Pool Balls - June 13th

Pool Balls - June 13th

Well, I have these beautiful antique pool balls and the idea came to me to arrange them with the birthdays of my family. So yesterday's entry was November 8th for my sister Susan. Today's, ball 6 and ball 13, for my Mother's birthday on June 13th. I have a large family so this could keep me busy for quite a while.

Today, my sister Karen and I are traveling to Philadelphia to see the King Tutankhamun exhibition at the Franklin Institute. It's a beautiful day and we're leaving early. We're lunching at the Irish Pub - they have good food and great beer on tap. The sun is shining and the weather is cool. Ahhh .... looking forward to today's adventure ....

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Antique Pool Balls

Antique Pool Balls
My Mother is a resident in a beautiful old building - Phoebe Ministries - since January of this year. In the garden outside her window, grows a large old Magnolia tree just beginning to blossom. When the weather is warm, my Father, Mother and I sit in the gazebo and enjoy the peacefulness. There is an old band shell where the Allentown Band - the oldest organized band in the country - will play this summer.

Recently, Phoebe had a 'yard sale' and I found these wonderful old Pool Balls. Quite a bargain for $3.00! They are extra special because they remind me of the many hours that I spent playing pool in the basement of my parents' home.

Treasure your Parents - and all things good ... time passes quickly.

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Abbot Ale

Abbot Ale

Back in 1992 I spent three weeks touring England and Scotland. My friend Sarah and her parents owned a beautiful 1800s Country Club in Lancashire. We traipsed all over London, Sussex, Essex, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Well, I loved the English Ale so much that I brought home 34 full cans of beer in my shoe bag. The authorities stopped my bag as it was going through the x-ray machine ... and thankfully, let it pass.

I still have some of the cans from my trip. Abbot Ale certainly is one of my favorites.

One beer lover remarked: Pours a nice amber colour with about a quarter inch of fine white head. drops quickly to a ring around the glass and leaves minimal lace. Aroma is nice; bready malt and floral hops and toffee. Taste is good. Moderate bitterness and nice bready malt. Fairly simple and straightforward, but nice. Mouthfeel is good. fairly light bodied. lightly carbonated, closer to a cask ale. Light astringency. Drinkability is good. The bitterness is moderate, but lingers. Well balanced and enjoyable.

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Candy Buttons (revised)

Candy Buttons (revised)
Well ... I first painted this painting on February 21st, 2007. I tell ya, I just wasn't totally happy with it. And, since I've had a few inquiries about this painting, I didn't want it to find a new home without going back and seeing how I could improve it. I reworked the background from a raw umber feel to a more grey-violet. I think that the grey-violet agrees with the subject matter as well as the color balance. I added shadows to the buttons and whitened the white of the paper. I feel better now ... but I can't fully promise that I'm not tempted to rework it just one more time.

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Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers • this painting is sold

Ahhh .... my lovely niece Elizabeth and her husband Adam are awaiting the arrival of their little girl. She's due to have their baby in June. Elizabeth is adding jungle accents to the nursery. How fitting for my new little great niece to have a painting of Animal Crackers with the jungle animals displayed on the box.

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Fullers

Fullers • this painting is sold

2005 Vintage. Pours a dark amber hued brown, with a frothy one finger head that settles quickly to a soapy cap. The lacing is thick, coating most of the inside of my glass. Smell; starts out a bit spicy, with an abundance of dark fruits. Figs and dates are present as well as some hints of chocolate and caramel. Some alcohol is floating around in the background. Taste; the caramel and chocolate hit me at first, and then the dark fruits come out with figs, dates a touch of cherries. The spiciness mixes with a bit of earthy hoppiness and alcohol that gives this a bit of a scotch like quality to the finish. And there’s a definite warming in the throat and stomach. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a moderate carbonation that gives this a nice smoothness, and helps give this a dangerously high drinkability.

This commentary was written by 'RedHaze' describing the Fuller's Vintage 2005 English Ale.

Well done! .... and thank you Dave and Sharon for the wonderful birthday gift!! Not only a pleasure to taste, but a pleasure to paint.

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Yahtzee !

Yahtzee ! • this painting is sold
E.S. Lowe filed Yahtzee as a trademark with the U.S. Patent Office on April 19, 1956. The first commercial usage of the name Yahtzee was a few weeks earlier on April 3. Lowe classified his product as a "Poker Dice Game".

According to Hasbro, the game was invented in 1954 by an anonymous Canadian couple, who called it "The Yacht Game" because they played it on their yacht with their friends. Two years later they asked toy and game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe if he would make up some sets to be given as gifts to their friends who enjoyed the game. Lowe perceived the possibility of marketing the game, and acquired the rights to the game from the couple in exchange for 1,000 gift sets. This story is expanded by E.S. Lowe in the 1973 book A Toy is Born. According to Lowe, the game did not initially do well commercially, since the rules and appeal were not easily conveyed in an advertisement. Eventually he had the idea of organizing "Yahtzee parties" where people could play the game and thereby gain a firsthand appreciation for it. The idea was successful, and enthusiasts quickly popularized the game through word of mouth.

However, the overall concept of Yahtzee traces its roots to a number of traditional dice games. Among these are the Puerto Rican game Generala, and the English games of Poker dice and Cheerio. Most notable is the dice game named Yacht which is an English cousin of Generala. This game is fully explained in The Complete Book of Games by Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard (1940). This predecessor is extremely similar to Yahtzee in both name and content. The game's rules differ from those of Yahtzee in the following ways:it does not have an upper section bonus, both straights are a sequence of five (must attain 23456 and 12345), full house is scored by summing all dice, there is no three-of-a-kind category, and the highest possible score is 302. Wood classifies Yacht and a similar three dice game called Crag as sequence dice games.

The E.S. Lowe company sold Yahtzee from 1956 to 1973. During Lowe's ownership, a number of changes were made to the game's packaging, contents, and appearance. Between 1956 and 1961, the game's advertising slogan was changed from:

The Game That Makes You THINK While Having FUN

to the new slogan

The FUN Game That Makes THINKING fun!

According to current owner Hasbro, fifty million Yahtzee games are sold each year.

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Corkscrew

Corkscrew • this painting is reserved

With working on projects that are due, sharing time with my Mother in a nursing facility ... and stopping in at Kmart to buy some Martha Stewart new 'spring green' bath towels and Nasturtium and Daisy seeds ... I didn't have time to really focus on the fine lines of this painting. However, there is an attractive quality to a painting that is loose and free ... and also, with my new eyewear -- I realize that the painting actually IS loose and free instead of my thinking that it's clear and tight. Ahhh ... the miracle of eyewear. Did I mention I bought this new heavy duty corkscrew with lifetime guarantee ... and then the bottle of wine that I brought home is now equipped with a screw cap!!! What is the world coming to ???

p.s. Today is my half way mark in my quest for a painting each day for one year .... it was .. and is .. A wonderful journey ........

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FENDI

Fendi Eyewear • this painting is reserved

Yesterday I was fitted for my new eyewear -- designed by Fendi.

Wow ... unbelievable how clear everything is when your vision has been corrected! Due to painting solvents on my hands and in the air around my eyes, my contacts became very cloudy ... pretty much uncleanable. I tried aggressive cleaning, I tried the enzyme tables ... still cloudy. So I did without for a while ... and I saw the world through an Impressionist's eyes.

Recently, I decided that maybe glasses would be a better fit for me - at least for the meanwhile. So, I treated myself. Did I mention three - THREE - pair?? Ok, I needed the Oh La La black, silver and clear for every day ... and the Persol James Bond 007 red and black with adorned silver sunglasses for when I'm lying on the white sandy beaches of the Mediterranean ... and, for all of the schnazzy events that I attend, what better than the bejewelled Fendi's???

Actually, the true picture is just me ... paint in my hair, old black jeans, and worn out Dr. Martins, walking down 3rd Street to my studio at the Banana Factory ... wearing the most incredible eyewear ... ever.

Did I mention Fox Optical? Dr. Tim and staff are wonderful ... steal a kiss from Bella, too.

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Parking Violation

Parking Violation

I would be hard pressed to name a more challenging job to perform every day than the window clerk's position at the PARKING AUTHORITY. Every day, every hour, every minute, a long line of people are waiting to express their angst and anger to a person only doing his or her job. They must have heard every story in the book when it comes to someone trying to weasel out of a parking ticket. So, when it was my turn to step up to the window, I relayed my story to the clerk describing the large van blocking the view of the 'no parking sign' with the black 'P' in the red circle with the slash. How many times has she heard that story? And probably in most cases, including mine, the stories are true.

What gets my goat is that there are so many violations that really matter which seldom receive tickets. People double parking on a busy street (especially when there is an available spot close by) and usually without flashers ... loud music and blaring bases from car stereos (I should invest in hearing aid stock in 40 years) ... people beeping repeatedly in front of homes instead of getting out and knocking on the door like civilized human beings ... a collection of dining room chairs on the street, saving spaces that you may have even shoveled yourself ... an orange tractor trailer parked in front of your home ... the city not plowing your street (ever) ... loud sigh ...

SO, when you think you've found a good spot on the street close enough to assist walking your 86 year old Father to visit your Mother residing in a nursing home and then only to return to your car 45 minutes later ... to find a bright orange envelope with the letters: PARKING TICKET and a bill for $15.00 inside ... that's when, like I said, it really gets my goat.

The girls were so nice at the Parking Authority and I wouldn't envy them their jobs ... and I felt badly for all my emotions coming to a head ... ('Here come the tears' as Shaylin would say). And what can you say about the person that each day, every day deals with the unhappy customer, disgruntled citizen and frustrated 'violator' ... with the lines serpenting out the door ? ... I would say that I tip my respectful hat to the girls at the Parking Authority. You have a difficult job. ... and thank you for being so nice. Oh, but when you have a moment in your busy schedule, can you please alert the tractor trailer driver not to park his 'rig' in front of my house ... or would you suggest that I line up my dining room chairs to save the spaces... ?

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Martini • Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Martini • Happy St. Patrick's Day! • this painting is sold

While variations are many, a standard modern martini is a five to one ratio, made by combining approximately two and a half ounces of gin and one half ounce of dry vermouth with ice. Many Europeans, however, prefer somewhat less vermouth — about a six to one proportion of gin or vodka to vermouth. Many bartending schools insist that a beverage shaker tends to dull the taste of the vermouth, and some argue that it sharpens the taste of gin by "bruising" the liquid. However, it is relatively common to see a bartender mix a martini with a shaker due in part to the influence of fictional super-spy James Bond, who asked for his martinis "shaken, not stirred." The ingredients are mixed then strained and served "up" (without ice) in a chilled cocktail glass, and garnished with an olive.

While the standard martini may call for a five to one ratio of distilled spirits to vermouth, aficionados of the dry martini may reduce the proportion of vermouth drastically for a dryer martini. Connoisseurs boast of sweetening the cocktail by merely coating the glass with vermouth, passing the vermouth cap above the glass, shining a light through the vermouth bottle onto the glass, momentarily passing the finished drink near a closed vermouth bottle, or jokingly whispering "vermouth" over the glass. It's been said that a "Churchill Martini" contains no vermouth, just British gin. The legend holds that Churchill would get as close to the vermouth bottle as to "look at it from across the room". This would make it very dry or a so called "Churchill Martini".

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PEZ Easter Rabbit and Chick

PEZ Easter Rabbit and Chick

In 1927 in the country Austria, Edward Haas came up with this new peppermint candy.The word PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint (pfefferminz). It was an adult breath mint that he decided to market as an alternative for smoking. From the word pfefferminz they took the first, middle and last letter and came up with the word PEZ.

PEZ was carried around in pocket tins. Then in 1948 they came out with the "easy, hygenic dispenser" that we all recognize now to be a regular. In 1952 PEZ wanted to expand their sales so they set their sights on the U.S.A., to make their product more appealing to Americans. They placed heads on the dispensers and marketed it for children.

In 1973 PEZ built their U.S. plant that is located in Orange, Ct. In 1983, Mr. Scott McWhinnie became "PEZident" of PEZ here in the U.S. In 1990 the size of the plant was doubled. It operates 24 hours a day. In 1987 feet were added to the base of the dispenser. To date PEZ has made about 300 different dispensers.

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Rabbit PEZ

Rabbit PEZ

A letter from the PEZident

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The Ides of March

Generally speaking, a term from the ancient Roman Calendar. The Ides fell on the 15th day of March, May, July or October or the 13th day of any other month. Thus the Ides of March was the 15th day of March.

The following story, too, is told by many. A certain seer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides; and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: "Well, the Ides of March are come," and the seer said to him softly: "Ay, they are come, but they are not gone."

As the Senate convened, Caesar was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of senators who called themselves the Liberatores ("Liberators"); they justified their action on the grounds that they committed tyrannicide, not murder, and were preserving the Republic from Caesar's alleged monarchical ambitions.

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Baby Blocks • Alphabet Blocks

Baby Blocks • Alphabet Blocks

For centuries, parents understanding the connection between play and development have made alphabet blocks standard equipment of the well-stocked toy box. Alphabet blocks appeared as early as 1693, when the philosopher John Locke pointed out that “dice and play-things, with the letters on them to teach children the alphabet by playing” would make learning to read a more enjoyable experience. A century and a quarter later, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, a museum curator who pioneered kindergarten, introduced geometric solids carved from wood. Known as Froebel’s “gifts,” they soon led to alphabet blocks. In 19th century America, these toys found their way into most schools, marketed as tools to help children to recognize shapes of letters before learning to read.

Nowadays, virtually all American preschools and many home playrooms store alphabet blocks. Traditionally, homemade blocks prevailed. Currently, Uncle Goose Toys and Old Fashioned Blocks produce and manufacture this vividly colored toy. Parents may understand that these blocks carry educational value, but children like them because their colors delight the eye, their pictures provoke stories, and their numbers, patterns, and symbols keep their curiosity growing.

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Easter Egg Coloring

Easter Egg Coloring • this painting is sold

In 1893 Doc Hinkle created the first Paint-on Easter Egg decorating kit for his grandchildren. He wanted to inpsire kids to be imaginative and to fully experience this special celebration of the Easter Holiday. Unlike ordinary dyes that have to be diluted, Paint-on is used directly from the bottle and results in beautiful, bright colors and patterns. Paint-on dries quickly and is so easy to use, even a young child can make exchiting eggs with lines, squiggles and dots. Paint-on colors .... over 100 years of Happy Easters !

The egg has represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen. It is the universal symbol of Easter celebrations throughout the world and has been dyed, painted, adorned and embellished in the celebration of its special symbolism.

Decorating and coloring eggs for Easter was the custom in England during the middle ages. The household accounts of Edward I, for the year 1290, recorded an expenditure of eighteen pence for four hundred and fifty eggs to be gold-leafed and colored for Easter gifts.

The most famous decorated Easter eggs were those made by the well-known goldsmith, Peter Carl Faberge. In 1883 the Russian Czar, Alexander, commissioned Faberge to make a special Easter gift for his wife, the Empress Marie.

The first Faberge egg was an egg within an egg. It had an outside shell of platinum and enameled white which opened to reveal a smaller gold egg. The smaller egg, in turn, opened to display a golden chicken and a jeweled replica of the Imperial crown. This special egg so delighted the Czarina that the Czar promptly ordered the Faberge firm to design further eggs to be delivered every Easter. In later years Nicholas II, Alexander's son, continued the custom. Fifty-seven eggs were made in all.

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Parcheesi for Katherine

Parcheesi for Katherine • this painting is sold

Parcheesi is the favorite game of so many ... young and old ... and it's been around for two thousand years. Just recently, I heard that Katherine Hepburn claimed Parcheesi as her favorite as well. No wonder, it's a great game. Learn the rules ... invite a fun group that total four persons and get ready for a fun evening. If you don't already own Parcheesi, I would suggest surfing the net to find a 'classic' version (try Ebay). Strive to obtain a game with four shakers, eight dice and the taller men (compared to the disc men). You might pay a bit more, but it's worth it in the end. Let the games begin!!

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Bingo

Bingo

Bingo is a game of chance where randomly-selected numbers are drawn and players match those numbers to those appearing on 5x5 matrices which are printed or electronically represented and are known as "cards." The first person to have a card where the drawn numbers form a specified pattern is the winner and calls out the word - "BINGO!!!" to alert others and inform the caller of the win. Note: The card must first be properly checked for accuracy before the "win" is officially confirmed at which time the prize is secured and a new game is begun.

The letters B, I, N, G, O are pre-printed above the five vertical columns, with one letter appearing above each column. The center space is marked "free." The printed numbers on the card correspond to the following arrangement: 1 to 15 in the B column; 16 to 30 in the I column; 31 to 45 in the N column; 46 to 60 in the G column and 61 to 75 in the O column.

There are 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 (five hundred fifty-two septillion, four hundred forty-six sextillion, four hundred seventy-four quintillion, sixty-one quadrillion, one hundred twenty-eight trillion, six hundred forty-eight billion, six hundred one million, six hundred thousand) possible arrangements of the numbers on a bingo card.

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Go to Jail. Go Directly to Jail • Monopoly

Go to Jail. Go Directly to Jail • Monopoly • this painting is sold

Monopoly is Parker Brothers' classic game of ruthless business. The object is be the last player to avoid going bankrupt. To do this, one purchases properties and then charges the other players rent whenever they land on one of them. You can improve your properties by buying houses and hotels. The most expensive properties on the board are Boardwalk and Park Place. Monopoly's mascot is Rich Uncle Pennybags. Many words and phrases from the game are recognized throughout the world: "Take a ride on the Reading," "Advance token to Boardwalk," "Water Works," "Free Parking," and most famously, "Go directly to jail; do not pass GO; do not collect $200."

DSL

Ahhh .... today I've entered the world of DSL. My comprehensive website, my blogging website, my monthly animated announcements all have been updated and sent via dial-up. DIAL-UP !!

My DSL isn't perfect yet. The cable to the wall is too long, so interference happens. I can phase in and out of cyber space at my modem's will. So that must be fixed. But it's wonderful clicking here and there, updating this and that and the speed of, well, pretty much my typing fingers. Maybe one day I will enter the world of cable modem! Oh, the possibilities!

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Collect $200 • Monopoly

Collect $200 • Monopoly • this painting is sold

Real and Incredible Facts About the Monopoly® Game

For sixty years, over 480 million players from around the globe have played this extraordinary game. But it takes more than just playing an occasional round to keep up on all the facts that surround the world’s most popular game.

Did you now that:

Mr. Monopoly is the name of the MONOPOLY® man.

George Parker issued a memo in 1936 that was to halt the productions of the MONOPOLY® game. He later withdrew the instruction and the rest is history!

Parker Brothers rejected the MONOPOLY® game when it was first presented to them in 1933, citing 52 fundamental playing flaws.

Over 5,120,000,000 little green houses have been “constructed” since the MONOPOLY® game was introduced in 1935.

World records are maintained for the longest game in a treehouse (286) hours, underground (100 hours), in a bathtub (99 hours) and upside-down (36 hours).

The longest MONOPOLY® game ever played was 1,680 hours long. That is 70 straight days!

Escape maps, compasses and files were inserted into MONOPOLY® game boards smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during World War II. Real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of MONOPOLY® money.

The total amount of money in a standard MONOPOLY® game is $15,140.

The MONOPOLY® game is published in 27 languages, including Croatian and licensed in more than 81 countries. Thai edition of Monopoly is the newest edition, introduced at the Toys R Us store in Bangkok, in December 2005.

In the 1970’s, a Braille edition of the MONOPOLY® game was created for the visually impaired.

Parker Brothers once sent an armored car with one million dollars of the MONOPOLY® game money to a marathon game in Pittsburgh that had run out of funds.

In 1972, the Atlantic City Commissioner of Public Works threatened to change the names of the real Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues, but public outcry vetoed the bill.

Over 20 tokens have been cast since the MONOPOLY® game was introduced in 1935 such as the horse, dog, car, elephant, purse and lantern.

A set made by Alfred Dunhill, that included gold and silver houses and hotels, sold for $25,000.

In 1978, the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered a chocolate version of the game priced at $600.

The three most-landed-on properties are Illinois Avenue. “GO” and the B&O Railroad.

The character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.

There are 22 properties that can be built upon.

When a player lands on an unowned property and decides not to buy it, the property goes to auction.

Over 250 million sets of the MONOPOLY® game have been sold worldwide.

www.Monopoly.com

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In Jail or Just Visiting

In Jail or Just Visiting

Monopoly

Monopoly is the best-selling commercial board game n the world. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylised economic activity involving the buying, rental and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single seller. It is published by Parker Brothers, an imprint of Hasbro. According to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935, approximately 750 million people have played the game, making it "the most played [commercial] board game in the world." The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly.

Skills required:

Dice Rolling
Counting
Social Skills
Negotiation

www.Monopoly.com

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Free Parking • Monopoly

Free Parking • Monopoly • this painting is sold

Ya know, I don't think I've ever lasted for a complete game of Monopoly. I remember starting many, many games when I was a child ... but then hours would pass and our attention would roam to something else.

However, in my advancing years I think it would be great fun to get a good group together - actually read the rules - fill up our pint glasses and while away the hours on a cold winter's day, playing a good long game of Monopoly.

Let the games begin !

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Ballet Slippers II

Ballet Slippers II • for Emanuel • this painting is sold

There's something so beautiful ... so pure and innocent in a pair of ballet slippers. I held these sweet little pointe shoes in my hand and the small size alone is a wonderment. They bring to mind the lovely Degas bronze sculpture of 'Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen' ... outfitted in a genuine Tutu, which may be viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

in 1996 I was lucky to secure two box seats at the majestic 'Opéra Paris de Garnier' while I attended art classes at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. The featured ballet was 'Coppélia'. I had purchased these two tickets while still in the United States hoping that I would meet a wonderful Parisian to accompany me to the ballet. I arrived at the Opéra alone, dressed in my long black gown, and waited in line to secure my tickets. An elegant and distinguished gentleman waited behind me, just flying in from Milan. He was in Paris collecting antique opera music to bring to Italy. Well, I offered my available ticket to him and soon had the pleasure of sitting beside him in our red velvet, front row box seats at the Opéra Paris de Garnier. After the ballet, we talked over wine at the Café de la Paix .. and he invited me to join him for the week in Paris. Sadly, my flight was leaving the next morning.

I never saw him again .... but he left me with a wonderful memory of our lovely evening at the ballet.

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Pointe Shoes - Ballet Slippers

Pointe Shoes ~ Ballet Slippers
Pointe shoes, also referred to as toe shoes, are a special type of shoe used by ballet dancers for pointwork. They developed from the desire to appear weightless onstage and have evolved to allow extended periods of movement on the tips of the toes (en pointe). Pointe shoes are normally worn only by female dancers, though male dancers may wear them for certain roles, such as the ugly stepsisters in Cinderella, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, or men performing as women in dance companies such as Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

In 1661, King Louis XIV of France founded the Royal Academy of Dance; however, women did not appear onstage until 1681. The standard women's ballet shoes at this time were heeled. Marie Camargo of the Paris Opéra Ballet was the first to wear a non-heeled shoe, to allow her the ability to do more complicated jumps. After the French Revolution, the standard ballet shoe no longer had a heel. It was flat and tied with ribbons to secure the foot. It had pleats under the toes and allowed dancers to fully extend their feet, jump, and turn. Dancers now use satin or canvas pointe shoes with a hard but pliable shank and a box made up of layers of canvas, burlap, paper and glue.

'Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body'

Martha Graham - American dancer, teacher and choreographer of modern dance, 1894-1991

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Jelly Beans

Jelly Beans

My Mother always celebrated the holidays and usually that included a holiday centerpiece. At Easter she would place beautiful porcelain rabbits nestling in faux grass on the center of the dining room table. All five children received Easter baskets. There were malted eggs and speckled eggs and jelly beans and silly putty. And every year we would attend mass in our new dresses and gloves. When we were older, there would be an egg hunt in the back yard for my niece Elizabeth.

It's funny how you can see something as simple as a jelly bean and, for the moment, become lost in a world of happy childhood memories. Something just as simple as a jelly bean.

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Tomato

Tomato

Ahhh ... the juicy red tomato. Anxiously I await spring so I can head to the local greenhouse and buy my herbs and vegetable plants. Last year I grew all of my plants from seeds that I started in my living room window box. However, after a somewhat lengthy investment of devotion and a greater questionable bounty, I have happily decided that I enjoy just heading to the greenhouse and filling my cart with a wonderful crop of basil, thyme, sage, tarragon, dill ... and tomato and pepper plants suitable for containers. I balance my garden off with feathery ferns and red geraniums. The fountain trickle adds a soothing harmony to a lovely setting .... Ahhh Spring ....

GREEN TOMATO POEM

The green tomato gave a frown
and heaved a fretful sigh.
"I'm bored with hanging round this plant.
I want to dance ... to fly."

Her grumbling words were overheard
by a passing scientist,
and trying to be helpful, he
set out to grant her wish.

The little green tomato
thought the scientist was God.
So she let him pluck her from the plant
and wed her to a cod.

And now the green tomato
has a great life, thanks to him.
She may not dance; she may not fly,
but blimey, can she swim!

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Red Onion II

Red Onion II • this painting is sold

ok ... this is the second red onion that I painted .... but, they're very beautiful vegetables and they great to eat in sandwiches afterwards. So, I give to you the Red Onion ... version II (that's 2).

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Little Green Grapes

Little Green Grapes

Chardonnay, also known by the names Aubaine, Beaunois, Melon Blanc, and historically, Pinot Chardonnay, is a green-skinned grape variety used to make a white varietal wine. It is believed to be named after the village of Chardonnay in the Maconnais region of France, where Pouilly-Fuissé is currently produced and it is possible that the variety was first bred there. DNA fingerprinting research at the University of California, Davis suggests that Chardonnay has originated as a cross between Pinot and the Croatian Gouais Blanc grape varieties. Gouais Blanc is not popular in its own right and is almost extinct.

Chardonnay is also an important component in Champagne and there are some 100% Chardonnay Champagnes labeled blanc de blancs. It is also used by sparkling wine producers who want to produce a Champagne-like wine.

How amazing that this little grape would cause such a brouhaha.

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