This and That: A Blog

 Cloudy is the Weather of the week for Thursday Postcard Hunt .  Once again, the Golden Gate Bridge.  This time peeking up from the fog with San Francisco in the background.  Fog is a type of cloud that forms at ground level. North Point Lookout is above the clouds in Washington State.  Dramatic clouds off the coast of Oregon from Bandon Beach. A cloudy night scene on a RPPC. Next week the postcards won't just be Cloudy, they will be Stormy.   NaBloPoMo  National Blog Posting Month - post every day in November

 My son and I took a trip to one of the Goodwill stores that hasn't been remodeled, or moved to a brand new store.  For all their newness, they aren't very good.  I found this oil painting. " Jerusalem ," by Barbara Dirlam (a Rhode Island art history professor who died in 2001) for $7.19.  Besides her work in academia, she is known for local history and civic preservation.  I find no mention of her own artwork.   It fits really well into the color scheme on my bedroom wall.  An accidental color scheme, I didn't plan it, it just seemed to be where I hung similarly colored paintings!  It was framed and it's pretty big. She tried out a different subject on the reverse, but abandoned it.      I wrote that the new stores aren't very good, but I gave one a third try a few days after visiting the one with the art above.  I found one item of a sort I'd never heard of before.   This is a saccharin holder/server from ...

Thursday Postcard Hunt has us hunting for Forests this week.  California Redwood Highway in Autumn. The Congress Group , The Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California View of Feldsee Lake in the Black Forest region of Germany, c1915. Quinault Rain Forest , Olympic National Park, Washington State, is a temperate rain forest. This is where you'll find banana slugs, typically 8" long!  They are not only banana shaped and yellow, they often have brown spots. Next week is June, and the theme is Shapes.  First up will be Letters.