April 19, 2018 at 12:09 am (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: artists residency, California, inspiration, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, seasons, Wordpress
It is spring. Self had a sudden hankering for shiitake mushrooms. So she walked to Corners of the Mouth Market on Ukiah. The vacant lots she passed were dotted with little white and yellow flowers, a whole profusion of them. She wouldn’t have stopped to take pictures if she hadn’t been thinking of this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge: PROLIFIC.
Kids lying on their backs, stretched out on the soft grass. School’s out, AYAYAYAYAY, such a beautiful afternoon.
She peeked over a fence and saw a shelf filled with whimsical ceramic objects.
Also PROLIFIC:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 18, 2018 at 4:50 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, artists residency, blogs, exhibits, Gardens, inspiration, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress, work-in-progress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is PROLIFIC.
Self will interpret that to mean MANY.
Mary-Ellen Campbell’s home in Casper, California is bursting with collages, paintings, books — all of her own making.
She made this collage after one of her travels:
Art by Mary-Ellen Campbell of Casper, California
Here’s a shot of Mary-Ellen’s work table, where she’s assembling the pieces for a new collage:
Work-In-Progress, Mary-Ellen Campbell
The current exhibit at the Mendocino Art Gallery features work by current artists-in-residence. If you put your nose close to one of these dispensers, the smell of each spice is heavenly.
Ceramic Spice Dispensers by Layne Rotman (On Exhibit This Month at the Mendocino Art Center Gallery)
Other PROLIFIC:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 10, 2018 at 1:18 am (Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess, England, fantasy, fiction, London, novel, Philip Pullman, reading lists, Shadowhunters, Steampunk, The Infernal Devices, thrillers, Victorian Steampunk, YA, York
p. 443:
- The first boat had swung back. Now it smashed into the canoe again, a deathblow, and the brave little boat was broken open like an egg. Both Malcolm and Asta cried out with love.
The next book on self’s reading list is The Golden Compass. At least, she’ll give it a go.
So far, this year, she’s read three really good novels, the kind that make it into her “favorites” list: Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto; The Mandibles, by Lionel Shriver; and La Belle Sauvage. Actually, Conclave, by Robert Harris, was pretty good, too. Wow, the first third of 2018 has produced a rich harvest. That’s never happened to self before.
The last time she read a trilogy was way back 2015, when she began Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices. That was a smashing series. She spent part of that year in London, looking for Saint Bride’s and the old Blackfriars bridge. At Saint Bride’s, she chatted with a deacon who was amused that Saint Bride’s was the setting of the Shadowhunters’ London sanctuary. She was so into Victorian Steampunk that year, and remembers being mightily impressed that York had an annual Steampunk Festival.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 31, 2018 at 2:15 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Holidays, Places, plans, postaday, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Albion, California, fantasy, novellas, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, science fiction, Wordpress, work-in-progress
(Self hopes this story, which she started writing last year at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, can go into her newest collection)
This has always been, from the very first draft, the opening paragraph:
Sunrise, Albion, California: January 2017
The report came from somewhere on the Bering Sea. The pair had left Yellowknife the previous morning. The woman, it appeared, was headed for Baranof, the man for Kuiu. Both were on foot.
The story was born New Year’s Day 2017, in Albion, California.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 22, 2018 at 3:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, happiness, Ireland, memories, postaday, postaweek, seasons, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is FAVORITE PLACE.
Cheri Lucas Rowlands: “This week, share an image of your happy place, a secret spot you love, or a faraway location you return to again and again.”
Regular readers of this blog already know what that place is!
No more beautiful place: Ireland in Spring
The Lawn in front of the Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 18, 2018 at 2:19 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Places, postaday, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: California, Events, postaday, postaweek, Readings, Wordpress
San Pedro Marina, this morning. Just behind the forest of masts, the San Pedro Naval Shipyard, the largest shipyard self has ever seen.
San Pedro Marina, the Day After a Reading at Philippine Expressions Bookshop on W. Sixth Street, San Pedro
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 14, 2018 at 7:06 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, exhibits, inspiration, museum, Paris, websites
A few weeks ago, self participated in The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge OUT OF THIS WORLD by posting pictures of the Islamic Art Collection at the Louvre, which she visited in May 2017.
Regular readers of this blog know that museums are self’s jam!
The Louvre’s Islamic Art Collection, which opened to the public in September 2012. Self visited in May 2017
The Louvre’s Islamic Art Collection is absolutely amazing.
Allan G. Smorra, whose blog self follows at Ohm Sweet Ohm left a comment. She didn’t have an answer for him (he asked who designed the space) and at the time she was too busy to look it up.
Today, freshly returned from AWP Tampa, and enjoying a few days’ rest before her next trip (to Long Beach, for a reading with other Pinay authors on Saturday, 17 March, at Philippine Expressions Bookshop in San Pedro), she decides to see if she can find out more about the Islamic Art Collection at the Louvre and found this link on the Louvre’s Official Home Page.
The space opened to the public in September 2012. The architects were Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini. The videos explaining the choice are in French, so if you don’t speak French (like self), don’t get frustrated, you can see the accompanying text in English.
Browsing the page, self learns that the roof (which is the most amazing thing) “consists of a free-form lattice of steel tubes and glass” beneath “a gilded metal casing.”
Kudos, Messrs. Ricciotti and Bellini. Major kudos.
Stay tuned.
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March 13, 2018 at 7:23 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, exhibits, inspiration, museum, postaday, postaweek, praise, Wordpress
The baby of James Rouse, grandfather of actor Ed Norton, the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore is dedicated to “outsider art” — people from all walks of life who feel an inner urge to create and just do, without the benefit of formal training. There’s art by diagnosed schizophrenics and insomniacs, nurses and postal workers — all kinds of people. It is a great museum.
Stan Wright’s sculpture is made out of telephone wire. It’s called First Dance. He gifted it to the Visionary Art Museum, and it is amazing.
- “It’s so hard to communicate with words, that’s why I do it with my hands . . . ” –Stan Wright
Stan Wright, First Dance (Material Used: Telephone Wire)
Stan Wright, First Dance: A Closer View
Another Close-Up: All Hail, Visionary Art Museum, Champion of ‘Outsider Art’
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 12, 2018 at 6:32 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Holidays, Links, Places, plans, postaday, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Christmas, Manila, memories, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
“Be a visual storyteller.” — Jen H., The Daily Post
- Self’s seatmate on the plane from Manila to San Francisco hailed from San Pablo, Laguna. He was bringing back to the States five of a Laguna specialty: coconut pies.
- On her most recent trip to Manila, in January, self dropped by the oldest university in the Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas, founded 1611. She dropped by the Creative Writing Department, and the faculty asked her to pose with them for a group shot. YAY!
- Christmas 2016 was a devastatingly lonely experience, one self vowed never to repeat. Christmas 2017, self was in Paris. A woman from China agreed to take her picture standing in front of the Arc de Triomphe.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 6, 2018 at 10:51 pm (Links, Places, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Gardens, memories, Paris
Love Cee’s Fun Foto Challenges!
Paris, May 2017: The Tuileries
Same day in May 2017, somewhere near L’Orangerie:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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