Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The photo appears a bit bleaker than the scene really was. There was some winter gold in the clouds—the paler version, with cool tones—but I couldn’t get it to look the way I wanted it to look, slightly richer, not so flat. And those crazy swirl things in the clouds with layers of blues…I decided to convert it to grey scale to take some of the subtleness out of the blues and put some contrast in the yellows.

I put the color version up as my desktop wallpaper anyway, pale and flat as it is, because there’s something serene about it that makes me calm. Not too vivid, but interesting enough (for me) to look at. The sun was setting, cold and quiet on the ridge. I stopped to look at the scene between a press conference and a meeting.

Tonight there is a cold, damp drizzle still falling from today. I feel a chill and felt it even as I went out earlier, bundled up in bulky sweater, scarf and gloves, like I’m fighting something off. This has been a week.  A family member suffered a terrible, tragic loss. I missed a step and badly twisted my ankle and knee. I had a 13-hour work day yesterday, have an article to write yet tonight, another tomorrow, one Thursday night and three more for a Friday deadline. Yes, I’m supposed to be part-time.

By the way, I’ll post my column from Sunday following this post. Everywhere I went yesterday and today people said they liked it—mostly book lovers.

Think I’ll finish the Union Local story, wrap up in a fuzzy blanket and stare at my screen for awhile.