Sat 19.Jan.2013
Rhodes, Greece
Midnight again, and here I am, preparing to post. Tonight
I have a visual Theme.
Not a deliberate plan - I was just keeping an eye out for interesting
pictures. Maybe it was the low angle of the winter sun. For whatever
cause, I got a set of photos in what might be called mood lighting.
Coming up with a new title for each of these pages is
beginning to cause me some skullsweat. Sixteen More Photos of Rhodes would be
true but uninteresting, and ambiguous if I were to use it more than once.
When I arrived last September, you could not see these branches, just a mass of
leaves. Now there are no leaves visible, and plenty of branches.
Come Summer the leaves will be back. By the time I return next Fall,
the cycle will be ready to begin again, as near as you can say that a circle
"begins" someplace.
Another slow rhythm of Rhodes that I have been a regular here long
enough to notice. Part of our local twirl in the long dance of sun and planet.
Fractal geometry!
With nothing to show the scale, this concrete ledge could pass
for a micrograph of a rock, or a satellite image of a desert landscape.
Or you could imagine this crack in the paving stones as a canyon on Mars.
"The smoothest runway is as rough as the Himalayas, except for the vertical
scale."
- B. Mandelbrot
The thin stumps in the middle ground are a patch of severely trimmed hibiscus
bushes.
At the rate things grow here, they will be back, but I do miss them.
