The week that was: last Sunday I did not get out much, but here is the glorious sunset shot through the car window. I got an excellent shot of an elk today through the window and I am all about it; all hail the half closed window as a compositional device. On Monday, I got home and discovered that the inflatable Halloween decorations had turned sideways and were chasing each other across the front yard. I have no idea how this happened but I like to think they had just had enough Halloween. Down to the bum scudly candy (h/t to Lynda Barry from some old half remembered City Paper comic strip for the evocative description) and the costume tucked up into the attic. Halloween disappears so quickly. Tuesday was of course the day we should all be celebrating – Tuesday, when we said STOP – and WHOOO yes it is about TIME! In my anxious heart I fear it is not enough and I fear for the next 2 months and I know we need real change not lip service BUT! I cried! I did not think I would see another Democratic senator from my home state of South Carolina ever again in my lifetime and a woman at that! And the governors of Georgia and of New Mexico! Strong smart beautiful women of color! I am so proud. It feels unfamiliar and slightly alarming. Now prosecute the bastards, throw their asses in prison and fix the laws so the seizing of the country by mobbed up thug rapists never ever happens again. Alas, local elections did not turn out as I had wished but rather as I thought they probably would. Bah. But I suspect not much will actually change here, which is of course what they wanted and rather the problem.
To return to the photos, Wednesday is a photo from the college through a screen and I like it quite a lot. Thursday is horizontal, an evening walk by Youngs Bay just as the light goes desolate. Friday, I am sorry neighbors, I was not taking a photo inside your house, but I could not resist the actual deer by the deer statues in your yard. And yesterday morning I took Harvey to the river beach early and this spectacular sunrise was our reward. Look at that. That is something. That is amazing. Be awed.
See? An elk through the car window, framed nicely by that tree. Car window! It’s the quintessentially American view.
In other news I feel that Harvey’s prozac is beginning to kinda, sorta, work and my son has renamed Sushi the terrible aka T-Bar (That Boy Ain’t Right) to Combat Wombat, which is fitting. He remains terrible and I despair. He might grow up to be an amazing cat but if he stays this obnoxious he might not grow up at all. In a departure from gentle nonviolence I smacked him on the butt this morning, which fazed him not one iota. He is tormenting poor Mr. Binks, who is 3 times his size but apparently somewhat overmatched. But I can’t figure out how to get rid of him, so here, of course, he stays. My brother and his carer are united in their loathing; he drives me round the bend but somehow, it’s very hard to rid oneself of a demon kitten. And that’s all I got, as the evening draws on and it gets dark too early, although I will add that time changes are extremely hard on dementia patients and my brother has had a rough week of it.
Oh wait I almost forgot. So I googled this blog and the search results are two paragraphs of political vitriol, which I feel is a bit unfair. This blog is far, far more boring than that brief departure into despair would make one think. It does say something, though, about the algorithm and the way things are judged and how much people need to take every single damn thing online with a tablespoon or so of salt. And it says that the algorithm is trying desperately hard to stir up trouble. Which it signally failed at doing because you, whoever you are, are the only person who reads this thing. Phew! Thank you! And now I am about done as time changes and marches, as they say, on. In, apparently, jackboots. Catch you next week!
And thank you for reading this far! As a reward here is a photo from the real camera on October 20 which I am about to swap out on the blog. Now it will be up in two places which is fitting because DAMN, the Walgreens never looked so good.
