Bird carnage, old photos
F took pictures of this hawk for me before I woke up this morning. It's quite majestic, isn't it? I think that's a severed wing at its feet.
While I'm at it, here's what came out of those four-year old rolls of film:
- This is what happens when you don't develop film promptly.
- The piazza in the town where I worked four years ago.
- The Sartiglia in Oristano, Sardinia.
- Inside Camposanto Cemetery in Pisa.
I made a rhubarb-strawberry crisp today with rhubarb from the garden. It tastes good, but it's not very pretty.
posted by Satrina @ 6:31 PM
4 Comments:
The hawk is very majestic looking. The carnage part, not so majestic, but very cycle of life.
The affected photo looks cool...like a yellow and red haze floating by. Have you thought about enlarging it and framing it? If nothing else, people can try to figure out how you managed the affect. ;)
The other photos are great. Its so amazing that that's where you lived! What's a Sartiglia?
Rhubarb-strawberry crisp...mmm, nevermind what it looks like, as long as it tastes good. There's nothing worse than an nice looking dessert that's either bland or gross!
oooohhh rhubarb. i saw some at the farmer's market a couple of Saturdays back and thought about buying them. i almost did...if only to make the rhubarb fools that Nigella made....those looked so yum!
the pictures from Italy are awesome! i agree with C - maybe you should frame the affected one...keep people guessing!
I still can't believe you got to live in Italy! How nice to finally see a glimpse of the area. I think the first picture is very interesting too! Reminds me of a ghost photo. Thanks for posting them!
Update: When F came home, he went up and removed the carcass from our roof.
The Sartiglia is a festival they hold in Oristano on Shrove Tuesday (basically the same day as Mardi Gras, but celebrated differently-- there are different groups and organizations that dress up in medieval costumes and act like different noble families). The masked guy on horseback is competing to lance a target star further down the street... it's the main event of the festival. I had to hold the camera over my head to get a picture-- that's how crowded it was.
Hopefully there'll be more rhubarb later in the summer-- the crisp took two cups, which is all we've harvested so far this year.
*grin* I have a lot more where that screwed-up photo came from!
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