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Thanks Noel! (btw, excellent review of the Pittsburgh show -- you write very well). Last Spring Break, the family went to Chicago and visited the Robie House at the U. of Chicago as well as the FLW studio in Oak Park (my old stomping grounds with imawomber) ... I dearly loved Frankie many moons back, and still do to be sure. My interest in Wright was recently brought to my attention when my daughter read The Wright 3, ... this excellent children's book by Blue Balliett. Even though it's a children's book, if YOU haven't yet read The Wright 3, I highly recommend it. She also wrote another children's mystery type novel called Chasing Vermeer , which gave me a chance to buy a book on Vermeer for my daughter to give her a better understanding of why Vermeer was so talented.

dragonfly is also the name of a novel by an acquaintance of mine -- Fred Durbin wrote it more than 5 years ago while we were both in Japan. . . a really good read, too, an excellent October read.

a review from Amazon:

"I was a bit hesitant to plunge into this book, fearing yet another child-enters-into-a-faerie-land-and-saves-the-day scenario. But, hey, I'm a print junkie, so that hesitation was extremely brief. But even that slight pause was too long. This book is great. Unlike other mystical realms, the world our heroine Bridget Anne (or Dragonfly, as she's called) enters is dark and dangerous. As the tale progressed, I realized that Mr. Durbin might not be above killing off the good guys. But if the story wasn't a squeaky-clean fairy tale, it wasn't a dismal, souless slaughter-fest, either. There is love and hope and faith amidst the suffering and death. In the battle between good and evil, both sides take some hits. "

I have a few *choice* dragonfly photos still

Fandorin -- great detail as always love the flamingos.


edited because I forgot my links.

a reluctant school girl walking home with mama in Asakusa, Tokyo.

chrome3D wrote:

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Hanani, how you get that clean look? I mean those people look almost not real. Like they are from a movie or something.

Maybe my zoom lens? Chrome, I don't think there's anything special that I did. I have a low-middle end single SLR, so it's certainly not the lens, either. When I went to Japan in June, I wanted to shoot some "people" shots, and not the "cos-play, aren't-the-youth-of-Japan-cute?" variety, either. The problem is that I hate taking photos of people without their permission. The only salve for me was to shoot using my telephoto, so my "people" shots are mostly taken with a zoom. In some cases, I pretended to take photos of the group I chaperoned, too.

here is another people photo





and a bonus photo from Asakusa:



can't get through the front door, even.