Thursday: 3rd Avenue (posted by email)
[OT from cottage renovations]
this week I have been running slower than usual.
there have been several reasons for this, among which have been a longer-than-expected time to recover from the departure of visiting family and from Tuesday's vehicle strike, as well as LJ's continuing inability to restore the basic functions of writing and editing posts in this space.
aside from their recent administrative distractions, it's the delay on the technical side that has caused me to regret having just paid for another extension of this account.
botnets and the thugs who herd them are an unpleasant but real fact of life for any online enterprise.
what puzzles me is how/why LJ can't get (and stay) ahead of them.
(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)
3rd Avenue
so let's turn calendar and clock back to last Thursday afternoon, over across the Circle:
what first caught my eye was the delicate tracery of these tiny blossoms, but what kept my attention was how they interacted with the shape and form of the leaves.
I resisted a rather strong temptation to edit out the tips coming up into the bottom the image to the L; they were the cost of including the leaf detail to the lower R.
... and here's the view looking downsun.
the little blossoms are a bit washed out but interesting things are happening with the leaves.