bodhi tree swaying

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Ladybird, ladybug. Take your pick.

This wasn’t the greatest photo since the ladyinsect was moving almost continuously and the light levels were low.

One of the joys of the fall: backlit maple leaves.

Who doesn’t love rainbows? This is one I snapped a couple of weeks ago when my friend Dassini was over for a visit.

The rainbow can be used to investigate how we impose our divisive concepts on the unbroken world of flow and change. The spectrum of colors in the rainbow is a continuum, and yet we find that the mind skips over the intermediate colors in order to see only red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

 But Xenophanes only described three colors, and saw the rainbow as "a cloud that is purple and red and yellow." Aristotle too saw the rainbow as three-colored, but in his case the colors were red, green, and purple, although he admitted that orange could sometimes be seen between red and green [Meteorologica III, 2. 371-372]. The tri-colored rainbow persisted for a long time in Europe, probably because of the

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Another of the pictures I took yesterday of a dead dragonfly’s wing.

I like this one too. I cropped it so you can see more of the detail.

I couldn’t resist playing with the macro function on my camera this evening after finding a dead dragonfly on the back porch. The picture came out rather well, I thought.

I love American “slow children” signs. They look like they were last redesigned about 1939.

Well, it’s an Ethiopian coin, so it’s really my 0.45c worth. Just me playing with the macro function I hadn’t realized my camera had.

Monkey pictures seem to be popular, so here’s another one I took in Awassa, Ethiopia.

I love the faded Art Deco ambiance of this bar in Ethiopia, where we stopped for refreshments on our way back to Addis after birth family visits down in Sidama. Check out the coffee machine!

I was really just playing with the macro setting on my camera here.

There’s a lame pun in the title of this post: Addis Ababa means “new flower” in Amharic, “abeba” meaning “flower.”

I loved this Coke sign near our guest house. I found myself drinking Coke for the first time in ages and really enjoyed it. It tasted exactly like the Coke of my childhood, unlike Ethiopian Pepsi, which was like nothing I’d ever tasted (and not in a good way). Unfortunately each bottle contains about 10 spoons of sugar, so my pancreas is probably scarred for life.

Spotted on the ladder of a fire engine on a carousel in the grounds of the Ghion hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Shrijnana and Maia at Rye Beach, almost a year ago, in April 2008.

This photograph is part of Monochrome Friday.

Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire is full of little details like this. These are wooden sock stretchers in the laundry drying room.

This photograph is part of Monochrome Friday.

This picture is part of Monochrome Friday.

Propeller of the USS Albacore, an experimental submarine now in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
This photograph is a submission to Monochrome Friday.