April 22, 2018 at 6:25 pm (destinations, Places, Sundays, television, The Guardian, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: adaptations, humor, indulgences, memories, review
Self is watching Versailles Season 2. She is so happy the series was renewed! It has proved extremely addictive.
The Guardian: With ladies in milky baths, ocular torture and piles of flesh, Versailles returns for more pre-revolution rumbustiousness (Shouldn’t that be rambunctiousness? Whatever). But is there depth beneath the bling?
Where were we then in Versailles, which returns for a second series? The palace is still under construction, and 1,000 workers have died so far. Versailles was clearly the Qatar of its day, and those gold gates are very Gulf State chic, no?
The writer is Sam Wollaston.
Self bows to your wicked wit, Sir. She bows.
From her visit to Versailles, May 2017:
Versailles, 28 May 2017: It was too bloody hot.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 20, 2018 at 12:11 am (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Links, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: concerts, Events, Mendocino, music, postaday, postaweek, seasons, Wordpress
It was another beautiful day in Mendocino. One thing about being here, there is always something self can take a picture of.
Right now, it is spring. So there’s an unbelievable amount of action going on, even in the vacant lots, and even if it’s just grass.
Hodder Field, One Block from the Mendocino Art Center
Self’s attention was caught by the swaying grass in Hodder Field.
And there are many, many spring concerts abounding, such as this one advertised on a poster tacked up to a fence on Ukiah Street:
Spring is a great time to be outdoors and just soaking up the sights in Mendocino.
Her friends are telling her to come back for the Mendocino Music Festival (July) but all accommodations are booked solid.
Never mind. She’s just happy to be here in April.
Other PROLIFIC:
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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:
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April 12, 2018 at 2:44 am (Flowers, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: Gardens, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, seasons, Wordpress
It rained most of the afternoon. Towards 5 p.m., self took a big umbrella and her camera and walked around the Mendocino Art Center, taking pictures in the front garden. Colors are so vibrant in the rain! It was tough juggling the umbrella and the camera, but she managed to get a few decent shots.
Other Awakenings:
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April 10, 2018 at 10:16 pm (Food and Drink, postaday, Weather)
Tags: causes, indulgences, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, Protests, Wordpress
The weather gods are smiling on Mendocino because the weather is just beautiful up here. So spectacularly gorgeous. And to think she worried about cold etc etc etc
Anyhoo, self’s favorite parking spot was not taken, she couldn’t believe her incredible luck. She sailed her 98 Altima into the space like, you know, she owned it.
SMILE SMILE SMILE
Also, she decided to treat herself to a cup of Mendosa’s clam chowder, MORE REASONS TO SMILE:
Harvest at Mendosa’s, a Mendocino mainstay on Lansing Street
On the way up (the trip took her five hours, including two stops to keep awake and five pull-overs on 128 to let faster vehicles pass and one ten-minute wait due to roadwork), she stopped by Big John’s Market in Healdsburg. A group was selling cookies for a dollar. Women got the 100% cookies, and men got the 80% cookies, good way to make the point that women should get EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK. It’s really troubling that, in this day and age, women still get only 80% of what men get, simply because of their gender.
Outside Big John’s Market Today
The cookies were dee-lish! Put a big smile on self’s face, for sure!
More WordPress SMILES:
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April 8, 2018 at 6:15 pm (Aunts, destinations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Weather)
Tags: blogs, farmers markets, happiness, Palo Alto, photography, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Such a gorgeous day! Sun is shining, everything’s beautiful.
Went to the Palo Alto Farmers Market. Smiles everywhere. The dimsum at this market is just heavenly:
Sunday, 8 April 2018: Haven’t been to the Palo Alto Farmers Market in at least a year. It was a great day for it.
Bought a hanging basket of pink ivy geraniums from this vendor:
You can see the basket of pink geraniums in the center of the picture below:
She hung the basket on the porch, soon as she got home.
Here are other WordPress SMILES:
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April 4, 2018 at 6:43 pm (Flowers, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: Garden, happiness, inspiration, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, seasons, websites, Wordpress
- For this week’s challenge, point your camera at something or someone that puts a smile on your face (or just show a smiling face).
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Here are three things that made self smile this week:
Her backyard iris: They started blooming about two weeks ago.
Backyard Iris: 4 April 2018
This little lady in her side yard:
Self is trying to train her ivy to go UP the fence!
A new welcome mat! YAY! Spring is sprung!
New Season, New Welcome Mat!
Here are other WordPress reasons to SMILE:
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March 21, 2018 at 12:23 am (Books, Places, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: British authors, England, fantasy, Mendocino, novel, Oxford, reading lists
Spent the day trying to stay warm and dry. It’s very cold here in Mendocino. A few minutes ago, rain started to come down.
Self tried to get into Empress of the East, had high hopes, but the first chapter, Abduction, isn’t really about how Roxelana, Slave-Girl-Turned-Empress-of-the-Ottoman-Empire, was abducted. Instead, it consists of page after page of speculation about the exact spot from where she was taken. Then, a few pages of how hard it was on captives. DUH. This is dull stuff.
Luckily, self brought the next book on her reading list to Mendocino. It’s The Book of Dust, by Philip Pullman. Opening sentence:
Three miles up the river Thames from the center of Oxford, some distance from where the great colleges of Jordan, Gabriel, Balliol, and two dozen others contended for mastery in the boat races, out where the city was only a collection of towers and spires in the distance over the misty levels of Port Meadow, there stood the Priory of Godstow, where the gentle nuns went about their holy business; and on the opposite bank from the priory there was an inn called the Trout.
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February 24, 2018 at 10:57 pm (Books, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: California, history, reading lists, Redwood City, Russia, Saturday
Self is now on p. 86. There have been many great individual sentences.
Nevertheless, she must get a move on.
It is extremely cold here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she needs to exit the house tonight, to pick up someone from SFO. Lacking a parka, she must layer. Not only must she layer, she must wear her UGG boots, which Marie Claire told her years ago was only suitable for under 30s. She hopes she doesn’t encounter people with rheumy coughs, as she did yesterday at Walmart. She wanted to run screaming out of the store, but she was stuck in line and had no choice but to stiff-upper-lip it.
Here’s the Sentence of the Day:
The Jolly Company were toasting the trip at Lefort’s palace when, as General Gordon wrote, a “merry night” was ruined by “the accident of discovering treason against His Majesty.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 10, 2018 at 7:09 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Cee Neuner, memories, Paris, Saturday
Self’s word for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is WINTRY.
Here’s her shot: a ferris wheel in Paris, last week of December 2017
Paris, Late December, 2017: Because self wanted to say that, for once in her life, she spent the holidays in Paris.
Paris was colder than Ireland.
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