No good can come of this. Let me say that I am philosophically and politically opposed to snow in almost any form, save the occasional visual depiction. Not to mention that I nearly fell on my behind three times while walking to work this morning …
Kim and I take a walk for some fall color and include some downtown shopping at two of our favorite stores — looking at used books and kitchen stuff. I document many wish list items, notice an interesting wine label from Walla Walla, and watch Kim walk off into the autumn sunset.
Escorting us on a tour of the campus, Ivi brought us to the Hoffman Art Gallery, a clean, simple, minimalistic high-ceilinged space reminiscent of traditional warehouse/loft galleries seen everywhere over the years. The work of only one artist was featured, Stephen Hayes, a veteran Oregon artist who is/was? an OSU art professor, showing a 30-year retrospective of his work. While photography was not encouraged, I did grab one of Hayes’ self-portraits, seen below. Really a fine show; I could have spent much more time there than we did. However, you can see more online.
Next, we visited the Library, itself brimming with art on almost every wall. Here the featured exhibit was an extraordinary display devoted to Denis Diderot, the French philosopher who was the main powerhouse behind the early Encyclopédie of the mid 1700s. Along with a few pictures below, we brought home the exhibit catalog and booklet, a copy of which was targeted for Grandma Janet.
The Library turns out to be Ivi’s second “home” on campus, where she apparently spends the great majority of her waking hours, even to the extent of friends delivering meals to her there as she works/studies/researches. I likedthe place myself, and can understand its pull. Ivi points out that the young woman incorporated as subject into one of the art pieces on the wall happened to be her RA from last year.
Off to Farmers’ Market on a city block of the downtown PSU campus. Chilly morning. Spent hours there, sampling cheeses, pastries, juices, unidentifiables, you name it. Had the best tart, ever. Great signage, plenty of people watching, lots of music. Rampant color, gurgling with activity. Came back with cheese, sprouts, other stuff, as much as we could carry. Ivi says that she and her friends often go there for an a la carte walking breakfast.
Must report that the deer-repellant flags that Kim made from strips of aluminum foil-like survival blanket material and installed a couple of months ago at key deer-jump locations apparently work, as we have seen no evidence of deer incursions since.
With a temp forecast of near freezing tonight, this may be the last of the garden harvest.
While heading for a sunrise photo shoot this morning …
Good brakes and responsive handling help, but most important is keeping eyes open and looking way down the road.
Some of our audience are sure to know this, but for those who don’t, emoji is the Japanese expression for what we commonly know as “smileys”. While emoji started off life in Japanese email and web communications, their use has been adopted by much of the world at large, including Apple and Android smartphone operating systems and many websites and web services. Here is a realtime visual tracker that shows counts and frequency of particular emoji as used by Twitter. The most-used emoji, reassuringly, is the heart symbol (or at least was at the time of this writing). Click on the graphic or go here to see the tracking in action.
