This and That: A Blog

  W restlers I  (there is another I call  W restlers II ) was painted in 1960 by my father, W in Smith. There is a W poem here .

  M is the letter of the week for Sunday Stamps .  M andrill  Republic of Burundi 1975 M oustached Guenon  M onkey Federal Republic of Cameroon c. 1962 M ouse, Cactus USA 1999, Nature of America: Sonoran Desert series N ext week it's N stamps.

V is for The  V irgin . I found this hand-painted Mexican devotional Madonna painting in the Goodwill Outlet bins.  It's about 75 years old, not a tourist item. There is a V poem here , a V erso-Rhyme.

  U rban Showers  is my U , and my title for this ink on newsprint by Mary  Pedri.  In a previous life it won an award at the 1963 Lodi (California) Grape Festival and National Wine Show. It was a birthday gift from one of my sons, who found it at Goodwill.   An U ta poetry form can be found here  for U Day. 

 This week's Thursday Postcard Hunt is all about the color Purple.   A Postcrossing card from the Czech Republic from Michal. Forever Thine German, c. 1908-1912  Purple Petunias, Georgia O'Keefe, 1926 "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty." Georgia O'Keefe, a quote from the 1920s . Blue is next week. 

 T urquoise Memories (what I believe the title reads - the signature and title are in silver on the black border, in cursive) is a monotype, a print created by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface and transferring that image onto paper.  A monotype is one of a kind.  I bought this at Goodwill for $5.21.  There was a gallery sticker on the back, " Monotype $550 "!  I can't read the artist's signature, but obviously not an amateur attempt for that price. A T poetry form can be found here .