Backyard Tree in Snow
Snow always looks better when captured in black and white.
Daily Diversion #186: Backyard Tree in Snow
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Daily Diversion #185: Hello Dalí
Isn’t she the cutest?
Enjoying a cuppa in my new Hello Dalí mug. Thanks, Mom!
“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”-Salvador Dalí
Happy New Year, Buster Keaton Style!
Buster Keaton
[Alternative Muses] Going, Going, Gone: Rossetti, Rilke, Phillpotts
“Choose love not in the shallows/but in the deep.”-Christina Rossetti (died on 12/29/1894)
Christina Rossetti, portrait by her brother
“Let everything happen to you/Beauty and terror/Just keep going/No feeling is final.”-Rainer Maria Rilke (died on 12/29/1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke by Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1906
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”-Eden Phillpotts (died on 12/29/1960)
Eden Phillpotts by Frederic Taber Cooper, 1912
Goodbye, Theodore Dreiser!
Theodore Dreiser died on 28 December 1945. He was seventy-four.
A grumpy Theodore Dreiser looks like he wants to cut you. 1917.
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”-Theodore Dreiser
KNOWN FOR:
- Sister Carrie
- Jennie Gerhardt
- An American Tragedy
Daily Diversion #184: Christmas Sunrise
Christmas Sunrise
Christmas Morning
Daily Diversion #183: Ghost Tree
I’ve decided to shelve all serious writing for the rest of the year. There is so much life stuff to do: baking, wrapping gifts, cooking, drinking mulled wine, watching holiday movies, and spending time with family and friends. Oh, and organizing my writing schedule and goals for 2014. Fear not! I’ll still be hanging around Ye Olde WordPress, posting easy and feather-light things. Like this:
Ghost Tree
Daily Diversion #182: Sledding Eeyore
Eeyore enjoying some winter fun!
Sledding Eeyore
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
The Dead Writers Round-Up: 20th-24th December
- James Hilton died on 12/20/1954. “The right mixture of caring and not caring-I suppose that’s what love is.” (Knight Without Armour; Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest)
- John Steinbeck died on 12/20/1968. “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” (The Red Pony; Tortilla Flat; Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; The Moon is Down; Cannery Row; The Pearl; East of Eden)
- Denise Levertov died on 12/20/1997. “You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.” (The Double Image; Life in the Forest; Candles in Babylon)
- Dame Rebecca West was born on 12/21/1892. “It’s the souls duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.” (The Return of the Soldier; The Fountain Overflows; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; 1900)
- Anthony Powell was born on 12/21/1905. “Books do furnish a room.” (A Dance to the Music of Time; Afternoon Men) Continue reading
Daily Diversion #180: Our Holiday Tree, In Negative
Our holiday tree, in negative:
Our holiday tree,in negative. I kind of wish it really looked like this…
Bonus points if you can guess the albums on the wall.
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