That is to say I'm not likely to see the ivy of Wrigley field at today's prices any time soon which proably explains this set. This is a little bit of a change up from my other sets in that the star is the Ivy in the background. I'll take close up super sharp leaves to the blurriest haze of a leafed wall in the distance.
I've got the spreadsheet updated to something like 400+ cards from all over. The hardest part is to order them by number from the jumble in the bottom of a cigar box, but that now too, is done. All that's left is to start putting it in the binder, which will commence before you know it. But that still leaves a couple hundred cards needed so check the numbers when you see the Ivy and I'll trade for holes I need to fill. Or if it's just a darn tootin' specimen.
I especially want shots like this, where you can see the houses across Waveland Ave that are now covered up by some sort of video screen monstrosity (which very likely cuts down the wind enough that they could put together a team to win it all in 2016). No amount of Ivy is too small for me to want it. If you can find a card that has just one leaf on it I especially want it.
Some of the cards are not so obviously Ivy because many walls are green, but even the blurriest Ivy has a certain texture. Also there is a brown strip along the top that is broken up by a dark spot at even intervals which are the posts that hold up the catching fence that drunken bleacher bums fall into on occasion. Its also an NL pitcher wearing his dark/grey road duds. My only real problem with the picture is the casual way he holds his glove which seem to suggest that his mechanics are off which make me want to go google him and see if he was prone to getting lit up or ever had his elbow replaced. But I digress. This sort of shot is a bit like having Monet paint the background of one of DaVinci's Anatomy studies. Many of the best Ivy cards are and as soon as they are bound up I'll have to figure out how to share the binder pages here.
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