I’m looking for a detailed
picture of a crow landing. Yes, there were
lots of pictures of crows on Google, but not a detailed one of a crow
landing. That was a while ago. Yesterday I looked up the main library hours,
then I called to see if the morgue still existed. It did, up on ‘A’ floor. They call it the “picture file.”
“It hasn’t been updated in
many years,” a nice man named Pete told me.
“The volunteer who had been doing it retired. They probably wouldn’t be keeping it much
longer.” The man in charge didn’t see
any reason to keep the many file cabinets or acres of fragile paper pictures.
We drove down to our
wonderful new library and discovered that there was no free parking on Padres
game days. We came home the errand way….new
white compression stockings for me, new filters for the car, and Ralphs for
grapefruit segments. He loves them…and I
am putting them with Avocado for a dinner salad. Yes, the 1950’s foods still live in our
house.
I looked up flying Crows,
and G looked up landing Crows. There
they were in Google.
It’s truly gut wrenching, the end of a unique artists tool, but there is really no reason at all to keep those acres of paper images.
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- Himself: Ran me around happily and kindly.
- Myself: Was delighted to see so many walls covered with murals on the back of downtown. Was really saddened to see one street lined with the homeless…most were gathered near small churches.
- Reading: Volume 4 in the Library series.
- Gratitude’s: That neither G nor I are homeless.
That is a great crow photo. So much is changing with technology. We probably wouldn’t recognize the world in 50 years.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were in Europe, we were told at the libraries that even ancient Medieval manuscripts were being digitalized now for posterity. It’s pretty incredible.
ReplyDeleteSeems we will need to rely on memories and Google. That is an amazing shot of the crow however.
ReplyDeleteYour eventual success in tracking down a picture is something to crow about.
ReplyDeleteI smile as I read about your search for a crow landing, as years ago, I created an Artist Trading Card with crows on it. Was it Van Gogh that painted crows in flight over a yellow field of wheat?? Love you and love your artist mind! I know technology is changing our world, but shouldn't we be keeping an eye to the future when documents become the true rarity of life? I don't know that I want to live in a world without books or papers waiting to be read (or held in one's hands).
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