Hand-painted Alabaster Apple Bookends, Italy – Mid-20th Century

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Eclipse © 1979 Mark Roland

Oil on board. Painted after viewing an eclipse that year in Oakland CA.

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Fireworks over Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1775

a solar halo over hexigten banner, inner mongolia, china

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)

1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2

Doesn’t take much to entertain me if we are at the beach.