August 23, 2017 at 9:25 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: California, Gardens, happiness, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
Self finds this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, CORNER, very interesting. It challenges us to think “about angles and intersections.”
She was watering on her front porch and decided to take pictures of some of the brick ledges. Threw in a picture of the Fox Theatre, a historic Redwood City landmark, right across the street from the San Mateo County Historical Museum:
She found the ceramic turtle in a Salvation Army store, decades ago.
Gardening’s always been her thing.
Downtown Redwood City has this historic theatre (Would you believe, self’s never attended a performance?). Obama spoke here, a few years ago.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 18, 2017 at 2:40 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: discoveries, Fridays, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, summer, Wordpress
This week, The Daily Post Photo Challenge, asks us to focus on “diversions, distactions, and delightful detours.” The prompt: OOH, SHINY!
In the summer, distractions abound in the form of street fairs.
Below, three shots of a Sacramento Street Fair, early July:
Sacramento — one of California’s coolest, underrated cities.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 6, 2017 at 9:20 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, television, Traveling)
Tags: flower photography, Game of Thrones, Gendry, Gendrya, India, Ireland, photography, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Been reading Gendrya all day in preparation for tonight’s Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 4. Which self knows already from all the leaks has NO. GENDRY. Nevertheless. It is reportedly spectacular. There is a scene in which . . . but, no. THERE SHALL BE NO FURTHER SPOILERS.
She’s posted twice on this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge TEXTURES. Now it’s time to appreciate these beauties from other WordPress bloggers!
Kudos to the bloggers!
Stay tuned.
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July 8, 2017 at 3:44 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, destinations, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: nonfiction, reading lists, Saturday, summer
The cast of characters in William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days is very New Age-y hippie. It’s been a long while since self has encountered one of these, which means San Francisco has really changed.
Anyhoo, Finnegan and a friend go bouncing all over the South Pacific, searching for good waves. And they have very, very interesting encounters.
With an American missionary who is also a surfer. With locals who take an “anthropological interest” in the author and his traveling companion, Bryan. Finnegan and his friend are so obsessed that when they find a good surfing spot, in Tonga, they surf every day.
Surfing seems magical when you’re just watching. Here’s the reality:
- My hands and feet were a salad russe of coral cuts, and Bryan had a large, raw scrape on his back, the dressing on which I changed twice a day.
There’s a type of pairing I’ve seen on Boracay:
- One of Parker’s oil field managers was a big, thick-spectacled Texan named Gene. He had a face like a turkey wattle, a scary smoker’s voice and a local girlfriend who was seventeen. Gene was pushing sixty. His girlfriend was a knockout but not happy. I overheard her telling the wife of a Parker executive that she was a half-Fijian orphan, and therefore a social outcast in homogeneous Tonga. She had turned to prostitution, she said. She was now desperate to get away from Gene. “Help me! Help me!” she pleaded.
As for the king of Tonga, Tupou IV: “He was an absolute monarch who weighed, reportedly, 440 pounds.”
Fascinating stuff.
Stay tuned.
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July 5, 2017 at 9:43 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Flowers, Niece, Places, postaday, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Gardens, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Think about the things, places, or people that connect us. What’s your take?
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
Below, a path through the gardens at Giverney. A path takes a person from one place to another. A path is therefore a bridge. Well, okay it’s more than a bridge. It’s a journey.
Giverney: June 2017
And here is the Eiffel Tower, a tight shot that shows the first level bridge (covered in glass) between the two spans:
The Eiffel Tower: May 2017
Finally, just a plain old bridge. It spans the Seine. On one bank are the Tuileries and the Place de la Concorde. On the other, just visible on the left, the Musée d’Orsay.
Walking from the Tuileries to the Musée d’Orsay: May 2017
The reason self got to Paris this year was all due to her niece (on her Dad’s side), Irene. She planned the trip, and made it fun. More fun than self usually has in her solitary wanderings. Thanks a bunch, Irene!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 3, 2017 at 4:23 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, Places, Recommended)
Tags: California, deadlines, Events, festivals, Mondays, San Francisco
AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design present the 14th Annual Architecture and the City Festival, featuring community workshops, design challenges, educational lectures, tours, films, special events, and an exhibition. The month-long celebration provides opportunities for participants to engage with the local architecture community and experience design in a myriad of ways throughout the city.
Entering the City on 101 North
Programs must address some of our most pressing urban issues, demonstrate innovation in working toward a more sustainable future, and explore how progressive design and creative problem solving improve our quality of life in the Bay Area.
FESTIVAL THEME: SECRET CITY
Questions? Contact Jaime Wong, Program Manager, at jwong@aiasf.org or 415.874.2632.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 24, 2017 at 2:21 am (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: England, Fridays, London, poetry, World War II
Self cannot believe that the hotel gives away these precious little poetry collections, collections of all the poems written about The Bloomsbury Hotel.
Here’s an excerpt from a Leontia Flynn poem about the hotel during wartime:
Shutter the windows. Tumble down the wall.
Sleep under a curtain in the swimming pool
and shelter in the old gymnasium.
After the talks, the shying and denial,
War has come again. War: the word’s a bomb
on everyone’s lips.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 17, 2017 at 3:37 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Flowers, Links, Places, postaday, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: England, flower photography, Gardens, London, memories, photography, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is FOCUS.
David W. asks:
Are you a stickler for getting in close to your subjects and capturing every detail, or do you prefer a more ethereal look that illustrates the sensations of the moment? Or both?
Self definitely falls into the latter group.
Much has happened in the world in the four months self traveled through England, Ireland, and France. She took this picture standing on the steps of London’s St. Martin-in-the-Fields, where she’d gone to listen to a candlelight Pachelbel Canon concert:
Iconic Double-Decker: London, Early June 2017
Before London, self was in Paris. She spent one day at Monet’s Garden in Giverney, which was awash in blooms:
Blooming in Monet’s Garden in Giverney, Early June 2017
Finally, Versailles. The lines were incredible. It took all of her niece Irene’s ingenuity to get us both inside. Self took this picture staring through the gilt iron gates at the front entrance, on a very hot afternoon in late May:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 15, 2017 at 8:43 pm (Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: humor, novel, reading lists
The way Jonathan Evison describes it, it’s a really depressing place to end your Alaska cruise:
- A working-class town smelling of barnacles and rust, wood rot, and diesel smoke, wet dog hair in heaters, and fish nets hung out to dry. Despite civic-minded efforts to splash some vibrant color about, there’s no disguising the town’s blimp gray underbelly.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 14, 2017 at 5:27 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Emma Rice, England, London, memories, photography, postaday, postaweek, praise, Shakespeare, summer, Wikipedia, Wordpress
The bokeh that resulted give the lights of the city a magical quality and creates a unique look for a heavily photographed location.
— David W., The Daily Post
Self had to look up the definition of “bokeh”, here.
Last night, self saw “Tristan and Yseult” at Shakespeare’s Globe. Such a beautiful, high-energy production, Emma Rice’s last as Director at the Globe.
Audience Leaving the Globe After “Tristan and Yseult”: Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Leaving Shakespeare’s Globe after a performance of “Tristan and Yseult,” Tuesday 13 June 2017
Going home, over London Bridge, she snapped this shot of Big Ben:
London Bridge Last Night, Around 10 p.m.
And this one of the London Eye:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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