Friday is Skyday

11:40 a.m.

11:41 a.m.

11:42 a.m.

Saturday Night Music

Paco de Lucía (21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014)

Sunset with Saharan Dust

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Sun, trees, Saharan Dust

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Beers & Books LIV – Edna St Vincent Millay

 

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night"

[from A Few Figs from Thistles]

Edna St. Vincent Millay (22 February 1892 – 19 October 1950)

Beers & Books LIII – Sean O'Faolain

"Stories, like whiskey,
have to be allowed
to mature in the cask."

Seán Ó'Faoláin (22. February 1900 – 20 April 1991)

Beers & Books LII – Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The Big Green Tent

Lyudmila Ulitskaya * 21 February 1943

Saturday Night Music – Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia at the Alhambra

As this video, unfortunately, can only be watched on youtube, I do invite to follow the link above. Enjoy!

Andrés Segovia (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987)

Alhambra

Beers & Books LI – Umberto Eco

Well, rather Wine &Words
 

"You die,
but most of what you have accumulated
will not be lost;
you are leaving a message in a bottle."

 "Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016)

Beers & Books L – Herbert Rosendorfer

Skaumo,
The Architect of Ruins

Herbert Rosendorfer (19 February 1934 – 20 September 2012)

Laughing Lhursday*

Snowy primate.

* [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Update
to prove Andrew (see comments) is right.

Baboon, still there
but disguising himself as a bush.

Moments of solitude

Like a great poet,
Nature knows to produce greatest effects
with most limited means.

– Heinrich Heine (13 December 1796 – 17 February 1856) –

At sparrow's fart

No idea what let
29 members of the sparrow gang
from the cherry laurel vis-à-vis
suddenly invade this part of Seanhenge.