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Between the Woods and the Water Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in 'A Time of Gifts,' Patrick Leigh Fermor writes about walking from Hungary to the Balkans.

I love that passage and couldn’t recommend the book it’s from more highly

Too far away, just the basil I cut earlier for tonight’s dinner

"The summer solstice was past, peonies and lilac had both vanished, cuckoos had changed their tune and were making ready to fly. Roast corn-cobs came and trout from the mountains; cherries, then strawberries, apricots and peaches, and finally, wonderful melons and raspberries. The scarlet blaze of paprika--there were two kinds on the table, one of them fierce as gunpowder--was cooled by cucumber cut thin as muslin and by soda splashed into glasses of wine already afloat with ice; this had been fetched from an igloo-like undercroft among the trees where prudent hands had stacked it six months before when--it was impossible to imagine it!--snow covered all. Waggons creaked under loads of apricots, yet the trees were still laden; they scattered the dust, wasps tunnelled them and wheels and foot-falls flattened them to a yellow pulp; tall wooden vats bubbled among the dusty sunflowers, filling the yards with the sweet and heady smell of their fermentation; and soon, even at midday, the newly distilled spirit began to bowl the peasants over like a sniper, flinging the harvesters prostrate and prone in every fragment of shadow. They snored among sheaves and hay-cocks and a mantle of flies covered them while the flocks crammed together under every spread of branches, and not a leaf moved."

Patrick Leigh Fermor would understand

It is a peak summer experience

Lying on the sofa, in and out of sleep, hearing the murmur of the baseball game on the tv and the sound of a lawnmower in the distance coming through the window on the breeze

Classic form

Constantly watching bird videos on the Tik Tok, completely addicted

A brown tabby cat with white feet, tum, and bib on a pink leash rolling in the grass, her big green eyes looking up at the sky

Not a cell phone in sight

I love what you’ve done with your hair

This u?

“For the rest of you: Jets and Packers” sounds like a threat

when i press play on a new record and my gut reaction is "this is so bad" and three minutes later i'm thinking "this is amazing" that's the true sign

“I would have liked to have seen … Momtana.”

Jan van Kessel the Elder, Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary, 1653. Oil on panel, overall: 11.5 x 14 cm, National Gallery of Art, The Richard C. Von Hess Foundation, Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund, Barry D. Friedman, and Friends of Dutch Art, 2018.41.1.

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The kind of girl who just wants to hang out on the porch with some chicken and weed

YouTube video by MockeryofaSham Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - My Jeans

Bought some wranglers today

For all four pics: a brown tabby cat with white bib, tum, and feet on a cat tree in front of a window. In the first three pictures the cat is in different poses as she wriggles as twists, while in the last picture she’s jumping from one part of the tree to another, towards the viewer, her eyes wide and wild

Big tabby girl energy

It was dark when I was going downstairs yesterday at five am. Didn’t care for it

To be fair, we have a bad one in the basement as well, but still

I do not begrudge LACMA a minor Van Gogh, they can have that

Modigliani's Jean Cocteau Portrait Heads to Brooklyn Museum in Major Gift Along with MoMA and LACMA, the New York museum will receive dozens of works from the Pearlman Collection.

You know what would be more interesting and worthwhile than giving a couple of Cézanne paintings and a bunch of watercolors to MoMA? Giving them to almost any other museum

Halloumi (also often with herbs already in it) has finally started to appear in markets here but is really expensive. I don’t know why Kraft or whoever hasn’t done what one local cheesemaker has done and made their own, selling it under the name of “grilling cheese.” What could be more American?

As was so often the case, the problem was not enough crushed red pepper

everything in its right place, by Caroline Rose from the album year of the slug

at the drive thru 2am
smoke em pure
we don’t hit pens

11 3/4” x 5 7/8” (29.8 x 14.9 cm).

Christie's, New York, Sale 16185, A Love Affair with France: The Elizabeth Stafford Collection, 1 November 2018, lot 1203.

Unsigned; artist unknown, unfortunately.

An 18th century drawing of a decorative panel design, in colored chalk on wove paper, picturing floral swags along the edges and with a bouquet and a painter’s palette design in the center. Fairly simple, drawn with a light touch.

With a face like that why would she

Say Your Prayers Rock by Florry on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 2:09

I hope some kids out there are having the time of their lives to this record this summer

Occupying the sensible middle ground between those who blame the emergence of agriculture and the ones who say it was writing

Elizabeth David's Mediterranean Food. A classic and a lot to like, but especially A Venetian Breakfast.

A brown tabby cat curled up on a bed against a pillow, seen looking up over her lower body to her face. Her tail is wrapped up around to her head and she’s yawning with her eyes closed

You said it, babe