THIS ’N THAT

Today I’ve been determined not to let anything provoke me into a rant. I went looking for images about which I could feel something… preferably something that I can remember with gladness… perhaps at least one image which I can call up with satisfaction just before I drop off into a satisfying sleep the last night of this Thanksgiving week and the last day of the month of November.

The sycamore trees in our valley are holding onto a few leaves.

I got the pictures when the late afternoon sunlight

intensified the gold in the few that were left.

The hibiscus was golden, too; 

before I decided I'd see how it looks

as a negative image.

In San Diego we're coming into bird of paradise season.

Today at the Asian market up the hill from where I live, I bought this cabbage for supper tonight

and decided it deserves as much attention as the showy bird of paradise.

As a matter of fact, when I downloaded the picture from my camera... 

and set the cabbage against inky blackness, I thought about the comet Ison,

whatever is left of it, speeding away from its close encounter with the sun.