Daily Diversion #268: Birthday Kettle

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

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

Artsy Electric Kettle*

*I absolutely didn’t put a cool filter on that photo of my birthday kettle. Nope. Wasn’t me.

Because This Photo of Edna St. Vincent Millay Will Always Be Extraordinary…

I have to share it with you.

Again.

It has been too long.

Edna St. Vincent Millay at Mitchell Kennerley's house in Mamaroneck,New York (1914). Photo by Arnold Genthe.

Edna St. Vincent Millay at Mitchell Kennerley’s house in Mamaroneck, New York (1914). Photo by Arnold Genthe.

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.”-Edna St. Vincent Millay

Cropped black and white version.

Cropped black and white version.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”-Rumi

Two Graves

Two Graves

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Wall of Graves

Wall of Graves

This is my entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse.