Puppy vs boot
Puppy vs boot
Meet Friday, the new girl.
From a car window along I-5. My daughter took the photos.
Church Mountain, Washington
John 1 1:17, chanted by the priest at our old parish. My favorite three minutes of the liturgical year.
Happy New Year.
Yu Chengyou, “Night in a Small Village,” multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink, 1984. From The Revolving Moon: 25 Prints from China, via: 50 Watts, and with thanks to Wood s Lot.
(via 50watts)
Marine Atlas from sometime between the late 1820s & late 1840s by Mori Jiang Yuan Shou (I *think* it was a ½ Japanese, ½ Chinese teaching manual). The 82 page book features a large number of hand-painted watercolour sketches of marine animals and plants.
It is hosted by the Rare Books Database at the National Diet Library in Japan.
(via 50watts)
An Alphabet of Books
A drawing I have in this show.
Also, I have a new print for sale.
The Ring, You cannot pass, Welcome from Lothlorien, The horn of King Helm sounded, I am no man and The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings illustrations by Jian Guo
(via bluedollar)
Wife and a daughter doing the Grand Canyon thing a few years ago.
When my father entered his plebe year at the Naval Academy, my grandfather, then in command of a cruiser, wrote this smartass order allowing my father to drink coffee.
Take my bait, O king of fishes!
Maria Louise Kirk, from The story of Hiawatha, adapted from H. W. Longfellow by Winston Stokes, New York, 1910.
(Source: archive.org)
![The gatefold art for the (New Okkervil River album)[http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/07/12/201582565/maps-and-music-explore-okkervil-rivers-new-album] is a stylized map of songwriter Will Sheff’s remembered hometown. Note the seasonal bands.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c7e5c074abc9bc2134a48f4b631ba89f/tumblr_ms5bqwo84w1qz6kxfo1_1280.jpg)
The gatefold art for the (New Okkervil River album)[http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/07/12/201582565/maps-and-music-explore-okkervil-rivers-new-album] is a stylized map of songwriter Will Sheff’s remembered hometown. Note the seasonal bands.
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ex Los Angeles Street and Business Directory. N. A. Wolcott & Co., Publishers, 1893
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note the (insular) cartographic detailing.
