TPP finally settled on a new camera for his travels and field work. His left shoulder is still sore, stiff, and a little lower for all those years that he carried a modest sized gadget bag around the world. The laziness of age plus the improved technology allows cameras to be very modest in size, and still go from close focus for flowers and such to quite an impressive telephoto, and all in a quite smallish point and shoot size. This camera still has a reasonable ability to be adjusted, certainly as much as a photographer with modest skills requires. Sorry about no name, TPP doesn't get paid for endorsements and the blog remains totally free. But if you are a longtime reader, and drop TPP and email, he might give you a make & model.
A couple of years ago a dear friend gifted TPP with a Clivia. An easier and more handsome house plant does not exist. It flowers now and again, so the camera gets some exercise. The plants like to dry out and seem generally unfazed by the cooler, drier household climate of winter. The foliage is quite handsome, dark green, almost cat proof. Clivia is a honorific, but without his plant name book, TPP has forgotten the person, but Wikipedia to the memory rescue: Charlotte Florentia Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (née Lady Charlotte Florentia Clive).
1 comment:
Surely you mean "given".... (Although I'm not doubting your giftedness, but it means something else again, as an adjective)
And the Clivia is lovely.
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