May 16, 2019 at 4:49 pm (Conversations, destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Fridays, memories, Paris
For only her second post participating in Nadia Merrill’s Photo-a-Week Challenge, she has to go back, waaaaay back, to 30 December 2017. She’d just spent one of the loneliest Christmases ever, in Paris. Lo and behold, when it was time for her to leave, she realized she’d come to feel comfortable in Paris (after spending two weeks holed up in a hotel just a few blocks from the Arc de Triomphe, where a very discreet hotel staff never asked her a single personal question, and only interfered with her routine once, when they insisted she go to the Louvre on Christmas Day — No lines, Madame!)
This week’s Photo-a-Week Challenge is RAINDROPS.
She thinks that’s what’s going on in these pictures. Or mebbe she was just too tired and it was too early in the morning and her hand was shaking. She was in a cab headed to the airport, where she was going to fly, first, to London, and then to the Philippines.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 27, 2018 at 7:03 pm (Food and Drink, postaday, Sundays, television)
Tags: California, farmers markets, happiness, indulgences, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Bought $11 worth of cherries.
The Warriors won last night. All’s right in the world.
Stay tuned.
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May 26, 2018 at 8:39 pm (Family, postaday)
Tags: art, memories, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress
Detail of a drawing son did when he was maybe five or six.
It’s a big drawing, about three feet by two feet. And almost a third of it is taken up by the cat’s tail:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 25, 2018 at 5:30 pm (Flowers, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: California, Fridays, Garden, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
Betty Boop and Fourth of July roses
Self is so fascinated by this twisted vine, which was only revealed after she did heavy cutting back of some overgrown bushes:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 24, 2018 at 8:35 pm (Places, postaday)
Tags: California, Garden, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
Self took these pictures early May.
In the long-ago time, the tree trunk was shipped from the Philippines, and the iron trellis leaning against it was from Smith & Hawken.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 24, 2018 at 1:19 am (Links, postaday)
Tags: California, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
- This week, show us something that doesn’t maintain a straight line.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
A humble plant growing by the kitchen sink. Self drapes it over the window frame to keep out of her way while she washes dishes:
Wednesday afternoon
Still Wednesday Afternoon
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 20, 2018 at 5:05 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: art, coffee, exhibits, humor, museums, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, San Francisco, Wordpress
Bright and early Saturday morning, self was in front of SFMOMA. She had tickets for the opening day of the Rene Magritte exhibit. There was a crowd waiting for the doors to open at 10 a.m.
Below was one of the first Magrittes she saw. Of course, she immediately thought: THE DAILY POST PHOTO CHALLENGE! Good thing they allowed pictures.
Rene Magritte at SFMOMA
This morning, self had her usual cup of coffee: Organic Rendezvous Brew, purchased at Moody’s in Mendocino. The cup she used was something she bought at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, years ago: that’s a triceratops, half-submerged in her coffee:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 19, 2018 at 6:31 am (Places, postaday)
Tags: Fridays, Palo Alto, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Self went to see Hitchcock’s Vertigo at the Stanford Theatre in downtown Palo Alto. Of course she brought her camera because she was just itching to take pictures of things LIQUID for this week’s Photo Challenge.
The fountain in Peace Park was an obvious choice. But she is exceedingly fond of the vibrant colors of Essie Nail Polish lined up in a window she passed on University Avenue.
Corner of Emerson and University Avenue
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 17, 2018 at 5:41 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: California, Garden, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
For this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, LIQUID, self decided to break with her usual habit of scouring her archives. Instead, she decided to take pictures of liquids.
Since this is also a hard-at-work day for her (writing), she’s at home. What is liquid in her home? Here are three things:
Other LIQUID:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 16, 2018 at 2:05 am (Books, Flowers, Places, postaday, Women Writers)
Tags: Garden, novel, postaday, postaweek, reading lists, Wordpress
Self’s garden, this morning:
Cover detail: Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, the next book on her reading list
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