diane de poitiers ... not everyone gets to be the queen's love rival, and then have their day in hollywood centuries later, played by lana turner

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

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1236916/Dying-look-good-French-kings-mistress-killed-gold-elixir-youth.html

cormorant fishing in guilin ... andy beales, andrew morris, etc

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/05/end-of-the-line-the-last-cormorant-fishermen-of-guilin-in-pictur/

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

robert byron and the road to oxiana

my good friend linda crabb has been reading it and i asked if it was good ... i don't think she knew the words to tell me how good, and how much fun !












































download the book ...
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20161131

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

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/31/100-best-nonfiction-books-the-road-to-oxiana-robert-byron-travel-afghanistan-persia

tanis in north dakota ... knowing how to look and where to look ... evidence of the devastation caused by the Chicxulub meteor

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to-dinosaur-killing-meteor/

http://www.geologyin.com/2019/04/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to.html

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-fossils-north-dakota-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-impact

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

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

there's nothing on the telly tonight ...

nick brandt

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXi6N_LrrmE

https://vimeo.com/181966905

dull gret .... brueghel's painting recently restored slash conserved ... wikipedia have a new 6000px image

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

Matsuo Bashō ... poet of the little moments

“Since the crescent moon, I have been waiting for tonight.”



























i have a lot of sympathy for basho ... my own memories seem to be like shards and fragments of  larger stories ... too large for me to re-assemble


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D


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


a leek grower travels from wales to japan ...
http://www.tyn-yr-helyg.com/perch/resources/misc/negi-daikon-kyuri-basho.pdf





The morning glories 
bloom, securing the gate 
in the old fence 

later ... found a little film ... perplexing ... 
http://movingpoems.com/2013/06/from-the-travelogue-of-weather-beaten-bones-by-matsuo-basho/?fbclid=IwAR1wYC3FEYsGHbLzeTGwkbahFTM-Okrksh_ckmb73lTst_XL8YWMwSaOzzA

and a film that looks at basho as a monk-philosopher ... 
https://youtu.be/90-2Dg2CJdw

the above animation was introduced by this blog ... 
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/


a good list of study resources ...
http://betweenwit-wonder.blogspot.com/2014/06/basho-trans-1.html


another useful introduction with some of basho's paintings...
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-eastern-philosophers-matsuo-basho/

sofonisba anguissola ... witty self-portraitist

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

orazio and artemisia gentileschi, father and daughter, via the exemplary "spencer alley" blog

father ...

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

http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings_94.html

http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings_17.html

http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/orazio-gentileschi-1563-1639-paintings.html



daughter ...

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

http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/artemisia-gentileschi-1593-1654-rome.html

wanda ... it had never occured to me that the creator of such a silly book might be so beautiful and sensitive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_G%C3%A1g






































































































http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/55/v55i01p002-015.pdf