CD stacks

Obsolete media in wavering piles, all scanned and now forgotten but for my instinct never to throw the originals away.

Glass lotus

A lotus blossom made of glass, resting on a higher shelf away from the forces that would destroy it.

Diya lights

 Stacks of plain clay diya lights. These should really burn oil for a single puja festival and then return to the earth, but in our household they carry votives and serve until broken by a small child or animal.

Fabric rose

 Old fabric roses, now mostly serving as children's toys.

Wooden blocks

 Pile of wooden children's blocks, partially decorated by the ones who play with them.

Disco light

Amber and black facets on the surface of the disco light.

Disco light

 Another, darker faceted view of the idle disco light.

Disco light

This little cheap-o LED disco light has been the driver of many a toddler dance party in our household. Also, it looks pretty cool when you come in all close like this.

Star slinky

 Star-shaped slinky spilling rainbow through the toys.

Rainbow umbrella

 Rainbow folds of an umbrella.

Croc

 Wrinkles coat the weathered surface of a croc

Dried dyed roses

 White roses, dyed in the vase with uptake through its stems and then left to dry a long, long time.

Deflated beach ball

A once-beloved toy, no longer functional but still unable to be thrown away since it was too precious to a certain child.

Floral quilt

Rolling hills of a floral quilt, laid out as a toddler crash pad.

Red blood cells

Picture of red blood cells drawn by kindergarteners.

Burrs on snow

Burr-like seedpods resting on a thin cold snow.
 

Pencil shavings

 Perfectly long large pencil shavings.

Fall leaves

 Scattered leaves in various shapes and colors from last Fall.

Dried flowers

Dried flowers slowly fading in their vase.

Life jacket

 Pattern and shadows frame an old life jacket.

Diya lights

Our house has a great many diya lights, small ceramic lamps for celebrating various South Asian festivals. Traditionally, they are temporary, and would be filled with oil and used only for a single festival before going back to the earth, but we tend to use votive candles and keep them around long term instead.

Muffin cups

A rainbow of silicone muffin cups.

Acrylic paint

 Another view of paints, some jumbled and some not.

Acrylic paint

 A jumbled pile of acrylic paints.

Cicada shell

Abandoned shell of an immature cicada, discovered clinging beneath a slide.

Drip crater

 Close up and changed to greyscale, these drip spots in the dust look like craters on the moon to me.

Drip line

 A closer view on the line of drip-spot circles.

Drip line

Washing a very dusty car in a very dusty garage produced these remarkable perfect splattered drip spots later.

Flowing droplets

 One more view, mingling the drops below with the reflected sky above.

Flowing droplets

Three big drops, skating quickly along with bow-waves out in front of them, even as they begin to lose their tenuous hydrogen-bonding hold and fall.