Asakiyume mita

I took this in the stairwell of the parking garage at Logan after dropping Wakanomori off there.




I didn't look at it when I took it, so boy did I get a surprise afterward. It's not quite like in the stories where you manage to photograph a ghost, but atmospherically it's trending that way.

--Because when I took the picture, what I saw was a space filled with light (it was about noon at the time), and then the bright blue plexiglass piece, which was reflecting a deep blue square on the floor. I wanted to catch just that--the airy, light-filled space, and the two blue squares. I set the focus on the blue plexiglass square. "Take your light reading from that, please, phone."

I don't know whether it was that the light in there was so intense that, being asked to focus on the one blue spot, the camera overcompensated and turned everything else orange-red, but wow! Or that's what it looked like all the time but I didn't have eyes to see?!

.... And I didn't even notice the purple plexiglass square, but I guess it was there? I guess?

So that's a little visual magic, and hear's a little aural fun. I mishear stuff all the time, and today I thought I heard someone mention "solar-panel ballads" on the radio. What could they really have been saying? One of my friends suggested "solar-panel ballast"--which is possible if solar panels sometimes need ballast. (Do they?)

In any case, I like to think of a whole genre of ballads relating to solar panels. There are murder ballads, and then there are solar-panel ballads.