Where am I? #9

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A Detective's Checklist

To Be A Detective
By Olivia

- a brown suit
- a brown hat
- magnifying glass
- a detective book
- a detective's hideout
- a rope to climb ?
- spy utensils

Dandelion Wine

“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’ “It’s distracting,” he continued. “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

Ray Bradbury interview in the NY Times.

Our succulent empire is growing

Where am I? #8

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A Bountiful Beet Harvest

With our very own Farm Hostess, Olivia . . .

Hunch

If you decide to stop thinking for yourself, go here.

A different time, the same words.

I've been reading, The Forger's Spell, an interesting non-fiction book about a man who forged and sold a faux-Vermeer to Hermann Goering. A chapter about Goering contains a comment he made to a psychologist at Nuremberg:

The people can always be brought to do the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for their lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

There's something familiar about that thought . . .

Intervention needed

A sad state of affairs . . . tsk, tsk.

Water colors

Day of the hunter

Yodeling the Classics

You've simply not lived until you've heard Mary Schneider yodel Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Scroll down this page to hear this stunning rendition. You'll never feel the same way again. Prepare yourself.

Vogue!

Small steps, big leaps

Solar power isn't the solution for everything, but it can offer big savings for what may seem like minor needs . . . solar-powered trash cans that could save $13 million over 10 years. Even if you subtract maintenance fees, that has to be worth the initial cost.

Here in the San Fernando Valley, we get more than our share of sun and I would install solar roof panels if I could afford it - or, even paint our roof white if I didn't think we would blind our neighbors.

Polaroid returns

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If you like this photo, you might find this book interesting.