FINAL POST: en bateau

en bateau first appeared at these shores on December 8, 2012.

Final post for Centuries Since the Day. You’re encouraged to revisit this photo blog’s beginning in March 2009 and sift through hundreds of images past. Thanks to you, viewers, for looking and occasionally responding. No thanks at all to the meretricious crypto-fascists at Word Press / Automattic who never once in more than a dozen years ever bothered to feature this endeavor via Freshly Pressed — or whatever they called that safe crap they deemed worthy of slick promotion. Safe journey, space fans, as Stephen Hill used to say…

after hours

Initially posted June 10, 2009

a straight line

Snapped December 2011; initially posted March 8, 2012

Venice Biennale

First posted October 14, 2011

Mediterranean

Originally posted March 14, 2012

puzzles & dreams

Originally posted February 24, 2012

the young couple

 

All art is propaganda… On the other hand, not all propaganda is art. As I said earlier, Dickens is one of those writers who are felt to be worth stealing. He has been stolen by Marxists, by Catholics and, above all, by Conservatives. The question is, What is there to steal? Why does anyone care about Dickens? Why do I care about Dickens?

That kind of question is never easy to answer. As a rule, an aesthetic preference is either something inexplicable or it is so corrupted by non-aesthetic motives as to make one wonder whether the whole of literary criticism is not a huge network of humbug.

— George Orwell, from his essay “Charles Dickens”

the last of Blue

Photo taken late 1990s? Originally posted July 4, 2014

Whidbey Island

Circa early ’00s. Initially posted on Flickr.

i cover the waterfront

Originally posted June 8, 2012

Christmastime at Portage

Originally posted December 18, 2009

living in a kind of daydream

Originally posted August 14, 2013

pretty things do us no harm

In memory of P.J.S. on her 65th birthday.

Castleberry mural

Originally posted February 4, 2012

tango bar

Originally posted February 8, 2012

parasol blue/lost count

Originally posted Christmas Day 2010

In memory of Abbey Lincoln (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010)

Buddhas on pallet

Originally posted June 24, 2011

Georgian Terrace in blue

Originally posted November 8, 2010.

And re-posted here today in memory of the great prose stylist Janet Malcolm (1934-2021), who was one of my favorite authors. If you’ve never read In the Freud Archives, The Crime of Sheila McGough, or Nobody’s Looking at You, I highly recommend them all.

golden apples

Originally posted June 4, 2010

irises, window, and mirror

Originally posted June 8, 2010

cupola problems

heaven here

Remix of image originally published May 18, 2009: https://npthompson.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/heaven-here/

baubles, candles, cones

Originally posted May 18, 2009

wall of Rs

February 19, 2010
Belmar, CO