Summer’s Silhouette
Library Thing
Ultimate geekathon: add all your books to your profile on Library Thing! Sunday afternoons are for things like this.
Here’s my list of some of the books in my bookcrates (milkcrates): http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ruralpearl
Scrap Papering
I’ve been thinking about some different types of paper to incorporate into my work. A quick experiment here. Not much to this picture, but the method & material & colors.. I think I like it. More of this to come.
A Geek’s Dream
My first visit to the Atchison Public Library was fruitful. I got a little carried away. But this is too exciting. My finds, in no particular order:
“Songs of Hiawatha” by Henry W. Longfellow – copyright 1902!! The pages are all vignetted from age.
“Many Many Moons” by Lew Sarett – description: Poems of the Indians and of the Northwoods in Which They Live.. I picked this randomly (I liked the title) and lo and behold, the introduction was written by Carl Sandburg. The part that got me before I read any more: “To my wife MARGARET this book is dedicated”…
“Cornhuskers” by Carl Sandburg (First edition – Copyright 1918!)
“The Wayward Bus” by John Steinbeck
“There’s Always Another Windmill” by Ogden Nash
“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot and illustrated by Edward Gorey (!)
“Smoke and Steel” by Carl Sandburg (First edition – copyright 1920!)
“Southern Folk Ballads” compiled and edited by W.K. McNeil
“On The Blue Shore of Silence” by Pablo Neruda
“The Letters of Carl Sandburg” edited by Herbert Mitgang
I am in Geek Heaven.
Expecting To Fly
I had previously written about my neighbor, the robin.. my little feathered friend. Long story short (not really all that long..) – she hatched 4 eggs during her stay out my window, and these are the little folks that I would have liked to invite in for tea or chocolate milk or something. This photo is about 2 weeks after they hatched.. One day after I shot this, they all flew away. I hope. Seemed to leave in groups of two – I did not actually see them depart, just noticed their absence. And mama bird doesn’t have any more reason to revisit. Guess my nose pressed against the window 18 hours a day probably wasn’t all that enjoyable for her to watch. Sure did enjoy their company.
My Best Gal
If you haven’t read about her yet, read here. She spends her days outside my window in her nest. I spend my days looking at her. Tonight, however, was one of those Kansas storms – the tornado producing kind. I’d forgotten how these go being away for so long… And I can’t help but want to reach my hand out the window and pass off an umbrella to my little friend. But I guess as nature has it, she’s probably better equipped to weather this storm out there than I am indoors.
My New Neighbor
This is who I see out my window when I sit at my desk. Often times our eyes meet lovingly (I assume on her part, anyway. I smile and wave a lot). She’s a beauty, sweeter than candy. I’ve only checked on her 176 times today. I hope she sticks around for awhile. She’s good company.
New RuralPearl Workspace
The new HQ of RuralPearl. For now anyway, and I don’t think it could be more perfect. Needs a little cleaning up, but something about that old wood gets me. And the fact that my great-great grandfather used that box as a woodshop. I’m a born sentimentalist.
Reading in Long Island
“In the end the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world irrupted into this transitory one. That is why I speak chiefly of inner experiences, amongst which I include my dreams and visions… All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings… Recollection of the outward events of my life has largely faded or disappeared. But my encounters with the “other” reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved upon my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.” -Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
I’ve Been Tagged
My buddy Luke tagged me in a Facebook photo- and I’m just enjoying it wayyyy too much. (Click the title to see said photo.)
I feel a lil’ bit like this right now. Mm hmm.