STILL LIFE: A day for ordinary stuff… like taking pictures of flowers... what may be the last roses of summer and a pyramid of poinsettias in a shopping center… and a shelf with a few very old things brought back from the years of living in Singapore... things like a thousand-year-old simple but elegant vase from the Song Dynasty in China that had found its way to Malacca in Malaysia where I found it...and a small Qing Dynasty porcelain pot that I bought from an Indonesian fisherman more than fifty years ago, a vase that was once blue and white but is now beige and white because it had been buried for centuries, probably in a grave…and a soapstone figure of a horse from China and a covered bowl from Thailand that looks older than it is… and some stone eggs, also from China... and a picture of an intriguing section of bark from another eucalyptus tree.