Flowers, snow, popcorn and your technological irony of the day
Categories: Photography, Photographs, Technology, Weather, Apple, Toys, Popcorn
Originally uploaded by cce_photography.
Another shot from Longwood Gardens. One of the fun things about low light and dark gray afternoon is that you can get some striking contrasts in your composition. I did not expect this photograph to come out as well as it did. I love how intense the yellow is and how deep and dark the background became. I also like the sense of depth and depth of field - the front flower is in focus while the two behind are beyond the focal point, the third slightly blurrier than the second. Perhaps I’m too hooked on having my focal depth as tiny as possible.
I sent in my membership to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society today. The Philadelphia Flower Show is coming up. I went 2 years ago but skipped it last year. When I was living up North, the Boston Flower Show was a luxurious escape from Winter. Down here, the winter is much milder (more so this year) so the escape isn’t quite as necessary. Maybe by the first weekend in March there will be 3 feet of snow on the ground! A girl can dream, can’t she?
This morning, amidst a snow squal, a Nostalgia Electrics CCP509 Full-Size Popper arrived on the doorstep. Much glee all in one moment! (My birthday is Monday so there was little doubt that the sudden appearance of a popcorn popper was indeed a sign from the Birthday Gods. Oh, and the Fop clearly loves me.) I have, in fact, always wanted one and never been able to justify buying one. (A small part of me suspects that the Fop bought me a difficult to pack-up-and-move appliance in order to make it more difficult to move North.)
The snow was just a passing flurry. I am currently comforting myself with a bowl of freshly popped theater popcorn from the Fop-assembled popper. It’s Really Good Popcorn too. Crispy, crunchy, hot and yummy! Currently, the popper lives in the dining room making it convenient to the kitchen and the 3-prong outlets therein. It’s not like there’s much else for furniture in there anyway!
Irony of the day: You can use iTunes to feed podcasts to your Zune. (This solution automates something you’d otherwise have to do rather arduously by hand. Apple likes to make things easier for all its users, even those stuck on Windows with a less-than-full-featured music player solution.)
tags: apple, flowers, irony, itunes, longwood gardens, philadelphia flower show, photographs, photography, popcorn, popcorn popper, snow, weather, zune
