jessamyn's temple of ego

tulip?

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This was a gift bulb from a wedding I went to in the middle of last year. I finally got around to planting it a few months ago and it finally bloomed. It's not well rooted in the soil so it's pretty much just leaning there against the wall, but it's a nice sunny day for it and I don't think it minds much.

Stan's glowing ear

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for scale

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I have been taking photos of me in my friends' band t-shirt [The Harvey Girls, go listen to them, they are excellent] and all the ones in the bright sunlight looked weird and blurry. However, I thought this was a decent way to show JUST HOW MUCH freaking SNOW there is here. A lot of snow. Lots.

"While we are generally horrified by monstrosities in the case of human beings, we love them in fruit" - Giovanni Battista Ferrari (naturalist, "discoverer" of the blood orange and the cure for scurvy). Illustrations in Ferrari's book Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum cultura (1646) are based on close collaboration with Cassiano dal Pozzo and his Paper Museum, called one man's project to "commission drawings of all known antiquities, and to attempt to systematically categorize this vast repertory of visual images."

The Historian   
by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)

read: 24 February 2008
rating: [+]

[review pending]

Just a quick note on what's going on with <a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/14245/Remembering-Retrotagging">the backtagging project</a> and some "go go go!" momentum for a final push to the finish.

My front yard this evening

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I spent a good chunk of today and Sunday getting snow off the roof. I have been waiting for this snow to take the place of the snow I have removed and hopefully NOT take the porches down with it.

My front yard this evening

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It's getting harder and harder to tell where the tree stops and the ground begins.

Magnets

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I got some of those supermagnets for holidaytime. My friends came to visit this weekend and I just noticed they left me a little magnet sculpture on the fridge. This is looking straight up, towards the ceiling, up the face of the fridge.

magnets, at an angle

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I got square ones and little discs. The discs are sort of neat because if you put them on the fridge a certain way they just ZIP down the front of it. I was really surprised these stayed on the front of the fridge this way. The ceiling in this photo is sort of off to the left.

domodress

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for Sharyn

Happy Birthday Forrest MacGregor!

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Forrest and I took some time off from scraping snow off of our respective rooves to have a bit of lunch and coffee on his birthday.

Free Pancake Day at King Arthur Flour

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Delicious, but underwhelming. Grade A fancy?! We drove up to Norwich to eat freepancakeS not free pancake (tiny).

no such thing as a free lunch, kid

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one is not a celebration. Don't get me wrong, I love King Arthur and their flour and their store, but why skimp on the pancakes?

Breaking the rules

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to be fair, I was expecting larger pancakes. So, I had an extra one.

target practice

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No I am serious, this was in the sand pit and I am pretty sure this was for target practice

self portrait, with whistle

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I lifeguarded today and yesterday because it's school vacation which meens the teenaged lifeguards are on break.

ARD

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I like this plant behind me. The pool area is a great place for plants. It's eighty degrees and humid. Great place for me too, come to think of it.

only two people in the pool

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an hour or so earlier there were thirty people, several of whom were teenaged boys intent on killing each other by drowning, impalement, spine injury or getting their ass kicked by the fireman who they kept hitting with the ball they were tossing around.

outside looking in

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There's a stained glass window of three cats that used to belong to Ola's daughter (I think?) that graces the window in the laundry room. It was made by Ola's late husband Finn.