May 27, 2009

Proof



An alien shed its skin down the street from my house.





Very creepy.

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!!!

May 23, 2009

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.

May 22, 2009

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.

May 21, 2009

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!