Nymph and Satyr.

 

If you're anything like me, and I know that I am, you'll recognise that brushwork and shadings as being the work of  Pierre Cabanel, which means that this painting is almost certainly Nymphe surprise par un satyre (Nymph Surprised by a Satyr), an 1875 work.

Bonus -  Café Lehmitz and the Photographs of Anders Petersen: A Portrait of Hamburg’s Red-Light District.  Features an image you may recognise if you've heard Tom Waits' Rain Dogs.

Look! At!! This!!!

 

To the modern blog-reader, this slide is a bit ... ummm, what?  

However, it may have originally been part of a witty multimedia presentation to wow the attendees of a Battley Townswomen's Guild Wednesday Afternoon event.

Maybe.

Bonus - Are people born with a photographic memory?

Or does it take time to develop?

The Horror of Suburbia

 

No, it's not CGI. People did used to look like this.

These are the Fanshawe's (pronounced Featherstonehaugh.)

• Roger is an Investment Banker, in both technical and rhyming slang senses)
• Julie is a part time teacher who collect knitted toilet paper covers in her spare time
• Kevin (left) enjoys mathematics, Latin, accountancy and dressing up in mum's clothes.
• Wolfgang (right) believes he's a changeling, but wants to be a Tax Auditor when he grows up.

The sign in the background appears to be "Curtis Woo...." which makes me this this might be Curtis Wood Park Road in Hern Bay, with it's shitty half-timbered stockbroker houses...Like this  but life is too short to find an exact match.

Bonus - The Earth with high and low sea levels.

The Decapitator of Dudley

 

I know that today is Tedious Tuesday, and this slide isn't actually tedious or boring, but ... its ineptness is worthy of highlighting.

What would be a nice little image is spoiled by the photographer's inability to actually point the camera high enough to capture the (presumably) happy faces.

Bonus - I'm back, and posting Stuff. Isn't that enough?

Bonus 2 - Kansas's highest point is just a lump in a farmer's field.

Happy Birthday Melanie

 

Happy Birthday to my favourite gal, Mel.

(No, that's not Mel in the picture. Probably.)

Bonus - Today is also the birthday of Salma Hayek, another hot and sexy lady, and Keir Starmer, who isn't.

A Reflective Moment

 

Quite a nice "found" image.

Slide says 1955 "Mirror Lake", so it could be Yosemite 

Bonus - So...blogging seems like a bit of a chore at the moment. May be time for a break.

Afternoon Tea at The Ritz

 Alas, it was The Ritz Goat Market and Coffee Shop. high in the foothills of The Himalayas.

Bonus - 

C-130 Fuselage (Left) and C-5 Galaxy (right)

Summer Swing

 

Now THAT is a swing!

As a kid, we had a single seat swing in the back garden, so THAT seems a bit OTT.

Bonus - 

Is It Baseball Season ?

 

I know that NFL / American Football (a.k.a. Hand Egg) is starting soon, but Baseball / Rounders.... I dunno.

Bonus - News that you did not need.

Bonus 2 - "I don't like my neighbour. Each night I walked my dog down our street, I paused outside their house and turned their TV off through their front window with our spare universal remote. One afternoon I came home to find their TV out by the bins. We now have a new bedroom TV"

It's .... ... The Drama Llama

 

Photo taken by The Drama Llama Farmer.

Bonus - R.I.P. Tim Curry

Where In The World? - Game 78

 

Today's challenge comes in from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales, who asks if anyone can recognise this location?   Is it

1. The Upper Circle of the Shepton Mallet Odeon?
2. The geyser Geysir in Iceland?
3. The Pyramids at Gaza?
4. The remodelled Rose Garden at The White House?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address.

Bonus - RIP Dolly.

(House ... Side ... Maud)

 

"And this is Maude, at the side of the house.

Sigh. So dull.

Bonus - Thieves of ‘cursed’ rocks pen letters of remorse to a national park

And That Was The Last We Saw Of Them

 

Start your childhood ghost stories now.

A Sunday Out at the Park

Sunday Afternoon.

Great for just lazing about. Great for heading off to the park, and riding the open wagons on the miniature railway.

Great.

Bonus - from One to One Hundred

 

Cascade

Finally, England's hot spell has broken, and we have rain.  It seems strange for England to welcome the rain, but ... weird time.

I don't think this image of a recent English mountain stream, because a/ England has no mountains, b/ the image dates to 1984, and c/ AI Suggests 

"The image shows the cascading waters of the Canaima National Park region in Venezuela, featuring powerful tea-colored rapids rushing over dark rock formations with distant tabletop tepui mountains on the horizon.

Location: Canaima National Park, La Gran Sabana, Venezuela.

Key Features: Rushing amber-tinted river waters, layered stone terraces, and distinctive flat-topped tepui mountain formations in the background. "

Bonus - Cats in Sinks

 

The Beach Scene

At work today (Yes, I still work), the place seemed empty with so many folk slacking off, on holiday in X, Y and Z. 

Fine, suits me.

So, here's a nice beach scene to make you think of holidays, sand fleas, and noisy Magyars shouting at each other.

No idea where this is, but it's probably not Iceland.

Bonus - Lose Yourself
 

Blessed Are The Cheesemakers

 

They just have a whey with curds.

Bonus - Ah .... Memories

Name That Plane - Game 237

 

And I'll give you one clue : it's no Concorde.

Can you identify it?

Answer Here.

Bonus - What's the best thing about Switzerland?

Well, their flag is a big plus.

Bonus - 

It's Art, Dudes

 

A bit conflicted in this slide. Sure, a slide of a framed picture sounds like Tedious Tuesday fodder, but...

...It's cool.

According to what was writ on the slide, "Jun-85 Bali, Ubud Museum".

...and that lead to this website

Bonus - A quick bit of ISIHAC

Yotting (spelled "Yachting")

 

One of the strangest spellings in the English language, but ... whatever.

Looks like a decent way to cool down in this heatwave.

Bonus - Today, 67 years ago, Quake Lake formed.