If I were under you, I'd be underwater

[sovay]

Turns out most of the cherry blossoms are still in the preliminary stage, but I photographed them anyway. Fortunately there were some nice wrought iron shadows on the side of the Litchfield Block and some flowering trees elsewhere around the streets.



The cherry blossoms are thinking about it.



"Leap, Louie! Leap!"



This one, on the other hand, went off like a confetti bomb.



I have been trying to photograph the fire escapes on the side of the Litchfield Block since we moved here in 2016. I love their shadows and angles.



For example, the shadow ladder that looks more substantial than its iron original.



I've never before seen the door behind this metal shutter in the front of the Knights of Malta Hall. Out of shot, a sign declares it in ornate scrolls of gold on black to belong to the Boston Billiard Emporium.



I love how the ivy swarms the ghost sign on the garage side of the hall. It's so spidery before the leaves come in.



And the angle it cuts against the sky, of course.



It was just a very nice azalea.

thisbluespirit just did an icon tropes challenge for Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) that generated some very fine icons. My new one comes from an earlier batch. I'm not sure why it spoke to me suddenly, except perhaps that it was the colors of my afternoon. And a good reminder of shining in strange times.

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[thisbluespirit]

Other than this walk and making dinner and eventually watching a movie, yesterday was more or less a dead loss, so it was a good stray sparkle to find.

♥

Btw, given that we were talking about David Collings and his obit revealing what he did before being an actor, I'm amused to realise that this little 1964 article completely contradicts it: https://thisbluespirit.tumblr.com/post/614233338370310144

Mind, I don't know whether it's from a local paper (and should be reasonably reliable) or from the Daily Mirror which also claimed that James Maxwell was in fact a Brit who evacuated to the US during WWII, not a word of which was true. I like that they're going full on for the "was totally starving in a garret" bit. :lol:

[sovay]

Btw, given that we were talking about David Collings and his obit revealing what he did before being an actor, I'm amused to realise that this little 1964 article completely contradicts it

Hah. I can see him playing an unsuccessful carpet salesman.

The Guardian obituary made me wonder if there were any examples of his lettering design identified. So I hope that's still true.

[thisbluespirit]

I really have no idea which of them to trust! Someone else found the clipping; I'll have to try myself when I have another BNA subscription, because that's no doubt where they found it. If it's the Mirror then it's probably nothing but lies!

Maybe he was just unsuccessful in lettering design and had to go sell carpets to feed his starving children?