The New Potato at Dawn
Here are some ways of looking at a just-grabbled new potato. Thank you for visiting thetompostpile.
Category Archives: Art
From Two Symmetries to Thirty Pieces of Silver
In our last post, we looked at a couple of Victorian symmetries. Our eyes love and are attracted to the symmetrical. We’re symmetrical creatures, so why not? As we walked […]
Three of Coins in a Fountain
Three photos. Of coins in a fountain. Round coins. Round ripples. From where? (Seen in a Washington, D.C. museum’s reflecting pool.)
Dawn Stroll, California, May 2017.
First light often wakes me. Having flown suddenly three thousand miles west, a more easterly time habituation wakes me early here. As happened yesterday at dawn. Not wanting to stay […]
Underfoot in California
The ‘pile is taking some days off to go to California, to visit with family. There’s an awful lot to notice here. This morning, while taking grandsons to school, the […]
1891. A Historical Digression.
Even though we’re now well into the twenty-first century, I have to confess that I’m still fond of, aware of, influenced by, and intrigued by the nineteenth century. The West […]
San José, Costa Rica, Street Art, Faces
The walls of San José have many faces. Or is that multi-faces? Some faces are surreal Some are cartoonish. Some are noble, beautiful, and mysterious. What is this? Queen Nefertiti […]
