man & nature # 273-76 ~ the Jimmi Nuffin triptych
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 02:32PM 
Rain saturated landscape ~ NYS Rt. 5 - near Wampsville, NY• click to embiggen
Rain saturated landscape ~ NYS Rt. 5 - near Wampsville, NY • click to embiggenLast Saturday, as I was driving to Taughannock Falls, I was listening to our 3 CD set of The Greatest R&B Hits Collection - one of those late-night tv not-available-in-stores "special offers". The volume was on the rather amped-up side and I was definitely in the groove - listening to soul music and, as much as the seatbelt would allow, dancing like a white man.
Long about Utica, NY, I was overcome with the desire to talk to a black person so I called my good friend Jimmi Nuffin (the alias he comments under here on The Landscapist). I splained the situation to Jimmi and he was very understanding.
We conversed for about the next 20 miles or so when I noticed that I was passing by quite a number of picturing possibilities. When I came upon the scenes pictured in this entry, I just had to stop. Once again, I spained the situation to Jimmi and, once again, he was very understanding - he waited patiently on the line (on the microwaves?) while I disembarked and made these pictures. All the while I was picturing - I was pretty quick because it was raining pretty good - Jimmi was listening to the click-click-click of the car's turn signal sound, courtesy of our bluetooth-enabled car.
So, under the circumstances, I felt that naming this triptych the Jimmi Nuffin Triptych was the honorable and courteous thing to do.
Reader Comments (3)
That sounds like a nice Saturday! Fun read anyway!
As I listened to the click, click, click of the turn signal, I wondered "What makes the Landscapist see what he sees at the time that he sees it?"
Think about it. Driving in the rain, talking on a phone, listening to old soul and then… "HOLD ON I GOTTA TAKE THIS PICTURE."
That's one helluva thought Jimmi!