Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

I love a mixed up weed, and here's a beauty!  Who knows what it is? Comments are working again; blogger is working again!

What if there was one sunset left? I know, it’s a cliché of a question, but What it there was one sunset left? Would I have the courage to see the beauty, To watch the final sun move inch by relentless inch, Darkening, sinking, disappearing into an immovable horizon? Could I bear to love that simple act of kindness, That I’d seen ten thousand times before? What if I knew for certain?

Of the many known genera of the North American Slinky, one of the rarest is  the Tree Bed Watering Slinky shown below at work on East 94th Street..

A careful grant-supported study of local joggers by a well respected New York Anthro-photographer has at last  documented the ritual courtship and mating dance of the New York jogger.  Astonishingly, the investigator has captured and photographed the early  phases of this ritual. Ritual Phase I   Ritual Phase II

All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert a  ducatmedia.com documentary film by Vivian Ducat We'll keep you informed about this new documentary on the incredible artist Winfred Rembert Winfred Rembert, June 23, 2011. ©Linda Jo Calloway Inside Cat Odom's Cafe, 2005:  Dye on carved and tooled leather. Image from Adelson Galleries, 7 April - 30 June, 2010 Chain Gang - The Ditch:   Winfred Rembert 2005. Dye on carved and tooled leather. Image from Adelson Galleries , 7 April - 30 June, 2010 Payoff Time:  Winfred Rembert 2007.  Dye on carved and tooled leather. Image from Adelson Galleries   7 April - 30 June, 2010

The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas, at 15 East 97th Street