fancy cowboy and cowgal duds

one of these days...

I will learn how to do something on blogger that will allow me to post as many photos as I want on one entry...until then, here they are bit by bit....when we were in the city, passing Christie's, and saw the horse in the window and went over to investigate - well, I had no idea mere mortals could just stroll in to Christie's much less take photos (hey, I asked, guards said okay), and look around. The auction was tonight but I was out at the Best of Westchester Party so I put in a bid on some cool rings Dale Evans owned. An absentee bid. I felt like Donald Trump. Bidding at Christie's, little ole me. Imagine that? Not a chance I will win but it really is more the experience and thrill of playing in the same fields as the gentleman my son overheard remarking to the other that he was going to start the car bid at about two million. Well, yeah.

Where's my cowboy boots?

Yes, that is Trigger and Bullet and yes, they are stuffed. I remember reading about the horse some time ago but didn't know about the dog. Also didn't know you could go into Christie's where this pre-auction viewing is being held and just roam about. Really really interesting and the people there are very nice. Have a lot of additional photos except they will have to wait until tomorrow when it is not time to go to sleep. I loved Roy Rogers and Dale Evans as a kid.

Lego NYC

We also hit up the Lego store by Rockefeller Center - more of an accident as we were aiming for something else but serendipity intervened...we like the Lego replica of the Center and the all Lego Atlas, but James mad for the large and yes, all Lego, dragon because he wondered how it stayed up (glue? duct tape? crossed fingers?). Fun people watching, happy kids building Legos and playing Lego games upstairs and adults looking burnt out entirely, cross-eyed with exhaustion. Of course, some adults really get into legos themselves.

Times Squared Rain

The plan was to run in to NYC for a couple of hours since the youngest wanted to go back to the M&M store his friend took him to...does a little rain stop such a quest? Nah...but really, three levels in a store all about M & M's? Kind of frightening to note what people will buy - like I should talk, letting the boy pick out sweets that would cost half in the local grocery. Note to manufacturer - the ones with the pretzels inside really need to make it to the outside world. More on our wet and humid travels later...got a date to make a pie.

Flower Power

Sunday Quote

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
be all else but naught to me, save that thou art;
be thou my best thought in the day and the night,
both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,
be thou ever with me, and I with thee Lord;
be thou my great Father, and I thy true son;
be thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.

Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;
be thou my whole armor, be thou my true might;
be thou my soul's shelter, be thou my strong tower:
O raise thou me heavenward, great Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise:
be thou mine inheritance now and always;
be thou and thou only the first in my heart;
O Sovereign of heaven, my treasure thou art.

High King of heaven, thou heaven's bright sun,
O grant me its joys after victory is won;
great Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.


- Celtic Hymn

Play! What are you?

If I were a day I’d be THURSDAY
If I were a time of day I’d be DUSK
If I were a planet I’d be ONE YET DISCOVERED
If I were a sea animal I’d be a SEAL
If I were a direction I’d be EAST
If I were a piece of furniture I’d be a COMFY ARMCHAIR
If I were a liquid I’d be SANGRIA
If I were a gem stone I’d be a RUBY
If I were a tree I’d be a MAPLE
If I were a tool I’d be a SCREWDRIVER
If I were a flower I’d be a WILD ROSE
If I were an element of weather I’d be a SUMMER THUNDERSTORM
If I were a musical instrument I’d be a VIOLIN
If I were a color I'd be SUMMER SKY BLUE
If I were an emotion I’d be PENSIVE
f I were a fruit I’d be a PEACH
If I were a sound I’d be THE INCOMING TIDE
If I were an element I'd be WATER
If I were a car I’d be a VINTAGE MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE
If I were a food I’d be BLUEBERRY JAM.
If I were a place I’d be A BEACH OFF SEASON
If I were a material I'd be COTTON
If I were a taste I’d be SALTY
If I were a scent I’d be JASMINE
If I were a body part I’d be EYES
If I were a song I’d be ONE SUNG BY SANDY DENNY
If I were a bird I'd be a OWL.
If I were a gift I'd be BOOK
If I were a city I'd be in NEW ENGLAND
If I were a door I'd always be OPEN
I were a pair of shoes I’d be SUEDE BLACK MERRILLS
If I were a poem I would be FREE VERSE


Here's a fun batch of If I were questions that I just had to answer - thanks to
Yolanda's Perfectly Imperfect blog. (Hopefully link now fixed on edit!) So copy and paste to your blog and change the answers and send a link if you will - what would you be?

Carnival of a Thousand Souls Bwah Hah hah

Well, not really. I just always think of Ray Bradbury and his dark spin on carnivals - Something Wicked This Way Comes. For sheer mix of cheap magical appeal, I can't resist these kind of photo opps - love the carny feel, the neon light mixed with summer evenings, how as a child they always felt a little on the wild side walking through, the people calling trying to lure you over to shoot an a fake gun at an impossible target. Did a quick walk through here - the Fireman's Festival in Mamaroneck (hardly the lurid stuff of old time Bradbury carnivals) - before running back to see the fireworks on the far side of the harbor. Love the Ferris Wheel - love all ferris wheels - must be something deep about the shape, the mandala, the circle of life, the wheel to the sky (I know, I'll stop already).

Electric flowers in a neon garden

What serendipity to discover that my photos from the Fourth's Harbor Island fireworks came out a tad different than envisioned - these are electric anemones in an acid ocean, neon gardens, the flash punch pow of cartoon booms - great fun, happy accidents.

Fireworks, reinterpreted

Stay cool, everybody

102 degrees today and the library did not feel a whole heckava lot cooler. Dreading another hot day tomorrow. I will try to think like the fish and be cool.

TuckerBoo!12

The unlikely name for my daughter's new pup - alternately sweet and feisty, he is quite the charmer. We know Moky is smiling at us knowing the magic of silly puppytude (growling at ice cubes, charging at socks, endless kisses, wonder at everything) is healing and life-affirming.

Sunday Quote (Happy Fourth!)

"Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea, to the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."

-Henry Van Dyke

Woofs and Wonders

Noticed this dog running cloud last night on our evening walk. On this evening's stroll, sans camera, saw a cloud that looked just like a dog running in the opposite direction. Could this be a portent of something Sirius?