boots

 
boots is winning hearts and minds. 

he lies in the middle of the sidewalk, moving for no one and offering up his sturdy plumpness for pets. all carefree and lazy-like. his tail is kind of short, and he has a black chin. try to not love him. impossible.

in b/w and in deep blue-purple

from the never-ending supply of nostalgia in alameda

1713 in berkeley

kitties

 
mine/not mine

weekend

it's the weekend, so i am eating sweets and taking walks. (started a new old cars in alameda set, in addition to the truck one.)

i also listened to this american life. the story this week is unbelievable and depressing. an estimated 7,000 eritreans have been held hostage and tortured, raped, and/or killed in the sinai peninsula in egypt. it is incredible that human trafficking on such a large scale has been allowed and continues to happen. and that people (other journalists, government officials, and police in various countries) were so reluctant/refused to help meron estefanos, the eritrean-swedish journalist, who was trying to publicize the story in 2011 and get help for the hostages. hostages that were eventually able to escape to israel, were given little or no assistance in israel, aside from the country letting the survivors live there. and now israel can indefinitely detain new eritrean arrivals and has begun sending them back to eritrea.

here's also a ny times article about it.

alameda

 
patched truck, patched fence
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interview with severine von tscharner fleming
sugarhouse creamery  (scroll down page for sweet cow videos)
both found via the irrisistable fleet of bicycles

two in one

reversible

sun and flowers

top two from oona's friend chris' lovely oakland house. such a pretty garden and front yard, with lots of native plants, including a row of peeling manzanitas. (set)

good stuff
twin designer/photographers at the weaver house
an interview with artist/weaver hannah waldron
pretty video of willie nelson and sons for a fashion label