Cornelia Konrads' installations

Tuesday's Treasures:

Nature and art:

Cornelia Konrads builds structures that look caught mid-collapse — logs, branches, doorways suspended between forming and dissolving. She calls it "a moment of catastrophe." A moment of wonder is more like it.

Thanks FB

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Katharine Hayhoe brings this to our attention:

London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone... has helped that notoriously smoggy city clean up its air. Now, a new study shows the improvements in air quality have actually helped children's lungs grow larger.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London found that both the size and health of London children's lungs improved following the introduction of the ULEZ in the city: proof that climate action is also a health solution.

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Happy September! My favorite month, no, maybe that's October!

Maggie Vandewalle - Rabbit, Rabbit.

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Sharing with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

The architecture I've noticed

 Before I begin this post, I want to share a kind of important blog that was posted yesterday by Debby at Life's Funny Like That.  Some good information, both her personal experience and her review of the Weisel book, "Night."

Court of Lions, Alhambra Spain

Hypostyle hall, Great Mosque at Córdoba, Spain, begun 786 and enlarged during the 9th and 10th centuries.

The columns and two-tiered arches in the original section of the Great Mosque of Córdoba building. The columns and capitals are spolia from earlier structures.  Its hypostyle hall, reused columns, double tiered arches, alternating red and light voussoirs, horseshoe arches, and elaborate mihrab zone produced a visual identity specific to al Andalus. 

A Google earth view of the apartments which I have applied for in Durango CO. The one which is open is on the other side of the building, overlooking the town.

The western face of the apartment building overlooks the Durango-Silverton narrow gauge steam train rides, as well as views of the mountains beyond.

Cliff Palace - making a home where it's safest - then leaving when it's not.

It all depends upon what your goal in life is...I guess.

by Eva-Živa Blažková, ‘Sovereignty’

My grandson, Michael's home when they first purchased it in Florida.

How practical can you get, building a sod home with a place for the cow to graze on the roof, while growing watermelon which is featured with the family and the horses! No date.

Have a great Sunday!

Saturday fun with animals

 This week I have few encounters with critters.

Last week I met a friend's trial new dog, Champ. I haven't seen him this week, so he may not have worked out for her.

He was a rather slow moving older beagle. The interesting part of his  story was that his owner had recently died. And she had died the same day that my friend had lost her own dog suddenly. She was trying out living with Champ for a few weeks, I believe. 

Another blogger recently posted some art by an artist who was also recently deceased, Leoma Lovejoy. Blogger is Southwest Daily Photos. 

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From a Gallery Show by the Red House artists, in 2021 a selection.

My contribution was a ceramic open sculpture of trees (which sold!!)

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Today's quotes:

Every student needs someone who says, simply, "You mean something. You count."  -Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956) Be part of the discussion on climate change as we move our society to a critical mass of people who can change the way we live, govern, support, communicate, and save the earth. ---------------- Today's goddess: Amazing goddess figurine from Balzi Rossi (red rocks), who is apparently depicted giving birth. Dated ca 26,000-20,000 BC Gravettian period, it was found in Balzi Rossi caves (archaeological site), Grimaldi di Ventimiglia, Italy on the border with France. Musée des Antiquites Nationales of Saint Germain-en-Laye, France SOURCE: The Mother Goddess site on FaceBook And over at my other blog, Alchemy of Clay, see E. J. Taylor's wonderful dolls!

Bridges help you get where you're going - even if nowhere!

 Sepia Saturday (a day early) brings the idea of bridges to mind.

So I am off to search for any kind of structures that cross space or water...

1890s "Otto Mears’ Toll Road, a daring creation that connected Oray Colorado with the now "Million Dollar Highway."

I've been waiting for a chance to share this structure! I wonder how long it lasted! Isn't it interesting to see the rejected lumber lying about all over the place!

Old Bridge over Flat Creek, Montreat NC 2014

The old bridge with Rhododendron rails over Flat Creek, Montreat NC

Bridge rebuilt in 2022 over Flat Creek - before Hurricane Helene floods washed it away in 2024.

Rod Chase- Twilight in Central Park, NY

Van Gogh, The Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal

A modern covered bridge (over a road I believe) in Old Salem NC...where my friend stood as we began our tour of the old town.

A true bridge to nowhere, near Arches National Park, Moab Utah. 2025

 The High Shoals Bridge on South Fork River NC (now closed)

by Koowah Shining - The High Shoals Bridge on South Fork River NC,  for History of North Carolina on FaceBook.

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Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week!

Our host, Alan, gives this introduction:

For want of something better, I have given this week's prompt image the title "Bridges To Nowhere". The photograph comes from the extensive collection of my Uncle Frank, and shows a very decorative bridge across a seaside boating lake. As it leads simply from one side of the lake to the other, I suppose you can say that it is a bridge to nowhere, but that is not something that can be said about old photographs in general. Old photographs provide us with a bridge to somewhere, and that somewhere is the past. So, once again, we ask you to share your old photographs here on Sepia Saturday, by posting them on or around Saturday 22nd November 2025 and adding a link to the list below. And if you would like to plan your Sepia Saturday posts for the remainder of the year, here is a list of our weekly prompt images.

 I invite you to consider joining the fun of sharing an old photo or two with Sepia Saturday sometime!

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Today's quote:

I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.

 -June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (1936-2002)

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Today's goddess:

Beautiful pregnant goddess figurine, created about 24,000 years ago at the Kostenki - Borshevo region on the Don River, north of the Black Sea.

Kostenki / Kostienki is a very important Paleolithic site on the Don River in Russia. It was a settlement which contained goddess/ansestor figures, dwellings made of mammoth bones, and many flint tools and bone implements. Actually it is not a single site but an area consisting of more than twenty Palaeolithic site locations on the right bank of the river, between the villages of Kostenki and Borshevo.

The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Thanks FB post The Mother Goddess