A Mystery With Hair

Here are a couple of random images from that box of slides I just purchased. As you know from my earlier posts, most of the box contained slides taken by a photographer named Joan Tubbs. Her slides are almost all carefully labeled and dated, and many bear her name or a mark of some organizing system she used -- a letter or a colored dot.

These slides, though, have no such markings and they don't look like the others. So I'm not sure these are Joan's. They could have just been in the box.

That one above is clearly some kind of abstraction featuring pink lights and human hair. I would think it was just an accident, except that there are also two similar slides with green lights. Maybe someone was taking photos through their hair? Very strange.

I also have 24 exposures of this event, whatever it is. They could be Joan's, but they're from 1972 and most of Joan's slides from that time period have labeling. These say nothing, and unlike most of Joan's pictures, they're not very well-done. The vintage cars are all blurry and/or too far away, though I kind of like the shot above because of the ghostly faces of all the people on the bus whizzing past. If I had to guess, I'd say someone else took these.

Photographic mysteries!

I spent most of yesterday in the garden, reading. I am within striking distance of the end of "The Woman Who Lost Her Soul," which I consider a major achievement. I swear I'm going to make a martini when I finish this book, even if it's 9 a.m. It did get much better after I complained about it, when the action switched from Haiti and jumped back in time to Croatia and Turkey. But now, near the end, we're back in Haiti and I'm finding it a bit of a struggle once again. The overall theme is man's inhumanity to man, I suppose, as well as the nefarious tentacles of United States government policy and how they extend into the lives of people all around the globe.

Speaking of government, it cracks me up that the Republicans, who have spent years criticizing Joe Biden and bedeviling him about his age and supposed "dementia," have suddenly become his greatest defenders, talking about how Harris and a shadowy cabal of party leadership usurped Biden's opportunity to run for a second term. A "coup," they're calling it. Oh, waah-waah. They're children, angry because they were prepared for Biden and now they face a whole new opponent with different energy and more enthusiastic backing.

And this whole "stolen valor" thing regarding Walz's military record? A manufactured scandal. A tempest in a teacup. Considering Donald Trump's gymnastic gyrations to keep himself out of the military, Republicans have no room to talk.

(I've noticed that while Dave is away I am much more likely to engage with politics on my blog. This must be because he's not here and we can't vent to each other!)

Apparently we're due to get a little heat wave here in the UK tomorrow and Monday, thanks to...wait for it...Tropical Storm Debby! She is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Having wreaked havoc in the USA, her remnants are now crawling across the Atlantic and affecting the Jet Stream, giving us rain and temperatures that could hit 90º F (32º C) or thereabouts. Fun!