[GR02.02] roses, outdoors, Venice

70mm 1/800 sec f/4.5 200You're seeing this e-mail because you signed up for Good Rectangles.June 25, 2020. From one of many, many walks around the strange little neighborhood I lived in Venice, California, deep in that first pandemic summer. (We were at least allowed to go outside by then. Do you remember that? They told us, "Don't go outside.")I miss that part of the pandemic. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say this but I have to be honest about it. Sure, I was going insane, worrying about dying and worrying about my friends dying, social isolation and an acquisition and the "gestures broadly at everything" of it all, but, also: I lived in a neighborhood with a lot of green space. Every day I took my dog a few steps outside my door to a cul de sac that had been filled in with grass, and he played with his little dog friends while I talked to my neighbors from six feet away. Once a week I got a box from Farm Fresh to You with caviar limes and fennel and eggs and in the…