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Nemophilist, paleobotanist/botanist. Antique corkscrew, eel spear, Japanese kokeshi & Ainu carved bears collector. Virgo an chiotóg, multi-instrumentalist. Signed 1st ed book buyer. Wordbird.
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Alexander Redwoods
December 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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1st edition tan colored dust jacket of the fabulous 1985 book and debut novel by TR Pearson entitled “A Short History of a Small Place” which hilariously and sadly describes the lives and eccentricities of the inhabitants of the fictional town of Neely, North Carolina. Beneath the stacked simple cream-colored block print with brown bordered titles and author’s name is a small cream-bordered rectangle enclosing a yellowed evening image of a dirt road bending from the foreground through a darkened moss green landscape toward the center of the image, where it disappears as it gently bends left around a tree silhouetted by the dimming sky beyond. Below the image: “A Novel” in the same block letters as the title and author’s name.
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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I’ve named my stapler “Grimface”.
Indentations on the silver metal spring plate of a black office stapler form the eyes and mouth of a grim looking face. End of the centered mounting pin inserted from the underside is a round nose. The simple face is reminiscent of stylized ancient visages carved in stone or on totems by indigenous peoples long ago.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Tree- map of the many Uralic languages from inferred origin (top) through descending branches of documented and modern (bottom) spoken tongues, including Estonian, Finnish, Lapp, and Hungarian.
September 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Pickled eggs afficionados are encouraged to submit their fave recipes.
Two quart jars of home-pickled hens’ eggs. Left, clear pickling liquid with dill canning blend with garlic and strips of jalapeño pepper; right, reddish-purple pickling liquid from roasted beets (also pickled) with whole cloves, stick cinnamon, allspice, cardamom and sugar.
September 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Selfie photo with sunset warmly illuminating the face of a smiling bearded man with tortoiseshell eyeglasses and the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile behind/over his left shoulder.
September 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Wild chokecherry blooms are riotous just now in SW Idaho. The small bitter “bird cherries” make the loveliest intensely-flavored jelly and syrup.
5” long wild chokecherry catkin packed with cream-white flowers with yellow centers.
May 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM