RMW Ramblings

  Winter Dreams of Flower Market This is Flower Market week in Wilmington.  This charity fund raising event has run for over 100 years, and for over 60 years in Rockford Park with the iconic Rockford Tower.  It has grown beyond flower sales to include food, rides, games, and more.   Rockford Park also has the most popular sledding hill in the city.  Here w inter sledding kids see phantom Flower Market tents and rides.    

      California Poppies This year's heavy rainfall initiated a "superbloom" of wildflowers in California (https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/us/california-superbloom-flowers-climate/index.html) especially California poppies ( Eschscholzia californica ),  A photo on the news link reminds me of a painting I did of Mt Shasta.  The link was sent to me by our son-in-law Bill, who with Maura own the painting.

  Clutter Collections 3 Smith Island in the Chesapeake.

  Blue Glory Our brains are programed to identify patterns, a survival skill called pardeidolia, which enabled our ancestors to quickly identify threats in the wild.  We see faces in shadows and clouds, but not all such interpretations are of faces and animals.   Here I saw a flag as Mary sorted out some things, Blue Glory.    

  Clutter Collections 2 Remote Transform Consumer technology marches on; the detritus goes to flea markets.

  Clutter Collections 1 Rubber Duckies Leaving minimalist photography for the moment, a look at another category of photos I like to shoot, which I call clutter collections.   Prime sources for me are outdoor flea-market and yard sales. Here is Rubber Duckies.    They loose their individual identity and become a color abstraction.

  Minimalist Photography 2 Apothecary Shadow