"Always write first things uppermost in the heart." ~E.A.P

      

On the other side

Hallowe'en

Towards the subway.

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior 1830 - 1890

The Haunted Metropolitan Museum of Art

Any artist who wants shelter and supplement 

from the raw beating of the urban concrete 

should put themselves on a train heading 

towards 86th Street where they can find divine 

solace and 5,000 years of ancient motivation.

While taking the photographs I noticed that many of the stone reliefs, ritual sculptures and funerary objects are definitely haunted.

...Muahahahahaha, ha!

Henry Chapman Mercer

Henry Chapman Mercer was a historian, curator, archaeologist, and ceramist. A Renaissance man of the early the early 1900's..

Probably not...

The Mercer Museum's expanding collection contains more about 50,000 artifacts. The oldest artifacts in the museum are Native American  implements dating from 6,000 B.C. to 8,000 B.C.

Ohh Jack!

.....Six days left to go

Ghostly Reflection

"I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life."

~Sherlock Holmes

The Single Hound

THE SOUL that has a Guest, Doth seldom go abroad, 

Diviner Crowd at home Obliterate the need, 
And courtesy forbid A Host’s departure, 
when Upon Himself be visiting

The Emperor of Men!
Emily Dickinson (1830–86)

On All Hallows’ eve!

The Dark one placed a spell on Jack, castigating him to endlessly drift at night throughout the land.  The only light he carried  was a small candle contained inside a swollen turnip.

Pumpkin Sky

What a lovely reflection!

Their masked buds discloses

LXX

To tie up envy, evermore enlarged,
If some suspect of ill masked not thy show,
Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.

W.S

Señor Calabaza

                    

 A pumpkin fiend is a gourd-like squash creature from the land of Cucurbita.

They have a thick frame on the outside and hold seeds within a mushy inside.

Halloween, Halloween..

"Sixteen times I heard the sinister  laugh!

Skull Thursday!

For the rain today I have a simple, "Muahahahaha!

"El Batman?"

"You've still got a few days left champ!"

Just Smile!

"Tis Halloween! Ohh Halloween!"

The moon is full and bright

And we shall treat what can't be tricked

Tis one and only night.


~A.O

La tradición de Halloween

Understand the white,

But preserve the black!

Allhallow-even

HALLOWEEN

c.1745, Scottish shortening of Allhallow-even "Eve of All Saints, last night of the month of October" (1556 1/2), the last concluding night of the year in the antiquated Celtic calendar, where it was
Old Year's Night, a night for sorcerers.

Ten times Halloween

Observed by children in masks who desire treats, often threatening with minor frivolity.

9 steps through October

24
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And perspective it is the painter's art. ~William Shakespear

The Un-detective

Self portrait (circa 1952?)

Street art and a silent epitaph.

LXXXI

Or I shall live your epitaph to make,

Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,

From hence your memory death cannot take,

Although in me each part will be forgotten.

~William Shakespear

On the wet window.

Creative fire has a distinctive measure

Casting light to find the eye inside the vest

But simple etchings are not for pleasure

Above the pattern there is a better way!

~A.O

Hallow Fourth

The world of Halloween is a lovely and benighted place. The sky is orange, the tea is violet, and a new tragedy opens with every costume. Witches, ghouls, fiends, and mobs of rabid vampire-eating bunnies-- just when it seems like things can't get any spookier-they do. Some say that one's reward on october 31st is based on the spirit of the hallow throughout the year. If so, there may be hope yet.

~A.O.

Sunday Gloomio

I made him long ago and he lost his heart at the gates...

Granted, I'll do anything for a good donut.

If you're holding out for universal popularity,

I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

October 1st

...Unknown spears,

Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,

And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)