Robert Alor

Buda

Buda

Music school, Buda

Buda

Buda

Buda

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Buda

Are You Stuck with a Tree Full of Unripe Figs? — The Italian Garden Project A fig lover’s nightmare is to have a tree full of small, hard figs sitting stubbornly unripe on the tree at the end of the season.  It is often tempting to pick this end of season fruit before it...

Here are some ideas. www.theitaliangardenproject.com/blog/stuck-w...

'I’ve been a happy person because I had the opportunity all my life to do what I loved most: I played throughout my life'

Molnár-C. Pál (1894-1981)

'Beauty is the inexhaustible source of happiness for those who discover its whereabouts. It hides everywhere'

Buda

Well said

László Krasznahorkai: “An Angel Passed Above Us” A short story by László Krasznahorkai: “I’m open to anything, he said, pushing the AK-74 a bit farther away and reaching under his bulletproof vest to…

yalereview.org/article/kras...

László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

yalereview.org/article/l%C3...

Buda

YouTube video by ESKENION Samuel Beckett | Interview for Swedish Television (1969) Nobel prize

An evergreen for this day - youtube.com/watch?v=I1Pf...

"Remis, the home of the tribe known to the Romans as the Remi, gives rise to Reims (Rheims). This explains in many cases the -s ending of modern French towns, for example Angers, Limoges, Nantes, Poitiers, Sens, Tours and Troyes. Paris takes its name from the Parisii" (Rickard, History of French, p. 5)

Had never occurred to me that all these French town names are in fact plurals (as are many Romanian town names..)
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5

Trees in electric light, Jajce 1903, by Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

I consider myself fairly well read when it comes to 20th-c. anglophone poetry. Seldom do I stumble upon completely forgotten poets who were both consistently masterful in their craft and truly original in tone. Not in one or two poems—consistently. Broomell is one such poet.

Painting of an alley with poplars with yellow leaves in the golden, warm evening sun. At the end of the alley a house. Walking towards us a female figure.

"A daily walk, the simple act of collecting leaves, or sitting quietly in a park can be deeply restorative. These experiences remind us that change is part of life’s cycle, and that beauty exists in every stage of transformation."

Vincent van Gogh, Avenue of Poplars in Autumn, 1884

Does Uggi have skin allergies?

First Hummingbird Hawk moth I've seen this year. They really are extraordinary little insects that look so much like a hummingbird. This one is feeding on hardy plumbago flowers growing outside the house. Those lovely orange underwings! Beautiful 💙 🤎

Very yellow painting of a woman gazing at the viewer, her hands are clasped.

Marian Anderson (b. 1897 in Philadelphia) was a singer & international diplomat of democracy who inspired admirers worldwide. She is depicted here in a 1965 portrait by Harlem Renaissance modernist & abstract expressionist painter, Beauford Delaney (b. 1901 in Knoxville).

Behrens’s 1981 Art and Camouflage: Concealment and Deception in Nature, Art and War is a tiny overlooked thing of interest, with a preface by Guy Davenport. Behrens’s portrait of Davenport (c. 1978), too.

“A cultural history omitting the machinations of Eros lacks a natural strategy.”

Being a swell aphoristic remark made by Guy Davenport in the afterword to Elizabeth Hutton Turner’s _Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder_ (Counterpoint, 1996).

Mirabelles straight from the tree.

From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man.  My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a c…

A little piece on another Hollywood émigré—a man who went from helping Osip Mandelstam to getting knocked about by the Three Stooges. And if you want to know what Mr. Peanut has to do with it, you’ll have to read to the end: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...

You're very welcome

Wes Robinson (Wes Robinson Design)

Malmesbury

I went to Malmesbury, found the tomb of Athelstan, first king of England and pioneer of hot air ballooning. Please give this a listen - only 6 mins. (also on other all platforms - search ‘these weird isles’)

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Black and white portrait of an elegant woman

Dr. Dorothy Irene Height (b. 1912) was one of the “most celebrated figures & tireless freedom fighters in American history.” A leader in the Civil Rights Movement, she counseled presidents & established an organization for women of diverse racial & religious backgrounds to advance the movement.