Writing Up a Storm

John Martin The Great Day of His Wrath (circa 1851)

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Me:  What are you going to work on today?

Callum:  Don't know, but I'm going to write up a storm.

Me:  You really could, you know, with your world.*  Gotta be some great storms in your world.

Callum:  Hmmm ...

Me:  Hmmm ...

Not sure what he's writing downstairs, but up here I've maybe found the ending of my current novel.  Writing up a storm.  Channelling my inner John Martin.

    

John Martin The Evening of the Deluge (1828)

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* (in which the laws of physics are in flux)

Ah, London

Journalism from a More Leisurely Time

This month on The History Girls I blogged about small town journalism in Ontario in the 1890s.  Have a look here and you won't even need to take off your glasses!

And here's a photograph from about the same time of Eric Satie wearing glasses and looking surprised, just because I like it:

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Banana, bamboo and miscellaneous bark:

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Shadows and statues (Nyoman Nuarta Sculpture Park and Gallery), Bandung, Java:

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Details of statues by Nyoman Nuarta, Bandung, Java:

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Statues by Nyoman Nuarta, Sculpture Park and Gallery, Bandung, Java:

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Shadows and reflections:

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Sukuh and Cetho Temples, near Solo, Java: