Friday, July 09, 2021

A Something to Look Forward to Weekly Link Round-Up

 


Another quiet week here, although it was exciting that we had a couple of days of rain. Arizona is like a tinderbox. At one point, twenty wildfires were raging here. I can't help but think with the timing of this past week's rains that Mother Nature was trying to wet everything down before everyone started shooting off fireworks.
 
I never know which way Denis is going to jump, but I'm beginning to think that he's wanting to get out and about so badly that he'd go anywhere. I approached him about going to the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit in Scottsdale, and his approval of the idea came so quickly my head spun. If you want to know more about it, just click on the link.

I'm really looking forward to going, and the date on our tickets made me smile-- my grandmother's birthday. 

While I'm daydreaming about Van Gogh, enjoy the links!



►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄
 
►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄

  • An Australian mouse presumed to be extinct for over a century has been found alive on an island in Western Australia. 
  • A man set out an ice cube for a parched squirrel to drink from during the record-breaking heat wave in Portland.
  • Elusive Chinese mountain cats aren't domestic cats' ancestors.
  • This gecko named Mr. Frosty and his 900 babies may inspire human skin cancer treatments.
  • A drone timelapse of sheep being herded. (That'll do, Pig. That'll do.)
  • An imaginative photographer built an entire Hobbit village for the mice who live in his back garden.
  • Watch a hungry elephant crash through a kitchen wall in Thailand while searching for salty snacks. (I wonder if State Farm will cover that claim...)
  • Watch a pair of kittens intensely watch a Tom & Jerry cartoon on their humans' computer.
  • The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes.
  • Watch a tiny wolf pup try howling for the very first time.
 
►The Happy Wanderer◄
►I ♥ Lists◄ 

That's all for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure.

Don't forget to spend some time curled up with a good book!

17 comments:

  1. Oh, I love Impressionism and I do love Van Gogh's work! I'd be more than itching to go if there were anything like that going on near me, Cathy! I hope you get to go. I'll want to read about your visit - after I get back from that quarry...

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    1. After the week I've had, I'm really looking forward to seeing it myself.

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  2. I'm excited for you and Denis to be able to see the Van Gogh exhibit! More links to check out--thanks!

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  3. I bet the Van Gogh exhibit would be fun. Wonder what makes it more immersive?

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    1. It's 3-D projections of the paintings in such a way that you are "in" the painting instead of just looking at the original 2-D work. Friends of mine who have gone enjoyed it.

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    2. Thanks for answering for me, Kate. I've been spending way too much time with doctors this week. I'm really, really, really looking forward to "walking into" Starry Night!

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  4. I love the lists you've linked to...especially the one of authors' choices for crime novels they've read at least twice. Some really great choices on the list...some I've read and some I now want to read.

    Speaking of "wants," I really want that Scottish ghost village. It seems very cheap, really, at that price.

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  5. I'm looking at tickets for the Van Gogh experience here also - it will be fun to read about your and Denis's reactions!

    Lots of intriguing links to check out this week :)

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    1. I hope you'll be able to attend. It's rather pricey, but Denis and I deserve to splash out a bit right now. I want to spend my money on something besides insurance co-pays. :-/

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  6. You certainly do deserve to spend money on fun! And it's a learning experience, too.

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    1. I think I'll have to make sure that I have plenty of tissues. I've loved Starry Night since the first time I've seen it, and to actually "walk into" that painting will probably be a very emotional experience for me. I hope it's dark so I can sit and cry without attracting a lot of attention!

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  7. Oh, good art and music can do that. I saw an exhibit of Monet's water lilies and was awed b;y it. Ended up buy an expensive boxed set of cards of the paintings so I could look at them.

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    1. The most beautiful painting I've ever seen face-to-canvas is one of Monet's water lily series. An exhibit of Impressionistic paintings came to Phoenix back in the '80s, but I've never forgotten it.

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  8. Really? To see the canvases up close and very big is awesome.

    I grew up in a house with paintings by Cezanne and Utrillo, as my mother liked them. I have her art books and she had several about various impressionists.

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