Go Get TAFFY

Found on my post-Thanksgiving recovery walk, a water-spattered composition sheet with a hard-to-make-out-scrawl:  "Tell Karen I am Really Happy she works with me. She always has my Back whether asked or not [over a good job?]. Give her a little salt water Taffy and Say Thank You. GO GET SALT WATER TAFFY."

Hooray, scallops

I love it that scallops have 40 to 100 eyes circling their mantle; however, this now means I probably won’t eat them anymore. Recommended for science heads:  Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved (Schwab), out Oct 2011.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Evolutions-Witness-How-Eyes-Evolved/dp/0195369742

 

 

 

Decorative contact lenses

The scary part about a Halloween costume shouldn't be the eye damage it leaves behind.

 

http://www.geteyesmart.org/eyesmart/eye-health-news/scary-lenses.cfm]

http://yourwordsworth.blogspot.com/

Part of my uphill loop in the neighborhood...

Am I blue? As I walked down Columbus  through North Beach, a Blue Angel jet flashed by about 50 feet overhead, scattering pedestrians and pigeons alike.  Part of practice for the weekend show. Years ago in a Chanel commercial,  Catherine Deneuve’s beautiful self would murmur, “Come close. Come closer….” “No, no” we would shriek, “noooooooo that’s too close. ”  Yes indeed, Angels too close. Loud and thrilling, but do we have budget for that, really?  Over the weekend, I was fleet-less in bucolic Oakland. Yay, Oakland…

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/10/08/fleet-week-draws-1000s-to-san-francisco-waterfront/

Not much of whimsy has struck my fancy, as of late. However, this just in:

"For example, sales records show that bananas with Pantone color 13-0858 (otherwise known as Vibrant Yellow) are less likely to sell than bananas with Pantone color 12-0752 (also called Buttercup), which is one grade warmer, visually, and seems to imply a riper, fresher fruit."

Being primed by brands at the grocery store--it's enough to make me stick to homegrown everything, but then all we'd be eating, for the new few weeks anyway, is tomatoes, chives, and jalapenos.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1779611/priming-whole-foods-derren-brown

Thrift store art

Paint by numbers, too...

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1960176245069&set=a.1897458797172.2096872.1262693524&type=1&theater

 

Counting Crows

I've been noticing more crows than mockingbirds , so I turned to the "big brain" to investigate. Landed on this page:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101118075931AArB2P9 . Became intrigued by the idea of a "Christian Factory."

 

 

 

Which do you prefer

Which do you prefer? We are surrounded, all of a sudden.

Around 6:30 am I wandered groggily down the hallway, past the back door. I looked out to check the fog (nada) and looked down  to see a fluffy baby skunk sipping water out of the basin by the faucet. It was about 8 inches long with a tail that stood up about a foot. It was adorable. So glad I didn't startle it. 'll keep the camera close by in case he/she comes back in the morning.