Miscelaneous

Best of 2021

Sherry Felix32 Comments

Selected from prior postings in 2021.

Thistle, NYBG 8/18/2021
NYBG 8/18/2021
Day Geysir, Iceland 7/14/2021
Lake Skannatati, Harriman SP, NY 7/29/2021
Common Redshank (Tringa totanus), Saltjarnes, Iceland 7/20/2021
Diamond Beach 7/15/2021
Halsanefshellir Cave, Vik 7/15/2021
Gullfoss, Golden Circle, Iceland 7/14/2021
Grass at Seltjarnarnes, Iceland 7/20/2021
Mansion, Skylands 5/2/2021
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), Central Park 4/29/2021
Plant, Central Park 4/20/2021
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), Central Park 2/2/2021
Cyclemen

Civic Virtue

Sherry Felix4 Comments

This strange “sculpture is known as an allegorical personification: a story or set of abstract ideas symbolized by the human form. The youthful male figure represents Virtue: honest, incorruptible city government. The writhing feminized sea creatures, caught up in netting, together represent the Vices over which Civic Virtue strives to triumph: treachery and corruption. is now in Greenwood Cemetery.“ It is controversial and sexist. “Controversy erupted as soon as the monument was unveiled. Civic Virtue was viewed as a male stomping upon two women and not as an allegorical personification.” Read all about it here: “Civic Virtue” Historical Marker (hmdb.org)

My opinion on this sort of controversial sculpture is to leave them up and use them as a teaching tool as they did with this one by posting a plaque with the text from the contents of the link I provided above.

  • Civic Virtue, Green-Wood Cemetery 12/12/2021
  • Civic Virtue, Green-Wood Cemetery 12/12/2021
  • Civic Virtue, Green-Wood Cemetery 12/12/2021

Old Curiosity Shop

Sherry Felix20 Comments

In about 1958 my mother went to The Old Curiosity Shop in London and bought this book for me. A large 9 by 11 inch version of the sad story of The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. The illustrations by Frank Reynolds, R. I. are priceless. I can’t find a publishing date in it or anything else about the book.

The book is one of the few things I have left from my mother and from that time. I remember reading it in a flat in Queensborough Terrace, Kensington, in my bedroom. My room used to be the old larder behind the kitchen and had no heat except for a small kerosene heater – very Dickensian. I loved the little moss garden in the gutter outside the window.

Click on the first one to enlarge and run the slide show. This is for you Derrick.

  • The Old Curiosity Shop
  • The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.
    Illustrated by Frank Reynolds, R. I.
  • Kit
  • Dick Swiveller
  • Quip’s Wharf
  • Dick Swiveller adn Sophy Wackles
  • Kit and His Mother
  • Sampson Brass and Quilp
  • Mressrs. Godlin and Short
  • Little Nell
  • The Wayfarers
  • Mrs. Jarley
  • Sally Brass
  • Little Nell
  • Flight
  • Mr. and Mrs. Quilp
  • Nell’s Garden
  • Tjhe Marchioness
  • Cribbage
  • Tjhe Figurehead
  • Away with Melancholy
  • Near the Journey’s End
  • End pieces
  • End pieces

Bird Hat Pin

Sherry Felix17 Comments

Perhaps to console myself over the lack of a single sale of my Natural Side of the City book, though it has gathered over 100 likes in a week, I bought a bird pin and some feathers and created this accessory for my birding hat. I just love my hot glue gun.

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