Africa

These photos remind me of my trip to Kenya, gosh, a couple of years ago now.

Winter

Happy Holly

Happy Holidays!

Chard and Pasta

My mother gave me this terrific recipe for Swiss Chard and Bow Tie Pasta. I substitute Kale for Swiss Chard b/c it's cheaper.

Bird Grave

The Boo Radley house on the corner continues to creep me out.

Stella Sue

Painted Mold

I love this sandwich bag with painted on mold. Wouldn't that just cheer you up at lunchtime to pull that out of the fridge at work and have people eye you like the stranger you are?

BlogHer

Cat's Eye Nebula

From NASA's Image of the Day Gallery

Snatched from NASA's website http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1189.html:
Cat's Eye Hubble Remix
Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye Nebula lies 3,000 light-years from Earth. The Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents a brief, yet glorious, phase in the life of a sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced the simple, outer pattern of dusty concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. But the formation of the beautiful, more complex inner structures is not well understood.

Here, Hubble Space Telescope archival image data have been reprocessed to create another look at the cosmic cat's eye. Compared to well-known Hubble pictures, the alternative processing strives to sharpen and improve the visibility of details in light and dark areas of the nebula and also applies a more complex color palette. Of course, gazing into the Cat's Eye, astronomers may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years.

Image Credit: NASA, MAST, STScI, AURA and Vicent Peris (OAUV/PTeam)

Girls Read Sci Fi

Went to a cool party put on by a book club called Girls Read Sci Fi. It was a fundraiser for the Wonder of Reading. WofR builds and referbishes libraries in public schools in LA, stocks the libraries, and provides volunteers to read to kids. Now that's a worthy cause.

lafont

Where have you been all my life? I found the perfect eye glasses and just wish I could have every style. Delicately designed, perfectly stylish. I love them. Made in Paris, of course.
check them out www.lafont.com

Land Shark

There's a sports bar in Pacifica with dioramas like in "Night at the Museum." Here's a shark headed for Seal Rock.

5 North to SF

Carrington

One of my favorite movies I can only describe as ravishing. It stars two of the best actors of our age: Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce.

Helen Frankenthaler

Debris

Beauty

She's a beauty. One in a million girls.

Exciting Discovery

While watching the documentary "Who Gets to Call It Art?" on the Sundance Channel, one artist struck me as so fresh and energetic and I'd never heard of her. Helen Frankenthaler.
It's a good doc about the Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler and his intimacy with artists and how his influence changed the museum and the art world.

What a find.

More Good News

Alaskans against Palin -

Hope

The entire Sarah McBush thing has sent me, and it seems most of the Democracts I know, into a tail spin. What I did to cheer myself up was photograph all the Obama signs in my neighborhood. Signs of hope are everywhere.

Embarassment of Riches

Sabbatical

I'm going on a blog sabbatical in order to write a book. If you want to keep up with the book, I have a writing blog called qwerky for writers. http://qwertyforwriters.blogspot.com/

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