antecedent freed deco

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white. (Gregg Allman)

Sunday!  It's FLAPJACK DAY!  And I cooked up extra bacon to crumble in the batter with some chopped pecans today-  quite wonderful.  And I made enough to have some tomorrow too.   It's also Father's Day, and the day after a full moon what was spectacular still at 6:30 this morning as I trotted down the center of the street with the fur children.  Aaarugh.  To celebrate here are my two grandfathers, long gone, and I hardly knew either one:

Rattlesnake Pete (Carl Townsend) in Ft. Collins with the pet fawn

Donald Mitchell, originally from Oxford MS, but sent to CO at 17 for his health. It worked-  he lived there, mostly in Berthoud, for years until he retired in AZ.

My dad, 'Swede' Townsend, at his HS graduation-  1936, also gone now for a few years.  

and from left, Jamie Donovan and Nate Donabed-  my grandkid's daddys, and their dad and father-in- law at right-  TY to you guys.  They were all 'tuxed up' for a family wedding we were at.  And there ya go, all the patriarchal line I could show you.

Let's do a bit o' recycling today:

John Grade

For her latest project titled "Penalty", UK based photographer Mandy Barker, used mass collections of footballs to create a series of images designed to raise awareness about marine pollution at the time of the World Cup. The recovered footballs were collected from 41 different countries and islands around the world, from 144 different beaches and by 89 members of the public in just 4 months. Via The Guardian, "The balls were photographed as they were found, unwashed and unaltered, some containing seawater, others drained. Some were home to creatures, including a shrew, an ants' nest and a family of crabs, while others showed signs of having been bitten by turtles and fish"

Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus travelled to Poland, to create a new installation for the Katowice Street Art Festival. Using more than 6.000 discarded water bottles from local manufacturing and bottling plants they built an outdoor installation that takes the form of a navigable, plastic waste labyrinth. The structure is comprised of plastic bags full of water bottles which are illuminated with autonomous LEDs and suspended by their handles from a metallic structure constructed of modular and reusable elements. Via their website, "We were looking to demonstrate, in a poetic manner, the amount of plastic waste that is consumed daily, in addition to focusing attention on the big business of bottling water." 

A Deco Squirrel, advertised as a 'ring holder'.  I'd put an acorn inside of his acorn just to be ironic.  I need a ring holder about as much as I need a squirrel.