Here's another view of Leon U's "Ideas" sculpture, on its pedestal on the housing estate I pass on my walk to work. I've blogged this sculpture several times, but this is a new perspective, showing it from beneath as a silhouette against the sky.
I think it captures the fleeting nature of ideas quite well. I can't tell you how often I have an idea for a blog post and then by the time I sit down to write, it's gone. Those figures seem to be leaping and stretching to grasp something ephemeral.
Yesterday turned out to be very low-key. Both the head librarian and the Middle School librarian were away, and many of the kids were gone too -- I think there are some school trips happening, as well as lots of people getting a jump on October break. We aren't officially off until next Wednesday, but Monday and Tuesday are parent-teacher conference days when the kids don't have to be in school, so I think some families may be using the week for extended traveling.
I found another cat sticker!
When I got home yesterday evening, I downloaded the garden cam. At two minutes, this week's video is pretty short. I'm sparing you almost all the cat, squirrel and pigeon footage and giving you mostly foxes.
-- At 0:35 there's a good view of one of them stretching. There are definitely two different foxes (at least), distinguishable because one of them has a white tip on its tail.
-- At 1:06, Pale Cat shows up with a blingy new collar!
-- At 1:48, I moved the camera onto the patio, and you can see that the foxes have no qualms about coming right up close to the house. Also you hear the owl (or whatever it was) that I mentioned in yesterday's post very clearly in this clip. My Merlin bird app still can't identify it.
Last night Dave and I watched "The Lost Bus" on Apple TV, the Matthew McConaughey movie about a school bus driver and teacher who work to rescue a busload of kids from the wildfires in Paradise, California, a couple of years ago. It's a very good movie, well-made and with all the nail-biting tension of the best disaster films. Well worth watching!
I expect that Big Boss Woman and the Middle School librarian were partying at a wild shindig in The Surrey Hills where coincidentally there was a head librarians' Black Sabbath convention yesterday. Should result in some interesting innovations to advance library provision.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good movie, I'll keep an eye out for it.
ReplyDeleteI've just got my son a wildlife camera thingy for his birthday - looking forward to seeing what goes through his garden
ReplyDeleteThis might be my favorite view yet of the sculpture. Thanks for the review of The Lost Bus. When I read about it I thought it could be a complete disaster as a movie or it could be interesting. Maybe we’ll give it a try. I’m enjoying the cat art.
ReplyDeleteOctober break? But the kids have only just gone back to school!
ReplyDeleteyour garden cam is such a great idea! It is like opening a gift every time, delightful surprises. I do love the sculpture- exactly like ideas and their fleeting nature. Try to grasp them and they turn into something else entirely.
ReplyDeleteYour foxes are beautiful and look so healthy.
ReplyDeleteYour half-term is early. Most schools have the last week in October, when the clocks go back. Perhaps you have two weeks, which many independent schools have in the autumn term.
I really need to add Apple to the streaming. I had an argument with Comcast the other day about raising my internet and they ended up cutting it by 10 from the old price. Maybe I'll use the savings to do that!
ReplyDeleteI have an aversion to all things McConaughey and have family that lost everything in the Paradise fire so this one's not for me.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the foxes have figured out that Olga is no longer barking at them when they get close to the house which makes them bolder.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the sculpture and the way it looks like something ephemeral is being reached for.
I looked at some of the other views of the sculpture and could not see anything but a jumble of shapes. This view though makes sense. the foxes are looking healthy and bold.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo of the sculpture.
ReplyDeleteIt is confirmed; you have at least two adult foxes patrolling at night.
ReplyDeleteA fox with a white tip on the tail makes a distinctive mark and it is great for id and frequency of visits to your garden.
The sculptures against the perfect blue sky are remarkable. Nice photo Steve.