Wednesday In Muncie With A Camera!

 What I Did This Morning and Into The Afternoon

Another morning where I did not want to get up, but I did. After breakfasting, I headed down to the convenience store for a pack of Luckies. The camera stayed home, and I think that was the first mistake of the day.

Back here, I worked through the emails and started on my submissions. Those wiped out the day until around 2 pm.

I called the dentist. They did not have my Humana card. I sent it to them, then I heard nothing further from them. They will be closed until Monday,

My submissions:

“Agnes” to Another Chicago Magazine,  Rumpus, The Hemlock Journal, and swamp pink

American Short Fiction, received “Heart’s Judgment Judged”

 To Pulp Asylum, Cold Caller, "The Revenger’s Tale"

Fiction on the Web  - “The Unintended Consequences of Art”

“Going For The Kid” went to Haven Spec Magazine - which I missed as being a duplicate! Moron.

 Peek behind the scenes at how Fiction on the Web chooses which stories to publish - I do not know if this helped still my worries about what happens to my stories after submission is still not clear in my mind.

 I also had running in the background Edward II - Ian McKellen - Timothy West - Diane Fletcher 1969 - Marlowe - Restored 2025 - 4K 

This I found preferable to my memory of the Jarman movie - mostly because of Ian McKellen.

 I also found another local blog: Hiding in Plain Sight (taking in Anderson and Muncie).

Out and About With My New Camera

After lunch and supper, I decided I was going to Minnetrista for an art show. This time I had my camera with me. I took the opportunity to experiment, so please bear with me. Some did not work ; I need to look at the instructions in more depth.

The view from the back of my apartment building:

The view to the north along Reserve:

Reserve looking south:

Muncie's Parking Patrol doing their best:

What I think is an interesting looking house and another failed experiment:

Coming up to Wheeling Avenue:

Crossing Wheeling Avenue to the Minnetrista area:

First stop was White River:

Yeah, there is a tint that was not actually there.

These are the buildings that were associated with the Ball family and remain standing; it is my understanding that these were the smaller buildings, that the larger ones went up in a fire.

There are barn owls in this area:

Then I came up to the Minnetrista Center itself (I believe on the way there, with the river below, I think I saw a kingfisher; only once before have I seen a kingfisher):

They are getting ready for the Luminarian:

And then I came upon the place itself:

These are the pieces I liked best:

From there I needed to take care of some business - my supply of Coke Zero for the rest of the day. This meant along to the convenience store on Wheeling. I cut across the Delaware County Fairgrounds. Here, I decided to more experiments - most of which I will not trouble you with tonight.

I made one stop before the convenience store:

One of Muncie's wonders.

The hands were too full on the way back for more photos. 

Back here around four pm, being gone for about 2 hours, I did the dishes and had dinner. One other blog post was written, about Thomas Pynchon, that is scheduled for the last half of next month. Then I started putting together this post.

Some videos for the day - Klimt, Socialism, Changing Language, King Arthur, Irish pranks, Louis Armstrong live, the doom of Ireland:

I talked to CC. She is supposed to come over. So far, not another peep out of her.

I did plan on a liturgy tomorrow morning, but that might not happen. I still need to get my novels and my mail. I would rather not be distracted by the world while at church.

This post is far too long. I will apologize for that and close out for the night. I might take to bed with Edna O'Brien.

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