Self is always happy when she can participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge!
Rose Bowl Parade, 1 January 2019
Straw Angels, December 2018
Reading, December 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog reader. Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: PAIRS
January 15, 2019 at 2:34 pm (Books, Flowers, Holidays, Links, Personal Bookshelf, television, Women Writers)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Christmas, exhibits, history, reading lists, Redwood City, Russian writers
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Monotones (One Single Color)
January 4, 2019 at 11:48 pm (destinations, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, California, Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, inspiration, Ireland, photography, Redwood City
Cee Neuner has very interesting prompts. This week’s is MONOTONES. Love it.
Lake Annagmakerrig: 4:30 a.m., 8 November 2018 (Just realized that it’s too light in the photograph for 4:30 a.m. DUH! The photo is time-stamped for California time, which is eight hours ahead of Ireland. The actual time in Ireland when self took the picture was 12:30 p.m.)
It amuses self to think about how the first color that usually comes to mind when one thinks of Ireland is green.
Clouds, Annaghmakerrig: 7:30 a.m. (California time, which means 3:30 p.m. in Ireland), 7 November 2018
Fatsia, Backyard, Redwood City: 11 a.m., 26 September 2018
Gary Kamiya: The “Tenderloin” District, San Francisco
January 1, 2019 at 3:19 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Links, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Surprises)
Tags: California history, discoveries, essays, history, San Francisco
- What is remarkable about the Tenderloin is that it has remained physically unchanged for more than 80 years. It is a time capsule. The same progressive forces that have kept out ‘progress’ and inadvertently created a Museum of Depravity, have also created a Museum of the Lost City, a vanished world memorialized in the neighborhood’s extraordinary collection of residential hotels. There are hundreds of these historic SROs in the Tenderloin, the largest number in the world. The SROs are the reason that in 2008, the Uptown Tenderloin was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 24th San Francisco neighborhood to be so listed.
— Gary Kamiya, “Adventures in the Skin Trade”
Which Way Photo Challenge, Part 2
December 31, 2018 at 6:11 pm (Books, destinations, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: England, fantasy, inspiration, London, Mondays, Oxford, Philip Pullman, pilgrimage
Much thanks to sonofabeach96 for the prompt, which sent self back to her archive of photographs, taken during her most recent trip:
London Alley, 20 November 2018
Rainy Night, London, 20 November 2018
Wolvercote, the Ruins of Godstow Abbey in the distance, 16 November 2018: Philip Pullman’s LA BELLE SAUVAGE led self here. (When’s Book 2, The Secret Commonwealth, coming out? Been waiting a long, long time!)
Which Way Photo Challenge (Week of 27 December 2018)
December 30, 2018 at 11:25 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Durham, England, London, Philadelphia, photography, restaurants
Showing the ways people move from one place to another on land: roads, walkways, stairs, elevators, escalators, railway tracks, ski lifts, runways, canals, locks, parking lots, driveways, tunnels.
The Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant, Downtown Philadelphia, 5 December 2018
Crossing Over the River Wear, Durham, 29 November 2018
Millenium Bridge, London, 22 November 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Sundays I four
December 30, 2018 at 10:56 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Places)
Tags: poetry, websites
Self loved this tracking of a moment — the musing, melancholy tone.
Posted in Haiku
“Sundays, yes, those fun days” Gun Roswell
Sundays
Take a walk long outside
Seaside, a long stride, up
The hill and down to the beach
Scenery to be seen, with
Just one scene, nature and
Man made structures, side by side
Hard to divide, growing together
Over the years, soon there
Is nothing to separate them, under cover
From prying eyes, but alas
I am here now and
I spy, before it all disappears in
To the background of nature
Colin O’Brady, American
December 27, 2018 at 5:13 am (Explorers, Links)
Tags: news
While Trump and Melania were off in Iraq doing God-knows-what, an American named Colin O’Brady became the first man to cross Antarctica un-aided.
In 54 days of enduring bone-chilling temperatures, he made a journey of 932 miles (1,500 kilometers), while pulling a sled. He told the Associated Press: “Can you see it in my face? I’ve suffered . . . ”
He and Englishman Louis Rudd were racing each other for the record.
In 2016, English adventurer Henry Worsley died while trying to make the first such attempt.
Here’s a link to an article about his trek on the National Geographic website.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Catching People Unaware (in England)
December 13, 2018 at 5:53 am (destinations, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Cee Neuner, England, London, Oxford
All gratitude to Cee Neuner, for a prompt that allowed self to share these pictures, taken during her latest trip. She’d never have thought of posting them otherwise.
Traveling in winter is hard, self didn’t know just how hard until she was in the middle of the trip.
Blackfriar Train Station, London, November 2018
The Millenium Bridge, London, November 2018
Oxford Street Market, November 2018
Sentence of the Day: Matthew Dessem for SLATE
December 10, 2018 at 6:09 am (Links, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: Burma, humor, Twitter
The piece was about Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who chose to dis-engage from the world by doing 10 days of vipassana meditation in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar.
- Over an 18-tweet thread, Dorsey wrote about his experiences during the 10 days of silence, covering everything from a Silicon Valley-fied description of Buddhism (“hack the deepest layer of the mind and re-program it”) to the 117 mosquito bites he got while silently meditating in a cave, which he apparently silently counted, silently photographed, and silently compared to the heartrate data silently recorded by his Apple Watch, which he wore in meditation-friendly airplane mode.
Eeew! Mosquito bites can be so distracting! Couldn’t the meditation center install bug zappers?
Stay tuned.
STOKED: The Sentencing Memo, Language
December 8, 2018 at 8:19 pm (Links)
Tags: news, politics, Saturday
This is thrilling. Courtesy of Vox (and it’s only the FIRST of, self hopes, many):
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
vs.
MICHAEL T. FLYNN, Defendant
Sentencing: Dec. 18, 2018
The United States of America, by and through Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, respectfully submits this memorandum in aid of sentencing defendant Michael T. Flynn. On December 1, 2017, the defendant pleaded guilty to one count of making materially false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in violation of . . .
Demolish. Destroy. Stay tuned.
