Monday, 22 October 2012
We wandered amidst architectural details over on the other side of the pond. Today I investigated some of the technical terms for the stone, and sometimes, wood, frippery.
So, I can write with confidence that this is a finial (the top detail).
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
At least two ways to take that title, if you know that JCB recently found those nuts in the bottom of a box that was squirreled away in a closet somewhere in this house.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
When I was a kid we had a cat for a long time that was commonly called Fat Cat*. Actually, he was large, but not fat. And he was a black-and-white with semi-long hair. He adopted us after Dad fed him the leftover Thanksgiving turkey carcass Mom was saving for soup, a cooking strategy Dad wasn’t aware of, so he thought he’d give it to the clearly hungry stray.
I don’t think the cat ate quite that well after that, but he didn’t leave, either.
The Flat Cat, shown here, arrived later, I think in a Christmas stocking (but I may be artificially creating another commonality—a holiday connection—for these two Ef Cats). This one is also quite similar in markings (less so body type) to the famous JRB family cat, named TinTin, pronounced correctly (tan-tan). And the JRB family gave us the Flat Cat…so we would have a cat that wouldn’t trigger any allergies.
Actually, this was one of a pair of Flat Cats, but the other one got chewed on by Baby B, the offspring member of JRB, and thus it wasn’t pristine enough for long-term preservation. Of course, it looked like their other cat…Mieze (pronounced, by me anyway: mee-zuh).
* Fat Cat’s real name was Omar Ben Sufi, named by my bro for the cat in Edward Peple‘s lovely A Night Out (1909). As the Project Gutenberg version shows, the first sentence is: “Omar Ben Sufi was a cat.” Nice.
Monday, 23 April 2012
Special exhibit of arty gates over at the BotGarden. Crows flank the maize stalks, sitting on the gateposts. I liked the brushy tassels best, I think.
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
I love that TJs uses local artists to do the signs and art for each store. Our TJs’s guy does a great job with the windows especially.
Monday, 16 April 2012
Oh, are they lovely!
Which evokes “flowers” more?
You’re looking at cultivated Ranunculus—the family includes buttercups.
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Surprisingly, this color is from liquid detergent.
If you are in the mood to be accepting of non-sequiturs, the leaves are out sufficiently that the yard is now shady.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Does it all come down to light? Is light the essence of visual aesthetics?
Is light it?
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Is this Tar-zhay’s answer to the latest high color contrast ad campaign by JCP?
Oooh. Snuck away and had lunch out with my Sweetie. (Ah, blessed respite.) A colorful sushi lunch….
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
I have watched the wave patterns from different sources mesh together on the water many times. I can’t remember ever looking at the light-through-glasses version of same.
I leave it to Pooh to speculate whether the drinks go with the PARTY DRESS from yesterday….