high voltage and reversed glass dishes and the moon

high voltage and reversed glass dishes and the moon, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

and it is time for late breakfast. The moon will move. The dishes will stay. The power will move and stay, and help us make breakfast.

flower color matching butterfly wings

flower color matching butterfly wings, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

For a moment I thought he had holes in his wings.

Inger Christensen's crown sonnet from her "The valley of the butterflies"
Translated from Danish into English by John Irons

"XV
Skywards they swirl, the planet’s butterflies
in Brajchino valley’s searing midday air,
up from the bitter cavern’s sombre dyes
that mountain scrub hides with a scent so rare.

As admiral and camberwell and blue,
as peacock butterflies they flutter by
and make believe the universe’s fool
a life that does not simply choose to die.

Who is it that transforms this meeting stead
with hint of peace of mind and honeyed lies
and summer visions of the vanished dead?

My ear responds to this with its deaf ringing:
It is no less than death with its own eyes
looking at you from butterflies when winging."

I am a tourist in a car in a narrow Italian street

I am a tourist in a car in a narrow Italian street, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

I have a GPS and I am not really lost. I am intentionally lost. The car in front of me is blocking the passage because he met someone he knows. I have the time, and he is not really blocking. He is moving very slowly.
I accept it as only a tourist would, and begin to like being lost and blocked.
I take a photograph of the situation. And I write about it. You read about it.
It is not a very good photograph. It is not a very good description.
It is more like it is a bit lost, and a bit blocked.
I am still a tourist.

rural Italian transportation

rural Italian transportation, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

in Rome it would have been a Vespa

roaring sea of sunflowers

roaring sea of sunflowers, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

that house is going to be flooded soon

memento Dibutades

memento Dibutades, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

Now she is leaving...

Pliny the Elder tells the legend of a young Corinthian, presumably by the name Dibutades, who draws the shadow of her beloved on the wall before he must leave her. Legend says she creates the first portrait, even invents the art of drawing or painting.
Her father, Butades, fills the outline of the shadow with clay and bakes it. Legend says he creates the first relief sculpture.
There are divergent details in the story depending on who is telling. But it is a great legend, inspirational to painters, poets photographers and more, even to this day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butades
www.nga.gov/education/classroom/origin_myths/art_corinthi...

brewing moka

brewing moka, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

coffee fountain

dayswimming

dayswimming, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

the water is the color of the sky

nightswimming

nightswimming, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

the water is the color of the sky

holy water

holy water, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

it tasted good and now I glow in the dark

dead or alive

dead or alive, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

gothically beautiful anyway on a field in Umbria

the Moon seen from Italy

the Moon seen from Italy, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

looks a lot like the Moon seen from anywhere

looking at you

looking at you, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

reflecting on the house and the pool

knock knock

knock knock, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

here's Johnny

nuns sense

nuns sense, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

if it hadn't been for the car, that I just couldn't crop out, it could have been anytime the last many hundred years.
I think that's the point of religion; to be out of time, above it. That is nun's sense...

review mirror

review mirror, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

reviewing the bars

review mirrorly

review mirror, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

reviewing lamp

Italian sausage

Italian sausage, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

for sale, sausages typical of Umbria, Italy

wild boar

wild boar, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

wildly bored

the hill is getting bald

the hill is getting bald, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

but may give good wines

Italian curves

Italian curves, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

are dangerous

stone faces

stone faces, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

still expressing

horizontal zebra cathedral close up

horizontal zebra cathedral close up, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy

horizontal zebra cathedral

horizontal zebra cathedral, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy

courtyard

courtyard, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

houses cheek to cheek

you've come a long long way

you've come a long long way, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

up an amazing maze of steps

this old clock is behind time

this old clock is behind time, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

and I

they met on the cobblestones

they met on the cobblestones, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

peacocks

girls hanging out round the ice cream

girls hanging out round the ice cream, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

looks a little like a trivial pursuit item though

advertising in the lion's face

advertising in the lion's face, a photo by mononom on Flickr.

old meets new.

This picture could be a haiku. Maybe like this:

old door lions mouth
this weeks advertisement stuck
[knock knock]