76 Candles 🎂 today for the wonderful JEFF BRIDGES

Love this....A Day at the Ice Rink by Charles H.H. Burleigh

Eartha Kitt photographed by Carl Van Vechten - October 19. 1952.

The family dog travels in the baby's pram strapped in the back of the automobile on it's way from Lowerstoft to London for Christmas, 1934

I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead. — Tom Stoppard

Remembering George Harrison... who died on this day in 2001....

Jack London and his fine furry friend....

Antony Hopkins' one-time screensaver...when he looked at it he said "We did alright, kid!"

Gorgonic Ambient Paris 1965 Photo by Miljenko Horvat

Reflections in the blue studio 2020 Daisy Sims Hilditch

Happy 82nd birthday to Randy Newman !

Nine hearts from nature.

Stanislav Zhukovsky Interior with Piano 1917

If Mick Jagger were a Muppet

There's no light in the tunnel, no irons in the fire Come on up to the house And you're singing lead soprano in a junkman's choir You got to come on up to the house Does life seem nasty, brutish and short Come on up to the house The seas are stormy and you can't find no port

Bon appetit and happy prepping for Thanksgiving to all my American pals !

Gerrit David Labots (Dutch, 1869-1959) Clematis

Goat. Recycled metal sculpture by Mohsen Yeganeh

Photograph by André Kertész

Antonio Mora

To CV or not to CV....that is the question !

Two girls shopping for their mothers on stilts in Sidcup, England. Stilt-walking was a popular pastime for children in the 1950s.

William Blake’s “The Soul Hovering over the Body”, an illustration to Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808)

Entrance to an Art Nouveau house from 1902 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

When you don't feel like cooking

Gianluca Corona

Jon Naar – Shadows of children swinging. Munich, Germany, 1963.

Tom Thomson. Moonlight birches. 1915 Hat tip Debi Babiak

Alfred Hitchcock's team working on the set of "Rear Window," 1954

Tom Thomson Northern Lights 1916

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." Werner Herzog

In March, best-selling Canadian author Louise Penny wrote in a Facebook post that she didn’t feel she could enter the U.S. after its ‘unprovoked trade war against Canada.’ She speaks to The National’s Ian Hanomansing about why she isn’t budging on her promise. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Richard Burton was born 100 years ago today. This is a publicity shot for an early Burton big screen starring role - as a smuggler in the Ealingesque comedy GREEN GROW THE RUSHES (Derek Twist, UK, 1951). #richardburton

White roses....France

White Tulips by Molly Bobak (1956)

Remembering DYLAN THOMAS - who left us 72yrs ago today, aged just 39.