SEAGOING HALLOWEEN

(Illustration: Laurence Housman.) Trolling Project Gutenberg, I happened upon this old story by Jonas Lie (1833-1908), a beloved Norwegian author of the 19th-century. As best I can make out, it was one story in his two volumes of stories called Trold (troll). The story here was beautifully rendered from Norwegian by the British polyglot Robert Nisbet Bain (1854–1909). The book is illustrated with Art Nouveau drawings by Laurence Housman (1865-1959, younger brother of the poet A.E. Housman), including three of the four drawings in this...

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THE STRANGE WORLD OF MUSHROOMS, ABOVE AND BELOW

(Close-up of live mushroom coral taken by James Nicholson of the Coral Culture and Collaborative Research Facility, South Carolina. This image took 13th place at the 2010 Nikon Small World Photography Contest.)Mushroom corals are members of the Fungiidae, a family of interesting marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria, which includes corals, anemones, and jellyfish, as well as some aquatic species. Unlike the more familiar stony, or reef-building corals, most mushroom corals are not polyps roughly the size of ants living together in colonies...

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Get Clean Testimonial and Giveaway (5winners)

Hi there! I hope that you had a great week. Like I said in my last post, we have been extremely busy around here.  I can’t believe that my last post was on Monday night!  I have not been a good blogger lately…opps! I am ready for trick-or-treating this weekend, how about you? I have told you all before that I receive a lot emails from my Shaklee customers telling me how satisfied they are with their new products!  I absolutely LOVE hearing that…truly, I do! Well, I wanted to share one email that I got last week with you. ...

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RELATIONSHIP WITH WATER

EXPO Water city from martin de thurah on Vimeo.I realize what intrigues me about slow-motion filmmaking is the way it adds a question mark to every fra...

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Poor Man’s Linen

A while ago I was honored to be a guest over at Melanie’s Pretties and Posies blog.  If you’ve never visited Melanie, please do!  You’re in for a treat.   If you missed my guest post there, I decided to repost it here today.  I’m taking a bit of a bloggy break to catch up on some things, but I promise to be back!  I’ll be working on some much needed changes to our second bathroom.  Currently, it looks like something out of an episode of The Jetsons.  If you don’t believe me, stay tuned and you’ll see! ...

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A Romantic Tablescape for 2

I hope that you all had a great weekend! I wanted to show you how the hubs and I have a date night in.  It is hard for us to get out sometimes but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a date in. We were supposed to go out and plans changed so I went to my favorite store…the good old Trader Joes and picked up our date food.    I was really in the mood for a wine and cheese kinda thing.   So I bought nuts, crackers, several different kinds of cheeses including honey goat cheese  (yum…that stuff in the BEST) strawberries,...

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