Day 4986: Feed Sacks, Revisited & Pasadena Goat Firefighters.

"Recalculating": junk collage, photo, ink drawing, watercolor, digital.

                                                                       

  

Want music?

    Click: Bill Withers, Just the Two of Us.

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Repost: Day 1593: Monday, December 5, 2016

I vaguely remembered ordering something a long time ago.

Normally pretty frugal, I sometimes splurge. And, look!

It's my book wrapped in a real flour sack!

Cousin Katha, I immediately thought of you! You'd love it!

And inside ... amazing!

  

If you don't know about UPPERCASE magazine, 

it is a beautiful high-end, pricey, no ads, quarterly magazine.

I was lucky to be published in it, & now subscribe.

. . .

"UPPERCASE is a small, independent publisher of books and magazines for the creative and curious: products that spark the imagination and inspire creativity. Founded in 2009, UPPERCASE is loved by readers around the world and has been recognized for its design excellence.

Feed Sacks: The Colorful History of a Frugal Fabric

WRITTEN BY LINZEE KULL MCCRAY

Feed sacks are the perfect example of a utilitarian product turned into something beautiful. Author Linzee Kull McCray explores the history of the humble feed sack, from a plain burlap or cotton sack to exuberantly patterned and colorful bags that were re-purposed into frocks, aprons and quilts by thrifty housewives in the first half of the 20th century

  

Isn't that the best? 

When you've ordered something but forgot & so it's like a gift!

  

On the steep, brush-covered slopes of the Arroyo Seco, home to the Rose Bowl, a new kind of wildfire defense has arrived — on cloven hooves.

Starting this morning, more than 600 goats are being deployed across roughly 100 acres to help kick off Earth Day celebrations in the city.

  

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Ugly Butterfly,  here.

 

 

Just because ...

Sunday's Smiles ... 

 

Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.