While it's important to stay home and not mix with crowds of potential pandemic carriers there are some occasions which defy commonly accepted restrictions on socialization and travel. To wit, an invitation to Will's house for BBQ'd ribs. Compared to the opera or a day at the mosh pit of SXSW an evening in Will's garden is almost antiseptic. It will be a small gathering; no more than perhaps eight people. We'll keep our distance from each other except when it comes to the passing of heaping platters of perfectly smoked ribs.
Belinda, in the kitchen with sprigs of rosemary. Photo made with a Lumix S1 and the 50mm f1.4 S Pro lens. Horticulture in the time of contagion.
4 comments:
delightful photograph. Love the black and white.
You are totally 100% right, except of course, you're totally 100% wrong.
I live about 40 miles from the exact center of all things COVID-19 related in Washington State and it's just making a mess of my life. I'm not sick, nobody I know is sick, nobody I know knows anybody who is sick, yet we're all buying toilet paper and everything else Costco might ordinarily have on the rack. We are all hiding indoors, washing our hands every chance we get when we're not spraying disinfectant all over everything.
My 95 year old live in Mother In Law won't be going to church tomorrow for the third week in a row and that's a really big deal for her. I'm telling you Kirk, this really isn't how I envisioned the end of the world coming down. This really sucks.
For those of us lucky enough to be untouched by the disease, the internet is showing once again how valuable it is. News on demand. Movies on demand. Music on demand. Books on demand. Magazines on demand. Information from experts and trusted institutions on demand. The Visual Science Lab on demand.
And the physical necessities of daily life on demand -- health supplies and food delivered by Amazon, Walmart, McDonalds and your local grocer and restaurant. Health supplies and food delivered to your car at the curb or drive-through.
Staying in-touch with friends and family via text, twitter, email, Skype, Facetime.
Yesterday I sat in the living room and got half way through a Steven King novel while listening to streaming music.
The disease is bad. The internet has made it less-bad.
I ALWAYS love your photos of Belinda. Just sayin'.
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