I have a new app on my cell phone and I have a suspicion that in future my last photo on the phone might usually be from this app. It’s a plant identifying app called Flora incognita and it has been very helpful on holiday but I’ve used it at home in the past few days. Although Brian wants no explanation but I am quite chuffed to mention that this is amaranthus retroflexus or redroot pigweed. That’s the last photo on the phone’s SD card.
I’ve been known to have popped amaranth in my müsli. Which is also true for grapes.
The magnolia tree in our back garden is getting bigger every year.
For the last one of the SD card in the mobile phone I actually have to show two photos.
When I opened the gallery of the phone the last photo I found was this one:
Our grandson has found the editing facilities in my phone. This is a photo he took of his dad.
This is the last photo on the SD card that I took:
Not a work of art and I feel it also does need an explanation. Our son had forgotten to let me know that he wouldn’t be home for dinner. Since I had made one of his favourite dishes (Kässpätzle) I thought I had to show him what he was missing.
Henry has found a new hobby: movies for cats on youtube. Much better than watching himself in the mirror (last month’s last on the card photo). PS: Note to self: I need to enlarge my subject content.
The last on the camera’s sd-card:
My rescue orchids have mieliebugs. I haven’t decided yet whether it’s time for a clean-up or a purge. PS: It’s ironic that those pests carry the same last name in German as I do.
My last photo on the camera SD card. Jubilee orchard in Kronberg.
Once upon a time general advice forums were going strong on the internet. In 1996, the greatest of them all was created by three computer science students: wer-weiss-was = who knows something. I joined pretty early on and the site was a source of knowledge, of friendly discussions and comeradery. You could find help on almost every topic if the users didn’t know the answer they could point you in the right direction to do further research. In those first years we had a great community, including a chat which was my go-to when living in Saudi Arabia. We had a large meeting in Frankfurt in 2006, the 10th anniversary of the forum. That’s where I got the cup.
This was the highpoint. And in many ways it was downhill from here on. The site was sold (and sold and sold again) and the new owners (a publisher, an advertising company, etc.) wanted to make it BETTER and BIGGER and destroyed the site in the process. They chose to ignore the users who knew how the site worked and what made it unique and successful. Step by step, they destroyed the unique structure and the archive, and more and more of us left. I think it still exist somewhere,
And a couple of days ago I dropped the cup and it broke. Finally.
Sorry, these are more words than I usually add but for me that it is the finaly step in a grieving process. I have a consolation, though, and those are the friendships from that time that have lasted, some now for 25 years.
For Brian Bushboy’s The Last on the Card in November
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