Month: December 2022
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Greek Pottery: 3rd-Century Bird-Shaped Askos (like a watering-can, but for oil)
A 3rd-century oil-pourer (askos) from Southern Italy in the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Greek Pottery: A Turtle-Shaped Aryballos
An Eastern Greek turtle-shaped perfume-jar at the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Fouquieria columnaris (‘Boojum Tree’): It’s like a tree and a cactus got together with some ocotillo and made this thing
Check out this whimsical Ocotillo from Baja!
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Cardboard Fables: The Python and the Heifer, or Too Late Did the Python Realize Her Terrible Error
Based on a(n apparently true) story from northern Australia: that time a cow beheaded a python.
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Coming soon: Cardboard Mosaics!
Cardboard mosaics! A solution to a double problem. (Plus a great recipe for an adhesive!)
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Notmas 2022: Low Tide at Imperial Beach
Some photos and a video from Imperial Pier in San Diego for my now-annual not-Xmas (aka Notmas) pilgrimage to the sea.
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Home Again: or, What is this feeling?!
I made it Home. As in, I made it back to this place I’d made my Home. But what even is ‘Home’ to someone who didn’t grow up with that?
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An Oceanside Notmas
Sooo this being the third trip to an Ocean on (or around) xmas, I’ve named my xmas-alternative: Oceanside Notmas!
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Cardboard Fables: The Saguaro spoke to the Sky, standing defiant
On the role of defiance in achievement and protecting others as catharsis.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 