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| Rosa 'Buttercup' & Geraniums 'Delft Blue', 'Rozanne' & 'Buxton Blue' 9 July 2023 |
Today I
scanned three blue hardy geraniums with two blooms of Rosa ‘Buttercup’. I
checked my past blogs and I have written quite a few and will include them here
below. One is in Spanish and Jorge Luís Borges explains that as he was going
blind the last two colours he could discern were yellow and blue.
Los Colores de Jorge Luís Borges
The Yellow and the Blue - Forgetting to Remember
Yellow she affords - Emily Dickinson
Grief and the yellow and the blue
There are more but ¡Yá!
I keep writing about this theme because it is all about my memory of Rosemary. When I walk in what used to be our garden but is now only mine, when I spot yellow and blue I am quick to snip. And snip I did today.
If anybody gets this far I would like to reiterate that my plant images are not photographs but scanographs. This means I am a scanographer. I believe that the scanner is a technology that is virtually forgotten in this century. With few people asking me to photograph them my scanner is now my tabletop camera. It keeps me distracted a tad but at the same time since I have over 3000 scans (I began in 2001) I see this as a fun thing during the process but beyond that I think of the futility.
Epson Perfection V700 Photo
More and more I think exactly like my friend Abraham Rogatnick who told me a year before he died, “I am not long for this world and I am glad for it.”
My cat Niño is back and he and Niña give me company on the bed. He eats a bit. He is quite thin. He might survive a year. Niño, my family and friends are all in a route of decay like me.
Oblivion beckons.