Hand-Colored Ambrotype of an Unidentified Child Holding an Apple, ca. 1860 (above): It required full light, the largest stop in the camera and the combined efforts of the photographer, the candy, and the entire family.
50 Completely True Things about the the Palestinian / Israeli conflict
UK archaeologists reconstructed the 75,000 year old face of a forty-something Neanderthal woman laid to rest in a sleeping position beneath a huge vertical stone marker in a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.
A bit of time travel: The island of abandoned blogs (via web curios)
A honeybee invasion Once honeybees move in, it turns out, they are particularly difficult to evict.
This African guitar greats playlist is my background soundtrack today.
This is the mother of almost all Wisteria Sinensis plants outside of Asia.
Roasted Cauliflower loaded with herbs, dates, nuts, roasted red onions and tossed with a tahini dressing. This is definitely in my future.
Has dog breeding gone too far? If you are human, sex with your sibling is called incest and is illegal in almost all 50 states. If you are a dog, is called inbreeding, and it is part of the practice of pure-breeding dogs.
“The surest way to be successful is to invent your own definition of success. Shoot your arrows first and then paint a bull’s eye around where they land. You’re the winner!” Kevin Kelley has added 101 Additional Advices to his Excellent Advice for Living. (via the excellent Rusty Blazenhoff)
This secret recipe for perfect gooey cheese sauce comes with this warning: “Do not, under any circumstances, use Alka-Seltzer with aspirin in this recipe.” (via Miss Cellania)
Tiny Dogs is a site that will make a handmade, needle-felted miniature of your dog. (via web curios)
How NYC's Subway Became an Underground Gallery The city’s vast transit system is a trove of more than 400 works of contemporary art.
“My daughters had seen the ancient, weather-worn billboards for Babyland General Hospital featuring storks and Cabbage Patch Kids in faded pastel colors and wanted to see what it was all about. We were not prepared for what came next. “ via Miss Cellania
Cheers to shots and tiny cocktails They add an air of festiveness to an occasion but won’t knock you on your ass.
The oldest homes in the world still standing (photo gallery)
Take a Virtual Road Trip: The America Road Trip Simulator styles itself as a ‘serendipitous journey unfolding at your own pace'.
Recording Sanquhar glove designs: May MacCormick, a knitter in Dumfries and Galloway, has started a project to save a small but important piece of textile history. She is is one of the last knitters with full knowledge of the Scottish glove designs. They are lovely.
From Whistler to Warhol, Famous Artists Paint Their Mothers (a repost from 2011)
The bus from London to Calcutta then to Australia sounds intriguing and horrible at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThe reconstruction of the Neanderthal woman makes me wonder. They have intact skulls so they had a guide to reassembling the flattened skull. But the jump from skull to finished head is some flight of fancy. Nobody alive has ever seen a Neanderthal, there’s no photos or paintings, they might have 3 lips for all we know.
The tiny dogs are wonderful, what a great gift.
A hell of a collection today, thank you.
xoxoxoBruce
Thanks for hanging in over the years!
DeleteA local poet named Bobbi Markels* lived to be 105 years old, the last 40 years in a lovely old-ship-like hippie-built house made mostly of redwood scraps from the mill, and of wood from other old demolished houses. Over several years I recorded her reading her poetry there, and I fixed her telephone line, and installed her printer, and so on. And the whole time, honey was seeping from one wall and you could hear the bees in there and up in the attic. She loved them, and they never came into the house or bothered anyone outside. The land in that area is mostly overgrown with wild plants and everything was just as it should be.
ReplyDeleteA month or so ago I fixed the roof of Juanita's friend's travel trailer. It had little dry-brown-paper wasps' nests all over in the air vent down into the back of the little gas furnace, which was never used, and wasps flew all around, peacefully investigating my work. The woman said, "I don't bother them and they don't bother me." By the time I was finished working they had all just gone somewhere else.
But one time back when I was in high school, after school, the pretty neighbor girl called me on the phone to ask me to go down to the horse-field gate (a thick, heavy, hollow, wood-frame gate), and open it for her. She said, "I /can't open it/." I went down there, touched it, and a thousand angry wasps flew out of it. I went up to where she was waiting, by her house, watching. I said, "You can't open it because it's full of wasps?" She said, matter of fact, "Yes."
*My favorite line from Bobbi Markels' poetry is: I said, "But what about my garden?" He said, "As long as the river flows and the sun shines, little lady, that'll be /your garden/, don't you worry." And his eyes were /so blue/.
Thank you for your (as always) eloquent comment.
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