Ringing In 2007

Here's to ringing in 2007 with as much color, irreverence and promise as the immediate environs could provide.

Starlight, starbright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight!

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Inside / Outside

Proof positive that Fall lingers post-Christmas this year in California. I think my permanent state of mind identifies with the spirit of this photo... from the inside, looking out ;)

Taken December 26th, 2006 from the 2nd floor landing of
Building 5, at workplace; San Jose, California.

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The Waiting

Taken at the Starbucks on Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto, California.

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Down

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Sometimes you just feel that way.

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Blazes of the Fall

Northern California seems to be having a late Fall this year, if the colors in the trees are to be believed. The rest of today seems as bleak as only rain-soaked NorCal can look on a cloudy December day. How the fall colors are showing up so bright is a mystery to me, but who's complaining? Rare to see a combination of greens, yellows, oranges and reds in one frame. So, here's another photo-post, again.

Life's looking as bleak as a rainy NorCal day too. Please, when's summer? Or, at least, Blazes of the Fall?

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Canvas in Prawn Salad

Yet another photo-post!

Wonder what's going on with me! Why don't I write?

Ah, well! Some mysteries will remain mysteries. Currently am just glad that I have the alternative of the photo-post, and am not typing up another self-important Bloggers' Block post instead.

The image you see was taken at lunch yesterday, at the Cafe Marcella in Los Gatos, California. Fancy little place, kinda classy; kinda expensive though. The company was footing the bill, so it really dosen't count as an extravagance. Although, I could do with some kind of spulrge-therapy right now. Been doin' too many hard things lately. They had to be done, so, I shouldn't have any regrets.

Whatever.

Lunch was to celebrate the return, after a resignation three months ago, of a close colleague. He decided to come back and get re-hired. I, for one, am glad. I guess so is everybody else. Funny thing: that makes it, in the space of one year, three people who quit our group to find other employment, and then came right back home! People are beginning to call us the Boomerang Boys now.

Oh, by the way! In case you were wondering, the grilled prawn salad was definitely already eaten when the photo got taken. What you see are pieces of beetroot and the tails of those unfortunate prawn...

And, oh yeah! The dessert was Crème Brûlée. Eat your heart out!

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Galeria Kaufhof

Another photo post.

This time, a window display with mannenquins, at the Marienplatz station of the underground, or U-Bahn, in Munich, Germany. An advertisement in 3-D for the store, Galeria Kaufhof.

Einkaufen is the German word for shopping. You get the picture :)



The color-B&W composit is mine.

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Complicated is Rarely a Problem

Had actually posted a full-length discourse on the subject. It had to go! Too much innuendo, too many nuances. Instead, here is the associated image, and the gist, to boot. Chew on it, if you will:

"Complicated is rarely a problem. There are things you can do with that. Gives you the illusion of being in control while you are tinkering with it. It takes the really simple things to leave you incredibly screwed up."

Whatever.


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More Valley Fare

This post, again, is a photo collage. No particular reason to post one right now: I just thought I'd draw out the suspense a bit from my last post, till when I tell you what actually happened that involved the German police. The images, by the way, are of flora from around Silicon Valley.

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Valley Fare

This post is a photo collage. Mostly images of Valley Fair Mall and a few others from around the Valley.




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Points of View

Last evening I met Eva.

Admittedly, I must have been a little tipsy at the time, but there was no mistaking that sultry come-hither look. She sat silhouetted on a stool, the epitome of womanhood. Legs boldly apart: enough to inspire yet another quote from Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (but we shall let this one pass).

I finally figured that Eva was too good to be true; it had to be the wine (I know, I know, good things don’t happen to me, but would you grudge me a little drunken dream?). Fact is, I had met Eva not last evening, but a while earlier than that, when I was busy photographing a pair of frosted glass vases on a shelf at IKEA, in Palo Alto. I just didn't know it at the time.

How Eva managed to get her leg framed between the vases, I haven’t the foggiest idea, but, you know something: I am glad she did! Made me tipsy happy for a while.

Eva, like several other things in life, represents a point of view. If you look at something one way, it’s Eva. Looked at another way, it’s just a couple of vases.

I have included the photograph (which, I believe, one can click on to see the full-size image) at the top of this post, so you can figure out for yourself whether it is Eva or the vases you would rather see.

Now, if you will please excuse me, I need to go back to my contemplation of the pristine contours of Eva’s anatomy. After all, I have complete freedom over my own point of view.


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Patchwork in Still Light

This post is a photo collage. Mostly images from the IKEA store in Palo Alto, California.

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