Friday, January 15, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Quiz: What Font Type Are You?



This site is wonderful. You answer four questions and the perfect font is picked out for you based on your answers. Make up a name. The password is 'character'. You must do this before you can enter the site. It is fabulous. What type are you? Wasn't that fun?
The resident psychiatrist told me I am Marina Script.



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Orangutan And Dog Are Soul Mates

One of my readers (she has a brand new blog) sent me a wonderful video this morning about a very unusual friendship between an orangutan and a dog at the Tigers Sanctuary in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Watch it. It will definitely make your day. It's very uplifting and so happy. Enjoy.



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Allegory of Winter | 18thC. French Painting

Oil on Canvas, Allegory of Winter
Artist: Jacques de La Joue the Younger (French, 1686–1761)
Dimensions: Irregular, 39 1/4 x 41 5/8 in.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906

The painting accurately captures the face of winter, doesn't it? It makes me cold just to look at it.



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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Year Of The Tiger Commemorative Stamp

Issue Type: Commemorative
Issue City: Los Angeles, CA 90052
Issue Date: January 14, 2010
Issue Series: Celebrating Lunar New Year
(Chinese New Year)

It's beautiful. Read more about this stamp that will be issued tomorrow by the USPS.



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Things I Learned From My Dog


Dogs are so smart. You can learn a lot from them. Just ask Webster, he has trained me very well.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Frank Lloyd Wright's Studio



The first photo shows the library within Wright's studio in Oak Park, Illinois. It was an octagonal appendage to the mass of the whole reached by a narrow corridor. No spot could seem more remote or more tranquil. The perfect place to think things out or meet with clients. The studio itself (second photo) wraps around and lies beneath a tall open area that terminates at a canopy ceiling with beams that form umbrella-like ribs. Placed around this space on several levels are work areas with double drafting tables. Light is abundant and the sense of interaction among the spaces is strong, yet the work stations themselves seem very private. This must be considered the dream office for any architect past or present. Agreed? See Wikipedia listing for Frank Lloyd Wright.

Photographed from a favorite book in my Architectural Library: OF HOUSES & TIME by William Seale ~ Personal Histories of America's National Trust Properties. Sorry about the page glare in the second photo. Rosemary



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