My Spanish grandmother María de los Dolores Reyes de Irureta Goyena educated me not only as a little boy but pretty well until she died in 1970. It is because of her that I know so many refrains from the Don Quijote when Sancho Panza would hand out advice to his master.

One important , never-to-forget dictum was, “Cuando el diablo no tiene nada que hacer con el rabo espanta moscas.”  This translates to, “When the devil has nothing to do with his tail he swats flies.”

And so it was that tonight 19 March at 11:35 I am writing this. I will place it a few days back to fill a blog hole on 12 March, 2024.

I was in bed comfortably accompanied by my two cats when I came up with this idea to use up my idle time by scanning a colour negative of my friend Sarah Tonin inside the Mamiya back I used to take her picture. I shot colour negative film which has an orange mask. Since I had to scan it as a document, the result I had to reverse in Photoshop. A lot of that orange mask persisted.

I feel that now that I have done away with some of those lazy flies I can go back and accompany my cats until my bedtime.