and thanks for checking out the shots! Image one is indeed a tomatillo husk. It's great: really evocative of some of the mesh packaging one finds in the supermarket, in a backwards kind of way. It's also one of the most beautiful bits of detritus I've ever found.

2. Image three is the foam flecked ice left over from a glass of vegetable juice. Aglow with nutrients! I'm guessing the vibrant, luminous green comes courtesy of the kale/celery/parsley. I don't know of any cocktails made of such, but it sounds like a fun project. Move over, Bloody Mary, here comes the Green Giant?

3. The vine stencil on barn is a souvenir from N's family's place. Glad you like it!

4. I did use a flash for 10, 11, and 12, and given the limitations of the powershot, I find it necessary in most low-light contexts. Adjusting aperture and shutter speed hasn't yet yielded much for me besides blur and a sort of surreal pooling of light (which can be wonderfully trippy, in the right context, but doesn't offer much sharpness or fidelity of color). Fortunately, a blast of unidirectional light works perfectly for some situations!

Thanks again for checking them out, and I'm grateful for the comments. I didn't mean to sound neglected, by the way ;) I'm actually totally okay with people absorbing non-verbal art and processing/responding to it in a non-verbal way -- although verbal is fun too. Our society is so logocentric that all other forms of discourse/response are sadly underdeveloped. In other words, I think we oughta be "dancing about architecture" a bit more often! Don't know what it'll look like yet, but hey, dance is one of the oldest, most primal forms of communication.

So where should we start? The Arche de Triomphe, say, in Meringue?