After we moved to a new place this summer, I found in a box these books that I read over half a century ago. (I’m 67.) I’m sentimental and I keep things. They conjure so many memories of how much I enjoyed #sciencefiction as a teenager. I have read little of it since. #heinlein #asimov
In our new house, I admired a bowl glorified by sunlight on the old bureau we reincarnated as a sideboard. Then I saw the still almost empty china cabinet hosting a 17th-century Dutch still life. Sadly, Clara Peeters and Brueghel the Elder lacked cocktail shakers and their playful way with sheen.
What fun to see this pop up again. Thank you!
This is exactly the attitudes I grew up around.
Apparently our godforsaken excuse for a government is happily planning to rack up all kinds of warnings from other nations about the dangers of having anything to do with the U.S.
A typically smart, humane, and helpful piece by the great @nytimes.com columnist Margaret Renkl.
Working on my next book, about the always fadcinating #charlesdarwin and #emmadarwin, at the dining table to be near the springy view at the big window. Five whitetail deer just paraded along the ridge trail right behind the apartment. Nature is just as creative today as it was a million years ago.
#bloodoranges and #roastedchickpeas on my desk. That’s all.
Of course.
The 12-year-old deciding he is not at all too old to covet what he calls “museum-quality models.”
#monarchcaterpillar in western Pennsylvania, from September
Lemons, blood oranges, and, yes, avocados, not limes. Every day of this evil coup I remind myself that the world is also still full of beauty.
I’m reading it now and enjoying it very much.
Another thoughtful and compelling book by Lee Dugatkin.
Ohio sunset, October 2024, before the coup
Canada geese in a wintry river and their tracks in snow beside it.
Canada geese in a wintry river & their tracks in snow beside it. I thought the 3-toed tracks might be from other birds such as coots or rails. But an ornithologist I consulted said no, those tracks are by geese. in deeper snow, not and thus show only toes, not webbing. #Canadageese, #tracksinsnow.
“Not o good look.” Good God.
Amelia Island, Florida
That one was quite some time ago. I hope to combine some of these into something larger.
And this line:
“Active, informed, iron-willed wonder is a skill, not a gift: you have to work at it.”
—Katherine Rundell
