sad news

new purchases at tortoise
lovely textile books by mina perhonen
and another owl!

i sent this out to the stores when mpo closed
got a few sweet responses

lovely bottle
tastes like crap

manly packaging

yin and yang

my doctor told me my yin and yang are off
so i had to go to chinatown to get some herbs..
delicious :-( (read a story about the inventor of emoticons recently and although i hate them, he seemed nice, and this was the perfect place for one)

i do love chinatown though and its movie set decor


it ocurred to me as i was walking through chinatown that if these herbs are so great, why do the local chinese look a bit peaky??

found some funny old drawings from mpo
i think the sideways glances look sweet

its good to find old stuff that surprises you
they made me smile and feel good about that old bird

bird window at once upon a tart

lots of bird posts this week

is this a bird blog??

linens n.y.c

woke up this morning to the squawking of the wild parrots
i wish i had taken this photo but i could not get near them
seemed like some turf war was going on with the other birds and after a lot of noise, they left

check out the video

sally's house
our trip to sf
lovely things everywhere - and such a calm inviting house
wish we had more time there to just sit in the garden
or visit the lace museum

sally's house and garden

pcc find this weekend
have a lot of work right now which i would love to post...but not allowed
so sorry for lack of posts this week

james turrell

the new caltrans building in SF
i dont love it
but how nice that they emboss the names of streets in the pavement
of course i would like that

de young museum in golden gate park
a gorgeous hot afternoon sitting on the grass

heath pottery

i know..its been done already
but who can get too much heath pottery?