The Saturday Picture Show, September 19, 2020

 

This is the work of an artist who calls himself Seth Globepainter. You know, the Harlem Globetrotters played basketball in 124 countries and territories worldwide, and Seth wants to cover the earth in as much of his art as he can, so he is planning to do wall murals everywhere. He uses "Globe" in his nickname because creates his wall works all over the world. Very interesting work, to use the wall of an old brick building as your canvas.

It's popular in England to build these curved brick walls. They call them "crinkle crankle," or "serpentine" garden walls. Yes, it's pleasing and pretty, but guess what else? This masonry uses fewer bricks than a straight wall, because the curving form gives stability, allowing the mason to use just one layer of bricks. A straight wall with one layer and no buttressing would tumble down faster than Humpty Dumpty could call for help. 

Townhouses in Baltimore are known for having painted screens like this. It all began in 1913, when a Czech immigrant grocer named William Oktavec daubed paint on his screen door - from the inside! Soon, everyone and his brother wanted their door, window, or transom screen painted up, so a tradition was born.

It's not just that it's amazing that these critters can build their honeycomb, it's how uniform every cell is!

You know I kid; I'm a kidder. But this resident of the warm parts of the Atlanic Ocean is colloquially known as the Chocolate Chip Sea Cucumber. I'm not kidding. I looked it up! Its formal name is Isostichopus badionotus, and please file it away in your holiday card mailing list as a member of the family Stichopodidae. 

I guess they still sell these make-your-own pizza kits, complete with flour and yeast and a stingy can of sauce. There are better ways, trust me.

Stuart Little's third cousin is El Ratoncito Pérez or Ratón Pérez (Perez the Mouse) and he is the Spanish and Hispanic American version of the tooth fairy. Notice his tiny mask. He knows more than some humans do.

Rows and rows and lots of different colored tulips in Voorhout, Holland.