Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Awareness of the outside world. Stay cool, folks. For us, the next few days are predicted to be 97o & 98o, with Feels Like much higher. Bath time! [Summer’s Here still] [Minion! I Require A Shower! video] ~~~ Rodney lives in a parallel dimension. While were were waiting at the vet clinic, Rodney wanted reassurance. WhoContinue reading “Imagining Rodney”

Awareness of the outside world. To celebrate World Emoji Day, enjoy Tor.com: Dune’s Kyle MacLachlan Explains the Plot of Dune Through Emojis, Asher-Perrin, 2016. Hat tip to D. ~~~ Milton is a tick magnet, particularly his ears. Vet recommended cattle tags. Werners, A., Karasek, I., Butler, C., Yeatts, J., Enomoto, H., & Baynes, R. (2022). Control of ticks on horses using abamectin-impregnatedContinue reading “Tag You’re It”

Art from the outside world. Columbia Magazine: Adventures of Karen Green, How a Butler librarian became Columbia’s first curator for comics and cartoons, Sousanis, 2017. ~~~ [Fractal Alphabet] Onwards!Katherine

Poetry of the outside world, Bilston. ~~~ The classic short short. By Hemingway? For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never worn. Why is this necessarily a tragedy? Grandma sends fancy shoes as gift. Don’t fit. Sell shoes. Tyke fine. Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Smithsonian: Earth Faces Hottest Day Ever Recorded—Three Days in a Row, Osborne, July 6, 2023. ~~~ Homewood Forest PreserveHomewood AL, USAJuly 2023 Technical Details f/11.0, 1/125 sec., 18.0 mm, !SO 100, manual Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Speaking of model horses, BreyerFest is this weekend, IRL & virtual. Breyer: What is BreyerFest 2023? It always amazes me that KHP can hold a major horse show, see yesterday, at the same time as the biggest event in the model horse world. ~~~ TrainTasticGulfport MS Photos & Video byContinue reading “Model Horses to Go With Model Trains, Guest Photos”

Awareness of the outside world. The Chronicle of the Horse: Opinion: Pride Belongs In Equestrian Spaces, Clawson 2021. QueerBio.com: LGBTQ Presence in the Equestrian World, 2022. Hat tip to C for a conversation that prompted me to search ‘trans in the horse world’. ~~~ Watching the livestream of the Lexington Junior League Charity Horse ShowContinue reading “Watching and Wondering, Saddlebreds at Lexington”