Alice in Waterland

A lost day without focus, this Monday. If you're feeling similarly, take a little more time & visit Elena Kalis' website & blog. A Russian photographer currently living in the Bahamas, she has a beautiful project combining two of our great loves: Alice & the sea. You can follow Elena on Pinterest, Twitter, & Instagram.)

Sigh.

ciao-meow/xo

(photograph by Elena Kalis)

Nereid

A lovely cool photograph for the day. It's simply too hot to go outdoors (here). When in doubt, draw the blinds & take a nap. If you are so fortunate as to live by the sea...invite us to visit!

A few links:

Underwater photography galleries from National Geographic

Who are the Nereids again?

A poem by George Seferis translated from the Greek.

Take a walk in a favorite place, Santorini.

The real Greek salad (from a wonderful new-to-us food blog from Athens)

ciao/the Management

(photograph by Liquid Sunny Day)

Seaside Splash - Week's End

Have a beautiful weekend from us to you. Here is last week's bricolage post (GG's editor) using these gorgeous photographs by Rengim Mutevellioglu. RM's CV on Kropp Creative Database).

ciao-meow/GG & her editor

Tales of the Islander

A Prairie Home Companion on 22 May 2010. As she sang, we bet we were not alone in thinking of the ongoing BP-Gulf disaster. The David Byrne-directed video is terrific & interspersed with more Anderson images & information about him, a true eccentric & treasure.

We hope you will visit your favorite music site & download Caroline's music. Here's her website; the songs change two at a time so you can sample them. If you need further recommendation, GG is a huge fan & cat-gallops to the source upon hearing the opening of Tales of the Islander. (She really does.)

ciao-sniff-meow/GG's editor

(Horn Island by Walter Anderson via Smithsonian American Art Museum; roseate spoonbills in flight by Kerri Oddeni via From the Bay to the Bayou; Caroline Herring by Jeffrey Fasano (on CH website)

Wandering in Sicily - Week's End

On a rock in San Vito, Sicily (Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's 'Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer' painting*) By the lovely & generous Giampaolo Macorig, see here for the original format. Have a great weekend!

ciao-meow, GG/The Mgmt

[*the German painting is in the Hamburger Kunsthalle at http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/start/en_start.html.]

Cool & Calm Wales - Week's End

Two lovely calm photographs from the Library of Congress via flickr; they've new Welsh photographs. We particularly like these two. It's very hot in Washington (not unusual) & we're feeling sort of peevish, so these will help. We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

ciao-cariad-meow/GG's editor

[both photographs between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900, Aberdovey, Wales, see full size, here]

If you think about it...

...there's a lot you can do. Please visit humanitarian links on this site...photograph by the lovely Giampaolo Macorig in Rome. xo/gg

Some Seashells by the Seashore...the Outer Banks

Breaking news...from Maria Caterina di Perguia...the Outer Banks are still there; she's proven it with the cellphone pix above. GG so wants to be there, as does her editor; she used to go to Nag's Head as a child & Ocracoke as an adult. We love the impressionistic dune detail & the seashells-as-art installation on the railing. How very bricolage...just our thing. We look forward to having everyone back in town over the weekend; Hermione the Cool Cat has missed them.

In fact, we're working on a new blog entitled Bricolage...we use a very loose translation as we think it befits the subject. Anyway, many thanks to the gang & we hope they'll bring us some of those shells. Somehow, we're missing many that we've collected over the years. The photos have induced such relaxation that it's time to shut down for a summer's day.
xoxo, GG & her editor

The World is Mad--GG wants to get off...or at least go to the seashore...

Wars & rumors of wars...OOF, is all we can say.