Weekly Photo Challenge: Color/Colour

Posted on April 7, 2013 by maedez

“The earth has music for those who listen.”-George Santayana

“Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature –the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”-Rachel Carson

Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense

Posted on March 27, 2013 by maedez

An engagement, a marriage, a fantastical blooming: this apartment building has silently witnessed it all. After six years, we are moving. After six years, we are ready to go forward. Into the next phase of our lives. Into the beautiful unknown. After six years, we are saying goodbye to our flat, our neighborhood, our first real home as a couple. The future awaits, somewhere across the river.

Exit Sign

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”-Kierkegaard

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”-Poe

“I don’t fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.”-Patti Smith

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime

Posted on March 21, 2013 by maedez

ROASTED BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Roasted Brussels Sprouts, with truffle oil, duck fat, and bacon.

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

PRETZEL BEIGNETS

Pretzel Beignets, with cream.

Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood

Posted on March 10, 2013 by maedez

Welcome to CAMPy WASHINGTON, where humor is a matter of civic pride.

Here’s George Washington, all dolled up to keep watch over the fine citizens of this urban neighborhood. He’s attended by Cincinnati’s famous flying pigs and a docile cow.

The purple gorilla and old-timey robot aren’t just mural stars: they have real life counterparts, statues that are an integral part of our local identity.

George is ready for his close-up.

The mural sits right off the highway, and is visible to random people filling their tanks at two gas stations. Although it doubtless makes them smile, its real importance is in brightening the lives of local residents who spend their days looking at manufacturing warehouses and crumbling 19th century brick buildings. In a neighborhood so far off the radar as to lack even the condescending appellation “up and coming”, public art really does make a difference.