July 13, 2017 at 11:50 pm (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, Pianos, postaday)
Tags: memories, New York, New York Times, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Here are a collage of pictures of her, taken in New York City.
She attended Curtis, won the New York Times International Piano Competition, and played at Carnegie Hall when she was just 14.
Self’s nephew, William, is getting married this September in New York City. Not sure if Dearest Mum, who lives in the Philippines, will be strong enough to attend, though.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
May 25, 2017 at 8:47 pm (Eavesdropping, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: England, Flowers, London, New York, postaday, postaweek, websites, Wordpress
“One day they’ll be painted over, completely erased . . . “
— Krista Stevens, explaining this week’s Photo Challenge on The Daily Post
The evanescent is powerful: whether it’s a fleeting moment of sunshine in London, or the moment just before the seeds of a dandelion are scattered by the wind, or the delicacy of woodland fungi, or a collection of bird shots, or a moment when sun pierces the cloud cover around Aoraki/Mount Cook, or a 10-year-old photo of New York’s Grand Central, one never forgets the moment that is captured.
Hats off to these six bloggers:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 19, 2017 at 7:24 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Garden, Ireland, New York, poetry, postaday, postaweek, seasons, transitions, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wales, websites, Wordpress
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
— Wallace Stevens, quoted in The Daily Post
Yesterday was self’s first walk to the lake in over a month. It’s but a five or 10-minute walk at the most. But self has been busy, and the weather’s been unpredictable.
Yesterday, Esther came to change the sheets. So self took advantage of the break to go out of her cottage. And the first thing she noticed was: close by the cottages, there were suddenly so many flowers! (Has it really been that long since she took a walk? Apparently, it has! Surprise!)
Self had a lovely walk. Spring has truly arrived!
Here are some other beautiful spring shots:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 25, 2017 at 7:25 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: New York, photography, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, United Kingdom, websites, Wordpress
Some things just work together: babies and stripes; roadtrips and loud music; beaches and beer. — Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Here are some good matches from others around WordPress:
Check them out!
Self is gonna be posting from her next trip (United Kingdom) very, very soon!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 27, 2017 at 8:41 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: art, discoveries, fantasy, Fridays, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is REPURPOSE.
“I’m fascinated by birds and their nests. Imagine being able to craft the perfect home for your family with just a beak and twiggy feet?” — Krista, The Daily Post
Self’s friend Mary Ellen Campbell used twigs to represent a forest in a book about wild swans (The book’s language is either Finnish or Icelandic):
Wild Swans: A Book by Artist Mary-Ellen Campbell
Self saw the artwork below while walking New York City’s High Line, December 2016. Every time she looks at this photo, she thinks of the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland.
3-D Graffiti made of iron re-bar by Artist Damien Ortega: High Line, New York City
Finally, just for fun:
Christmas Party, Queens, December 2016
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 23, 2016 at 7:32 pm (Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Fridays, Golden Gate Park, museum, New York, poetry, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.–Poet Gwyn Thomas, quoted by Cheri Lucas Rowlands in The Daily Post
The Daily Post Photo Challenge this week is PATH.
Here are a few paths self encountered in 2016:
Walking into Green Apple Books on Irving Street, San Francisco
The elevated walkway over the de Young Museum Sculpture Garden, in Golden Gate Park:
Pedestrian Crosswalk, Park Avenue, New York City:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 15, 2016 at 5:13 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: California, farmers markets, Mendocino, New York, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
“Look ahead! How will you make the most of this beautiful day?” — Krista, The Daily Post
Self is having trouble with this week’s prompt. For some reason self is so oriented to looking BACK (perhaps it’s the time of year?) that she can’t think how to represent (photographically) looking AHEAD. She doesn’t know how to project looking forward. Especially after the elections we just had.
Because she keeps moving around, EVERYTHING, but everything, is a NEW HORIZON. Which then also means (corollary): to someone who moves around constantly, what’s new is a cliché.
Ferry Building, Saturday Farmers Market, San Francisco
New York, Central Park, December 2015: Just look at that guy in shorts!
Mendocino Headlands, Winter 2016
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
November 6, 2016 at 4:10 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Publishers, Traveling, Writing)
Tags: AWP, Events, exhibits, London, Los Angeles, Miami University Press, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress, writing conferences
Embrace the creative potential of disorderly randomness.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
A Chihuly: Lobby of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
Below: the controlled chaos of the Annual AWP Book Fair. This year’s was in Los Angeles. Seated: Keith Tuma of Miami University Press.
There have been AWP conferences where self is so buzzed by being surrounded by so many authors and literary panels that she has gone as long as 48 hours with absolutely no sleep.
AWP Book Fair, Los Angeles, April 2016
Finally: self did a lot of lonely walking in Manhattan last December. The city never ceases to amaze. New York is a grrrreat city for insomniacs!
New York City: Night, Midtown, December 2015
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 30, 2016 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, postaday, Sundays, Traveling, Venice)
Tags: art, exhibits, Italy, memories, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
To transmogrify is to “change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.” (Michelle W., The Daily Post)
Self has three different examples of transmogrification: sculpture by Pablo Picasso and Fernando Botero, and shoes by Prada.
From the Picasso sculpture exhibit last year at the NY MOMA: A harlequin.
For something a little different: A (really on fleek!) pair of shoes, seen in the Prada store in Venice, November 2015
Final picture: A Fernando Botero sculpture can be glimpsed through an open door. Botero’s sculptures were on exhibit in Palo, Italy, November 2015.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 29, 2016 at 8:15 am (Artists and Writers, Links, postaday)
Tags: art, exhibits, memories, museum, New York, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Saturday, Wordpress
TRANSMOGRIFY: Transform, morph, change
Two pictures resulted from shooting from a moving taxi.
Night, San Francisco: The City Transmogrified
Freeway On-Ramp Transmogrified
Replaced the picture from The Last Bookstore in L.A. because self wanted a little more transmogrification. She had to go all the way back, to her time in New York a year ago: the exhibit on Picasso’s sculpture at the New York Museum of Modern Art:
Picasso: profile of woman, New York Museum of Modern Art, Fall 2015
Stay tuned.
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