Sunday 17 June 2012

30. spherically super

toni: my dear geometric-yet-curvy you!
thank you for all bloggage... and so glad you liked pics. when they finally arrived. the boy and his father were at the table ne t to us in the turner contemporary gallery cafe in margate - keith and i dived in there before our Long Walk from broadstairs; just so we could say we had been, really.
was v cool - all salad + veg provided by local allotments and an ama ing view of the bay, plus, of course That Light. the focus of concentration in the photo was the boy being allowed to choose to chomp on one sugar-lump from the bowl on the table - and him struggling to choose between the white or the brown... whilst his grandmother, thinking rather futilely of his teeth, insisted he 'really wouldn't like' either...
in terms of ne t shots - still don't have round pebble, but have a nice pic of daisies [the centre of which is round - could forward this?] also, am going to coast on thursday [providing no gales!] so could do seaside te tures then... would def have time to send this over friday..
hope work not too arduous today - all my seedlings have been blown around garden in wind whilst i was away, so am going to attempt to reunite their bruised souls with their pots now!
T mwah

jenny: this was the round pic I tried - and failed - to send all those days
(weeks?) ago...

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not sure if I still like it - rather lost its 'peering down a concrete
pipe' feel somehow – so am off to hunt out some other roundness...

toni: Oh! But it's wonderful....spherically super! Don't change! X PS the daisies are in dropbox - the fuzzy ones at the back are round. ish.

jenny: off to take a peek! 

daisies on the ramparts (1 of 1)

ah - perfectly round - perfectly lovely!  and such heavenly (literally maybe?) blue tones; did you get a stiff neck, all that looking up?  I tried the same thing in Germany and got muddy knees and elbows - mine were rather inconveniently growing on the ground!

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toni: Sadly, was also ON ramparts, <alongside> daisies... and hence v familiar with muddy knee (and cheek!) concept you describe. (my phone won't open attached pic, will take proper look, later). X x  meanwhile have just stabbed grubby little finger into iporn book and came up with [after rejecting five others...] 'find something that disrupts a pattern'. which i know you did last week... so might be in the groove to do so again...

Sunday 10 June 2012

29. on lines - and curves …

The conversation began on the 17th May – yeah, I know …

toni: do we have an ongoing/new challenge? I appear to have lost plot re this [ps, hen lulu (who no longer resides chez nous) has had a chick! Aw.]

jenny: we are in the Black Forest until Sunday - but I have my camera and am up for any challenge you care to pick.....well, most - it's all very rural - certainly not much in the way of graffiti!  just about to have pre dins glass of something fizzy [PS talking of hens - have colleague who just hatched 5 chicks in her classroom.....v cute (and even at their very young ages, they make one heck of a racket!)]

toni: Just off on organised nine mile walk. Grabbed iporn book and found 'shoot something round'. Think is poss? Happy weekend. X x

jenny: yes - let's go for it!  your 9 miles makes our few km this morning seem a bit lame....just recuperating in the bar.....

toni: I have a few pictures... but not one is round. The 'round' pebble I found is now on its way to belgie, as forgot to retrieve it from BF's car, post-walk. Linear, however, I can do... ie, have not met brief at all, but have pic I'd quite like to share... x x x hope the schwarzwald = gut. I studied there, y'know... did you come across nussknacker torte...? Was always a fave... x x x

jenny: have hunted fruitlessly for your linear pic.....was even thinking that we could so very easily adapt brief to fit (or indeed make a new one for this week and do round the following - we'll be away again, back in Barcelona yippeedoo) 

had modicum of success; some cheats (snap of flowers taken through concrete pipe, and which gmail won't seem to let me attach - so perhaps that's my answer!) that I just happened to take before I opened your email, some neatly piled logs (v German) some of which were round…

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plus a (rather grainy - was gloomy in restaurant) photo of our starter the last evening …

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but v disappointed because husband flinched when I suggested that I put my plate on the floor for a better view - so you have to make do with a half-circle.....

had v gut time in der (die? das? was never much cop at Deutsch) Schwarzwald - but husband v disappointed not to have had any tortes at all; he was SO looking forward to some (preferably hausgemachte) schwarzenwaldenkirschentorten (our son's hausgemachte way of saying it that kind of stuck!)

where did you study?  husband is halb deutsch - did I tell you that?  mother born in Regensburg and uncle lived in Munich and then Garmisch - so not all that far away from where we were (near Freiburg)

toni: ...sorry, linear pic still in camera... will send this eve... phone also won't let me open your pics... so have these to look forward to, tonight too. X x x have to do school dash now... more 'laters' as they say. Have a lovely day x x x

toni: have had looooong working day + a] no chance to upload pic + b] work computer also not letting me see yours - apart from on mahooooooosive scale... am thinking square logs could be geometric/linear too... PERHAPS we could turn whole idea on head, and both take a pic a week + then one of us retrospectively generates a challenge which neatly links both. ha!
i studied europaische betriebswirtschaft [if that's how you spell it - can no longer recall!!!] at the fachhochschule reutlingen. just outside the forest, but close enough for the cake.
mwah.

And suddenly it was the 6th of June …

jenny: dropbox still disappointingly empty of new pix - and I have forgotten the brief we agreed on all those days (weeks?) ago - are. you. OK? ps - I have 9 more days in the classroom after today ...

toni: Yes. Sorry. I. Am. Here... serendipitously uploaded pix to laptop last night... more later. (school holidays = endless chauffeuring). X x x x

toni: hello JD - apols for being crap blogging chum. seem to be struggling with logistics of single parenting/overseas dating currently... my two v [non round, decidedly linear] pix are about to be in dropbox. i think 'round' was our last challenge... as in 'when is she going to get a-ROUND to sending her bloody pix..?' off oop north to visit parents tomoz... hope NINE days not feeling too dastardly! T xxx

jenny: hey - don't worry; the Blog can just sit there; our roolz remember!

toni: Am at my mum's, but put pix in dropbox before leaving - in a folder though, so maybe it didn't work? X PS Driving home tomoz, and stopping at wildlife artist's open studio near rutland water on way home. I love her work - all retro screen-prints/lino-cuts of birds and seed-heads. My purse will be itching! X x x

jenny: no sign of pic - I do keep looking (esp as the icon has a little tick on it which I had thought meant something new had been put in - yeah - but where?) although I haven't opened up all the folders (yet?)  PS rather envious of your planned stopping place on your way home.....enjoy!

toni: just hijacked my sis's pc to try and resend pix - hope they've arrived...

jenny: I found them [by special invitation] the 'by-the-sea' one is very you - all velvet-soft greys, with a touch of gold …

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but those stripes … the (I assume) father with the (not-quite) reverse of his (I assume) son's … the inspired crop showing concentration though not what their focus is on … is brilliant ! ! ! was it just a happy accident them being there?

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ps am writing post now - as well as desperately trying to remember which linear pics I had decided on … all those weeks ago!

OK gotcha

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(PS was ‘snap’ decision (as still NO clue what I had decided on before) and auch in deutschland gemacht; somehow felt it complemented both yours with the greys and the pink …)