August in Philadelphia, 2009

She was there at the door like a basket of strawberries.

1930's color is not color as we understand it.

It was as if they were peering through a dim gray veil.

All of our money came from a chain of novelty stores.

blueberries, Maine, August 2009

bus stop, New York City, August 2009

wrapping paper, found in the street, August 2009, Philadelphia PA

It's nothing that a hot shower and a shave won't cure.

His teeth were like rows of milk glass bottles.

It doesn't need to BE crocodile but it needs to have the evil SHINE of crocodile.

She's only interesting until she sacrifices her tail.

Is it nail polish or artificial banana?

You see green eyes like that in Syria.

Somewhere far away there is an employer who will be delighted to have you.

She's always coming at me with her nonsense, but I'm just not that interested.

There's not enough ice in this country.

Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, 2009

They don't produce the viennoiserie anymore. 

It's not cost effective. 

But at one time they made the best apple turnover in Paris. 

My astrological sign has nothing to do with it.

Summer clover, Philadelphia PA

"I was in prison for six months in 1962 for larceny (not really as grand as it seems)."

-Joe Orton, program biography for Entertaining Mr.Sloane

I found it in the road.

The profanity doesn't come from either side of the family. She made that up by herself.

                                 A BLUE COAT

A blue coat is guided guided away, guided and guided away, that is the particular color that is used for that length and not any width not even more than a shadow.

-from Tender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein

He was a roast beef sandwich and she was a dish of sherbet.

star shaped sequin

chain link design

figurine in window, Philadelphia PA

figurine in window, Philadelphia PA

HOW TO SAMBA ( WOMEN"S VERSION )

   1. Start before a mirror, with no music. You may prefer to practice with a pair of very high heels. Though samba is a dance that started out barefoot, and can still be danced that way, high heels will throw your spinal column out of whack and give your pelvis the appearance of greater flexibility. Platform shoes with relatively wide heels provide the best combination of stability and shock absorption.

from Samba, by Alma Guillermoprieto

This is good bacon, but it's nothing I couldn't do at home.

The tarragon will keep it from becoming too cloying.

"I had a job one summer in a department store looking through Vogues and Harper's Bazaars and European fashion magazines for a wonderful man named Mr Vollmer. I got something like fifty cents an hour and my job was to look for 'ideas.'  I don't remember ever finding one or getting one."

-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

At eighty-five she decided that she was done with him. There was always food in the refrigerator and a set of clean sheets on the bed, but she never spoke to him again.

sour cherries from Redding Terminal Market

He waxed the tips and always applied a drop of lacquer to his chin.  

Deckard design 1

Deckard design 2

Just once I'd like to see one of those girls in a pair of pants.

They put a bitter substance on my fingertips to keep me from biting my nails.

To achieve that in porcelain you need to have very cold hands.

plastic wrapping paper from Greece

brooch by Olive

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carved brooch by Olive

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enamel brooch by Olive

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necklace by Olive

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brooch by Olive

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brooch  by Olive

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enamel earrings by Olive

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brooch by Olive

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necklace by Olive 

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Lunch is always late here.

 "Agnes de Mordaunt adjusted her veil and wimple in order to 

ensure that her forehead was covered before leading Sister Idonea out of the chamber; she tied her monkey with a long ribbon to the base of her close-stool and, taking up her crozier, proceeded down the stone stairway to the refectory."

from The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd

People like to think of them as two eccentric ladies but it was actually a very lusty relationship.