APPLE MAKES SLIGHT DIVERSITY GAINS (Wall Street Journal, Thursday, 4 August 2016)
And that’s news?
LOL LOL LOL LOL
Stay tuned.
News, First Friday in August 2016
August 5, 2016 at 7:01 pm (Surprises, Wall Street Journal)
Tags: California, discoveries, Fridays, humor, news, San Francisco, summer
What Is Life But a Bowl of Cherries
July 28, 2016 at 2:56 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Plays, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, discoveries, Events, festivals, London, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
- Let’s celebrate the cherries on top! — Michelle W., The Daily Post
The good news: self was back in London in the spring. The Cherry on Top? She was there during the week of the annual Chelsea Flower Show. Just look at the fresh flowers framing the entrance to the Bloomsbury Hotel!
The Bloomsbury Hotel, London: May 2016
The good news was: Self was in Philo, CA. She found a small market that sold delicious potato salad. And the cherry on top? The ceiling lights were things of beauty. From a glass studio in Fort Bragg, the checkout lady told self:
Ceiling Light, Lemon’s Philo Market, California
The good news was: self was spending another winter in Mendocino, CA. The cherry on top is that she got to see “Quills,” a play about Marquis de Sade, performed by members of the local community (It was a very entertaining production!)
“Quills,” a drama about Marquis de Sade
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
MORE CHERRY ON TOP (Meaning: Hats)
July 26, 2016 at 3:46 pm (Family, Holidays, Links, Lists, Niece, postaday, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Calgary, Calgary Stampede, California, Canada, Events, memories, parades, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is about:
The cherry on top.
The icing on the cake
“a desirable feature perceived as the finishing touch to something that is already very good.” (Oxford English Dictionary)
Here are three “cherry on top” pictures.
- Karina (The cherry on top is that she is so sweet. And likes wearing baseball caps. She lives in Calgary)
Karina is self’s guide to all things YA. Her latest book recommendation: Sarah J. Maas’s THRONE OF GLASS (Exciting read!)
- The Calgary Stampede is fabulous. The “cherry on top” is that everywhere you look, you see people wearing cowboy hats:
Don’t ask self what “Beaver Balls” are. She has no idea.
Self took this picture during the Annual Redwood City Fourth of July Parade. Look at the man’s fantastic sombrero! Definitely the “cherry on top.”
2016 Annual Redwood City Fourth of July Parade
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Quote of the Day: John Muir
July 18, 2016 at 5:16 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Places, Traveling)
Tags: California, discoveries, inspirations, Mondays
Writing about Mount Shasta:
When I first caught sight of it over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley, I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.
— John Muir, Letters: 1874 – 1888
Details: Summer Garb, So On Fleek, July 2016
July 16, 2016 at 8:52 pm (Holidays, postaday)
Tags: Calgary Stampede, California, Events, parades, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, summer, Wordpress
I love the exotic and the mundane, the wondrous and the earthy.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
This month is the height of summer.
Summer is self’s favorite season.
It is hot, and the corn and watermelon are sweet.
Garb is: Anything Goes.
For self’s first post on The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge this week — DETAILS — she decided to share pictures of clothing that caught her eye at various outdoor events this month:
(1) At the Calgary Stampede, held every July in fabulous Calgary, Alberta: A young Mom rocks the pink cowboy boots and the gold tote bag combo!
(2) A couple crossing the intersection of Jefferson and Middlefield in downtown Redwood City during a lull in the annual Redwood City Fourth of July Parade are rockin’ the Stars and Stripes! You can only pull this kind of look off in July. Otherwise, you just look cheesy!
3) Finally, another Stars’n Stripes outfit from the 2016 Redwood City Fourth of July parade:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Opposites 3: Parades are Self’s “Thing”
July 8, 2016 at 2:48 am (Holidays, postaday)
Tags: California, Events, nostalgia, parades, postaday, postaweek, Stanford, Wordpress
Self was in Redwood City for the Fourth of July, and she took hundreds of pictures of the annual parade.
Here are some of the ones she thinks capture the spirit of what Ben Huberman on The Daily Post called “the power of a single frame to bring together conflicting elements.”
Bicycles, Pedestrians, and Cars. Plus, Cop and Onlookers
She was so lucky she was able to get a picture of the Stanford Tree! Here it is in front of a real tree:
The Stanford Tree always accompanies the Leland Stanford, Jr. University Marching Band! The band is famous for its antics. The cop is watching.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Opposites 2: Fourth of July Parade!
July 4, 2016 at 9:35 pm (Holidays, Links, postaday)
Tags: California, Mondays, parades, postaday, postaweek, Stanford, summer, Wordpress
- Heavy and light, hard and soft, smooth and textured, inanimate and organic . . .
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post Photo Challenge: OPPOSITES
Saw many great opportunities for pictures today, at the annual Redwood City Fourth of July parade!
Redwood City Cop taking a picture of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University Marching Band: 4th of July, 2016
And, in the picture below, the people on the truck are waving in opposite directions:
Redwood City Cop taking a picture of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University Marching Band: 4th of July, 2016
Finally, the attire of the two people in the photo below are complete opposites:
The Fourth of July: Anything Goes!
HAPPY HAPPY FOURTH, EVERYONE!
Stay tuned.
Anjelica Huston: Venice Beach
May 21, 2016 at 10:21 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Memoirs, Places)
Tags: California, memoir, Saturdays, Venice Beach
Well, self will be sad to finish this book. She started reading it in Cork, continued reading it in Wexford, continued reading it in Dublin, and now has been reading it in London. She didn’t start with high hopes, especially since there’s a cringe-inducing love/hate thing going on with Jack Nicholson. But Huston shines when she describes a place. And she’s been to some pretty fabulous ones.
Here she describes the view from her house in Venice Beach:
On the top story was a little parapet from which one could see the whole of Venice Beach — from the flags of the many nations on the roof of the youth hostel next door, above a faded sepia mural, to the Townhouse bar across the street, the tattoo parlor, Animal House, the hippies and the homeless, the vendors, the performance artists, the swami with his turban and electric guitar on Rollerblades, the runaways, the snake-charmer, the rappers, the chalk and sand artists, the weight lifters, the addicts, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the tourists and the surfers, the skateboard kids, the guy who played “Eye of the Tiger” relentlessly and did crazy stuff with a chainsaw for eight years.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Faces 3: Annual Redwood City, CA Fourth of July Parade
May 15, 2016 at 3:00 pm (Holidays, postaday, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: California, memories, parades, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
One of the biggest on the Peninsula. This was from the Parade a few years ago:
Annual Redwood City, CA Fourth of July Parade: Beauty Queens, Mariachis, and the Inimitable Leland Stanford, Jr. Marching Band!
One of self’s favorite holidays. Seriously.
Mariachis, Beauty Queens, and the Always Inimitable Leland Stanford, Jr. University Marching Band.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Earth 4: Elk, California
May 12, 2016 at 7:32 am (destinations, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, Elk, postaday, postaweek, travel, Wordpress
View from South of Navarro Point: Monday, 2 February
Elk, California: Saturday, 31 January 2015
Self-explanatory, really.
Elk is about 17 miles south of Mendocino, CA, along twist-y Highway 1.
Advice to neophytes on 1: Prepare to pull over at every turn-out. The locals speed, and you’ll be so nervous you won’t be able to take in the view.
Stay tuned.
