Harvest

Harvest

Grapes in abundance—

slash strokes of blue-black,

red violet, hazed amber.

Pendulum heat keeps them

grouped in dusty air,

fall announced like an urge

to squeeze and press along

down cluster-assuaging rage.

Untitled (experimental repost from 20 July 2015)

Buncrana (2)

A view on the hillside,
then panoramas from the beach,
and back up to look out
from the hill to the river...

Heather. Not sure what the yellow flower is...

On the beach, a first attempt at the view out over the river...

Moving to the camera's right...

Back up on the hill and path

Buncrana

These raw images from our morning trip to Buncrana, Ireland on August 9 show some of the landscape we saw on our walk along the river path. In Donegal, Buncrana is on the Inishowen peninsula and the views are spectacular to say the least. A bit more orientation: The water is Lough Swilly, the town 23 kilometers northwest of Derry, 43 kilometers north of Letterkenny. A few raw notes follow the images ...

One thing that struck me about the water is the soft and constant sound of the waves,
like a whisper.

The photo's too dark, I know, and needs to be processed. But it gives a sense of the peninsular nature of the place--and the wildness perhaps.

Again---

The path itself ; )  More stuff to be added as things develop!

Toward abstraction...

Some recent photo ideas...

Springer

Springer

Back

to the flashlight beam

on live pink grass

out of tv range.

Baiting hands re-hook

a ticking weed stem—

wild electrics

at your flexile palm.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Garden of delights?

The Parking Shakespeare theatre company is currently staging a version in Catalan of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Barcelona’s Parc de l’Estació del Nord. Soooo…. Saturday night we sat ourselves down in the amphitheatre of the park to enjoy a brilliantly outdoor-staged representation. A few of the features that traditionally delight in this comedy—considered by many the Bard’s first—include Shakespearean language play, of course, as well as a cross dressing lover; fast paced witty, often racy dialogue exchanges; Crab the dog; the curative features of the greenwood……. To tickle the funny bone in this version all of those traditional delights have been kept—but of course the text is in Catalan. A somewhat different delight in the adaptation involves speaking some of the dialogue in basic Italian (yes) and wait for it Catalanalian. Which is to say, well, they fake a kind of lingo mixture, making it all even funnier. This altering of Shakespearean language play to a Mediterranean koiné of sorts is appended to the more traditional features. Somehow it all manages to delight as it translates the playfulness of the original Elizabethan English. Crab the dog is both in and out of the action—now you see him, now you don’t, according to the staging.  All in all the play is highly recommendable, great comedy and an intelligent tribute to lyrical yet realistic early Shakespeare. Daily but for Wednesday. From 20 July to 6 August, 2017 at 7 p.m. Entrance free. Here is one useful link >>

http://www.parkingshakespeare.com/