8/8/21

Alsace region of East France. Ancestral home to a Von Hermann

All I had asked for my Bday that year was a kiss in the Eiffel tower.
Koenigsbourg Castle.
Father to great grandfather, Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann.

Lily Pulitzer ad from Vogue 1968. My personal collection

My mom's watercolors

She worked as a magazine illustrator in her late teens.

Door hinge. 1904

Brass hinge from 1904 on the Gothic entry doors of the New Hope Church on MFG and Tholozan. The exterior doors to our McPherson house vestibule had hinges three times this size.

8/7/21

The Crash

I fell asleep on the sofa and she fell asleep on me. CBD was ingested by both.

Found in the wild

120 year old Victorian Garnet brooch with hexagon cuts. Wild!

BDay Dinner. 2016. Four Seasons Roof Top

Brick Street in St Louis

2014.
There's still many brick paved streets in STL that haven't been covered with asphalt. Here's one The Hill not far from where the Hydraulic Brick CO was located. There's mortar between the bricks. The streets near the curbs were smooth as glass and easy to ride.
Hydraulic Brick was owned by T.S. Eliot's father.

Beau

My recent Goldens are mostly white. The first Golden looked as if he'd jumped out of a fire.
Beau who was also called Running Cloud.

Cirrus and Bricks. FVHTS

Iz a woman obsessed with clouds.
Clear day, 2017.
Cop shop in FVHTS

The Huntress - Your Daily Golden Moment

Hey everbody!
Guess what!?
Late last night I told my Mah'mm to let me out.
I found a possum!
I snatched that possum from the tree and brought it to the door. I wanted to take it inside to my special place where I eat my treats. My mah'mm opened the door and was yelling at me and wouldn't let me inside. She kept telling me to 'drop it and eventually I did. I left it and was allowed inside.
It played dead and my mom was very scared to open the door thinking it would bolt into the house!
THAT would have been a swell plan for me. Eventually she dropped a mop on it and it bolted. Meanwhile I ran past her back into the yard! I was ripping out all her fencing looking for another possum.
I had to sleep on the floor which was ok because my hips really hurt and I didn't want to jump up into the bed with them.
The End by Tinka Bellie.

8/6/21

St Louis Golden

Number One Daughter and her first encounter with water which was interesting. She couldn't see it but she could smell and hear it. She dipped a paw into what she deduced was there.

View from the Arch by Ken Mostek

Ken and Glenda were our favorite AirBnB guests.
Ken also made for me pretty portraits of Bellie (below).

On the Street Where I Live - St Louis Brick

"I have often walked down this street before But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before All at once am I several stories high Knowing I'm on the street where you live" The best brick on the block nest to our pink brick.