains just change my mood.. hate rains, how i wish it was always sunny..

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  27. I know the feeling - I need to be living somewhere like Greece, Southern France, or California rather than Scotland as far as the weather is concerned :)

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