I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows

reminds me of stitching on a quilt - I wonder how long it took to create

St. Vincent - "Surgeon"
Oscar night and this song popped into my head because the refrain is something that Marilyn Monroe said - in a weird way this song evokes Hollywood..

sunset interlude

fast-changing light made for a few moments of magical colors...
(accompanied by chilling winds!)

My dad explained to me that when you see a double rainbow like this, the second rainbow (on top) is actually a reflection of the first one - evidenced by the reverse order of the colors in the spectrum, which you can see below:

Cookie planted herself on the mat with me... I was focusing to get a picture of her perfectly dainty little paws, she hopped away immediately after this shot - (ew, veiny feet)

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

-- Joyce Kilmer

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-- Mary Oliver, Dream Work

on the kitchen windowsill:
red carnation (a Valentine's gift from a sweet little girl :)
& a walnut piece shaped like a heart

bits around here lately

Aren't we cute enough to get some of that delicious-smelling food that Cookie is getting?








while I practice my alignment, Tim showing off how his toes freakishly spread apart (which mine will never do)
(that's what you get for taking this photo!)

"I don't stop to think if I can...

I just go as far as I can -

And if I can't, I can't."

- Ray Eames

(Watched "Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter" last night)

"Dance first. Think Later. It's the natural order."

Samuel Beckett

Can't wait to see this movie!!! (I hope Jean Dujardin wins Oscar!)

the usual subjects

walk up to the golf course & back with Sparky:

the sound of snow heard crashing to the ground

Yippeeeee! it snowed a bunch today!

Zebra - "Bears"

I will forever associate this song with sitting in the tiny closet in BCS that was designated for the yearbook club. The first few lines of the song were my favorite part - to my 1980s teenager sensibilities, it sounded like a poem about the climate we lived in.

frozen in time

see the smiling faces...? :)




Trapped.

Main St. Penn Yan, last night:

cleaning lady

wiping the table with the red chairs:

(view out the window from our hotel room in NYC Dec. 6, 2011)

bits from my weekend...

sitting inside a car at the car wash can be mesmerizing





faces on rocks in a ditch (during an afternoon walk) -

^^^ mummy rock face

^^^ cute little smirking ghost face

^^^ Teenage Mutant Ninja Rock

sorry about the muffled audio - unfortunately my fingers were over the microphone for most of this - there was a lot of laughter, a good sound :)

Hello Monday.

You again.

so you want to be a cabinetmaker?

so true/funny/depressing



(applies to many other professions as well)

Random gems from YouTube:



^^^^^Description: "The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010." www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/





^^^^^Same era as "Boardwalk Empire" :)