Saturday, March 8, 2025

The Saturday Picture Show, March 8, 2025

 

This Italian lamb-transporting operation has burroed in for a wooly future.
A weird thing happens to me more often than I like...I'll have a fleeting thought of someone (a friend or someone famous) I haven't thought of for a long time, and soon thereafter I find that person has gone on. You know what I mean. So maybe I should start reaching out when it's a friend, and
Peggy starts her morning every day with a coffee and some time on the front porch...enjoying the nature sounds, chatting with passersby, watching birds and squirrels, and shivering a lot. Then she's back inside for hugs from the cat, and breakfast.
1967 was the Summer Of Love, and Arthur Lee's band was getting ready to release their third album "Forever Changes" that November. This billboard announced the news to their waiting public. Sales were well under what they hoped for, and the band's popularity waned because they refused to perform outside of Los Angeles. What might have been...



I thought this was a terrific cIose-up of a cat. Turns out, it's a terrific pencil drawing of a cat by a Spaniard named José Jurado Sanz.

Warning:  you can never, ever, tell this man a secret.
I love this concept of drawing the shadow, not what made it.
People thought the problem with records skipping and getting scratchy was solved until the first person bought one of those new-fangled tape cassette machines, pressed play, and saw a few dollars' worth of tape shooting out all over the place...

We caught lots of Eastern Box Turtles down by the creek as kids. You would think they would have learned not to hang around there. 
It's oh, so easy to laugh at ourselves.  The hard part is learning to laugh at Phil Collins.



1 comment:

Andrew Blenko said...

Great photos today! It took me a minute, but I realized why one shouldn’t tell that guy a secret…. And the cat drawing!!!