Fire escape update

Someone has been digging among my tomatoes!





Mint.



Geranium!

I love love LOVE geraniums. Their leaves have the best smell ever.

(That's my poinsettia on the right.)

Found last night!

Paris Champion Fastback!



Floating steering.



Gauges!






















Runners!

It's awesome. I'm keeping it!

Mystery cans

What's inside?





Dulce de leche!

Take a can of sweetened condensed milk. Simmer it in a pot of water for two hours. Open can. Taste. Swoon!

Maybe make a pie?



Thanks Anna!!!

Comma splice!

This one goes out to Beth, who is studying to be a copyeditor.

Beff, I dare you to post this on the online bulletin board!!!

Living-room wall

Refraction.

Seafarers

A Cubb and two Cubbies went to sea
In a beautiful red/pink boat.
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.



The Cubb looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Cubbies! O Cubbies my loves,
What beautiful Cubbies you are,
You are!
What beautiful Cubbies you are!'

There's shabby

Then there's disreputable.



I need a new handbag, yes?

Natural confetti

Point your camera down.

Something good for your brain

More? Here you go.

Gratuitous squirrel pictures

Head:



Tail!



That's fluff for ya.

Tools

Bottle opener:



Cast iron.

Screw driver!



I found it in the grass in front of a bank in Wellfleet, on Cape Cod.



I call it "my Bull Driver."

Apollo Theater

Bonnie Prince Billy was incre-e-e-e-e-e-e-dibly good! Wow!

Harlem

It could not be more different from Greenpoint.



Wide streets, beautiful buildings. Some boarded up with triangles cut in the wood. Others sealed with cinder blocks. Many others beautifully maintained or restored.

Faggot

Bundle of sticks.

Time to clean the window.

That's better (stuck my head out).

Morning visit

Male cardinal. Very shy.

If I leave the window open . . .

. . . maybe a kitty will come purr and blink in the sunny patches?

Found last night!

Bundle of books.



Including:





Life magazines from 1971.





Mediocre life drawings by someone I never heard of.



Artist's Way! Ha.





Japanese book about New York store windows, published in 1990.

And—AWESOME!—this Giant Golden Book published in 1956:







Gods and mortals.



Trojan horse.



Circe.



Sirens.



Slaying the suitors!

As Greg said last night, I got my "finding stuff" mojo back!

It wouldn't have been worth it

As I took this picture a car backed onto me (almost).

Further planning

Sister's blanket.



Each block made of four squares joined with green, then a green border, then a pink border.

What do you think?

Greenpoint

It is pretty.



If you point the camera upward!

More free money!

There was a broken Tizio lamp in my office when I moved in three years ago. Two engineers came in coveralls to change the lightbulb and discovered that the whole head was burnt out. They were going to trash it so I took it home and bought a new head for it from Artimede for $50.

















But now I am tired of it . . .

Three bids so far on eBay!

Yay!