This Daily had me stymied for the first 5 minutes this morning. Partly, it’s because I was doing the crossword and drinking coffee when I gave the prompt a look. But I also know that my in-laws just cancelled their regular July vacation trip to visit us in Maine. That’s something of an un-vacation or de-vacation. The prompt saddened me a bit, though the early bird DS106ers were throwing down some very upbeat, positive tweets, which was nice.
Coronavirus vacation, Maine. Staying safe in more ways than one. The whole thing feels apocalyptic. Gloomy, wet, warnings, and a road that may lead nowhere. Shot in March 2020 at an undisclosed – and still closed – location. @ds106dc #tdc3050 @eng304cripps #ds106 pic.twitter.com/2mokARnPNa
— Michael J. Cripps (@michaeljcripps) May 19, 2020
But then I remembered a photo I took right after our beaches closed around late March. I didn’t know it at the time, but I must have had some idea that it would offer me a Daily Create opportunity. What I remember that day was the shock of it all. Damn! My local break barricaded.
This Daily was easy peasy lemon squeezy. I used Photoshop, but GIMP would have worked just fine. I could have done a version of it in Preview on my Mac. It’s not really a meme at all, though I borrowed some of the visual layout cues from the meme genre: Set up at the top; punchline at the bottom; bars at top and bottom to establish good text/background contrast. I don’t like my choice of red, but I just picked the red of the stop signs in the barricades. They’re not quite as deep and rich as I would have liked. Alas.
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