Pescadotes: blue whale*

Pescadotes: blue whale*:
New from Joe Warren


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Orchids - Jon Gelman, letters - O'Keefe and Stieglitz

photo by Jon Gelman

Georgia O'Keefe made this sort of thing popular - with her paintings of vaginal flowers.  Perhaps she missed her partner Alfred Stieglitz with whom she carried on a copious correspondence during the long periods when they were apart.  (NPR reports on Sarah Greenough's volume of   the letters - My Faraway One.) I suspect there's not much literary treasure in all today's email, tweets, and blogging, but the photography is really good now, as Jon Gelman shows us in this set taken at the orchid show. 

Stieglitz and O'Keefe - reunited

Carlo Borlenghi - Vela e velieri

Can't make it to Paris for the opening? Check out the spectacular website of the great Italian sailing photographer.

Chinese vs foreign stars: Who has most beautiful legs? - GlobalTimes

Chinese vs foreign stars: Who has most beautiful legs? - GlobalTimes:
看看！

最漂亮的女儿是哪过的？
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Copps Island Cedar Point Oysters - Long Island Sound

Had a half dozen at Tony's Pier on City Island Avenue; took another half-dozen home - at a buck a piece.  Briny, fresh from the Norwalk Islands on the Connecticut shore.  Get 'em from Norm Bloom & Sons.

Whitbread 1997 - 1998 - retrospective

Lobster 'the size of a small child' caught in Maine - Telegraph

Lobster 'the size of a small child' caught in Maine - Telegraph: "The 40-inch male crustacean, about the size of a three-year-old child, was freed in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, said Elaine Jones, education director for the state's Department of Marine Resources.
"All the weight is in the claws," Ms Jones said. "It would break your arm."
The lobster was caught near the seaside village of Cushing and brought to the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay. The state restricts fishermen from keeping lobsters that measure more than 5 inches from the eye to the start of the tail.
Because he became acclimated to the water near the aquarium, the lobster was released in West Boothbay rather than where he was caught.
Scientists are unable to accurately estimate the age of lobsters of this size, said Ms Jones."

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Volvo: 20 kts - fire hose planing

After sailing east for seven days out of Sanyo, China, the Volvo fleet turned south.  With 3,000 miles to go to Auckland, NZ, the fleet is averaging 500 nm/day.  As this video shows life for a bowman is like standing in front of a fire hose.  But they're sailors, so they're happy.

Little ice, no snow - Back River, Friendship, Maine

Little ice, no snow on Presidents Day weekend 2012.

JJ Lin - When You 当你

JJ Lin 林俊傑 - 当你


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