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Books about Town benches in London July - September 2014
Benches celebrating writers with a London connection.
A lovely Peacock Pansy (Junonia almana javana) in Tampines Eco Green. Go green with me in my blog: Tampines Eco Green
*Note: More pics of Butterflies and Moths in my Butterflies and Moths Album.
YES!! I found this raggedy old copy for 20p and decided it was the most perfect book to turn into an art journal! I have wanted to do this for ages and now I have my book!!
It's faded and the pages are yellow and torn... Just what I needed to make into something special!
Diwan-i-Khas (hall of private audience), Fatehpur Sikri, India.
Fatehpur Sikri is a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The historical city was constructed by Mughal emperor Akbar beginning in 1570 and served as the empire's capital from 1571 until 1585. Though the court took 15 years to build, it was abandoned after only 14 years (soon after Akbar's death) because the water supply was unable to sustain the growing population. The surviving palace and mosque are a tourist attraction and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site itself is a ghost town.
Amanda Palmer reading from her new book, 'The art of Asking' from tonight's gig at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.
You can see all my other pics of Amanda in my Amanda Palmer set.
St James, Cooling, Kent
These children's anthropomorphic gravestones provided Charles Dickens with the inspiration for Pip's poor dead brothers in his novel Great Expectations. In fact, they are to members of the wealthy Comport family, some of whom lived at Cooling Castle, today home of the television personality Jools Holland. The opening scene of Great Expectations, when Pip meets the convict Abel Magwitch, takes place in Cooling churchyard.
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine - who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle - I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence."
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861
A very sweet couple (Kristin & Mike) expecting their first baby very soon.... a most enjoyable holiday photo shoot!
Butter-Poached Abalone
Yellow Curry Braised Greens, Crispy Rice, Chayote.
Read my review at the ulterior epicure.
Esta foto me trae mucha nostalgia, ya que en este mismo lugar existía un parque de Diversiones llamado Ital-Park
Looking up toward the surface from inside the USS Bowfin submarine at the Pearl Harbor memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii.
"USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a fleet attack submarine that fought in the Pacific during WWII, and helped to make famous the term, “Silent Service.” Bowfin was launched on 7 December 1942, exactly one year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was nicknamed the Pearl Harbor Avenger, so it is fitting that she is permanently homeported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii." - www.bowfin.org/submarine/uss-bowfin-history
"They're Playing Our Song"
A Musical Comedy
Directed and Choreographed by Jacqi Loewy
Musical Direction by Jonathan Swoboda
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
Book by Neil Simon
A wisecracking and successful pop-music composer meets a slightly zany aspiring lyricist. Will they make beautiful music together? Inspired by the real-life partnership of Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager, "They're Playing Our Song" celebrates the ups and downs of a musical and romantic coupling.
On stage at Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, from Sept. 9 to 26, 2010.
The Ensemble
WILLIAM KIST as Vernon Gersch
DIANA MARSHALL as Sonia Walsk
MIRIAM HENKEL-MOELLMAN, AMY SPENCER and REBECCA WOLFE as the Voices of Sonia
DANIEL CARABALLO, JOSH HUGHES and AARON SCHOONOVER as the Voices of Vernon
(All photos in this set were shot by Scott Diese.)
At the beginning of my Mind Mapping Techniques Workshop, I summarized the participant´s expectations with Xmind.
St James, Cooling, Kent
The opening scene of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, when Pip meets the convict Abel Magwitch, takes place in Cooling churchyard. A group of children's anthropomorphic gravestones beside the south porch provided Dickens with the inspiration for Pip's poor dead brothers in the novel. In fact, they are to members of the wealthy Comport family, some of whom lived at Cooling Castle, today home of the television personality Jools Holland.
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine - who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle - I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence."
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861
Oh, to be lost in the world of Romantic London!
Screen caps of actor Douglas Booth as Pip in the latest BBC.PBS version of the Dickens classic.
Which I watch online and i do handsewing for my show.
Don't have any. Just sayin. But here's the deal. I've been really, really bad about taking SPs. I haven't taken any in a long time, which may thrill some of you. :) So...I've been going back through my archives and finding/processing SPs that I took earlier this summer. I'm hoping that they help me to get motivated to take some new ones. In the meantime, you get to see me all week. Maybe old, maybe new.
You've been warned...
Oh...and this is an outtake from a SP session a while back. I had a timer going, taking a shot every few seconds. So...this wasn't posed. It's just me. :)
USC School of Dramatic Arts production of Great Expectations, Mar. 1-4, 2018, at the McClintock Theatre. © 2017 Photo by Craig Schwartz for the USC School of Dramatic Arts