Flowers/people

Not even halfway through September...



Christian Charisius ~ Must See Sept 2013



Philippe Huguen - Must See Sept 2013



Sayed / Demotix / Corbis ~ Must See Sept 2013 



Jeff J. Mitchell ~ Must See Sept 2013



Kewl Geyser

Found at http://www.cracked.com/article_20638_19-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped-part-12_p2.html

Whyowhyowhyeee?

from http://sorayachemaly.tumblr.com/post/60561235165/kchristie-fursasaida-nocakeno

from http://sorayachemaly.tumblr.com/post/60561235165/kchristie-fursasaida-nocakeno

Fun with pastoral poesy

From The Nauman's Game of Life

I think that I shall never see
my last name change to that of thee.

~ after Joyce Kilmer and Ogden Nash

Musique plus

Looking up Seahorses

from I See...........Seahorses!

 Because of ECOlogical Calender

plus Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Second Movement
(on the radio ~ APHC show)

(one I remember liking as a little kid)

Fleurs et merre (mere? mer?) en verre

Picture play

Read & Get Slightly Manic About Bees

From http://www.newswise.com/articles/bee-strategy-helps-servers-run-more-sweetly

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"She spreads the news of her find by dancing. This waggle dance is based on a figure eight....the angle indicates the direction of the flowers in relation to the sun..."

~ Honey Bee Dance Moves


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"•The Queen bee is only one and she lays the eggs

•The Worker bees are very many, they are all female and they do all the work for the hive including cleaning, feeding the babies, taking care and building and repairing honeycombs. They are all barren. They have stingers and fight in case of attack.

•The drone bees are all male and their only duty is to be ready to fertilize a receptive queen. They do not make honey and they do not fight for they do not have stingers."

~ Deborah Wakes Up! at Father's Call
(the world is so full of religion)


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"The humble honeybee is starting to play a greater role in the design of urban living."

~ Why Are Honey Bees and Skyscrapers Sweet For Each Other?


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"Master masons built these in, whether it was under direction or not. What you find at Rosslyn is there are so many irregularities and nuances in the stone work and it's as if the stone masons are teasing us from the past," Mr Mitchell said.

"These hives were never intended to be a source of honey. They were there purely to protect the bees from our inclement weather."

"There doesn't seem to be any precedent.

"Bee hives in the past were normally portable. Often they were made of wicker baskets or ceramics, but the intention was that you would have access to them.

"At Rosslyn they are there purely for the bees."

~ Rosslyn Chapel was haven for bees


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"One of Florida’s largest citrus growers, Ben Hill Griffin, Inc., has been fined a mere $1,500 after a state investigation found that the farm illegally sprayed pesticides, resulting in the death of millions of managed honey bees."


"Given that one in every three bites of food is dependent on pollination, and that commercial beekeeping adds between $20 to $30 billion dollars in economic value to agriculture each year, it is imperative that action is taken to protect bees and other pollinators."

~ Orange Grower Fined...


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"Ypsi Melissa is an Ypsilanti-based bee stewardship project that partners with community members and organizations to increase local bee gardens and bee yards, mentor new beekeepers, and raise awareness about pollinators in our community."

~ Festival of the Honey Bee Opens Tonight


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The BEEProtectiveHabitatGuide

Something brothers might be good at

Fire Alarm Jam Session

Cute mandala

the golden light channel and serpentmandalas.com

Ah, sports poetry

I Heart Your Dog's Head by Erin Belieu

Nature poems

by Minnie Bruce Pratt

"...pain running like water through the glittering room."

~ All the Women Caught in Flaring Light

"A huge sound waits, bound in the ice,

in the icicle roots, in the buds of snow...."

~ Justice, Come Down

"He listens as they argue
 back and forth, their dialect of nature..."

~Learning To Talk

"She bows her wings and slowly lifts into flight..."

~The Sound of One Fork

The Paper Garden

By Mary Delany, from bookfoolery

Enjoying The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock. But my god, the amount of permission this upperclass woman had to seek to make basic life choices...

The Paper Garden: Cleveland Plain Dealer review
The Paper Garden: The Picky Girl review
The Paper Garden: A Life Sustained review
The Paper Garden: Excerpt

AA (AssistiveAfflictive)

from sensualtantrichealing

Surprise when I came home: PCOS story from a friend. Hmmm...

http://notalwaysright.com/a-real-woman-versus-half-a-man/31544

I had to wonder if "the only options out there have already nearly killed me once" might refer to a  bad side affect, such as losing copious quantities of blood. Which can make one feel very cold and also do a strange mermaidish thing where you feel like it's hard to breath and gulping water is almost like breathing...

From "Sesame Street"

A dreary morning dream: I wander into an area where many men are working. There are some interesting gravel staircases, but I have a feeling I should leave. I want to ask someone the best way to get out, but everyone is so busy. As I am trying to find my way out, some of the men carelessly toss more gravel on top of the hill and began laughing. It slides and covers most of me quickly, making it difficult to breathe. I tell myself I have a will to live and will find a way out of this heavy gravel and start breathing.

This dream triggered a funny memory. When I was young, kids would refer to a place called "the gravel pits" as a good place to go smoke, and I was sorry I never saw them. But as soon as I woke up, I thought "I'm never going to the gravel pits."

Dog by a seemingly benign hill of gravel ~ washingtonlandscape

Better dream: I am in a lounge, watching some guy deliver a sarcastic, misogynist diatribe (the content of which is too pointless to even remember) alongside some women who are unmotivated to challenge him. I say "Well, he could have delivered a funny, sarcastic story, that would have been alright, but he didn't have to be misogynistic about it." A young girl (age 12? 14?) tells me she doesn't even want to give him any leeway. None of this "he could tell a sarcastic story and be funny" stuff for her. She says "Women deserve better!" and because I see the letters forming on a board next to her, like D - E - S - H - E - R - V - E, I reply "They do DESHERVE better and thank you for challenging my viewpoint!" (DESHERVE...DESHERVE...almost thinking of dervish...)

By alicemason1 ~ http://mermaidartist.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/dervish-moon/

interesting at 10 o'clock

Cats and Boxes

Books...

Becoming One With A Comic Book

Walking

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSpontaneoussssssssongssssssFunnyLittleFrog

Konstig liten sång

Made the title Swedish. Should this be next?
http://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/08/aging-of-greta-garbo.html
On the internet this evening, I found a pleasing parody of Blurred Lines.



The funny, the sad...
http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-tale-of-two-sissies.html
http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-monkey-could-pass-that-test.html

How I love a break from the internet, but I did not grow up with it, and it is not nothing to me, to be able to find little things that people post that can give you experiences which you still think about later. From before vacation: http://ohrohin.com/post/56821802177/trapsarebeautiful-omg
Earlier this year, I remember looking at this chunk of months on the moon stop blog...I did not know why I wanted to keep looking at this one place as I scrolled down through fashions and many other pictures (including a strange pregnancy one), Caught A Light Sneeze played (I loved how this kicked in when I did that), and then it ended with "Dickinsonian" white dresses. I thought that writer was in Northern Cali, but perhaps I was mistaken. I was all ready to wonder where in California this place might be...but maybe it's actually in the South? Missing being on my Northern California trip...oh, vacation is missed!...and on top of it, have been thinking of House, having purchased a cane for a toe (broken after a suitcase was left out the night after returning...) On vacation drives, CDs that had not been played in years were unearthed. I remember a girl in a Chicagoland Borders (oh! I never wrote how sad I was when they went under) giving me a coupon and telling me that I had to buy a Belle and Sebastian CD. I listened to it again on the freeways, enjoying my A/C (was told it was 102 degrees today?), and I looked up this one, Dress Up In You... The comments say "Isobel...not everything is written about Isobel" Maybe not? But decided to also look up their Isobel.
Isobel
Bjork's Isobel
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What type of exceptionally friendly bird was this...

 

 

 

Blue Moon

All You Need To Know About Tonight's Blue Moon

Word cloud game

http://www.sporcle.com/games/ubergerber/word-cloud-titles

music along the way last week

Older music going to San Francisco...

The Caravelles - You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry


The Gambler's Guitar

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Bell-like music in the city


  Charlemagne Palestine + Z'ev - Duo C / Z #1

vacationing (?)

from goodbyecrutches.com

At a used bookstore, the only thing that looked even remotely interesting was a book about Benjamin Franklin and all his lady friends in Paris, and I thought about buying it, but then went...no...I don't really think I can...(a few other really weird highlights: elderly relative in convalescent home asking why she was selected to be on an adoption committee for a baby, religious conservative Christian relatives (and some not so conservative ones) talking about either how well-behaved the children at a Muslim school were, or how some of their best students were Muslim kids, waitress in tiny Michigan town who was just in LA on the set of "How I Met Your Mother," teensy newborn kid in the airplane looking at me over mother's shoulder through the crack in the seats)...I got Grace (Eventually) from another relative and read that on the plane instead.

from Grace (Eventually)

Alsoalsoalso: lots of icecream with interesting names!
(Blue Moon, Blue Moo, Superman, Tractor Tracks)

Also: time to see mountains soon.

Dancing dogs

City as swimming pool

from http://hommemaker.com/2012/03/08/whut-glamour-griffith-observatory/

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"Hang on a minute! Isn’t the sun supposed to be a masculine deity?! Apparently not. It’s only with the rise of monotheism and patriarchy that the sun, being regarded as the ‘most-powerful’, became a he-God. Language and mythology reveal a different story... The very word ‘sun’ comes from the name of the Scandinavian Sun Goddess Sunna or Sunnu. In Old English (when English had grammatical gender), ‘sun’ was feminine and ‘moon’ masculine, as it still is today in German (it's referred to affectionately as ‘Frau Sonne’ – ‘Mrs. Sun’)."

~The Sun Is Feminine

iridescence

From curioushistory.com

Oh media mysterious

from The Daily Mail

Having never been to Britain (unfortunately) I do not know much about their newspapers, and this one is apparently hated for it's tiresome gossip, yet it also published a story about how a hormonal imbalance of something called leptin could affect eating disorders, and also this one about why Gaby Hoffman didn't shave for her Crystal Fairy movie...Seriously, what a mysterious source of information. 

Creation-y things

From a free magazine...
Reconnecting Humanity
Crop Circles
(Who cares who makes crop circles?
They look cool. I would like to see some.)

from thefederationoflight

Okay, body

The best and/or worst thing about bodies: they get your attention. They can say...this indicates that you need to bring the balance back...Okay. I obey. I will evolve. I read in more than one place recently that these are things you should say: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you." True, true, true. I guess you can say that to people, to places (yes, places, too), and of course to yourself. If you look up "beautiful anatomy" you come up with lots of pictures of young naked chicks, but this one's a little different. (Yes, yes, yes, universe, you and your pregnancy themes again. Thank you. )

from cassandraforsythe

Interesting...

discovered by accident, rather sad, but good song, in our unfortunately all-too-often body dysmorphic society...

My Body is a Cage - Sara Lov
My Body is a Cage - Arcade Fire w/ Sergio Leone western
My Body is a Cage - Peter Gabriel

Also my friend sent me this Latina Fatale article How to talk to little girls. There is also an interesting conversation about "peahens" in the comments...and a poem. When your daughter tells you she wants to be an astronaut by Andrea Hope.

Alternate link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-little-gir_b_882510.html

Wow, weird but kind of interesting book idea?

MWF Seeking BFF
It's at the library. I will bite.

Following through

Decided to make an effort to follow through on a summer reading list, and as luck (or whatever) would have it, the first to arrive is the viscera-riddled A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. So, that's probably not one for bedtime. Haven't opened it yet. Online, just looked at these for fun:

http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/07/and-oscar-goes-to-miss-margo-for-her.html

http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/07/pulp-art-what-is-going-on-here.html 

(Oh, to be an illustrator of book covers! Or something visually oriented...)

Also finally read Cold Comfort Farm. I actually feel like this was my first summer reading book. (Not on the list! Ha!)  Had kind of hoped to get a copy with a cover like this:

From Fizzy Thoughts

Instead, I got this:

Very different. The cute illustrations inside kind of remind me of the ones I found in this "memoir" (which I read at a very impressionable age!)

from wikipedia

Altogether, it gave me that enjoyable old-books-retrieved-from-grandmas-house summertime reading feeling. As an added bonus, there was sticky stuff marring the words on some of the pages.

Music to type to

Mmm Skyscraper I Love You
~~~
Oh K. B., thank you for making spellchecking possible this evening
Army Dreamers
Wuthering Heights
(a mere 13 days 'til Emily's 195th)

Wah

"As we grow more separate from nature, we continue to separate from one another physically."

-- Richard Louv, A Life of the Senses

nextnature.net

"Children’s dictionary dumps ‘nature’ words

To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to old nature.  No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow."

~ http://www.nextnature.net/2009/02/childrens-dictionary-dumps-nature-words/

read, read, looked at, looked at...

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/26/147195131/first-listen-the-magnetic-fields-love-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea

then

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/stephin-merritt-20000-leagues-under-sea

then

From Children of the World Paint Korea - 1979

Cassettes

I read Magnetic Fields: International Cassette Store Day
and looked at some old cassettes (how did I keep them all these years...)
 3 that might be worthy of converting to mp3...

Youngest to oldest: high school (sophomore yr),
high school (summer before sophomore yr), and jr. high

First 3 from an album

I just decided to listen to an album by The Magnetic Fields and these are the first three...

God Wants Us To Wait
I've Run Away To Join The Fairies
I Don't Like Your Tone

Osaycanyouseesometrees

i'twere a tree that became a cabin

tall burnt tree

probably never need to be this close to a bear again

wall calendar shot

MPDM

sees opportunity instead of claustrophobia

alright, have fun squeezing yourself in there

manic pixie dream male?

outside

Cafe no au lait

Black Coffee
B: You don't want room for cream? You want it black?
M: Yes...I just started to drink it that way recently...
B: I went camping this weekend with some friends and had black coffee and it was great.
M: I actually don't drink coffee that much.
B: Well, they say that your tastebuds change once every seven years.
(Later, doing the math...7...7...7....oh that's probably about right...)

O web o' info

Why do you deeestract me all the time from my little manuscript typing job? Why????

http://carolcassara.com/2011/02/natures-valentines.html

stop that

old fashioned models

http://twentytwowords.com/2011/01/27/the-models-who-were-used-in-american-gothic-standing-by-the-painting/

http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/05/27/pin-up-girls-before-and-after/

2 things liked in the last five minutes

1) http://twentytwowords.com/2012/12/13/retta-tells-conan-about-listening-to-puccini-not-rap-and-sings-some-too/

2) http://twentytwowords.com/2013/07/15/the-same-house-from-the-same-camera-angle-in-remarkably-varying-photos-8-pics/#more-78957