Xerces Blue is an extinct butterfly from the San Francisco Bay area. One theory is that it went extinct because with human development, a new ant species was introduced that edged out an ant the butterfly was dependent on in its larval stage.

Xerces is also the name of my favorite Deftones song. I also love Cherry Waves and Hole in the Earth.

I read this on a sign and wanted to remember it: When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Someplace like this

Words of wisdom on the importance of living bravely:

"The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated, And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all." - Ted Hughes

Being somewhat shy and introverted (and not always brave), this appeals to me.

I'd like to be someplace like this.

Universum

Remarkably uninspired this week. Tired-ish.





This woodcut --> shows a man peering through the curtain of the atmosphere of a flat earth at the inner workings of the universe.

'Urbi et 'orbi' didn't appear on the original woodcut, but the caption did.

"A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet...".

Saturday night.
I went:
To the grocery store.
To Barnes & Noble.
Whee.

I might have had a date if I'd hinted around at it, but my pride is too big for that. I like to be asked.

I did need groceries, but really I just wanted to get out of the house. I bought pasta and tapenade, though the tapenade isn't near as good as the stuff I got in California with Tasha.

I whole-heartedly support our small locally-owned bookstore, but sometimes Barned & Noble is a nice change - it's big enough to get lost in, to be unnoticed in. I bought the Rushdie book, and the Barnes book and sat down with a coffee and read. I went from feeling a little pathetic to enjoying myself. Thank you Salman Rushdie, my date for Saturday night.

Water is so difficult to depict. I love Monet's La Grenoulliere because of the water. ^^

$5 CDs

Today I stumbled across Plan-it-X Records, a DIY punk label. While I don't listen to punk much (anymore, anyway), I found it interesting.

"If it ain't cheap, it ain't punk."

Van Gogh's Starry Night ^
Amazing.

Franz Von Stuck - German Symbolism

Angel

Posts?

I apparently don't post much yet.

I'm interested in this image/theme. The Knight of the Swan, Helias, aka Wagner's Lohengrin. Where do we get the idea we must/will be rescued? From this guy ------>