A Palimpested Shopping List Shows off its Lighter Side

 While any list is good, here even the un-list - that tracery of pen on cheap paper leaves a feint imprint but first prize in the Best On Page show is the shadow thrown down by the sky-light blind. Will any remnant of the image remain outside of this one?   Apply to the page for further information. 

Hole-some Cover Ups : The Underfoot Foundry Art of Japanese Cities

While looking around and up is what you mostly do on holidays, in Japan it is good to keep a weatther-eye out for each city’s emblematic manhole covers.  Here is a set from Kyushu,  Fukuoka’s take of cherry blossom, the lovely town of Imari’s what I surmise is Pawlonia leaf and flower, and at the bottom Kagoshima’s enigmatic graphic statement, on which I am still pondering.  This post is one in a series - and as readers might have noticed,  I love things in sets.  More to come. 

 

Whiter Shades and Vintage Linen

 

Getting into bed with fresh white sheets, pressed pillow cases, a cream wool blanket with a satin edge, under  an vintage embroidered French ecru linen sheet, which was old but unused, still with the blue stencil outline visible between the neat stitching, a nuptial gift from an aunt  the best part of four decades ago,  I seem to have won a lottery of circumstance, to sleep and wake inside these.