This little nest, now empty, is snuggled against a trellis on the back of my grandma’s condo.
Empty Nest
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”-D.H. Lawrence
This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half.
William Scarbrough House and Gardens. Savannah.
Two illustrations from Rex Stout’s The Red Bull, which was published in The American Magazine in 1938. The novel version came out in 1939, under the title Some Buried Caesar. The artist is Ronald McLeod.
Nero Wolfe in The Red Bull (aka Some Buried Caesar)
Wolfe was seated at the table…
The Tempest is one of my favourite William Shakespeare plays. I thought that it would be fun to share, in no particular order, some of the many artworks inspired by this classic.
Number Five:
Prospero and Miranda by William Maw Egley, circa 1850
The Chef gave me an electric kettle for my birthday! It replaces one that I bought in June 2005, and used between 5,000 and 6,000 times. Talk about money well spent.
The new kettle is quite spiffy. I’m looking forward to another long personal and professional association.
Electric Kettle. Bonus points for naming all of the famous writers and movie stars on the inspiration board behind the kettle and cup.
It glows!
I totally didn’t make my husband sit with me in my dark studio and watch a kettle of water come to a boil. We definitely didn’t hold hands. I am in no way weird.
Artsy Electric Kettle*
*I absolutely didn’t put a cool filter on that photo of my birthday kettle. Nope. Wasn’t me.
I never reblog anything, ever, unless, selfishly, it has to do with me, my writing, or A Small Press Life. I’m making an exception here, for two reasons. One) I’m WordPress pals with the writer and Two) This contest looks like a ton of fun. You should probably enter it. Like, yesterday.
I’m not sure what The Chef and I are doing today, but it’s certainly not going to involve (real) blogging.
Here’s a link to my fave birthday post, from 2012.
See you tomorrow!
My birthday isn’t until Friday, but a couple of days ago my husband indulged me with some early gifts:
The Tempest is one of my favourite William Shakespeare plays. I thought that it would be fun to share, in no particular order, some of the many artworks inspired by this classic.
Number Four:
Ariel and Caliban by William Bell Scott, 1865
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