Pictures

Sadly headachey today, so I’ve been sorting through holiday photos rather than accomplishing anything much.  I thought I’d try out the photo-posting capabilities of this thing while I’m here. I got called a “renaissance woman! Writer, photographer…” when I mentioned plans to photograph something the other day. (Me: Well, I’m a writer and a person who owns a camera…)

Really, 90% of the photographs I take are either as a later aid to memory, for when my brain inevitably starts taking exciting liberties about what I, other people, or locations looked like in the past; or as illustrations to anecdotes I want to tell people. Which I suppose fits: I’m a storyteller to the core. There’s a reason I send as much if not more time captioning every single photo in my online albums as I do taking the photos.

This my parents’ cat, Sheedo. When I arrived home for the holidays, they pressed me into service installing their new microwave above the stove (which is why that box is so darn big–though the cat’s pretty darn big too). Once the box was empty, I put it upright and placed the cat into it, because he didn’t seem to realize he needed to get started on the cutely playing thing. He sat patiently until my parents removed him again and tipped it on the side because they were worried about the height and his possible arthritis. Once left to his own devices, he quickly decided this was the best use for it.

I took this today of a house I noticed yesterday when about on errands. Don’t worry–I looked it up, and the whole family was successfully rescued by firefighters. It found it interesting in a number of ways. You’d see one wall with perfectly white, intact siding except for some singing around the window, and then you’d turn the corner and realize the interior was gutted and half the roof was gone. On other walls, the fire had peeled away history: the house originally had modern siding over insulation over what looked like the original siding on the wall of the house, only the modern siding and insulation had burned away. The red you can see above might even be an original color, I don’t know.