Come blow your horn.

I've got a photo in the Schmap Guide to England. Schmap is a "beyond the map" publisher of digital travel guides. They seem very cool and useful (uh, unless you want to go to Africa, Asia, or South America, or like any of the former Soviet republics, or vast regions of Canada).

I am also in the current issue of N.E.E.T. Magazine, an online fashion mag, in a little article about green fashion.

Both of these things happened because of editors cruising around on flickr looking for raw materials for their publications, and there I was. The internet is cool.

Also, we won trivia on Monday, no thanks to the round where you had to rank 10 minerals in order of their hardness on the Moh's scale. Sadly my one geology class 15 years ago only helped me out with talc (softest) and diamond (hardest).

Family jewels.

Just in case you haven't been following the dialogue on my photos (and why would you?), I give you the following comments on this picture of a motel in Jackson, MS in 1949.

Foody and other.

There's been sort of a dearth of posting over here, hasn't there? I blame it on February, and having too much to do, and feeling enough eyestrain that I need to curtail my computer action a bit. Nonetheless, I am so enjoying this flickr set by memepunk. If you like ogling other people's breakfasts, you will enjoy it too.

I need to offer up my personal thanks to the genius who spray-painted "You look nice today" on a sheet and pinned it up on a pedestrian overpass over 35W for all the commuters to see. Whoever you are, you made my day, and I am 100% behind your project.

The flavor of the month is slowly melting in your mouth.

Friday favorites:


I'm finding that I enjoy pictures of the following:
1. Complementary colors.
2. Weird/interesting textures.
3. Graffiti and signage.
4. Extreme close-ups of plant life.
5. Old stuff.
6. Cats.

Not so much:
1. Portraits of children I don't know (feels exploitive).
2. Misty portraits of pregnant people I don't know (ditto).
3. National Geographic-style portraits of "ethnic" people I don't know (ditto).
4. Most landscapes (usually too much to take in).
5. Stuff with hackneyed captions. There should be a whole flickr group for this.

Worth thousands of words.

Lately when I have downtime I've been bopping around on flickr and finding images to love. I found a group called "Sidewalk Aphorisms" that is right up my alley because it documents things like this:


Then I thought "what if someone has been taking pictures at my brother's shows? I will search for his band" and voila, I found this picture by Julia of Knitterly Things:


Also I've just really been enjoying the fact that you can mark photos as favorites--here are mine--and make collages etc with any images you like, e.g.:


Thank you, interweb, for all the eye candy.

I've also been hearting prints over at etsy, for that day when I finally decide to buy some wall art. See for example:

Heart Attack by magicjelly


Cooper No. 1 by margin


Pink Dandelions by AzureGrackle


Fall by mLee


Charlie Bird by matteart


Chatter on the Line by birdnerd


(All pics are obviously property of the artists and clicking on the pictures will take you to the artist's etsy shop.)

And here, for good measure, are some pictures I took yesterday on my birthday photohunt:




I am eating leftover apple crisp for my midmorning meal. I think it's the first one I've ever made. And I could eat this stuff all day long.