August 2, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: art, California, discoveries, exhibits, memories, museum, nostalgia, restaurants, San Francisco
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge (posted every Wednesday) is TEXTURE.
Photos have “a tactile element, too,” Ben Huberman says. As an example, he provides his shot of “tangles of seaweed . . . across the wet sand at low tide.”
Here are three of self’s own examples of texture:
- The lace on a ladies’ hat, circa 1900 – 1925, in the exhibit on Impressionism and the Milliner’s Trade at the CA Palace of the Legion of Honor:
Maker identified only as “French, Madame Georgette”
- Look at the wonderful texture in this salad arrangement!
Le Pain Quotidien, Claremont, CA: July 2017
- Discovered in the exploration of son’s room: a frog that squirts water. Self loves that the frog’s skin is so pebbled. It has a degree of realism you don’t often find in other toys.
Plastic Frog! Found in Son’s Room in Redwood City, CA: This used to be one of his favorite toys.
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November 19, 2016 at 3:24 pm (Links, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, discoveries, Fort Bragg, humor, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress
This week, make some magic. — Jen H., The Daily Post
For two weeks in March, self stayed at an apartment in Fort Bragg, a place with wonderful deep orange walls, shelves of books, and a collection of animé figurines.
The collector was a lawyer. Next door was a carpentry shop. The books on the shelves were mostly about carpentry and wood finishes.
Here’s the apartment. The animé figurines were discovered at garage sales.
Staying in the apartment was MAGIC.
The Godzilla piece was her favorite. Every day she’d wake up and perform the same morning ritual: swinging the javelin. For good luck.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 7, 2016 at 4:19 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Places, postaday, Publishers, Traveling, Venice, Women Writers)
Tags: Calyx Press, Fridays, Italy, Margarita Donnelly, memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, Venice, Wordpress
More from the watershed trip self took with Margarita Donnelly (founder and managing editor of Calyx Press) in April/May 2013, less than two years before she succumbed to cancer. We rented a small two-bedroom apartment in Ca’ San Toma, Venice. Margarita’s adventurous spirit far exceeded self’s.
The Bridge of Sighs, April 2013: View From the Doge’s Palace
San Marco Square on a Rainy April Day
Self on the Rialto Bridge, April 2013: Margarita must have taken the picture. Even though self’s face isn’t visible, she really likes this picture for the mysterious red umbrella.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 3, 2016 at 1:32 am (Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Relatives, Sundays)
Tags: China, memories, nostalgia, pets, postaday, postaweek, websites, Wordpress
Of course, nostalgia is something that affects everyone differently. We’d love to know what kinds of experiences you’ve had that stir these emotions for the past in you.
— Jeff Golenski, The Daily Post
Here are some WordPress blogs whose takes on this week’s photo challenge, NOSTALGIA, intrigued self:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 30, 2016 at 11:17 pm (Dearest Mum, Family, Places, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: Bacolod, Fridays, memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is NOSTALGIA:
- What kinds of experiences stir emotions for the past within you?
The Philippines, specifically Bacolod City, where her father grew up, is the locus of all of self’s nostalgia. And of course, Dearest Mum, who met self’s Dear Departed Dad when she was a young pianist in New York City, and Dear Departed Dad was in Georgetown Law School.
The Daku Balay, Burgos Street, Negros Occidental: The Philippines. Self’s grandfather built this house, at the time the tallest structure in Bacolod City. Self’s father was born in this house.
Dearest Mum, in Her Early 30s
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental: June 2012
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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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.
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October 22, 2015 at 4:07 pm (Holidays, postaday)
Tags: desserts, Halloween, nostalgia, photography, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Love the prompt this week: (Extra)ordinary, finding meaning in the ordinary.
Last week, self was in San Francisco. Only two more weeks till Halloween! Hence Halloween decorations in the laundromat she uses and an ice cream store, Xanath, on Valencia Street in the city:
Monday Afternoon at the Laundromat (2nd to Last Monday in October 2015)
Love the black cat above the white washing machines!
Of course, no trip anywhere would be complete without a visit to an ice cream store! Here’s Xanath on Valencia Street:
Xanath, an Organic Fro-Yo and Ice Cream Place on Valencia Street. Sampled their wares during the Oct. 17 Litcrawl.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 11, 2015 at 12:01 am (Lists, Movies, television)
Tags: fashion, humor, lists, memories, Mondays, music, nostalgia, summer
#BackInTheEighties on Twitter last night, some good ones:
- Wore floppy bows under suits * NO REALITY TV
- Winona Ryder + “Heathers” * Jem (Not Carstairs)
- Leg Warmers ala “Flashdance” * Cabbage Patch Kids!
- M. C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice * Axl Rose + Guns’n Roses + “Sweet Child o’ Mine”
- NO Kardashians. Whatsoever * NO Beverly Hills Housewives, either.
- Shelley Long + “Cheers” * “Taxi” + Andy Kaufman + Danny DeVito
- “Body Heat” + Kathleen Turner + William Hurt * William Hurt + “The Big Chill”
- “Desperately Seeking Susan” + Madonna + Rosanna Arquette * Molly Ringwald + “Sixteen Candles”
- “The Breakfast Club” made detention soooo exciting! * And everyone knew who to call.
- Nastassja Kinski + python * Valerie Bertinelli + cuteness
- Big Hair + Perms
- Miami was kept safe by two dudes wearing pink suits and no socks.
- Smart drones could go around corners — so sayeth Wayne on SNL.
- 1st Gulf War “Shock and Awe” + Schwarzkopf
- Everything was soooo tubular!
- “Dressed to Kill” + Brian De Palma + Angie Dickinson’s million-dollar gams * We all tuned in to watch “Dynasty” and “Dallas” and everyone wanted to know WHO KILLED J. R. EWING
- “Dirty Dancing” + Patrick Swayze + mullet
- Siskel & Ebert did the thumbs-up/ thumbs-down on movies.
- “Back to the Future” + Michael J. Fox * “Cagney & Lacey”
- “Three’s Company” + Suzanne Somers + John Ritter
- Self heard about AIDS for the first time.
Stay tuned.
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January 9, 2015 at 6:18 pm (Food and Drink, Movies, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Christmas, Fridays, indulgences, nostalgia, Palo Alto, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Below, an assortment of photographs focusing on the WordPress Daily Post’s Photo Challenge of the Week: SHADOWED.
“Low-light photography can be difficult to get right, but sometimes the absence of light can make for a compelling, dramatic photograph.”
Picture # 1: Putting Away Christmas Decorations
Putting Away Christmas Decorations
Picture # 2: Gelato Classico on Emerson, Downtown Palo Alto, Self’s Go-To Place After Watching a Movie at the Aquarius (On this particular evening, self had just walked out of Foxcatcher. Walked out as in — literally WALKED OUT. She couldn’t finish it)
Gelato Classico on Emerson Street, Downtown Palo Alto
Picture # 3: What Was Showing in Aquarius on Dec. 18. Self has seen both CitizenFour and Foxcatcher. CitizenFour was better.
Aquarius: One of the Last Remaining Indie Movie Theaters in Palo Alto
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 30, 2014 at 11:05 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: California, discoveries, Los Angeles, memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, Venice Beach, Wordpress
Self visited Venice Beach twice this year: the first time in September, by herself. The second in November, with Angela Narciso Torres, who was giving a reading at Beyond Baroque (which, incidentally, was where self discovered that Viggo Mortensen of Lord of the Rings fame used to participate in their poetry writing workshops, way back in the ’80s!)
Both times, the weather was beautiful and warm.
The beach itself had very few people, surprisingly.
Venice Beach, November 2014
Venice Beach Boardwalk, November 2014
Sunbathers, Venice Beach, September 2014
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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