Only it's not so little anymore. This morning, on the way to the library, I had another one. One what you might ask. Co-incidences, I have co-incidences big and small happen to me all the time. Does anyone else have them happen to them a lot?
You may have noticed my animated avatar, the cute view camera that runs away. I was visiting the ladies who help me put my stuff up on this site, computer whizzes one and all! Jessica and I were noodling around the net, and she informed me that I needed an avatar, the sites da wouldn't do anymore. So first we messed around with that photo of mine that is a self-portrait. nothing was quite working out to our satisfaction, when I said you can't really see my face, why don't we put a "happy face" there. She chuckled evily and went to work, I was only kidding I wailed, frantically searching my brain for another idea. Camera! I shouted, yeah that's it, a camera an old camera, yeah on a tripod. You know the kind you see, big box camera on a tripod, has a black cloth that you have to go under to look at the ground glass image. so off we went searching for the right image.... took oh say 5 or 6 minutes. put it in the avatar space, not bad, but then I said, can we animate it, make it run away or something. Well, my friend the whiz, in the space of less than ten minutes had hocus pocused up that wonderful running box camera. We were so proud, we sat and watched it run away for a while.
Now, as you may know, I am planning to move home to Sonoma in the next few weeks, but before I go, I have another list, this one for photos I want to take before I leave for good, never to return. Cause while Sonoma is my spiritual home, I did grow up here in LA, and then returned when I was 34 and lived here again since 1984. Well, one of the photos I have on my list is a pair of gates, they are on either side of a bridge over the Los Angeles river, and they are stunning works of art done in metal, rather new too, maybe within the last 5 years or so. You'll be seeing them sooner or later, cause I will post them when I take the shots. Anyway, I was going to take them this morning, but found my self running a little late, so I promised me to do it tommorrow. As I drove over the bridge, I could see a truck parked where the second gate is; hmm, I wondered. Now it's morning rush hour, so I had to stay at the flow of traffic speed, but I was able to catch a glimpse as I drove by. There it was.... a tripod, and the guy had just removed a rosewood box view camera from it, the deep red color of the wood catching the morning sun.
OK, not a giant one, but it started my day off right.