HaYom
At the end of the bris I remembered I had my camera with me and had a quick picture taken with my dad, he should live and be well. On the walk home from the bus station I remembered the camera again and captured more of the day in the spirit of Our Town.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 7:43 PM
7 Comments:
I like the snapshots of city life. Very different scene than than my town here.
Thanks Miriam. You are consistent. You've said the same thing in the past when I posted pictures of the streets where I live!
love the picture of you and your dad! why does it look like that lady in the last picture has her whole head covered in saran wrap?
Thanks RR. I love it to, liked when it was up top, but eventually it was time to post again.
It was raining and that was the woman's rain hat, although it's possible (but, I think unlikely) that she saw me taking the picture and covered up more.
A bus driver once explained to me that Dominicans, generally, ae not comfortable with picture taking. It's not part of their culture and they're not used to it. (About a year ago I took an express bus from Bayside to Midtown on a Sunday and it was just me and the driver and I learned a lot about the Dominican Republic in a lovely conversation).
I don't know why, but sometimes you can enlarge a picture by cicking on it, and sometimes not - at least for me. This one doesn't seem to enlarge. In the full size picture you can see that more of her face is exposed than it would seem from the smaller photo.
Your use of the phrase Seran Wrap got me thinking. Peter Himmelman has a song that he likes performing (that I'm not crazy about - although I really like some of his songs big time) called Cellophane.
I always thought he was trying to sound like Elvis Costello. Costello has a new album in which he sings about cellophane! I wonder if he heard the Himmelman song.
Cellophane, by the way, was invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger in 1908, a Swiss textile engineer who first thought of the idea for a clear, protective, packaging layer in 1900. Brandenberger was seated at a restaurant when a customer spilled wine onto the tablecloth. As the waiter replaced the cloth, Brandenberger decided that he would invent a clear flexible film that could be applyed to cloth, making it waterproof.
Thanks for prompting this stream of consciousness.
Thanks for the stream of consciousness....it was very interesting. I did click on the picture to try to enlarge it as I found it a bit strange, but alas it wouldn't enlarge. It made me think of Rivkah when she saw Yitzchak in the distance....don't know why - but that's where my stream of consciousness went.
great pics
Please send in for jpix, if you haven't already.
Thanks! I'm not fmiliar with jpix, couldn't find it on blog carnival. Help!
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