I see Three

Hahahaha

2012.
I had just slid into my black trench coat.
Pist: Heading out to shoot up a high school?

The Sixth Decade

That cowlick has dominated the top of my life for 67 years.

My Familiar

When the crows lifts a wing I can hear the distinct rustling of each feather. There's a whisk, brush, crispness to the sound, oddly weighted even though the crow is perhaps 15 ounces.
I had gathered acorns yesterday and placed them on the mantle as a gift.
This morning he scattered them, seemingly oblivious, doing one of his double hops.
A few moments ago he smartly snapped his wing for attention.
Yes, I asked.
Say, he said, I've an idea, let's go bowling today.
I can't. Bellie is going to the groomer and I'll be working.
His wings droop with hurt.
I flick one of the acorns beneath his feet as he hops and he laughs merrily.
Do it again, he shouts, Again! Again!
I roll another acorn towards his feet.
This is how we bowl.

Scholarship

Super crazy 70s Peter Max knockoff scarf by DC socialite Frankie Welch.

Your Daily Golden Moment

The Most Shoes

I worked in the Industry for 14 years so there. You know, back when the US had industry.

Bow down!

1974 Ford Gran Torino Elite.

Bellie. Nov 2014

A month after her arrival. She was just beginning to connect with stuffed toys.

Kevin with a prism on his eyelid

Art Deco Atomic Salem Tricorne Streamline Set

Sold for 300. I hated to part with it.

Reticulated brass brooch

That shames the moon and frames light.

Brave Belle. Nov 2014

I had brought her home from Dirk's Fund a month prior. Her fur was growing back. She weighed 39 pounds.

My little Girl is in Love

It's True

I made and sold perfectly balnced 10 pound crystal dumbbells.

Walkabout

St Louis Brick

Gold bricks, baby!

Mega Find

Silver Band Queens Lusterware punch bowl with chrome tray, ladle, and roly poly glasses.

Holding Hands

The Shhh of Leaves

Wabi Sabi

Nov 8th, 2016. The Sixth Decade

Off to vote for Hilary. Two days before the Worst Day of My Life.

Barred Owl

Along our walk yesterday I saw a baby barred owl near our house. It was 8 feet above us.
I stared back and it flew off. It was huge and clumsy. I love hearing their calls at night.

Aesthetics 101

The White Album

The Stories, the Stars

Of course I'm sworn to privacy and can't blab about my Hollywood clients. I can tell you this Art Nouveau hair comb was purchased by a costume department.
When I asked about its fate I was told, 'Its actually for an HBO series, called "Lovecraft Country" we are mid-production of the first season in Atlanta'.

Bye!

An Apple Juice Bakelite magnifying glass that I literally found & just sold for $100. It's moving to Canada.
I wish I were going with it.
Wave goodbye!

November 6, 2018

I wore all the amber in the house for luck. It worked.

Your Daily Golden Moment

A Brain can't explain itself

Before I left for The Wild yesterday I was admiring a piece of brain coral in my collection. I wished I had another. Boom: two hours later I found this:

.

My Office

I see Isosceles

And that huge, interesting pie

ce of driftowwod I dragged home.

Day Trip through Rural MO 2019

A day trip into rural MO.
We drove through Hermann, New Haven, Bonnets Mill, Chamois, Frankenstein, and Washington, MO.
We were almost to Jeff city.

We crossed and visited the Missouri, Osage, and Gasconade rivers and they were still very high.
We saw Rump 2020 campaign signs.
We saw endless American flags, billboards and signs promoting their white Jesus.

This is the Gasconade river still above flood stage.
We talked to a 77 year old man who just pulled this boat in from the water. He said the river had only recently dropped to this level.
It's still quite high.
He'd been out fishing but didn't catch anything and complained about Asian Carp.
I'd read about Asian Carp in the Missouri Conservation magazine and was actually able to hold a conversation about this highly invasive species with him. I was surprised to recall the details.

They cause serious damage to the native fish populations in the lakes and rivers that they infest because they out-compete other fish for food and space. They eat the alga which newly hatched fish need for food to grow into minnows. They are also thought to lower water quality, which can kill off sensitive organisms like native freshwater mussels.
They were imported by the US from Asia to help aquaculture and wastewater treatment facilities keep retention ponds clean but chronic flooding caused accidental releases that allowed these fish to escape into the Mississippi River system and migrate into the Missouri and Illinois rivers.
And now they are in the Gasconade river.
He told me they jump into his boat.

That's Cor-ten steel on the bridge.
The white gravel had recently been dumped there by the county to provide traction over the mud.