I haven’t been taking as many pictures as I used to. Some days I dig into my archives and try to find something that I could have posted but didn’t — and this often works, because I really do take a lot of pictures — but there still might be more No Picture Today days like yesterday. And maybe this is one of them.
Or else I might go back to writing little stories about what I did on a day, like I used to do before this became a pic-of-the-day blog.
Like this gripping account from Oct.9, 2007, of the time I went to a Senators hockey game:
http://www.robink.ca/blog/hockey-game
One thing that already happened today is that one of my pictures, “Love Canal,” is the featured picture of the day for Feb.12 at the Fotomoto website. (That’s the outfit that does the printing when somebody orders a print off my blog.)
Here it is:
http://www.fotomoto.com
And here is the picture on this blog:
Pic 683
Love canal
January 12, 2010
Now I’m not really a Valentine’s Day kind of guy, and I wasn’t even thinking of Valentine’s Day when I took the picture. (And you know what, I didn’t actually go out on the canal and stomp out the hearts to make a good pic for Valentine’s Day. I just found them like that.) But the fact is I posted a Valentines-y picture last year too, this one:
Actually, I don’t know if there are any Valentines-y kinds of guys. I suspect that Valentines is entirely a Hallmark-card-created occasion designed to appeal only to women. What do you think?
I haven’t been outside yet today, but I took a few pics yesterday as I was doing my laundry. I went to the Umi Café to get something to eat during the wash cycle.
Umi Café is right across the street from the Tang Coin Laundry so it’s very convenient, but in the past I haven’t been very impressed with the gristly tofu sandwiches they have there. This time I tried a non-vegan one that had mozzie cheese in it instead of that awful tofu. It was pretty good except for the slightly gritty veggies.
I was pleased to see that someone was playing the piano at the Umi, now that the one at Hartman’s is gone.
These buttons were at the laundry. I half-heartedly tried to make a pic of the day out of them, but it didn’t happen. Here they are anyway.
I took this pic out of the window of the Umi as I was eating my sandwich.
It looks like Kimchi Korea on Percy has had the biscuit. I noticed they had a grand opening and then immediately closed. It seems like it’s hard for Korean joints to survive in Chinatown, although I think Soora and Koreana are doing ok. But Seoul House has moved to Bank St. and the one next to the Yangtze — Bulgogi Garden — is now Yummy Sushi.
So that’s about it for my Now what? blog post. See ya tomorrow!
Two years ago today:
Pic 45
Closed
Feb 12, 2008
7 Comments
I would like to see more posts just like this one. With words and everything.
I really enjoyed reading this post, looking at the pics (again) and your little stories that go with them. Very nice Robin.
Thank you.
Dear Robin Kelsey: making my literary dreams come true since 1986
I vote for words to go along with the pictures you might take for fun to illustrate stuff- maybe you need a break from the relentless photo-artistry that has been delighting people
say anything!
yer pal
word-lover
Patti’O
I liked your written posts, too – with or without photos. You have a very nice Hemingwayesque style of writing. It’s often funny, very pleasant to read and yet still manages to smack an important point or two home when necessary.
The urge ebbs and flows, doesn’t it? But I like your photos. I like the way you write. Whether you post every day or not, I’ll enjoy it whenever you do. And look forward to it …
You’re all very kind and I will keep on truckin’, one way or another. Thanks for your comments :)