Visions

This is just a place, a cellar, for me to store the fruits of the lovely weed that is my photography habit.

January 18, 2007 - Moon with Rocket

Attempt at a little digital art. A very little.

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October 31, 2006 - Boo (!)

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October 29, 2006 - Kukul Can

Some carved images of the serpent god from Chichén Itzá

Tomb of the High Priest

Ballcourt railing

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October 25, 2006 - A Keyhole in the Earth

A minor feature at Chichén Itzá, located maybe twenty feet from the southwest corner of the Observatory complex. Not included in the tour. My best guess? More practical than fantastical, I'm afraid: I think it was a well, a convenience for the astronomer-priests, too busy figuring out how many times Venus would be occluded by the moon in the next fifty-two years to consider a break for a beverage. No surprise the well filled up with debris in eight hundred years, and no surprise, what with all the other wonders just lying around in the jungle still uncovered, that something so mundane remains unexcavated.

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October 22, 2006 - Sea God Shrine

Maya Shrine, Postclassic Era. Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, México

Perhaps the coolest of the many, many mindblowingly cool things I photographed during my trip to the Yucatan peninsula. I found this shrine at the edge of the jungle overlooking the beach a little over a mile south of my hotel. The jaunty hat it appears to be wearing is a cactus. And yes, leaning against the entrance is the barnacle-encrusted, sea-worn glass cathode of a 1970s-era television.

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September 24, 2006 - Yellow Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria formosa

Found these growing in spongy, mossy soil, a mix of pine needles and oak leaves, at an altitude of about 500 feet, on the east side of the Pocumtuck Ridge.

If you haven't read the Wikipedia entry for fly agaric, do it. Crazy and fascinating stuff.

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September 24, 2006 - Water Lily

Nymphaea odorata
Interesting... My flower book suggests you might be able to do the ole hide underwater breathe-through-straw trick with the leafstalk of a water lily. It also says muskrats like to dig up water lily rhizomes and eat them.

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August 15, 2006 - Worldbuilding

An old world on the verge of collapse.

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August 02, 2006 - Pistol and Helm

Sixteenth century German wheel-lock pistol and comb morion, Higgins Armory Museum

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July 19, 2006 - Storm over Catskills

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June 20, 2006 - Beyond the Fields We Know

See where the rainbow touches the ground? That's where I live.

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June 20, 2006 - Storm Breaking over Sunderland

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June 15, 2006 - Barleywine

Mash left behind in the carboy after the initial fermentation of the Waning Moon Tavern's Connubial Bliss Barleywine.

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April 22, 2006 - Reynard

A red fox I met on a recent afternoon in a backyard near the Chesterfield River.

An interesting article on foxes coexisting with people in London.
Reminds me of the fox spirits in Pom Poko.

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April 21, 2006 - Mt. Norrowtuck, Viewed from the Tower

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April 21, 2006 - Stone Mark

I found this mark cut into a fat block of granite, part of a centuries-old colonial post road embankment two miles back in the woods of Chesterfield, MA.

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