if a picture paints a thousand words ...

... wish i'd taken this one ... it's from the facebook page of the painter sally stafford

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=524271090943563&set=a.204015809635761.44765.150142721689737&type=1&theater

popped in to the national gallery after work ( as you do ) and ended up squandering some of my well-gotten gains ...

http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/products/leonardo_da_vinci_painter_at_the_court_of_milan_paperback_exhibition_catalogue/p_1018440

maybe its just two wimmin sitting on ONE rock with their feet in ONE stream and ONE of the wimmin is holding up ONE finger ... the kids might almost be incidental

at the corner of the strand and trafalgar square

thpwing ith thpwung !!!

numbers 97, 98, 99 ... from an occasional series extolling wimmin that never insisted on the compulsory hoovering, the wearing of freshly laundered clothing, or even the daily wash

a silver ghost at ockenden manor

you made me love you ...

in the seventies, i used to drink in a country pub with bare wooden tables where the old men had sung the same songs since the thirties

and we all joined in

one of those songs was first made popular in this country by this lady, grace la rue, just before the first world war, when my ancient drinking friends wuz just liddl babbies

later on, in my lifetime, patsy cline's version was more than good enough ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5rlL8vDAo

ian beck's blog is a treasure trove ...

he's a well known illustrator and a very good writer with a talent for sharing and teaching, so there's stuff you might never find elsewhere

for instance, here's a preparatory sketch for rex whistler's tate gallery mural












http://ianbeckblog.wordpress.com

"Death Giving Audience"

i wonder if terry pratchett ever encountered this etching ?

... i only did so today

your sunday afternoon owl-spotting session ...

apropos de nuffinque ...

clapham junction, its a jungle out there ...

it must be two years since they were burned out in the riots

now party superstores are really up and running

they even found some more "retro" dummies for the window display

http://www.partysuperstores.co.uk/clapham.php

you couldn't move at their shop this morning

it was full of australians getting in to costume for the rugby sevens

and there were too many antipodeans on the platforms to fit into the trains

jerome trilles has left the planet ... i've known him since i was seven ... there's hardly anyone left with whom i can disagree passionately

no wonder the weather's turned nasty ...

... his departure has created a vortex

i'd better start suggesting some music for the wake ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM

incidentally ...

james turrell's "tank" ... i had a free ride on this in phoenix a few years ago .... marvellous !

http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2013/04/23/turrells-ganzfeld-experiment-part-2/

cymru am byth ... unless you're a ghost town ... via the excellent iconic photos blog, and onwards in to the e-wilderness

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/boy-destroying-piano-phillip-jones-griffiths/


http://www.fochriwhistory.co.uk/page68.htm

ordnance survey map and google earth links from alan george's encyclopaedic site ...

http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/pantywaun.htm

... miners photographed in april 1940 by william vandivert

and what you might see now ...