Entropy

Our African daisy (Osteospermum) is trying its best to bloom right now, mysteriously. There's not a bee or other pollinator in sight out there, so why it wants to have flowers in the middle of January is anyone's guess. The flowers were a sort of dull greenish-orange until I moved the plant inside to protect it from our recent freeze, and then they all turned bright orange.

Well, this has been an interesting morning already. I tried to sign in to Blogger as I always do, and although it allowed me to see my blog, when I clicked on "new post" I got this:

I use the same browser every single day, so why it would suddenly be "not supported" is a mystery to me. I updated Chrome, thinking that might solve the problem, but no. So I'm writing now on Safari, which is not the browser I typically use to blog. Who knows what the heck is going on, but I think it's on their end. God forbid a Google website should work with a Google browser!

Anyway, yesterday was rather hectic. I went to the doctor in the late morning because my IBS (or whatever it is) has been acting up lately and I wanted to touch base with the experts. I was sent home with a couple of routine tests, which is fine because I haven't had them in a while and it makes sense to do them regularly.

Remember the kid who wanted me to take pictures with his camera? Well, I told him that rather than doing that, and faffing around with film, I'd take some photos at school using my own phone just to give him a sense of the types of things he could be shooting. That's one of my pictures, above, which I haven't shown him yet. It wouldn't win any prizes but it's kind of fun.

The message I'm trying to get across to him is, you can take a creative picture anywhere -- even in a room where you spend practically every waking moment and already know like the back of your hand. I know he also wants to process film for other people, but I think getting his friends to shoot film is going to be an uphill battle. Getting me to shoot film certainly is.

And here's a picture of the elder tree that has collapsed on the back garden wall. The point at which the trunk broke is just out of the camera frame on the right. I think it got so saturated with water, and so heavy, that the wood gave way. An arborist contracted by our management company called Dave last night to schedule its removal, but now we've had some confusion about whether he's coming or not, so we still have to iron that out.

It's always something, isn't it? Browsers not working, doctor's appointments, trees collapsing. Isn't "entropy" the idea that orderly systems eventually degrade into disorder? That's what life feels like lately.

And now my Chrome browser seems to have corrected its issues and it works fine with Blogger. Sigh.