#DashingThruDecember #Snowflake
Many snowflakes = snow day 😁
My selections for #nonfictionnovember were all over the place, but I was glad to have finally read The Secret Lives of Bats and, not being a sports fan, Leveling the Ice was still a very good read. I was surprised and thrilled with how good Batman Resurrection was, and Brubaker/Philips and O'Neil were both reliably excellent in their graphic novels.
pickI am so enamoured by my ancestral homeland. I love seeing pictures of all the beautiful places, both urban and wild, be they new, old or ancient.
I colored this picture and wrote this about it. 😍🥰🥵🔥❄️🥶🐺⚔️🗡️
#haiku #haikuhive
from Chicago to
Santa Monica — get your kicks
on Route 66.
#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #retroart #Route66
Real snowflakes photographed in early 1900s! #BeautyBreak
When the name “Snowflake Bentley” is mentioned in Louise Penny‘s newest book, The Black Wolf, one must Google it. Was delighted to see that this first photographer of snowflakes was real and the amazing Maria Popova had written about him: https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/01/19/wilson-bentley-snowflakes/
so-soSontag‘s book of critical essays concerning photography, whether it should be considered a fine art, its historical relationship to painting, the illusory and distancing qualities of a photo, the widespread public acceptance of the photographer chronicling the private, debates as to what should be photographed, as well as the consequences of a modern world obsessed with “capturing reality” even if a definition of “reality” will never be reached.
