In Dutch, one speaks about "the red line" of a composition...that which holds the composition together whether it be a narrative or a photo and since learning this, I've been obsessively going through my photos and tossing those without a red line!

Call it hubris but I really like my photos...mind you I play it safe...how can one go wrong with a flower?
 This has been the week of cafes!

A friend sent me the following:

Under cover

I am joined at my table
In the cafe
By a man I don't know
Even though there are many
Available booths
He could enjoy alone.

Why are you sitting here?
I ask, annoyed. He shrugs
And moves on.

I have forgotten
That it is -20 outside.

I didn't notice
He hadn't bought anything.

He wanted to stay here,
Warm and invisible, for once,

As though he belonged here,
But I blew his cover.

 Gordon

To which I replied with a Brautigan poem: 

 In a Café

                I watched a man in a café fold a slice of bread

as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking

at the photograph of a dead lover.

           

Richard Brautigan

 

And there is more.

A definition of heroism and intelligence...
My friend's young boarder was alone when the fire alarm went. He realized that the most important thing in the apartment was her two cats. He searched the apartment for their cages; he put said cats in the cages (felines do not go easily) and he walked down 24 flights of stairs with said cages (one cat weighed over 20 pounds) The fire alarm was false but that doesn't affect the narrative...

Montreal has such wonderful sculptures. I just found this old horoscope...it still applies...Lately Aries you remind me of an oak that's growing sideways out of a hill. You're healthy and strong yet at odds with the more vertical route the other oaks are taking. Personally, I see nothing wrong with this. But then, I've made a career out of going against the grain. if you do want to continue evolving in your current direction, you should probably thicken your bark...I mean, skin. The Guardians of the Way Things Have Always Been Done will be coming around soon to ask you loaded questions.

I am tentatively back...I hope...and I am signing in with my favourite flower...the cosmos!

Alas...I got side-tracked and I lost a month.
Today was delicious...simply delicious...weather wise.
It was humbling in that I had to make appointments with the professionals to prove that I was not excessively aggressive and can see well enough to drive...I am about to hit that age...
My day was made when meeting two wonderful dogs...one of whom was a cross between a Great Dane and a pit bull...and a bit of cow...in colouring and the fact that she loved to eat grass...She had a wonderful head. The other deserves a medal. We have a chihuahua in the community who has attitude. Evidently said chihuahua challenged said dog and said dog peed on said chihuahua...the fact that said chihuahua is owned by a city councillor made the story even more delicious!

Ooops...it happened again...I got side-tracked and a whole month vanished...
Today is delicious and so...
First I had to made a doctor's appointment. Quebec wants proof that I can see and am not excessively aggressive before they give me a driving licence