Afew other Ultravans for sake of size

These things aren't huge monsters but ARE bigger then VW campers . The picture with the one guy gives a true feel for the actual size of this machine , It's only 22 feet long . Probably not much longer then my lincoln towncar and can be driven just like a car. They will fit in a car parking space . Of course for ME driving one of these things would be nothing being that my idiot savant skill is DRIVING as i explained to Emmawrites the other day . allan

A great motor home of yore

Back in my traveling days (late 60s to early 70s) when my ex and I basically spent years traveling all over the USA , Canada and parts of Mexico I was aware of these wonderful , air cooled , corvair powered motor homes . We would see one on the road from time to time . The living condintions were so much better then the VW camper we used and to top it off the damn thing got up to 18 miles to a gallon of gas ( i doubt the VW got camper got much more then 22) . I'll include a site for these things . Scroll down the page and take a look at the interior . Its pretty nice and even has a bathroom and a shower of some type . I'd love to find one of these things now but since only 370 were built from 59 to 70 my chances aren't good but its fun to look and who knows , maybe I'll find one . heres an Ultra Van site : UltraVan: Corvair Motorhome

A cicada blessing the world !

A montage of images

Thats a damn cute dog I own . I wish he was a bit smaller but one must adapt . Dino of course still getting rich making pizza , Debora from next door of Dino at the bakery , a picture of Emma and a wild cat picture I like. allan

The red house in West Virginia

A stunning O'keefe

You like this one Alex?

Pictures from kath and her text ( "her" prefab house)

As promised, here are a couple of photos I took today of the exterior of the house. Richard says that his grandfather and great-uncle put it up (with local help) after it came in boxes on two railroad flatcars with a set of instructions in late 1917; it was built by the end of November 1918, so it was just shy of a year in building it. (The interior was totally redone a few years ago, so there is no point in taking photos of that.) Richard wants to say that he heard a price of something like six or seven thousand dollars. At one time I heard that there were no Sears houses west of the Mississippi; obviously that is not so, since we are west of the river.

In the photos, you can see the half-basement quite well.

Enjoy!

K.

The Lady Anne

This is the Lady Anne leaving New York Harbor about a month ago on her 1000 days at sea without ever touching land or being resupplied .

She's a gaff rigged schooner. Gaff rigged refers to the upper boomlike spars at the top of the 2 mainsails . They are called gaffs . The booms are the lower wooden spars .

Very few boats are gaffed rigged now . My parents boat when I was a kid was a gaff rigged boat with one mast called a sloop . Gaffed rigged boats are very pretty but sail a bit differently then non gaffed rigged that have the sail in a triangle going to the top of the masts and ending in a pointed top end ( like the jib sail in this picture , the sail at the bow or front ) . Suffice it to say I love sail boats especially old ones . allan

The young muslim left me , this is mah new gal ,Claudia.

Jules Olitski

another favorite artist of mine . This paining is huge ( something like 18 X 7 feet , I'm guessing ) heres an Olitski site

Tate Collection Instant Loveland by Jules Olitski

A Robert Motherwell that I especially like

paintings

these are a few of my paintings , 3 of about 40 large paintings I still have here . As I said on your blog Four my work should be in MOMA but alas I no longer have the ambition to go out and try to get an exhibit etc so I will likely die unrecognized as a genius artist on a par with Pollock and Olitski amongst other greats . One of my favorite artists is Robert motherwell and my work reflects that tho his work tends to be more white and black . There are many many other artists I love . Most of them are impressionists and abstract expressionists . So there ya go Four and anyone else looking at these paintings . ( that painting on its side is a whole pile of paintings by the way and it gives you an idea of the size of these things . On its side it goes from floor to ceiling . Maybe you should get me a show out in the hamptons. Has elaine Benson(I think thats her name) died ? her gallery would have been perfect . Allan

Hitler and his master race ideas

this polish girl was snatched from her parents and given to a german couple to raise so her genetic material could be added to the development of a master race of nordic blond , blue eyed people . The joker in the uniform was Himmler ( I think thats the name not that it matters ) who was in charge of development of the master race program . Here's my problem . The girl to me looks like someone from the movie The Body Snatchers after her body was snatched ( in a way it was but still she doesn't look like prime genetic material to me , she looks positively freakish ) . The guy in uniform looks somewhat oriental , maybe japanese tho he is a german . He's pretty creepy looking . no big deal . just observations , allan

Martin Ramirez

Slide show: The drawings of Martin Ramírez - arts - International Herald Tribune

I heard about this guy on NPR today and liked his stuff so heres a small slide shw of some of it .

Allan

Jackson Pollock at work

This picture will give you an idea of how large Pollocks paintings were ( are) . You really need to see his work in "the flesh " to appreciate the dynamism and power of it .

Just a cute aside . His nickname amongst the other artists in Springs ( near east hampton) where his studio was was Jack the dripper.

Allan

Bush the pilot !

Dead elephants

These 5 elephants over in asia were killed by lightning.

Brazilian spider causes erections in men

This is the spider that is currently in the news as causing men to get erections. Obviously it is a very smart creature knowing where to show up to cause men to have erections . Scientists are still debating why it likes to cause men to have erections . ak

A lovely death machine

This is a great site about the death machine known as The Guillotine . I found it interesting and informative .

Guillotine page1

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