Spring fever!

The Four Seasons

Linda and I were at a neighborhood yard sale a couple years ago, and though there was nothing at this lady's driveway setup, it did make for a neat photo, especially with the amazing Japanese maple. So I asked, "Do you mind if I take a picture? Your Japanese maple is really beautiful."  The woman was so excited to hear this she said "Oh please do! But wait- let me show you something and also wait til I shut the garage door before you take the picture." Then she proudly came out to show us these portraits of her tree in each of the four seasons, taken from the same spot in her driveway. I thought this was so great. Sometimes the best things at yard sales are things you can't buy. No, I'm kidding. but I love that she loved her tree so much.

Koyo Okada's Mt. Fuji

Koyo Okada's Mt. Fuji. 1959

"I have photographed the mountain more than 150,000 times,
but I fear that I have still not exhausted all its possibilities."

Cover design and layout by Ryuichi Yamashiro
Published by Charles E. Tuttle Co.

Japan, you are in our hearts.

Woody Allen's apartment, NYC, 1972

Living room, and part of the large rooftop country garden.
"In a typical seriocomic aside, he once told The New Yorker, 'I think I can say, though this is not for publication, that I have the most beautiful apartment in New York' ."


From Architectural Digest, Nov/Dec 1972.

Everything's Gone Green

Recent green things from yard sales, a couple landscapes, and a car.

From top:

24"x36" framed silkscreen by Tony Johnson, signed on the back "To Mom, thanks for everything. Tony"

The Who flyer at a garage sale

L.L. Bean Swiss Army knife

Frog pond and old hippie houses in front of Linda's parents' house, Long Island, Maine

Greenpeace New England cap from 1982

Vintage Vera towels

Prehistoric vegetation looking like a museum diorama behind Linda's parents' house

1970 Porsche 911S, from Fantasy Junction

Another Swaine Adeney Brigg umbrella, $3!, in British Racing Green.

(related)

Calif.

Chateau Marmont by Jenny Agutter (Logan's Run, An American Werewolf in London) from her awesome book Snap.

Coincidentally Dennis Stock's more awesome book is loaded with photos of ape extras hanging around Los Angeles, taken during the filming of Planet of the Apes, 1968. But I just love these two photos.

early birds

Morning doves

Happy Earth Day

Make it every day.

Landscape, 1971

Frederic Church, meet Domebook 2.

natural high

Handmade beaded hippie headband I found rolled up inside an old prescription bottle at the Melrose/Fairfax flea market ten years ago. I was going to use it as a prop for a hippie-esque room we designed for the opening of Anthropologie Tampa in 1999, but it was just too cool to leave there. However I did use it on the cover of the store opening report. Click to enlarge.

love in the afternoon