Be the lonesome pine
Comments: 12
Updated: This photo was the first one I uploaded to Zooomr.
Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. It has been 2 months and 4 days since my last confession.
No, don’t worry: I’m not going to confess anything, nor have I “returned” in any but my now customarily erratic blogging sense. Hello again — and what are you still doing here, anyway? (I know: the magic of syndication.)
Nor have I joined the Brotherhood of the Lonesome Pine, though who is not in need of its lessons? No, actually things are going swimmingly and I twist my branches into the salty wind (someone has run a thick copper cable up the main trunk of this tree to serve as a lightning rod that — we pray — saves the tree should it be struck).
It’s been a couple of terrific weekends these last ones gone. A little bit of going out to some very nice places, meeting lots of new people along the way, some dinners at friends’ places (all of whom have raucous domesticities rather than a domesticated raucousness), good food, good wine, and a remarkable road trip in a rented Mark II sedan circumnavigating the Izu peninsula on a New & Unexplored Route. Discoveries were made. Scenes unfolded.
A good couple of weeks also at work, too — a new job which I won’t tell you about yet but will soon. I met someone from an embassy last night and when I told her my previous job and where I am now she said, “Oh, but you’ve gone from the place with the money to the place…” — she trailed off, unsure I thought of how diplomatically she needed to finish her sentence (answer: refreshingly, not much). “To the place with the content!” I said, and there you go. Of money and ‘content’ both have their affordances.
And I probably shouldn’t say anything because I’m unaware of a deal with a publisher yet but I’ve started looking at the new Peter Carey novel with Yoko Miyagi, his translator here, and it looks like a terrific book, even one of his better ones.
Oh, and there’s a larger version of the photo here, and more on photos momentarily.
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Posted to Photographs • 2006.07.17 (Mon) • 13:14
Comments
Posted by Natalie 2006.07.17, 19:13
I absolutely adore the simplicty of this image.
The stark grey of it all makes it seem wintery and close to dusk.
Of course, I am now using your photoshopped version as my desktop :)
ps: seems the comment issue was just at my end - as I can comment now! YAY!
Posted by MacDara 2006.07.17, 19:55
Welcome back.
By the way, have you done something with your hair? (And by hair, I mean website background?)
Posted by jh 2006.07.17, 20:19
Natalie — this is the north end of Shirahama Beach just up Route 135 from Shimoda on the Izu Peninsula.
MacDara — thank you, and why yes, you noticed! This is the 21st century equivalent of the Farrah Fawcett Majors look.
Posted by Richard 2006.07.17, 21:46
Beautiful photo. The fact that we’re still tracking you no matter how long you take off is a testament to the quality of your weblog, photographs, posts, and taste in backgrounds!
Posted by jh 2006.07.17, 21:53
Richard, that’s a very kind thing to say. Thank you!
Posted by Richard 2006.07.17, 23:34
jh: your weblog has always been at the top of my list for numerous reasons: design, viewpoint (you’re humble), location (I love the idea of an Australian working in Japan with me reading you here in rural Connecticut) and more. It’s totaly refreshing that you only post when you have something to say or report or share and don’t just pass on stuff for the sake of keeping a posse of readers. Thank you for that. Keep up the great work at any pace that suits you, we’ll be here. Oh, for what its worth, I just changed from NetNewsWire to Newsfire for tracking RSS. Very clean design and simple to use. Can’t believe it took me this long.
Posted by nilo 2006.07.18, 00:51
Nice photo!
Posted by Leandro Torez 2006.07.18, 03:18
Beautiful photo.!!! Thank you !!!
Posted by Andrew 2006.07.18, 13:17
so tasteful.
Posted by Stefan 2006.07.19, 18:55
ooooooooooooooooh !
Posted by David Kaspar 2006.07.19, 20:09
Welcome back Jeremy.
As has been mentioned before, no need to apologise.
It is not for the quantity we are coming here… it is for the little gems of beauty, wisdom and inspiration.
Posted by Lina 2006.08.11, 20:52
Nice photo! recpect!
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