my favourite things ... lyric and images

 My Favorite Things

Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers

Raindrops on roses 

and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles 

and warm "woollen" mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite things ....

2.

Cream colored ponies 

and crisp apple strudels

Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings

These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

Silver white winters that melt into spring

These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites

When the bee stings

When I'm feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel so bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI

bootsy collins ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sh9cezHNec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo4FS6UcL38

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsy_Collins

other projects ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3CUHnUsk8M

and ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/14/bootsy-collins-funkadelic-funk

william blake's illustrated poem MILTON ...

 https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/william-blakes-milton

people are very fond of william blake's verses called jerusalem

not many will know that the verses are part of his introductory commentary on his long poem called "milton", which opens with the preface shown above

the new york public library have one of the four very rare sets of blake's milton ... and you can "turn the pages" if you have the patience to engage with his didactic pomposity ...

every page of the book was hand-drawn and hand-coloured over a period of several years ... none of the four surviving sets are thought to be complete

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-b5d9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=6cf01af0-c6da-012f-4659-58d385a7bc34#page/1/mode/2up

blake's use of biblical names, and biblical-sounding names, can be very confusing ... for instance ... "Beulah" ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_(Blake)

adriaen collaert's engravings, after martin de vos' designs ... the elements ...

 from the rijksmuseum's excellent archive ...

lin onus

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Onus

https://www.cooeeart.com.au/marketplace/artists/profile/OnusLin/

hokusai drawings for THE GREAT PICTURE BOOK OF EVERYTHING ... british museum's new acquisition ...

Katsushika Hokusai's 1829 drawing of Fumei Chōja and the nine tailed spirit fox.

the museum acquired a box containing 103 drawings prepared for a book whose blocks were never cut or published ...

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2020-3015-104

this is the first page ... click on the link and then you can follow ...

 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2020-3015-1

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG7194

https://www.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2020-09/103%20%E2%80%9Clost%E2%80%9D%20drawings%20by%20Japanese%20artist%20Hokusai%20acquired%20by%20the%20British%20Museum.pdf

The Unicorn Tapestries in the Met ... there are six complete and one fragment

 The Hunters Enter the Wood

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467637

The Unicorn Purifies Water

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467638

The Unicorn is Attacked While Crossing A Stream

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467639

The Unicorn Defends Himself

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467640

The Mystic Capture as the Unicorn Succumbs To A Lady

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467653

The Unicorn Is Killed And Brought To The Castle

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467641

The Unicorn In Captivity

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467642

very interesting memoir of museum people from the paris review ...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/11/18/the-secret-of-the-unicorn-tapestries/#more-149151

video discussion ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/med/unicorn-tapestry-insider-insights

the met published a book, now out of print but available to download as a big pdf ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_Unicorn_Tapestries_in_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art

article explaining the probable sequence of tapestries ... of which we can only guess ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Sequence_of_Tapestries_Hunt_of_and_Lady_with_Unicorn_The_Metropolitan_Museum_Journal_v_17_1982

the wikipedia article ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn

about jean fouquet ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fouquet

jusepe de ribera's holy family ... 

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437455

Tandridge Yew

 I spend a surprising amount of time remembering places i used to visit when i drove a truck for a few years ... one such was the village of tandridge, because i would go there once a week to collect cheeses, some were smoked, some were rind-washed ... and one day i stopped to see the church and discovered a really big yew tree ... there is a story attached to this tree that interests me but someone who knows it better should tell ... so click on the link beneath one of the pictures i took 

https://www.ancient-yew.org/userfiles/file/TROBI%20Tandridge.pdf