little feet, big sky
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Of course, the kids & spouse-unit missed me, but I think the cat missed me most.
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Finally got away to an inspiring and much-needed weekend in Portland. Didn’t do much other than wandering and soaking it in, but would like to go back soon and get some serious writing done.
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Great year for strawberries! Remember they enjoy some soft shade. #garden #summer #strawberry (at Hope Gardens-organic veggie gardens)
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“The secret of good conversation lies in discovering the “hobby” of the person with whom one is conversing, and a good talker always throws out several “feelers” in order to find out the things in which his partner is most interested.” —Some things never change.
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Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son.
Click though and check out this beautiful and moving photo-set. Also, read the captions, in which the photographer lends some insight into the image, his relationship with is son and autism.
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Times copy editor Larry Harnisch attends the reunion of Los Angeles Herald Examiner photographers:
A generation has come of age since the death of Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald Examiner on Nov. 2, 1989, a digital generation that has no memory of The Times’ scrappy competitor. Once the nation’s largest afternoon paper, the Herald was a victim of changing lifestyles and a long, bruising strike, a publication that was losing about $2 million a month when it folded.
Today, the Herald’s pages are preserved on reels of microfilm, accessible only to those willing to make the trek to the Los Angeles Public Library or other research facilities.
But the newspaper’s photos have found new life online.You can see some of those photos above, and there are even more at Framework, where Scott Harrison has put together a gallery that has the back stories of some of these amazing images. Still more photos — the source of the ones above, in fact — are in the Los Angeles Public Library collection (which you can search).
Photos: Top: The Hollywood sign in 1978. Middle left: O.J. Simpson carries the Olympic torch in L.A. in July 1984. Middle right: Cher and Don Ameche at the 1986 Oscars. Bottom left: A police car hits a protester in Beverly Hills in 1979. Bottom right: The final issue of the Herald Examiner. (Credit: Los Angeles Herald Examiner / Los Angeles Public Library)
(via latimes)
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At ocean resorts where the water was very shallow near the beach, people undressed in little houses on wheels, which were drawn out into deep water by horses and hauled back to the shore when the bath was finished. At the larger resorts hundreds of these carts were seen in the water at a time. The broad wheels hardly made an impression on the firm, white sand of the beach.
The bathing machine allowed a modest Victorian woman to spend the day at the beach in complete privacy. After the horse would haul the cabana into the ocean, the 19th century woman would change from her layers of petticoats and dress into another layer of swimwear. Later a hood was added to the contraption to allow the female in a soaking wet flannel dress to emerge from the water unseen.
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Anyone that knows how much koi poop knows how gross this ad is.
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The view from the dentist’s chair.
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Ethical Fashion: Is The Tragedy In Bangladesh A Final Straw? : NPR Since a garment factory collapsed last month in Dhaka, killing more than 400 people, ethical fashion has been in the spotlight. Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Price of Cheap Fashion, explains the economy that created this tragedy and what we can do to fix it.
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Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy: “The Challenge”
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lower antelope canyon.
put it into perspective.
