Titanium lilies

and other attempts at making amusing analogies. Pretty things that don’t break easily, things nice to look at but resilient, growing in adversity in spite of unlikely odds…and I’m not even actively trying to go on a feminist kick. Go figure.

There is a paper lily perched on the computer tower of my ‘work’ computer, orange and green paper thrown together by me in a fit of boredom. Picture to come when my camera returns.

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The camera is on a journey. On Tuesday, I sat in front of a UPS drop box with a just-very-slightly-too-big cardboard box hugged to my chest, waiting for the 7 o’clock pickup to come because I couldn’t fit the box into the deposit slot, sitting in a back alley on a concrete stair. Within, my poor, senile camera was nestled in too many layers of bubble wrap, victim of a defect triggered only in hot and humid environs; another belated casualty of Southern weather. Fortunately for me, I had the foresight to research solutions to the constantly-malfunctioning LCD screen which started spazzing last year but threw in the towel permanently in early May. Canon will repair the defect free of charge.