Jingle Tree

Christmas Card for the whole Internet

Tis the time of year when tis acceptable to say Tis (so much easier than it is)

and also the time of year to mail bits of paper and glue at the people I like.

Anyway, some of the best people I've met live inside my computer.

If not for you folks I'd feel utterly alone and abnormal in this weird world. You know who you are.

Rather than stalk after you in real life, I'll just post this.|

Merry Festivus, Happy Hanukah, Joyous Yule.

If'n you want a real card, send me an address; )

A Thing Worth Doing

the Munsell Hue Color Test (use Google Chrome for best results)

it looks like this

and it's slightly maddening. So far, my best score is an 8, because the bleens are hard.

A Useful Thing

Given to me by my friend Brian; made by people who lived 10,000 or more years ago, and used by me to scrape the stringy seedy parts out of pumpkins. (I used to have a slightly better one but it got tossed into the compost heap along with the stringy parts of pumpkins and has never resurfaced)

Pra'Brian!

the one side

the other side

The How of Birdsong

Happy End of the World Day

Actually for some of you the world may already have ended.

                                                   

                                                         So might as well celebrate!

                                                

Have some cake

Hey Chertiozhnik, I found the cake!

                                                             Hold your loved ones close

                                     

Make amends when needed

                                                and try to find some of that inner peace stuff.

Oh wait, never mind...

an expedition to the Museum

my first in many moons.
I had been to this particular one about a year ago, a week before it actually opened because i can't be bothered to verify such things before excursioning.
So. Loaded up the new saramobile with the Bean and myself and we voyaged to the Wal-Mart Cultural Manifestations for Proletarian Consumption Compound.
It's free don'tcha know!
But since you all are scattered far and wide across the internets and may not be within journeying distance I took pictures which I hereby share.

Big Metal Tree

The Museum

a model of the Museum made of toothpicks

Blue Morpho

I forget what these were called

What a large head you have!

Settling differences of opinion with a spirited game of Rock, Paper, Scissors

Bear beats scissors

Touchdown! |
(I know nothing of sports)

it's OK if the brushstrokes show

"Why cain't ya jes' paint sump'n Purdy, like Flaaars?"

these things are familiar

Big Scary Factory

Those PBJ's are good for the biceps

Maxfield Parrish(!)

Lotus of Divinity

the NO SMOKING signs were very prominent

the token "well I could do THAT!" piece

I saw this in a book once

 ....at which point my camera batteries ran out.
But in the spirit of sharing treasures with a wider audience, here's one of my own favorite things:  A fish-mouthed vessel, made by an artist who imprinted its ceramic surface with fossilized shells that are part of the dirt in Texas. Most recently used to keep spare change.

sufficient unto the day are the funds thereof

December 4

Saint Francis of Zappa, patron of iconoclasts and weirdos