Their last name is on the verso, but I can't read it so good. We always knew Lolita was hot; now we know she's smokin.

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In recent years, I’ve begun to worry that I should think more about aging. (I know, I know — everyone is aging, but the term only seems to be used for people over 60.) The Beatles wrote “When I’m Sixty-four,” but I am 74—older than a baby boomer—so it’s irresponsible of me to know so

Gertrude Hoffman, by Frank Bangs, c.1917

“A few flowers at her feet and above her, the stars.”

In dieser Bildbeschreibung findest du eine ausführliche Analyse zum Gemälde Nachtmahr von Johann Heinrich Füssli. Kontexteinordnung und Interpretation.

Well, I went up to Massachusetts, to Brimfield, which I guess holds the title as the World's Premier Outdoor Antique Show. I actually have a had a better one day pillage at Metrolina, in Charlotte, but Brimfield goes on for four days (actually longer, but for four serious days) and so what you don't find one day, you find the next. I didn't get a lot of great photos, but I think this one qualifies. I've changed (well, the change is mixed up, and now it needs to go in the oven) my collecting philosophy. I'm going to have to start selling some photos (NOT THIS ONE). The only way I can really sell anything is if it is good enough to be something I want for myself. So a fair amount of what I bought at Brimfield was bought with that forethought: I really like this (i.e., whatever photo I have in hand) but I'm going to sell it, not possess it. Of course, this photo was different. The seller was from Ohio, but the photo is from Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. The seller wanted $28 for the photo; I asked him what his bottom line was and he said $20. I handed him twenty dollars---I couldn't believe the photo was still sitting out in his booth---my hotel had failed to get me a wake-up call that morning, and I was a little late getting to the show, after some serious speeding down the Massachusetts Turnpike. I haven't googled Wellsboro---okay, I just did. Wellsboro is out in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania, that great empty middle of the state, up near the border with New York. I feel kind of lost in Pennsylvania---it feels empty and forlorn and abandoned, but without the mystery of the Smokies or the Ozarks. Anyway, it's a wonder that out there in that nothingness existed Mabelle, with her clear-eyed confidence, her let-me-play-you-a-tune-to-further-seduce-you look about her. "Compliments of Mabelle" is written on the back of the photo. I hope that that is Mabelle's own hand. What tune she was about to play I know not---I'll have to do some further research. My internet connection has been on the blink, for those of you concerned about my whereabouts. I also am reevaluating my policy about what I'm going to post on Flickr. In a couple of cases (that I am aware of) individuals have used (or I can guess that they've used) my photos without my permission. No one has successfully defined, to my satisfaction, what the rights are of an owner of an anonymous image. Let me just say---if you own the negative of this image, or you own a copy of the image itself, use it all you want. If all you have is a digital copy of my image, you do not have my permission to do anything with it, unless you ask. For those of you who might be interested in seeing what I'm selling (on Ebay), the answer is, not yet. However, if you can find mrwaterslide on flickr, you can find mrwaterslide on Ebay. This photo, by the way, is the month's entry in Mrwaterslide's Monthly Magazine, the issue of which is late this month, but I've been on vacation, so what.

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Broadway Actress Ione Bright c.1912 via Musetouch Visual Arts Magazine

The pairs were announced during Friday's pre-recorded launch show, with the couples already in training ahead of their debut performance in the first live show on September 24.

Detective Angela Dodson is a troubled LAPD Detective investigating what she believes to be the murder of her twin sister, Isabel. Angela and Isabel are very powerfull identical twin psychics. Isabel accepted her gifts while Angela rejected them, eventually causing them to go dormant. The lack of support Isabel received from Angela about what they both knew they were seeing caused not only a huge rift in their relationship but also is a major factor in Angela's guilt over Isabels suicide. Not muc

This is a long-delayed blog post on the Victorian Festival in WA from last April. I had been waiting for photos to start showing up that I could share, and then I’ve been laid up in bed for almost a month after having a total knee replacement. The hoped-for photos have not shown up other than a couple of each of us, so for now I’ll work with those. I was really hoping the entire group photo would have been ready for me to use. The theme for the 2024 Festival was Sports & Recreation, and the Festival Chair encouraged all the models to come up with outfits to match that. Of course most of us make pretty things, not meant for sports so an additional theme of Hearth & Home was added, and we came up with ideas of what we might be doing around the home wearing our outfits. This would also include a section on Wrappers & Tea Gowns that were worn at home. This was the longest and largest fashion show we’ve ever had there and might have been a bit too much. We did get a fair amount of actual sporting outfits, which included archery, bicycling, croquet, golf, and walking. One of our gentleman models wore three different ones and had to be the fastest quick-change artists I’ve ever seen. Before the fashion show started, I went to see the Home & Hearth exhibit nearby that we had a display of antique clothing in. The room had other displays of antique buttons, lace making, pressed flowers, and a variety of other home activities. I had a couple antique bodices on display, an antique lace collar worn around the neck of the brown silk antique suit, a reproduction 1870s hat, both which were worn with the suit in the fashion show, along with my purple embroidered re-creation of an 1870s wrapper. Later that afternoon, while the models were all waiting backstage for the show to begin, I took my usual candid photos of them all there. We had 24 outfits being modeled this year with a couple of us wearing two. The fashion show started with a 30-minute display & video of corsets by Dark Gardens, which we watched on a video display backstage. Part 1- Sports & Recreation Rebecca (1831 Archery) Hazel (1879 antique traveling suit ) Michelle (1878 croquet) Mark (golf) Janet (1885-1886 golf) Zoey (1889 antique walking suit) Mark (baseball) Cynthia (1890s bicycling/bloomers) Mark (bicycling) Pt 2-WRAPPERS & TEA GOWNS (worn around the house) Val (1860s wrapper/tidying up the house) Cynthia (1877 needlework) Angie (1880s antique wrapper) Christal (1890s reading) Pt 3-THE HELP Scott (1890s valet) & Tracy (1890s ladies’ maid)- Victorian Festival chairpersons Pt 4- HOME & HEARTH (activities in & around the home) Melinda (1830s embroidery) Patricia (1869 dinner party) Dylan (1860s dinner party) Lynelle (1878-79 music) Val (1887 visiting cards) Marietta (1888 visiting museums) Christal (1880s tea & gossip) Anna (1883 Gilded Age party) Our show which normally runs about an hour, ran almost 2 hours combined with the corset demonstration. This year it combined more historical background on positions in society and activities they did, rather than just on our outfits and some historical information on them. But I can say, this year they totally got their money’s worth! As noted, I wore two outfits this time. When the Committee Chair asked if we could add a section in on wrappers and tea gowns, I had my rust colored 1860s one already made that I could wear, and my “theme” was dusting around the house. As I walked down the center aisle of our show, I passed by a few attendees and lightly dusted them off, getting a few laughs. For the Home section, I wore my recently finished 1887 cobalt blue plaid dress. I had a new half-hooped bustle to wear under it but never had a chance to try it and my dress on me before I arrived. I had fitted it all on my dress form, and it looked fine. But when I put it on, I looked down and it seemed like my skirt was too long. So I hitched it up a bit on me. As you can see in my photo, I hitched it too much. It probably would have been just fine if I left it alone. And I don’t think I’ll wear that same bustle next time. The idea was great, but a regular bustle would have been a better choice. I had planned on a 3rd outfit to wear around town, but as our plans for Sunday changed, and we would be leaving to head back to Seattle in the late afternoon, I decided not to have to worry about changing back into street clothes since we’d already would be checking out of our hotel. And we didn’t have a special afternoon tea to go to this year either. There were only two small ones held in historical homes, and they were filled up almost immediately. With our usual group of 10-12, neither of them could handle us. So some of us decided to go to Café Tenby on Water Street for their afternoon tea. The food was good, and it was served properly but it didn’t have the atmosphere that the private teas had in the past. Our tea was served to us in individual presses, like they use for coffee. Again, no pretty teapots and teacups. After eating our sandwiches and scones, I had no room left for any of the desserts, so I had those packed up and ate them on the plane flying home the next day. The café is well known for its pastries and breakfasts so it’s well worth checking out. Just an added note to this trip to WA, my hubby and I also celebrated our 42nd anniversary there and drove to Port Angeles and stayed at a lovely B&B in a quiet secluded area there. We also drove to Forks again, and then to the far NW corner of Washington where we could see Canada across the Juan de Fuca Straits. I’m pretty sure it was Vancouver Island. While there, I realized that we had now visited all four corners of the contingent United States. During our entire weeks visit, it rained almost every single day, even during the Festival, which was unusual because in the past we might have had a light sprinkle with sunshine in between. So it definitely was a bit different this time.

A lot of closeted, uneducated and misguided youth refer to the Vioctorians as a rather sullen and droll crowd who would more likely search the Ouija board for their long lost loved ones rather than…

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Although these photos are clearly from the 21st century, they might as well be from the Renaissance era.

The moment: @DutchNatBallet's @JurgitaDronina photographed by Erwin Olaf

Book of Kells, illuminated gospel book (MS. A.I. 6; Trinity College Library, Dublin) that is a masterpiece of the ornate Hiberno-Saxon style. It is probable that the illumination was begun in the late 8th century at the Irish monastery on the Scottish island of Iona and that after a Viking raid the book was taken to the monastery of Kells in County Meath, where it may have been completed in the early 9th century. A facsimile was published in 1974.

The theatrical production, inspired by an old English ballad entitled 'Death and the Lady', warns against the mortal perils of drinking and gambling.

Today, you have your seat ready on a train to the past, with some of the most touching, beautiful and intriguing moments of history. Call it modern-day time travel, since these days, most of us barely have time to sit back, relax and dwell on the wonders of human history.

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