Musings

Here’s a sample of recent finds along our beach. What you don’t see is beer bottle frags and plastic trash—too boring to curate. The rusty metal at the rear of the display is a piece of a wood stove that once had some decorative curlicues that now are ghostly remnants on the surface. At one time, this stretch of the bluff must have been the household dump for at least one residence, and now the trash has moved downhill.

Posted at 9:26 PM | Comments Off on Gravity prevails

Here at the cottage, unlike at the city house, we have a garage; however, it is not electrified. So, we charge the plug-in hybrid from the cottage, like this, then relocate the car to the garage when juiced.

The orange light on the ferns is from the porch (this was just a few minutes ago), and you can see that rain+unpaved_road means the car is again muddy. We are so glad to be here, even so.

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The wall sign reads “THE GREEN BEAN OUT BACK,” and there’s another sign with the same words facing the road, here obscured by vegetation.

My guess: “out back” indicates “behind” a building to the left (not shown), and on the corner of two locally busy roads. The “green bean” part I have no suggestion…after all, it’s on a yellow wall. And, as to the use of the building…informal club?

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I spotted many of these webs today…this one’s inhabitant is left of center and fully in residence.

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Look at the moon and stars on high! Apologies for the camera blowing out the moon’s margins. Maybe you can’t see them, but there are wee star-light-dots around the moon here….

Posted at 9:32 PM | Comments Off on It’s in the details

Watch out for the epenthetic schwa. Then (hopefully) you can sort your plurals and possessives.

Details in Remy Tumin’s article in the NYTimes. It may be called “Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.”

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I don’t get the vertical piano.

Apologies to Gabriela Bhaskar for cropping her photo….

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I am beyond aggravated at discussions of poll results showing a candidate ahead/behind, when both values are within the margin of error…meaning they could be equal, or they could be the reverse of what is offered in the text, as in this article in the NYTimes. Rrrrrrgh. The Times isn’t the only “reputable” source doing this. Double rrrrrrgh.

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I do enjoy this swirl on the inside of a shallow bowl made by an Athens (GA) potter-friend. It is a finger-ridge on the clay that has heightened the shading in the glaze. I like the crazing/crackle/craquelure*, too. Crazing is not crazy.

* The appropriate term depends on whether the effect is intentional or not, as I understand it. In this case, I dunno the intention.

Posted at 9:14 PM | Comments Off on Material culture, again

I like mint, spearmint much better than peppermint, and this is spearmint. It’s easy to grow and I have flourishing plants here and in the UP, yet I manage to forget to pick it and use it…in salads and beverages and more….

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