Snow, Tumbleweeds, and Yellow.

Today it snowed big globular snowflakes, and the snowflakes stuck. Got to love that magical nature.
For the southern folks with no snow, here are some wayward tumbleweeds:

If you’d like to create your own intervention, perhaps you should put some umbrellas in your tree.

Yellow is my favorite color.

Eleven Darkened Flowers and Un Chat Sauvage

David Axelbank‘s work wins the oh-so-coveted prize of “most interesting photographs to me on December 15, 2008.”
Take a look.

as promised:

There are more cats and more flowers, here.

Oh, Larry Gagosian. Oh, you’re on fire.

 Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #14, 1978
Some blue-chip gallerists are apparently frizeaking out in the current economic climate. I guess people aren’t shelling out thousands to get their grandma a Cindy Sherman Film Still this year.
I know this because I read Gawker yesterday and it told me so.

Holiday Trees and More! With Katie Murray and Emily Shur.

I did something my mother would not approve of at all on Saturday; I bought a Christmas Holiday (and Hannukah!) tree.
Then I covered it with 300 lights. I wanted it to be so bright that it took down the whole grid, but 300 lights don’t actually go that far.

I saw this and thought it odd.

I bet you pulled a face of puzzlement on Thursday too, when you saw Vladimir Putin on the cover of the Times with a baby and a lady with curlers. I mean, how inexplicable!
But it made me click. I was not less confused when I read the headline:
“Economy is Subject as Putin is Peppered“
See?

This Won’t Hurt a Bit.

Ok ok ok, I KNOW I have been a tremendously delinquent blogger, and I plead for your forgiveness. You’ve all been so helpful with the pestering kind words, and I promise to do my very best to get back on track asap.
I have a real, live, grown up job now, and my free time has been squozen into a few hours a week.