Summer Window/Deep Sea

Mina and I changed the windows at Arjan just before solstice - more views on TinyTheatre.

.............

If it was only the dark voice of the sea

That rose, or even colored by many waves;

If it was only the outer voice of sky

And cloud, of sunken coral water-walled,

However close, it would have been deep air,

The heaving speech of air, a summer sound

Repeated in a summer without end...

--from The Idea of Order at Key West, Wallace Stevens

Over the Limit

A window on Piedmont Avenue ready to be loaded with gilded items- nowhere near the mountains despite its name, therefore the only snow we see will be of an interior artificial nature. Note the two hour time limit...some of us wish The Holidays came with such parameters*.

*Edit: see cat in previous post

Venice Shop Window

This window makes me think of E.T.A. Hoffman's story about the man who fell in love with a beautiful automaton. Hoffman is known as the German Poe. I frequently reread his story "the Golden Flowerpot" at this time of the year, when the borders between the worlds grow thin.

Obama Sign

A sign down the street from me in Oakland.