Banquet Journal

sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii

jm lent me her beautiful russian textiles book and in doing so led me to the work of russian photographer  sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii (i keep stumbling on more and more of his image...

for cy

These trains are about two, maybe three feet high, with electric and steam engines pulling both adults and wide-eyed children, including my own... I love the real obsessions that d...

the colour of pomegranates

those towels got me thinking about the 1968 armenian film the color of pomegranates. watch it on youtube here.

belarusian ruchnik

amazing belarusian towels at the virtual guide to belarus. found via the always inspiring nothing is new.

cross stitch

      i'm developing a real cross stitch obsession... (sweet folk coat from baby gap (!))

omizutori

  red paper camellias  for the omizutori festival. from sri threads. (and more here and here)

more from the lamberton conservatory

more here.

geometries

chrysanthemum cones. (albert r. stone at the lamberton conservatory;  from the archives at the monroe county library in rochester, new york)

fantastic mr fox

wes anderson and roald dahl, together at last...

beetle-ness and daffodility

Anthropologists were the first to recognize that taxonomy might be more than the science officially founded by Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, in the 1700s. Studying how nonscientists orde...