Spider's web across the garden path in late-afternoon sunlight. Click images to view detail.
Photos © Tara Bradford
This week has been a bit like Christmas at our house. On Tuesday, our Isamu Noguchi coffee table arrived via Germany (despite the irreverant coffee table reference, have you seen this hilarious Tumblr site?). And today, our custom-made sofa was delivered - finally, we can put aside the stylish, yet uncomfortable Napoleon III cream linen-covered chairs! Soon they'll be off to an Amsterdam antiques shop, awaiting their next owner.
On a more sombre note, have you ever wondered where old computers and electronics go to die? Nyaba Leon Ouedrango's powerful photograph depicts the harsh consequences for Ghana.
If you're planning a visit to Amsterdam, you might find this tattoo museum intriguing.
As a night owl, I can identify with the lovely sentiment here.
My friend (and talented artist and writer) Christine Mason Miller suggested this gorgeous book and I'm so glad I bought it. The Divine Home is of a similar nature. I collect handmade Spanish crosses, Italian and French antique prayer ornaments and Madonna crowns. I find these heartfelt symbols of reverence and devotion not only beautiful, but somehow reassuring.
The secrets of the rich and unaccountable
Alas, I see nothing reassuring about Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy. If he has nothing to hide, why is he so secretive? Mitt and his advisors really should study geography and history, as they can't seem to grasp how the world map has changed.
Ann Romney is with her expensive horse at the Olympics in London, denying all photo and interview requests for "you people." But Romney claims to know little about their prize horse. Meanwhile, so much for Anglo-Saxon heritage and diplomacy: Romney made multiple gaffes, offending his hosts in Great Britain.
For someone running for the highest office in the land, Mitt Romney doesn't seem to know much about anything, i.e. how much money he has in offshore or Swiss bank accounts; how much income tax he has paid; how long he was CEO for Bain Capital. He appears to have a bare-bones minimum grasp of foreign policy. One has to wonder what Mr. Etch-A-Sketch believes about anything at all, with his adamant refusals to 1) reveal financial and tax records 2) declare any policies his administration would follow or 3) propose actual solutions to any problems currently facing the US.
Think Progress has compiled a remarkable list of 99 Facts about Mitt Romney. Would you really want such a crafty chameleon as president??!!
Congratulations! New furniture always makes me smile! I know it will look perfect in your space. How wonderful to see it pull together just as you like.
And Mitt... I thought we just got rid of an idiot president with little tact and fewer brains. Is this the best we can do?
(Lovely web!)
Posted by: jeanie | 02 August 2012 at 02:50
Love your title, darling. Well played.
Posted by: Natalie | 31 July 2012 at 19:50
Romney's disparaging and ignorant remarks in Britain could have been written for the hapless vice-president in Armando Iannucci's satirical 'Veep'. They would be funny if he weren't so frighteningly close to a real presidency.
Posted by: Karen@PasGrande-Chose | 28 July 2012 at 17:47
I agree with what you say about Mr. Romney but the same can be said of President Obama. He bought a very pricey property via his association with Resko; she got a fab job at the hospital and the hospital got a huge government grant; they travel and spend money like nouveau riche; he has everything sealed from public scrutiny; and, he now says you don't do anything yourself only because of others - well, you can fill a mind with everything imagineable but that mind must USE that knowledge, so you DO create things yourself - you can't always let someone else pay your way. My Dad was a life-long Democrat and built a great business through hard work, honesty, and treating people with respect. THAT enabled him to hire others and provide them and theirs with a living.Sadly the Democratic Party now no longer represents the worker but the ENTITLED (Social Security exempted!)We need a change of direction, if only to keep falling off the edge! PS Growing up in the country We always loved to see the spider webs like these. So delicate and beautiful and sometimes appearing overnight in a doorway. Amazing!
Posted by: Rick Peerboom | 27 July 2012 at 16:20
Your web photos are most lovely. Beautiful, thanks. As for the erstwhile presidential candidate and his wife, they seem to show 'we the people' that for some, ignorance really is bliss, but they might want to heed Sir Walter Scott: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive." (The spider for president!)
Posted by: Barbara | 26 July 2012 at 21:32
Mitt Romney in office scares me tremendously! Thanks for the links.
Your coffee table is just perfect. I also love the rainbow effect in the spider web. Nice photo.
Posted by: Marilyn | 26 July 2012 at 20:21
Some days I wish I were a Romney so that I, too, could get by in life by not knowing anything about the things that I've done or the things that I'm involved with. Maybe that is what being wealthy is all about. It's the freedom to just ignore/deny reality when one so chooses. And the ability to buy very nice things, of course.
Posted by: Ally Bean | 26 July 2012 at 18:07