Hands down, the strangest thing I’ve seen in some time: a chipmunk eating a snake. It may be old hat to more knowledgeable folks, but it was a surprise for me to see out the kitchen window here at Domus Crispini. Naturally, I googled to see whether this was the least bit unusual and found…
Category: nature
Visit George’s Garden
Designed for the Chelsea Flower Show, this garden is a beautiful tribute to everybody’s favorite gardener. Stop by and enjoy a little of the peaceful beauty. I shall daydream about Friar Park. [Coincidentally, this is my 777th post on the blog.]
Unna ja Nuuk
Coming to Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut on August 16th & 17th at 1.30pm: the Finnish film Unna ja Nuuk, which I simply have to see! Not only for the Finnish angle, but it overlaps with so much that I am writing now that I can hardly believe it. It’s been making the rounds…
Medieval Mantis
Here’s Judith G. Klausner‘s amazing mantis art, this time portraying the story of Judith, who chops off the head of the evil leader Holofernes. In the Old English poem, this woman of elfin beauty figures out that this is the best way to rally her people to defend themselves against invaders (whose description in the…
Did you see it?
NASA, of course, has great coverage of the terrific show last night, including this stunning image. It was a cold night, but it was worth braving the chill for such a beautiful sight. We laughed on the way to campus yesterday morning because the digital billboard near Everett Road had an ad for the lunar…
Drumming with Layne Redmond
Thanks to the folks at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA, I got to spend the weekend learning from the wonderful Layne Redmond. I had not been to the center before (conveniently across the street from Tanglewood and, as I discovered, around the corner from the Berkshire Botanical Garden and the Norman Rockwell Museum). As…
UK Pix — Part 4: Into the Green
This other Eden, demi-paradise,This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war,This happy breed of men, this little world,This precious stone set in the silver sea…Sometimes in the midst of the pullulating streets of London, it’s hard to see what Shakespeare was getting at — and then you step into one…