The shade trees have produced an abundance of large leaves. Fog settles in during the morning then floats away after noon.

And I collected kitchen stuff too. I had to stop with the nostalgia stuff because I just ran out of room.

This a Ram set I had made in Tanjavur. Traditionally there are four images: Ram and Sita, Lakshman, and Hanuman. The Ravi Varma print behind them is a large size, there aren't many left in this size.

These are mostly new bronzes 6" to 12". I've been collecting for about 5 years. Some I buy online from a dealer in Connecticut and some directly from India. I've been pretty adventurous finding sources and making purchases. The shipping can be expensive because of the weight of bronze. The prints are Ravi Varma prints from the 1920s. I bought a bunch on ebay and discovered that the dealer lives not far from here. I met him and bought even more. They come up occasionally on ebay and there is at least one dealer online in India as well.

This is the buddhist collection. The buddha was made in Bangladesh, there is only a handful of atisans left who carry on the craft that goes back to the Pallava era. The other pieces are Nepalese. I like the molten quality of these pieces, very lively and unique.

I found some Catholic supply stuff now and then but I wasn't sure I wanted to have a collection of it. Then I found the 19thc lithograph of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and I arranged the lesser stuff around it.

A tinted photo of Mount Shasta. I lived in Siskiyou County for eight years and saw the mountain often. It was never the same day to day. When I saw this picture I immediately grabbed it. It's fairly big for a photo, about 18" X 24". I saw an original image of this in an digital archive of California photographs. After I buy a framed picture I take it apart and clean the frame and the glass. This image was in perfect condition and probably had not been touched for 60-70 years. The blue in the sky is amazing.

This a small etching done in several colors. I also collected frames and tried to match images with the right presentation.

I found this one in a thrift store too, ok I found all my stuff in a thrift store. This is a painting by Portia, a Mission Revival artist. He usually did larger southwestern village scenes but this is a small study of a vaquero, a Mexican horseman. It looks like Portia did this study quickly with thick brushstrokes then touched up the clothes and the background to give it a finished look. I think he must have liked the result. The guy looks like he really knows his work, very confident. I think this was quite a find.

Some images of my nest. I have feathered the edges with scenes of places that have some meaning to me or that I just like. This is a tinted photo of Monterey I found in a thrift store. No buildings.

Two model-T automobiles pulled into the gas station and cut me off in line! Oh well, I got a chance to take a couple shots of them. There are several old auto clubs in the area, this one is a model-T club with 70 members and 30 cars. I once drove a man who said he first learned to drive in a model-T but he couldn't get the hang of the levers and pedals. His next car was a model-A Roadster, that was a nice car he said. Another passenger said he had a 1920s truck with a flat 32 cylinder engine that weighed two tons. It took him 3 hours to go 20 miles over the coast mountains. They would usually pack a basket with food for the journey before venturing south to the beach.

I took a couple coats to a small dry cleaner and tailor on a side street in the village. The lady who does the alterations is very sweet and she likes to look deeply and sweetly into your eyes just before you leave. She had pictures of her daughter and the first shirt she made framed on the wall. Someone was having a big orange kimono cleaned that day.

I collected four bronze cemetary vases and put them by the buddha in a corner of the side yard. They're covered by nasturtiums and a rose bush. This is a natural setting for a memorial park for all of Alice's casualties.

Sadly there hasn't been any activity in the nest for nearly two weeks. Perhaps the bird we found was her partner and she felt she couldn't handle it all by herself and she abandoned the nest. Or she was caught by Alice. The eggs are an amazing shade of sky blue with just a few speckles. I don't know what to do with them, maybe I'll bury them by the buddha in the "rose garden". I'm thinking of making a nesting box that faces away from my door so that birds can nest and travel without stress.