Pinball wizard

Those of you know me well know how much I love to play pinball. It's the one thing I'm better than just good at playing. So very excited to see this game coming out. Must find it and play...

A magic garden

When I had gardens, I used to make little paths with beach rocks but never anything this cool. If I ever get a place of my own I'm going to make a magic garden like this for the fairies to live in.

[photo via Old Moss Woman]

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Frozen hands, cold heart

When I saw this photo, I immediately thought of my friend Uma, whose real name means happy heart. She's more into the Eastern religions now but this is just the sort of heart in the wild she would have posted back in the day.

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Baby, it's cold outside

Much as I hate the cold, something in me loves a frozen fountain. This one is in Bryant Park, NYC.

[Via CNN, more photos at the link]

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A little oasis in the big city

If I was really rich and owned a big apartment in NYC, I would most certainly have a rooftop garden. Love this one. If you didn't know, you would swear it was a little place in the country somewhere.

[Photo via StumbleUpon. Many more at the link.]

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It is a tree of life

Adding this to my bucket list of things to see in real life before I die. If this 2000 year old tree in South Africa known as "The Tree of Life" could talk...

[Time4Change photo]

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Tom cat in love

I'm pretty jaded about cute cat pictures what with seeing hundreds a week, but this one is too funny not to share in case you missed it.

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Pretty in pink

Empire State building, my second favorite structure in NYC, got these new LED lights that apparently can do any color combos in various shades. Love this one and of course, no one does NYC pix better than Inga Sarda-Sorenson.

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Rainbows under the sea

I've spent a fair amount of time snorkeling over the years. Have never seen anything like these Coral Reef Rainbow Zoanthids. Have to find out where you can see them so I can go there.

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Best of snow

Spending as much time as I do on the interwebz, I see a whole lot of snowman pictures. This is one is surely in contention for best of the snow months. Just looking at it makes me feel cheery.

[Loz Atkinson Art via Raphaelite Girl]

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Spontaneous street art

Time was, when I was young and living in the frozen north, I often did exactly this same sort of thing, if on a smaller scale. Snow and ice are wonderful mediums for temporary art, if you stand the cold.

Here's the story on the street artists in this video:



Watching that I almost want to go play in the snow and ice. Almost...

River of light

I will never get over the wonder that I lived long enough to see photographs taken by a guy sitting in a space station in orbit around our planet. I mean, I'm so old I remember when the whole world stopped to watch John Glenn orbit the earth three times and held their collective breath until it was clear he would live through the end of the ride.

Anyway, I love photos of the Aurora Borealis, and this is surely the very best one I've ever seen. It was tweeted to my computer from outer space. Kids today don't realize what a miracle of technology and science that is.

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You don't bring me flowers, anymore

Been raining steady here for so many days I've lost track of how long it's been since I've seen the sun. So a little color on a gray day. Have no idea what this flower is, but I really one of these. I think it may be a houseplant of some kind.

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Oh, the places I'd go

You all know number one on my bucket list forever has been to get a ride in the Goodyear blimp. I've now modified that to getting a ride in the Goodyear blimp over this place in China. Just wow.

[photo via]

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House of learning

Not exactly my dream house, but maybe a dream playhouse. Thinking you could only have one of these if you live in a very dry place. But I love the concept of building a retreat out of old books.

[photo via]

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Bad joke

This is really a horrible pun, but I love awful puns and this made me laugh out loud. For real. Besides, since this has become a photo blog lately, it seems appropriate for the archives.

[Sardonic Salad cartoon]

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Forever frozen in time

The interwebs work in mysterious ways. Via a circuitous route, I discovered this youtube obviously taken at a private party. Can't remember what local rock and roll band he was in back then but pretty sure I had a fangirl crush on this guy Bill Lauf in high school. Of course he looked a lot different then. But so did I.



Really like finding out what happened to him. Obviously, he ended up in the folk scene. This isn't a great recording. He has better clips on his website and he has a new album coming out.

Look who's coming to dinner

This post is for my sister who will be seeing this for real outside her door in just a couple of weeks.

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AND she will no doubt be doing some of this too...

[photo via]

Wish I was going with her.

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When life gives you snow

Make snowmen! Somehow snowmen that happen in places that rarely see snow look so happy. Lots of snowmen in Palestine at the link. This one was my favorite.

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Fun in the frozen north

If I still lived in the frozen climes, I would so want to build one of these. Or rather, have someone build one for me. An igloo constructed out of milk cartons filled with colored water and frozen. It would even have to be an igloo. It could be a little tower and put a battery powered lantern in it at night. How cool would that be?

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Snow owls

I remember a time, back when housewife was a description for the prevailing lifestyle and not a derogatory term, when owls were a big motif for home decor. I think it was after roosters. But well before geese. Never subscribed to any of those trends, but I have always like real owls. They are very cool birds. Especially snow owls.

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Apparently, owls are coming back into favor. Suddenly they're flooding my social nets. Loved this capture too:

[photo via Wild for Wildlife and Nature]

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Fairy tales can come true

I've loved fairy tales all my life. Love the stories, What with all the happy endings they're always so much better than real life. And especially love the illustrations. Some of the best art is in fantasy.

The Snow Queen is in my top three favorite fairy tales. This illustration by Vladislav Erko, artist-illustrator from Kiev, Ukraine is the best rendition of the images in my head that I've ever seen.(Many more at the link.)

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My new dream home

I seriously want these back-to-earthers in England to adopt me so I can live on this estate. It's like a living recreation of the Shire when hobbits lived there.

Click the link for all the photos. Well worth the few minutes to scroll through the whole thing. It's simple living done as performance art. I mean, this is their woodpile. Which doesn't get any less gorgeous as they use it.

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Since I've been gone

It's kind of trite old truism, but really the older I get, the faster the time seems to pass. I spent about twenty of my life on the second floor of that building. Hard to believe it's already been seven years since I left. A lot has changed since I've been gone. Even the building has a fancy new paint job and different street front businesses.

[photo via The Foundry that appears to be in either the old Vermont Deli or maybe the old falafel shop.]

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Electrifying!

In these times of rampant photoshopping, no idea if this is real. But if it is, wow. How cool would it be to see that in real life?

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Peaceable kingdom

Sometimes it feels like the animal kingdom figured out peaceful co-existence a whole lot better than the humans have. Love how these guys are the same color too.

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Beautiful views

If I ever manage to settle down somewhere and find a home I want to live in for the rest of my days, I hope it has a view like this:

[photo via]

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Happy 2013

I plan on calling it twenty thirteen, by the way. Thirteen is a significant number in my life, in many good ways. So I've been waiting for a great graphic to express my hopes for this year and a facebook friend delivered a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from 1996. Possibly the last panel Waterman ever posted.

I still miss this cartoon so much.

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Happy New Year

Fell asleep before the ball dropped. Almost made it. Last I checked the clock it was 11:40. So I didn't crack my bottle of ridiculously expensive champagne. Maybe I'll save it for my birthday. That's coming soon enough.

Meanwhile, let's start the new year with a cute kitten. This was was posted on my facebook by my friend Kevin Hayden with the legend: Not everyone shared Bing Crosby's dream...

And how about an amazing flower. I heard of the Baobab tree before, had no idea it had blooms like this. Now on my bucket list is to see one in real life.

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