JT Morgan
@jtmorg.bsky.social
Reveler in words, sounds, images, nature, history, science, facts. Food. Flâneur. Probably reads too much. In and out of airplane mode. Grateful for all the wise, sane, informative, inspiring people here.
Back from Caucus dispatches and European walkabouts.
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
August 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Back from Caucus dispatches and European walkabouts.
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
This week’s speed = Black Krim tomato ripening on a sunny sill
Midweek poppy morning.
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Midweek poppy morning.
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
This is Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ (w hover fly friend), a variety that has self-sown in drifts all over the gritty parts my garden for over a decade now.
A delicate, ephemeral crowdpleaser that works best amid a meadowy plant matrix.
#gardening #bloomscrolling
Iconic novella. Diamond economy.
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Iconic novella. Diamond economy.
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it.”
-Andre Aciman
#booksky
June 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fernando Pessoa
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
June 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Fernando Pessoa
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
(“Alberto Caeiro”)
13 June 1888
from *The Keeper of Sheep* (*O Guardador de Rebanhos*)
Edwin Hoenig and Susan M. Brown, trans., 1971, 1985
The Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
#booksky
Always bought lp and cassette. My original tape (“relic”) from 40 years ago:
June 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Always bought lp and cassette. My original tape (“relic”) from 40 years ago:
Begins on Los Angeles rooftop, ends on roof of Europe.
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015
June 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Begins on Los Angeles rooftop, ends on roof of Europe.
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015
Perhaps James Salter was best known for *A Sport and Pastime*; I prefer this book and *Light Years*.
He demonstrates how to include the world in each chapter w elegant, descriptive economy.
#booksky
James Salter
10 June 1925-June 19 2015
Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June, 1903 - 17 Dec, 1987)
From Brussels to Petite Plaisance, Mount Desert Island, ME, where she conjured up sumptuous worlds for 40+ years.
1st woman elected to Académie Française. Force majeure.
Known for *Memoirs of Hadrian* but such a rich, singular oeuvre!
#booksky
From Brussels to Petite Plaisance, Mount Desert Island, ME, where she conjured up sumptuous worlds for 40+ years.
1st woman elected to Académie Française. Force majeure.
Known for *Memoirs of Hadrian* but such a rich, singular oeuvre!
#booksky
June 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June, 1903 - 17 Dec, 1987)
From Brussels to Petite Plaisance, Mount Desert Island, ME, where she conjured up sumptuous worlds for 40+ years.
1st woman elected to Académie Française. Force majeure.
Known for *Memoirs of Hadrian* but such a rich, singular oeuvre!
#booksky
From Brussels to Petite Plaisance, Mount Desert Island, ME, where she conjured up sumptuous worlds for 40+ years.
1st woman elected to Académie Française. Force majeure.
Known for *Memoirs of Hadrian* but such a rich, singular oeuvre!
#booksky
May 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
May 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just unearthed this special treat whilst doing some pre-midsummer döstägning this morning. He was such a kind man to all. I miss him.
(If anyone out there is collecting his correspondence, I probably have other letters tucked away somewhere.)
(If anyone out there is collecting his correspondence, I probably have other letters tucked away somewhere.)
May 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I just unearthed this special treat whilst doing some pre-midsummer döstägning this morning. He was such a kind man to all. I miss him.
(If anyone out there is collecting his correspondence, I probably have other letters tucked away somewhere.)
(If anyone out there is collecting his correspondence, I probably have other letters tucked away somewhere.)
Peonies always remind me of my mother. She had rows and rows of them in our garden. I worried about the buds always “being devoured” by ants. But no: ants love the nectar AND protect the plant from thrips.
This is Paeonia “Buckeye Belle”, a flower garden classic!
#gardening #bloomscrolling
This is Paeonia “Buckeye Belle”, a flower garden classic!
#gardening #bloomscrolling
May 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Peonies always remind me of my mother. She had rows and rows of them in our garden. I worried about the buds always “being devoured” by ants. But no: ants love the nectar AND protect the plant from thrips.
This is Paeonia “Buckeye Belle”, a flower garden classic!
#gardening #bloomscrolling
This is Paeonia “Buckeye Belle”, a flower garden classic!
#gardening #bloomscrolling
May 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Highly recommend:
Mai Zetterling (b. 24 May, 1924)
The Girls (1968)
More relevant today than 57 years — no, wait … over two millennia — ago?
Mai Zetterling (b. 24 May, 1924)
The Girls (1968)
More relevant today than 57 years — no, wait … over two millennia — ago?
May 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Highly recommend:
Mai Zetterling (b. 24 May, 1924)
The Girls (1968)
More relevant today than 57 years — no, wait … over two millennia — ago?
Mai Zetterling (b. 24 May, 1924)
The Girls (1968)
More relevant today than 57 years — no, wait … over two millennia — ago?
Major update!
Barn swallows 1, House wrens 0
Though those crafty wrens stuffed the swallows’ mud condo with leaves, twigs, moss — even human detritus (candy wrappers, etc.) —, sloppy play and effete sabotage were no hard deterrent to Team Swallow.
Swallow mothers, rejoice.
#nature #birds
Barn swallows 1, House wrens 0
Though those crafty wrens stuffed the swallows’ mud condo with leaves, twigs, moss — even human detritus (candy wrappers, etc.) —, sloppy play and effete sabotage were no hard deterrent to Team Swallow.
Swallow mothers, rejoice.
#nature #birds
May 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This morning’s pre-composition Candide thing.
#gardening
#gardening
May 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This morning’s pre-composition Candide thing.
#gardening
#gardening
April 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
April 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
April 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Vicente Aleixandre (26 Apr, 1898-14 Dec 1984)
“ … confused like the moon that begs me for my light.”
(“Ven siempre, ven”)
Y mucho mas! His fabulist’s melancholic world, with its own semiotics, first begs attention with its surface contradictions, only to make a new, deeper sense.
#booksky #poetry
“ … confused like the moon that begs me for my light.”
(“Ven siempre, ven”)
Y mucho mas! His fabulist’s melancholic world, with its own semiotics, first begs attention with its surface contradictions, only to make a new, deeper sense.
#booksky #poetry
April 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM