Friday, November 15, 2013

Favorite Movie Quotes: Highlander

"Why does the sun come up? Hmm? Or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of night? Who knows? What I know is that because you were born different, men will fear you, try to drive you away, like the people of your village."

Postcard - Piraeus, Greece

"Piraeus - View of the harbour."

1970s

The Chamber Strings Sing Bacharach

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Caution

Buttons - Public Services - 2013

"I Give."

From the Washington State Combined Fund Drive.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Sunday, November 10, 2013

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This mole is sure one busy animal. It is now as close to my back door as it can get. The cats enjoy using the molehills as outdoor litterboxes, but if they see a hill moving which indicates a mole is active they just sort of bat at the rising dirt in a quizzical way.

Back in the 1980s and early 1990s I had a cat named Ahab who was a superb mole catcher and would deliver them on the porch.

But, I'm no lawn nut, obviously. Most of it is moss anyway. I say, let nature take its course and truth to tell, this is pretty interesting. In my 19 years on this place, this is the first mole to venture here.

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James Abbott mural detail, Elma, Washington

Allyson Ava-Brown Sings Bacharach

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Detail of James Abbott mural, Elma, Washington

Postcard - Loutraki, Greece


"Loutraki - View of the town"

1970s

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James Abbott mural, Elma, Washington. He played with perspective in this one more than in his other works. It faces east, protecting it from the coastal winds, so this is in a better state of preservation than most.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Gangs of New York

"You kill a king, you don't stab him in the dark. You kill him where the whole court can watch him die."


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The mole's progress