A lot of people ask about the photos and where they come from for the weekly picture show, if 2 anonymous messages and a slightly pithy text constitute "a lot." But I will tell you, since you didn't ask, I just clip and save pictures that I've found over the week as I surf the net looking for photos of Spiro Agnew wearing a propellor beanie, hamburger coupons, and new methods for getting egg nog stains out of a priceless heirloom table runner. I really don't go looking for pictures that fit a theme or pattern, but more often than not, it seems like I did. This week, we feature colors from all shades and stripes. Let's get the unpleasant one out of the way first. This fellow citizen of ours has taken it upon herself to be the volunteer ICE lady for her neighborhood. Notice that she has taken her homemade sign, asking for something that is absolutely none of her business, and placed it in one of those plastic sheet protectors so she can harass people at a moment's notice on her way home from bingo or bowling or wherever she was instead of doing something nice.
Now to some nice memories and colorful things! Tie dyeing is back! Everyone say, "Farrrrrr out, maannnnn!" How Woodstock!
I should write a book about the third grade at Hampton Elementary School. We had a teacher named Ms Van Breemen, who would cross paths again later on with us, but she had some interesting notions, one of which is that we should sing every day, sometimes completely inappropriate tunes like "Short'nin' Bread" (in the old minstrel dialect), and sometimes it was "Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree," the Australian song that made me wish for my own kookaburra, or at least a photograph of one.
This is "Autumn Leaves," (1856) by the English painter John Everett Millais. It's always a wonder to me that people back then would get all dressed up in their finery to go out and rake up the leaves, but formality meant a lot.
There was a time when show business folk dressed up special! And no finer example exists than the original Jackson 5ive lineup. Tito, Jermaine, Michael, Marlon, and Jackie show what the rainbow wishes it looked like.
At the height of the Depression in the 1930s, American commerce did something good for itself and for the cash-strapped public. Realizing that women were taking old flour and feed sacks to make dresses and curtains and whatever else around the house, manufacturers of those goods started putting them in cloth sacks that could be used for sewing. Whatever labeling had to go on the bag was printed with a vegetable dye that would wash off, leaving perfectly good yard goods for the handy seamstress at home. You can be sure these young ladies were proud of their dresses and their brother like the sweater that mom knitted for him!
Who wouldn't like a view like this for the fall?
And yes, he's not colorful like a parrot or anything, but this little panda cub is still cute as all-get-out. I guess it's time for me to get out.
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