January…6184 days? It’s going to be a long month…Part 1-Bubbles
This poet is brilliant…Brian Bilston…
and yes, January is also this:
What to do, what to do. It’s one of those months, you can make plans, but depending on the weather, temperature or general malaise you feel, things might go sideways, up, or down, or just not happen at all. That’s not even taking into account world affairs and the idiots out there creating anxiety everywhere. Enough…had to find something to occupy my troubled (most of the time actually) mind. Soap bubbles…yup…soap bubbles.
Who knew what you can do with a cup of warm water, two tablespoons of sugar, 2 T of corn syrup and 2 T of dish soap, if only dish soap tasted like creme caramel…or beer, maybe I should try this with beer, thanks for the idea Paul! Cool it all down by setting it outside in the frigid temperatures, get a straw, I found a packet of glass ones at the $ store, and practice blowing bubbles. It took some practice…
I have now officially had my mouth washed out with soap…it was a long time coming and many may have wanted to do this to me in my youth but now it was self inflicted;) Blowing gentle little bubbles that don’t pop when you try to deposit them on a snowy railing is actually harder than it looks! For me anyway! Optimum temperature is -12° a lovely lady at the photo club told me, showing me photos of her beautiful frozen bubbles, amazing Wendy!! I CAN do this! Ha!
So, WTF you are thinking? What the fart guys, or I’ll get that soap mixture out! You blow the bubble gently out the straw and place it on some soft snow and it freezes! Very quickly I might add. You need to be prepared because the working conditions are Siberian! In the beginning there is only a small bit of pattern but it quickly covers the bubble. Some pop quite quickly, other stay for hours depending on the conditions. Best, no wind, no large snow flakes to land on them and pop them. No chickadees coming to in to check them out either! Sun, you need sun, I tried the LED flashlight with little luck. It all has to come together to make it just right!
Now, to get someone to invent a better tasting soap;) I shall wander back to Dollarama this week and look for a bubble wand to decrease my soapy water intake given the coming forecast temperatures will leave me lots of time to practice this art!
ISO 3200 62mm (24-70 zoom) F18 1/1250 sec. Next time tripod, macro tubes and a beautiful assistant to blow bubbles;) Ha!
So, next time, maybe the tripod, although it doesn’t let me get close enough to the railing, I inquired with my beautiful assistant to assist with bubble blowing and got a flat “NO!” OK, we can do this singlehanded, smart man, damn it’s cold out there! I have many more ideas, cookie cutters for different shapes, different branches, soft piles of cat hair? Hey! Not sure they would like the cold either, given they have spent the last few weeks in front of the woodstove with little or no desire to move away from it. Maybe I could learn something here…Hmmmm….Stay tuned, we have birds, snow covered canoes, promises of of Aurora again tonight, last night was a bust here as the clouds moved over…ah, January…how many more days?
