Cool chick

My new icon--Grace Slick (from Jefferson Airplane).  It's my biz for the summer.  Images found here.

Run free

Photo by Robert W. Kelley//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Optical illusions

Photo by Nina Leen//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Gjon Mili//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by George Silk//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

No words

Just dance.  Or something....found this here (worth a look).

Another Earth?

Scientists confirmed the existence of a habitable planet, a mere 600 light years away.  So interesting, and kinda trippy, given that I watched this movie last night.  Which was also trippy, in a good way.

Snow day!

Photograph by Mallory Porshnev, from National Geographic

There seems to be a theme here...

©1973, Paul B. Herzoff, Smithsonian American Art Museum

©1973, Paul B. Herzoff, Smithsonian American Art Museum

©1971, Paul B. Herzoff, Smithsonian American Art Museum

©1971, Paul B. Herzoff, Smithsonian American Art Museum

©1971, Paul B. Herzoff, Smithsonian American Art Museum

©1970, Paul B. Herzoff, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Rolling Homes

This book looks amazing.  The photos pretty much speak for themselves.

Vintage National Parks

I've been spending some quality time with National Geographic lately.

Sequoia Tree, Yosemite, 1920, Photo from Library of Congress

Crater Lake, Circa 1912, Photograph by Kunselman-Gerking, Library of Congress

Balcony House, Mesa Verde, Circa 1918, Photograph by Haines Photo Co., Library of Congress

Mount Rainer National Park, Circa 1911-1920, Photograph by Curtis & Miller, Library of Congress

Looking forward to a new way of living: slowing down, simplifying, stargazing, skinny dipping (and other things that don't begin with an "s").

Photograph by Marshall Wilson, from National Geographic

Leaving on a jet plane

I'm bound for Amsterdam and Berlin this week.  Can't wait.

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images, from Life

Exploration

I just finished reading this (so good!) and am now obsessed with learning more about arctic and antartic explorations.  I am fascinated by Shackleton's Expedition voyage--not a single crewmember died and they camped out on an ice floe hoping it would drift.  Sheesh.

This weekend:

• RT's birthday
• Zombies
• Art

Archive of Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society; photograph, Underwood and Underwood, New York

Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society; photograph, Underwood and Underwood, New York

Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society; photograph, Underwood and Underwood, New York

Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society; photograph, Underwood and Underwood, New York

"Runway modeling the Soviet way"

I love looking at the galleries they put together on Life.  This one is great--commie vs. capitalist fashion.  Yup.

Photo by Walter Sanders//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Yves St Laurent

From Life.  So good.

End of summer

Hike up to an alpine lake.  Magical.

Psychedelic

I've been reading this lately, which has got me fascinated with the psychedelic movement in the 60's.  Very interesting. (All photos from Life).

Fantasizing/planning

Fishing

I haven't been in ages, but I'm tempted to see if I can fit in a fishing trip before summer's over.  And I totally couldn't resist that Paul Newman picture (swoon).  All photos from Life.

Photo by Mark Kauffman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Nat Farbman//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Hansel Mieth//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Peter Stackpole//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Loomis Dean//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Photo by Carl Mydans//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images