Beehive at UCSC farm.
SPC :: Patterns :: week 2
At the de Young Museum, I stood in the gift store, glazed with hunger, asking Damon where we should eat and still finding enough stamina to keep picking things up and looking at them: a Lomo fisheye, supersampler, and this piece of cardboard with a plexiglass kaleidescopic lens in the middle of it novelty. What was it for? Just looking through wasn’t enough. So Damon took my picture. And I took Ford’s
and Chas’
and decided that novelty lenses are fun! what are some other fun things to photograph through?….
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SPC :: Patterns :: week 1
In the spring, we took a boggy family hike through a riparian gulch along Skyline Ridge. Our feet were wet with dew as we plodded across a green meadow that lined the creek and opened to the morning sun. Spiders scampered underfoot. But the boys mostly chased each other, shouting southern anatomical parts and faceplanting into the foot-high grass occasionally. We stopped for lunch on an oak knoll, and passed around sandwiches and sunscreen. Out of my pocket I fished these intact turtle scutes that I’d found on our walk up there around an alpine pond. I figure they’re either from a painted turtle that got caught by (like I’d know, right?)…a coyote?
Scutes are like the skin on a turtle shell. In fact, it’s derived from the epidermis. The word ‘scute’ is derived from the Latin scutum, which means ‘shield.’ The shell, or carapace, can withstand great injury in order to protect the turtle; even deep cracks or entire missing portions are then filled with bone and then able to heal. The carapaces grow outward like the rings in a tree trunk. Just look at the beautiful patterns they make over time! And that, my chelonian buddies, is proof that the God drops acid.
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