I'm not dead... I think I'll go for a walk!

 

Pretty much over the flu,
back from weekend travels & recovery,
now back to editing.

In the meantime, this guy was on our screen, outside.
He looks armored, like the knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail*.

Blends in pretty spectacularly well with the grey metal screen.

But has much more personality....

Super wild guess is a hemipteran,
tho' I've not stared at it very closely, yet.

bb

*Post title is lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, wherein a thin, old man is being offered prematurely to the man who gathers dead bodies off of the street. And the subject line are a few of the things he interjects into the conversation between the man who wants to get rid of him, and the dead body collector ("It's against regulations.")

P.S. have a reservation in Lee Vining for this Saturday, so apparently biobabbler WILL get some nature this weekend, & bring Nikon. YAY!!!

A funny thing happened on the way to the gym... (desert bloom pic)

 

Ran into a friend yesterday who, when I told her I wanted a rug beater, suggested I check out this estate sale by her house.

I am not a shopper.

That includes estate sales (been to 3 in my life and was bored/slightly sad each time).

But, we go 'cause I want that old school tool for cleaning my rugs and getting a workout @ the same time.

The woman who'd passed away had THE MOST INCREDIBLE CLOSETS FULL of GLAMOR I'd ever seen, outside of a Myrna Loy film (The Thin Man series). Or Doris Day.


Check out Myrna's PJs @ 1:00 (one minute) in.

WOW!

Lots of sequins, gowns with feathery fluff at the sleeve cuffs and neckline, silk and satin, chiffon, bright, light-as-air scarves, SUPER stylish shoes, and dress coats with fur cuff & collar and HUGE buttons. And beautiful dress slips with wonderful lace details.

We blew off the gym and spent probably 45 minutes there, and $120 later I brought home my pile of goodies. $120. Jeeze. Bear bought some SUPER stylish thin silk ties. WONderful, subtle things.

Anyhow, it made me want to know this woman. Who knew someone SO stylish and classic was in this tiny town?

So, I changed my facebook pic yesterday to the beavertail cactus bloom 'cause I think of her that way. Unabashedly beautiful, daring, stylish, and impermanent.

And clearly, a MUCH better shopper than I.

bb

you know you're a food-dork when...

   
you're watching a dutch film, which largely takes place in France, and during a (presumably tense) scene where a wife confronts her husband, asking if he's been unfaithful, you notice the jam jars she's holding and think "Oh, I think that's the same kind of jam we have."

Yeah.

Very relevant to the film. SO in the moment. Focused entirely on the French jam I may or not have in common with the characters.

=)

And, I am planning on not buying it any more (however delightful), 'cause for heaven's sake, 19,000,000 people around here (local folk) can make and sell jam so I can at least a) buy theirs and at best, b) make our own. I don't need it shipped from France!

Nevertheless, I saw those gingham red and white jar lids and was off into food-pondering-land as the plot went right past me.

Peach jam on toasted, buttered English muffins... mmmm.....

=)