One final picture from this abandoned automotive plant/recycling center/whatever. Well, I had a fun night -- a tornado went by about a block and a half from my house. I was lucky, though, and only had some roof shingles blow off, a limb fall into the yard, and some hail damage to my car. Many people near me weren't nearly so lucky.

Camera: Yashica Mat 124 TLR using Fuji PRO400H color film

Song of the day: 'Fall On My Knees' by Samamidon

Poem of the day:
'I would not paint -- a picture --
I'd rather be the One
Its bright impossibility
To dwell -- delicious -- on --
And wonder how the fingers feel
Whose rare -- celestial -- stir --
Evokes so sweet a Torment --
Such sumptuous -- Despair --

I would not talk, like Cornets --
I'd rather be the One
Raised softly to the Ceilings --
And out, and easy on --
Through Villages of Ether --
Myself endued Balloon
By but a lip of Metal --
The pier to my Pontoon --

Nor would I be a Poet --
It's finer -- own the Ear --
Enamored -- impotent -- content --
The License to revere,
A privilege so awful
What would the Dower be,
Had I the Art to stun myself
With Bolts of Melody!'
- Emily Dickinson, 'I would not paint -- a picture --'

Posted on 16 March, 2008 (14)