Monthly Archives: February 2025

Feb28

hush.

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About the picture:

It’s an old barn in the field and during that time it was fogging, the sky color was light pink and below was light blue..I couldn’t really get the right color when I took that picture but it’s close to what I took.. It was so amazing feeling to see it in actual, what a great memory – Old barn on a snowy field, Janice Perkkio (somewhere in Scandinavia)

About the picture:

in January, frost -28, wonderful color brilliance, in Finnish Lapland, Sodankylä

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i came across both of these photos a year apart, taken by different people in different places

I’m so in awe of their quiet winter beauty

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‘winter knows to hush, still, listen, so the soul can speak.’

-angie weiland-crosby

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photo credits: both photos were found on view from my window

Feb27

on memory alone.

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Detroit is getting another home renovation series on HGTV and this one promises to tackle the toughest projects in the city.

“Condemned” is scheduled to premiere this summer on the cable network. The show, which will have eight one-hour episodes, will star a father-daughter rehabbing team, property investor Kristyn Patterson and her builder dad, Pancho Patterson, according to HGTV.

“Kristyn and Pancho have a tangible passion for Detroit and the necessary skills, grit and humor to renovate crumbling homes no one else will touch. Our cameras will follow the highs and lows as they grow their family business and prove that no home is too far gone,” stated HGTV head of content Loren Ruch in the announcement.

They will be facing what is being touted as the city’s “most blighted homes.” As the news announcement for the series puts it, the Pattersons “will stop at nothing to rescue The Motor City’s worst houses that are destined for the wrecking ball.”

Along the way, they will encounter financial pressures, people who have moved into the properties without permission, the challenges of a Detroit winter and more, as they set out on their reality-TV mission.

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‘this house is standing on memory alone.’

-roberta brown 

 

 

 

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source credits: Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, HGTV

Feb26

not that clear.

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love my car

 it sends me caring messages

hello, goodbye, check your backseat, be safe…

and now this one:

(no) /eyesight

it felt a bit judge-y

i’m wearing my glasses!

until I realized it meant

 my backup camera was covered with road salt

and not able to see.

still feels judge-y.

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‘having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it’s not always that clear.’
-bob morley, australian actor and director

Feb25

good idea.

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so brilliant

busybody’s will pickup, clean and drop off your laundry,

clean your dorm room or apartment, deliver beverages

created by university students for university students

supply and demand at work.

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‘a good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

-guy kawasaki

Feb24

crushed.

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the cats’ gnome forgot to look up

 we forgot to look down

when moving the dresser

 flipping it upside down to be refinished

now i hope the gnome is not finished!

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‘how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up to the sky and disregard what is at their feet?’

-katharina elisabeth goethe

 

 

 

Feb23

being alive.

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a week filled with celebrations of all kinds

a birthday for my cousin/uncle

(we can’t figure it out exactly)

my grandfather and his father were brothers

76 is a number too big for just one cake

a breakfast get together

with my retired colleagues

at a wonderful coney island

 I promise I did not order

this hot fudge cream puff

(but not to say I won’t next time)

a candle lit for a a friend’s new grand baby arriving tonight or tomorrow

(hopefully by the time you read this)

who will be the brightest, shiny-est, youngest member

of a longtime group of friends

life is full of life.

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‘don’t save anything for a special occasion, being alive is a special occasion.’

-mary engelbreit

Feb22

opinion.

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‘the opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.’

*marcus aurelius

*Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 – 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva-Antoine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD.

 

 

 

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art credit: project argentum

 

Feb21

wise confetti.

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It’s clear from this photo that the opening weekend to Venice’s Carnival was quite the celebration, with heaps of confetti in the air and crowds gathered along the city’s famed canals to watch a procession down the waterways. But what you can’t tell from the images alone is that this year, all the confetti and streamers are fully biodegradable, a sustainable twist on the centuries-old festival.

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 ‘life is a festival only to the wise.’
-ralph waldo emerson

 

 

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source credits, Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images, Associated Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb20

getting high on coffee.

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Pengpeng, Zhou Shasha, Jin Jinjun/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG Getty

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would you hang off the side of a cliff for coffee?

this cafe in Hangzhou, China, rewards adventurers

who complete a rock climb with a cup of joe and some views —

just don’t look down.

(I do love coffee, pretty much any kind, anywhere, but I couldn’t do this.)

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“coffee is a language in itself.”

-jackie chan

Feb19

overcoming.

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Michelin-starred chef heads restaurant entirely staffed by formerly unhoused people

Adam Simmonds is a two-time Michelin-starred chef and Catey Awards Hotel Chef of the Year recipient. And last year, he added chef director of the world’s first restaurant almost entirely staffed by previously unhoused individuals to his resume. Home Kitchen, located in Primrose Hill, London, is a nonprofit fine dining establishment that provides its staff with travel expenses, professional culinary qualifications, and the London living wage.

Aside from some senior members, the team is recruited solely from the unhoused community. If staff members pass a 90-day probation, they’re eligible for a fully paid culinary training course at Westminster Kingsway College. The goals of the whole operation are to kickstart the staff’s careers, address worker shortages in the hospitality industry, and confront the “very flawed public perceptions of what it is to be homeless,” Home Kitchen co-founder Michael Brown told The Guardian.

Simmonds is now working on additional launches in Brighton, England, and San Francisco. “Home Kitchen will act as an accelerant out of poverty for our recruits and an incubator of untapped talent for the catering industry,” he wrote ahead of the London restaurant’s opening. “I believe the restaurant business is an ideal vehicle for social impact, as changing perceptions in this industry can inspire broader societal change.”

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‘although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.’

-helen keller

 

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source credits: home kitchen, the guardian