The Saturday Picture Show, September 16, 2023

 

We used to have a couple of horseradish plants. Their flower was beautiful, white, and fragrant, for such a bitter root. But this is a sweet potato flower, and I don't like sweet potatoes, so the flower is all I can enjoy, while I pile horseradish on anything beef.

I used to wonder as a child "How does it come that my favorite crayon color is Burnt Sienna? Then I realized, I love the color of rust, and I hope that becomes a crayon soon.

A beautiful perfect double rainbow over New York City on 9/11. Appropriate.

I try to avoid black - and - white photography, because, rather than finding it "arty," I think it's just because the photographer got a good deal on a carton of b&w film. But this scene of The Beatles having a pillow fight (taken by Harry Benson) just says "1964" to me, and I like the sound of that.

Why live theater has a grim future in America: Low-grade people such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) show up to the musical "Beetlejuice" in Denver and have to be thrown out of the theater. She and her escort were accused of vaping, singing, recording the show, and being disruptive during the performance. People seem unable to show up on time for a performance, sit there throughout it, and appreciate it without making patooties of themselves. The fact that this person is a member of the US Congress, for crying out loud, says a lot about how we have reached the perigee of culture, because people are told this is acceptable behavior.

 

I am certain that the designer of this staircase in Bondi, Australia, was influenced by Tony Orlando's 1961 hit "Halfway To Paradise." 

There is an old folk saying that if you see a Cardinal fly by outside, someone in heaven is thinking well of you. And if you see one on your kitchen windowsill, someone in heaven thinks you have too many soap pumps on your sink.

People named Mark love to be quizzed and stumped!

In case you were wondering, the reason you always see 1/2-finished cups of coffee sitting around is that the person who began sipping it suddenly realized it tasted like coffee. Come join me in a hot steaming mug of tea...there's plenty of room!

Your free Halloween wallpaper, and yes, I am rushing the season.