Garden Sentinels

These lilies of the valley are keeping watch over the garden. Like silent sentinels, they signal the other flowers that it is okay to start the spring growth surge.

Lilies of the valley are hard to contain. They really are like weeds, silently marching across the gardenscape, taking over whatever hill or dip that they want. The good thing about them is that they seem to be ale to grow where others things can't, or won't. And they do add a green lushness to the garden. And they smell really good.

I'm not sure why I have this love/hate relationship with these plants. Maybe they remind me of me--strong, pretty, adding value, but also just a little overwhelming.

Focus/Journey

These items are mementos of different trips I've taken. The skates are from Lake Placid, of course. The fleur-de-lis is from New Orleans. The regiment guard and Batisse the goat from The Citadel in Quebec City. The fantastic shape on the left from the new art museum in Denver. The telephone booth, London. The arch, St. Louis. The shells, Amangansett. The chess piece, Lexington.

I saw a reference to a new photo system yesterday, the the Light Field Camera (LFC). Rather than capture an image the way your current camera does, it captures information about where the light is traveling. This information can then be turned into a picture or, more precisely, a series of pictures with different focus points. It is pretty interesting technology, and that's actually how I wanted to show my trinkets. I wanted to take a series of images with the focus on different objects.Why?

Although Focus/Journey are not really opposites, they do suggest different points of view. What do you tend to see . . . or not see?

Focus brings your attention to the what. A journey on the where. 
Too often I tend to focus on the what--the slight, the missed opportunity, the project gone bad, the time I, or my work, didn't get noticed. I need to focus more on the where--the journey of life.