some things for the senses

[asakiyume]

Apples--they are coming ripe, and they taste good. In sunlight, they feel warm in your hand.



When I doubt my contributions to the world, I look at this apple tree and feel proud.

Here are some cosmos flowers. Did you know they have a fragrance? I didn't until I tried sniffing one just today. Then it was me and the bees fighting for who was going to get to put their face in each flower ... You know, they are so much prettier than this photo. They grow by the road, but when you look at them, there's no road. When you're looking at them, they're abundant and graceful, more than this photo shows. How can I put it. The photo tells the wrong truth.



One of my favorite views. When osprey_archer was here, she recognized it because (I am guessing) I take a lot of pictures of it. If I could lucid-dream on demand, I'd go flying over it.



And a drawing! I'm not sure if it's a girl or a boy or a someone who isn't either, or who's both.

Comments

[zyzyly]

Malida is so proud of her apple tree. She goes out and talks to it. Most of the apples are gone because she likes them green.

[asakiyume]

I understand her feelings entirely!

[amaebi]

It is a Somerset tradition to wassail the apple trees in January.

[asakiyume]

That's lovely, like telling news to bees.

[sovay]

When I doubt my contributions to the world, I look at this apple tree and feel proud.

It is a splendid apple tree.

Here are some cosmos flowers.

Is that really what they're called? I didn't know!

[asakiyume]

It is! I have the orange variety as well as the white-pink-deep red-purple variety, though you can't see any in that photo.

The first time I remember seeing cosmos was in the movie The Color Purple. I asked my mother what those beautiful flowers were, and she told me cosmos.

It's popular in Japan, too. I remember a song--probably it was a 1970s song; it was on a collection of oldies I had--that used cosmos as its central image.

[sovay]

The first time I remember seeing cosmos was in the movie The Color Purple. I asked my mother what those beautiful flowers were, and she told me cosmos.

I've seen them my entire life, but never known their name; I think I thought of them as some kind of windflower. Thank you!

[pameladean]

Oh, these are lovely. And cosmos are splendid. I haven't managed to plant any for several years, but maybe I'll manage next spring.

P.

[asakiyume]

There's a house near a farm supply shop in town that has its front lawn turned over entirely to cosmos (or it did at one time; I haven't been by that way for a while). It was so glorious. I think that's the reason I planted the area by our mailbox in cosmos.

[khiemtran]

Cameras, in my experience, lie all the time. The trick is not what's in the frame, but what they leave out...

[asakiyume]

Our eyes do such a perfect job of focusing on what's important--they accomplish effortlessly what cameras need filters and zooms and blur-outs and all kinds of other postproduction aids to try to duplicate.

[amaebi]

And two things they all leave out are the third and fourth dimensions.

[asakiyume]

True!

[cmcmck]

The russets are ready for picking here now!

And I love russets! :o)

[asakiyume]

Russets are **wonderful**.

[amaebi]

I think that may be a dandelion person.

[asakiyume]

I like that idea!

[missroserose]

Jamila went apple-picking last weekend, and brought us a bag of delicious Zestars. Brian made an apple crisp with them...and we discovered that Zestars don't hold up to cooking well, so it turned out to be more like applesauce with topping. But it was still delicious.

I once snapped a photo of the Hancock Tower, one of the tallest and most impressive buildings in Chicago, from a perspective standing on the street a block away. It looked magnificent, a shining black obelisk rising up literally a hundred floors into the sky...and I sent it to a friend, commenting, "What you can't see is the homeless man with a sign asking for help sitting just below frame. This seems an appropriate summary of Chicago." The camera really is a far more limited instrument than we like to think.

I love your idea of going flying over that view. Perhaps I shall join you sometime.

[asakiyume]

We can meet in our lucid dreams :-)

I like how amaebi put it about a camera not seeing in four dimensions...you can look up at the Hancock Tower and then your gaze can travel down, but a camera--well, a still camera, anyway--catches only a static moment.

I'm glad the Zestars were delicious, even if they didn't hold their shape. I remember my first-ever taste of a Zestar--it was since we move to this town.

[osprey_archer]

Flowers seem so impossible to photograph sometimes! There seem to be masses and masses of them, and then you take a photograph and there are just little tiny dots of color surrounded by - green, or roadway, or whatever. Do human eyes enlarge flowers somehow?

Are the apples pie apples or just plain eating apples?

[asakiyume]

I think humans just have a great ability to focus on what interests them and blot out other stuff.

The apples are both! They're good eating and good in pies.

[kore]

Aw it's like that Randall Jarrell quote

And even if the world should end to-morrow
I still would planet my little apple tree.

[asakiyume]

What a beautiful quote!