Technically autumn arrived a month ago for the northern hemisphere but for those of us in the Southwest region of the US, it feels like summer is struggling to release it’s fiery hands from the atmosphere.
However, autumn has been slowly extinguishing the flames of summer heat by ways of later sunrises and earlier sunsets, minimizing the hours in the day warmth is allowed.
I had the fortune of visiting Lake Tahoe (first time) after Labor Day. In that area at that time I could truly sense the change in seasons. It was an amazing weekend spent amongst the trees, the water and the mountains. Below are a few memories from that trip.
At the bottom of the mountain at Emerald Bay State Park Colorful bird in the forest.Water fowl enjoying the lake.Lake Tahoe from the entrance to Emerald Bay State Park.Lake Tahoe on the Nevada side of the city.View of the lake from my paddle board on the California side.
Hello! It’s been a few weeks since I posted thanks to life. To my pleasant surprise, today’s prompt was a perfect excuse to post something.
Music is something that has always been part of my life. From an early age, I took to playing musical instruments, starting with piano. Everyone in my family had somewhat varied musical tastes which later influenced my eclectic taste.
Music has been there for me at times when I wasn’t quite sure how to process things. It’s been there for me during long stretches of tedious work tasks and projects that nearly drove me insane work tasks. Shoot, half the time when I’m walking around town I have my own soundtrack running through my head, perfectly punctuating every step.
To summarize, music enriches my life.
Stay tuned – later this week (or weekend) I’ll have a fun music related post that I hope you will all check out and participate in.
Also, if you are on Instagram, be sure to follow my account. My latest post is a collection of photos from the Wanamaker building in downtown Philadelphia, which includes the World’s Largest Pipe Organ.
This weekend, I’m finishing up my final project for a post-grad certificate program I’ve been enrolled in since January of this year. I’m currently knee deep in executing Python code to create a model that will assign a database of IT support tickets into different categories. Fun stuff! So while I’m busy working in a Jupyter notebook, I thought to keep thing moving along on my blog, I’d share some work from another notebook.
Sophomore Yr English Poetry Notebookca. 1996
My sophomore year English instructor had us put together a notebook of our work over the fall and spring semesters. I didn’t have a computer at home at the time, so I remember working on this during my lunch break in the school’s computer lab. I don’t know why I chose a cursive font but whatever! She was nice enough to package our work in a spiral bound and laminated notebook, which I still have today.
I’ll share page 6 as it contains 1) a poem about summertime 2) a limerick and 3) a haiku.
It’s not award winning work, but hey I was 16 when I wrote these. The limerick still cracks me up- which tells me my humor has not changed much since I was in high school.
This Page 6 …not that other Page Six.
Seasons Poem
The hot blazing sun.
Its rays beam down to the Earth like a laser.
The days seem to last an eternity.
Patiently I wait for cool breezes.
As I step onto the sizzling sidewalk , I wonder
Will this hellish weather ever end?
Finally, I see a yellow leaf floating to the ground
As the wind travels through the cool night air.
Note: After reading this, the yellow leaf could be from a dead tree- you know- that died from the summer heat. The cool night air indicates the shift from summer to not summer but not yet fall. So, probably late August, early September.
Limerick
There once was a kid who had a dog.
One day the dog chased after a frog.
While running down the street.
A car the dog did meet.
And got squashed because of a dumb little frog.
Haiku
The clouds move swiftly
Fluffy and round, always moving
Stretched out in the sky
Fluffy clouds moving through the sky.
Have you recently come across any creative projects from years ago? Did it surprise you to revisit your work?
During a recent walk through my local convention center I looked upward and noticed faux bird and clouds/sky hanging throughout the expanse of the food court.
I *think* I get what the vision was here, but the size of each piece seems rather small; the sky/cloud pieces especially should be larger in my opinion.
I’m curious if whomever came up with the idea- if the execution was as intended.
I’m curious if it’s weird to eat your meals under a fake sky with fake birds.
Lastly, I’m curious if when this food court is open and hopping, if convention attendees even notice the fake birds and sky adorning the ceiling?!
Sidenote: The “featured image” you may have saw in the WP Reader was WP’s AI generated image.
While the “sky” and “clouds” are more noticeable, this looks like bird wings hanging from the ceiling, instead of the representation of a full bird. Verdict, this is even creepier than the actual installation.
Do you have any public spaces in your area with *curious* adornments? Drop a note in the comments below.
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Taken July 2018, taken near Central Ave and Adams St. in downtown Phoenix. Hanny’s was a department store that last almost 40 years, from 1947-1986. The building was designed by local architects Royal Lescher and Leslie Mahoney.
Although I mostly WFH these days, and my office doesn’t have much of a breakroom to speak of anymore, I’ve collected photos over the years of items I’ve found in office break rooms or other public spaces doubling as a break room. Thought I’d share one today.
Sage advice! I took this back in 2013. Who knew this was a prediction of things to come! I hear employers in current the job market are primarily looking for unicorns.
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