mumby road
  • Roses | P.S. Krøyer, 1893

    Oil painting of a bush of white roses in the foreground and a 19th century woman wearing white and reading in the rose garden in the background

    Yes, please. Some of that.


  • Which Vision: Sunrise or Carnage?
    David Brooks, quoting Michael Strain
    A Trump win would play into the narrative of Americans as helpless victims. The economics of grievance is ineffective, counterproductive, and corrosive, eroding the foundations of prosperity. Messages matter. Tell people that the system is rigged, and they will aspire to less. Champion personal responsibility, and they will lift their aspirations. Promoting an optimistic vision of economic life can increase risk tolerance, ambition, effort, and dynamism.

  • Moo, Baa, Cluck, Oink
    The late, great Kinky Friedman:
    I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
  • Hate the Sinner, Hate the Sin
    David Frum, via Nick Cataggio:
    Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic in American life.

  • Una Escaramuza - Mothered by Aunts and Horses

    Charra en un caballo. Photo credit: Constance Jaeggi

    Photo: Constance Jaeggi (a tip of the Hatlo Hat to @ayjay)

  • Kräuterbuch - “Book of Herbs” | Johannes Hartlieb - 1462 1462 painting of a hosta plant

    Hosta [really?!] 🌱


  • Listening to Lucinda (and cicadas)
    Black & white photo of a dog looking up at something outside of the image frame.

  • If Trump ever used words to render reality, I never heard it.*

    Heather Cox Richardson:

    *Mark Edmonson, Harpers, January 2023


  • At the parade


  • Be there or be square
    Poster for a Rodeo
  • Lake View
    Clouds, trees, and mountains reflected in a Rocky Mountain lake at dawn.
  • Dream Swaps

    ducks – elegant and effortless … are eyeing … boatloads of … Dream … swaps


  • A Trip to the Thrift Shop #4
    Two travel brochures from the mid-1960s
  • Man versus Nature

  • Early Walk, Blues, Grays, and Greens, June 28 2024 /

    Low clouds on a mountain in the early morning.


  • Andy Rooney Takes a Nap
    A sleeping mini golden doodle dog
  • A Trip to the Thrift Shop #3
    Cover of 1960s travel map of Rome; a blue, green, and white image of an angel
  • A Trip to the Thrift Shop #2
    Travel Brochures from the 1960s for Paris and Normandy, France
  • A Trip to the Thrift Shop #1
    Two travel brochures from the 1960s
  • Early Walk, Grasses, June 23 2024 /
    Upright grasses wet with dew and backlit by the rising sun Grasses wet with dew and backlit by the rising sun
  • Happy Birthday, June Carter
    June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash, arm in arm at a fair.
  • Early Walk, Dew, June 23 2024 /
    Aspen leaves covered in dew drops
  • Early Walk, Striated Clouds, June 23 2024 /
    Mountain ridgeline with striated clouds in the sky above striated clouds
  • Early walk, Pine Tree and Its Shadow, June 23 2024 /
    A pine tree backlit by the sunrise and the tree's shadow on grass
  • Elk Park /
    Craggy cliffs at sunrise.

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