- This is coming out of the oven in just less than an hour. Consider yourself invited to share! http://t.co/wRcNjhcc #fb #
- One of the highlights of my Chicago trip was the sunset view from on top of Marina Towers (thx @annaleahy!): http://t.co/xoZ6Mscq #fb #
- Reflections on creating a professional online presence, for academics: http://t.co/5fIDRemt #fb #
- So proud of CatGirl for moving up to the intermediate fencing class this week. #sherockssohard #fb #
- From the archive: : lights for peace http://t.co/sI2a0lUt #photo #
- Enjoying a few Belgians @ Brussels Bistro http://t.co/Hg7SajCL #
- From the archive: : not afraid to come out of his shell http://t.co/pslGyUEo #garden #
- Paying my respects at the grave of Buffalo Bill #lifeofawesternhistorian http://t.co/4hadQ1WM #
- Carmaggeddon2 at dusk. I'm blaming it all on @digler @ 5 North http://t.co/IA2mO0nK #
- From the archive: : stepping stones… http://t.co/WEjbx0BW #family #
- Ten amazing library labspaces (via & including @nypl_labs): http://t.co/Db9wVcTw #fb #
- From the archive: : Make me smile… http://t.co/YfxGB8xW #
- Having fun imagining all of the fascinating limbs I could print with one of these: http://t.co/sPC9gOkI #fb #
- "Productive" scholars are those who prefer research over teaching & who do collaborative work in their field: http://t.co/aoAIUWmq #fb #
things I like
- A history of pants: http://t.co/4IYnHydf (tagging @eyestray & @patrick_mj) #fb #
- From the archive: : a bit of garden http://t.co/48hKqprG #photo #
- From the archive: : Support, stories, and a new blog feature http://t.co/bzjrW1hO #
- From the archive: : a reading http://t.co/cN5YiIgV #amputee #
- From @LARB: “Attack of the Difficult Poems,” http://t.co/jRT1I4hz #
- From the archive: : Traveler’s Tales: “Divorced with two children” http://t.co/UyXZmMkD #
- Weekend lesson: lounging on a splintery redwood deck is not a good idea. #fb #
- From the archive: : Bells http://t.co/S1woNzul #Random #
- Overcast this morning, but still an amazing view from the cabin http://t.co/0hQRtp4Z #
- Mussels, for starters @ The Kitchen [NEXT DOOR] http://t.co/NhbVD08j #
- From the archive: : $$$ http://t.co/eSSktkdy #family #
- Morning in the Rockies (the air is so clear here) http://t.co/Dw0qvfTu #
- Sunrise, sunrise… http://t.co/F91NiMNY #
- Heading to the Rockies with Ed Abbey for the weekend #lifeofahistorian http://t.co/2QZVYzfo #
- From the archive: : Make me smile… http://t.co/7SmqQai5 #
- Yummy cupcake & latte from my colleague #ilovemyjob @ Memorial Hall http://t.co/u9vR5RMB #
- From the archive: : first things first http://t.co/geGxZFrQ #food #
- New office desk just delivered. :) @ Memorial Hall http://t.co/fx9U6PH2 #
- Making animated gifs of historical images (so fun!) via @NYPL_Labs: http://t.co/WVTViaQI #lifeofahistorian #fb #
- From the archive: : #love is everything… http://t.co/Pq3KijQn #
- I'm going to keep my #feministbingo card on hand from now on, for when I venture into the comments on #MoFem sites: http://t.co/OAYs2ITH #
- I never seem to tire of listening to Melody Gardot: http://t.co/VB5njOC8 #fb #jazzy #
- On Profhacker, @ryancordell discusses how he uses #anthologize http://t.co/8yePIgNv #
- From the archive: : Make me smile… http://t.co/xedl8QzF #
- From the archive: : proclivities http://t.co/GJ54oHUI #
- Engineer just called "All Aboard" for the steam engine train! #historianfantasy #fb #
- Getting a private ride on a 1911 LA streetcar #historianfantasy @ Orange Empire Railway Museum http://t.co/f9tucw4P #
- From the archive: : the blahs http://t.co/if6t85Nd #
- Ode to a simple Sunday morning http://t.co/IqEKHkEK #
- Having waterzooi tonite, courtesy of @eyestray #Iloveitwhenfriendsstockmyfridgewithfood #fb #
- Can hardly believe that it's 95 degrees at 6:15pm. In mid-September. #
- How about a DH foodtruck model for regional collaboration? #thatcamp #
- From the archive: : if you're afraid of loneliness, don't travel http://t.co/0fL6ydZu #world #
- An avant garde artist/synesthete who's creating the scent of color: http://t.co/djnQPc52 #fb #
- From the archive: : Some Spooky Pics http://t.co/lsQ4Jl5J #photo #
- Shocking finding from an undergraduate anthro class: professors have nipples! (sheesh) http://t.co/c0Z7ynt8 #fb #
- Every color imaginable. In a book. : http://t.co/wcJbD8DO #fb #
This is why I’m headed to the High Country this weekend. It’s about time…
(From “The High Country” by Bernard DeVoto):
I wish that everyone could know the high country….[where] summer is, like all brief seasons, passionate and intense. The crest has passed by the middle of August, and then there comes a period which I find the most poignant of all. A new brightness comes into the air and the colors. The underbrush is splashed with scarlet, poplar and cottonwood leaves are gold, and the aspens have reached a high, shining silver. Mist hangs blue and lavender gauzes across the canyons and the distances almost till noon; twilights are early and long. There is a hush, an expectancy in the air–a portent of winter, a premonition of death, but the world is resolved to reach its fulness first. There is an illusion that no one is here but you, and you respond to it with a delight so deep, so moving, so complete that it is wrapped round with sadness. Above all others, this is the time to visit the high country.
Why, yes, I did hold one of my classes at the Orange train station. Trains + teaching + awesome students = WIN! :)
It also helped that we were discussing the impact of the trans-continental railroad on the environment of the American West as the trains were whooshing past us on the tracks.
- From the archive: : last night http://t.co/468TBYJu #
- Has anyone else been having odd off-season allergies lately, or is it just me? #sniffsniff #fb #
- From the archive: : to travel well… http://t.co/h8aLa4L9 #
- From the archive: : so lovely http://t.co/Q0msaNho #Random #
- Celebrating my annual avoid Facebook day (color me cynical, but I don't enjoy the commemorative fervor) #sept11 #fb #
- Why, yes I have become that Mom who's at the Post Office mailing care packages off to her son in college on her lunch hour :) #fb #
- From the archive: : working (or not)… http://t.co/sfpW9PbJ #
- From the archive: : for the children? http://t.co/cdiAjpMJ #family #
- Ellycat lurves the porch swing too. :) http://t.co/ViGK66Pc #
- Happiness is: setting up my record player at the new house #simplepleasure http://t.co/F84UiyHz #
- From the archive: : let's celebrate today (with a giveaway!) http://t.co/4Aj1MmHN #
- From the archive: : cherubic http://t.co/pT103bsx #Random #
- Sometimes my archive auto-tweet pulls up the bittersweet stuff: RT From the archive: Us. http://t.co/5CzGjbFU #thatwassolongago #
- From the archive: : Us. http://t.co/5CzGjbFU #Random #
- From the archive: : lavender's blue, dilly dilly http://t.co/AmbUIk0X #garden #
- Planning to attend @chrisguillebeau's book tour in Orange, CA on September 6th. Who else will be there? #
- From the archive: : quotable http://t.co/gyDSyTMC #books #
- From the archive: : My 39th Birthday Wish http://t.co/7NjDQdtj #amputee #
- Lion-hearted @ China Gate http://t.co/HJlAShga #
- From the archive: : quality http://t.co/ErRKtnBQ #friends #
- Sunny Sunday morning in Portlandia @ Voodoo Doughnut http://t.co/d7NOjxb2 #
- From the archive: : I contain multitudes http://t.co/rPCyg3R8 #
- Poetry-ing at Powell's http://t.co/LTPJVPH7 #
- Vol-au-vent at St Honore. :) http://t.co/v1syVKPA #
- From the archive: : inside http://t.co/FzOMvJ4Q #Random #
- From the archive: : I heart Sundays http://t.co/ibDcPCBU #Random #
- From the archive: : set in stone http://t.co/eb8nhjB5 #Random #
- And a sunset rainbow in the awesome clouds #sosopretty http://t.co/FdPfiju6 #
- SoCal sunset spectacular #wishingiwasseeingthisonefromtheocean http://t.co/bvt2Eewi #
- From the archive: : Harry Potter Party http://t.co/3mTs0mcj #Random #
- A peaceful beginning for a busy day http://t.co/p2sZJLD1 #
- From the archive: : elvis wedding http://t.co/aO4wdmcu #family #
- The crabs keep trying to run away (I'm a bit squeamish about grabbing them). http://t.co/7Saa2jEi #
- From the archive: : veggie-tarian http://t.co/7yBxA2Tt #
- Queuing for crabs @ Dory Fishing Fleet Market http://t.co/f8DWBYxz #
- Fresh fish market at too-early o'clock @ Dory Fishing Fleet Market http://t.co/cvveT1Di #
- From the archive: : my hands are small I know http://t.co/qg0cRWVQ #
- Moules et un vin rouge maison @ Pescadou Bistro http://t.co/Kc2s2H5K #
- Evening lights #sopretty @ Lido Island Harbor http://t.co/nLF49oKw #
- From the archive: : Traveler's Tales: "I am new today" http://t.co/WlDwrJA5 #
- From the archive: : Make me smile… http://t.co/UU9Hh3dM #
- From the archive: : prosthetic http://t.co/RJzfDpmY #amputee #
- From the archive: : swim http://t.co/XNpPzBJ1 #amputee #
- From the archive: : soundtrack for a break up http://t.co/YWNU2IKR #
- Thinking of a pair of these as nightstand lamps at the new house… http://t.co/j3yc7zbR #
- From the archive: : Openings http://t.co/7A6I82fp #writing #
- From the archive: : no sheep's clothing 'round here… http://t.co/GjIkLNih #LDS #
- …in bed @ Bamboo Bistro http://t.co/S2wEcN9M #
- From the archive: : because it's all about me anyways http://t.co/A3Rt8vm9 #Random #
- From the archive: : Elephant Loves http://t.co/VnFohVui #books #
- From the archive: : Thaw http://t.co/zLNqlSvb #Random #
- Bonny says that this part of our backyard looks a bit like a coral reef. I think she's right :) http://t.co/RodQsYML #
- From the archive: : cooking http://t.co/fAN52PLO #food #
- Today at the depot: man reading "Trains" magazine & an older woman in a hat who @ Ruby's Diner Orange Depot http://t.co/6LHbDeIw #
- From the archive: : war http://t.co/DALVwu2Z #world #
- At the OCFair to see WeirdAl w/the two cutest teens evar! @ OC FAIR 2012 http://t.co/FXAqyZ6L #
- Happiness is: a front porch swing. :) http://t.co/JPZYWAIM #
- Mini roses from my new garden http://t.co/hWzGdhNW #
- From the archive: : here's hopin' http://t.co/oP2hrUTG #
- Belgian. :) http://t.co/4BM8wdgu #
- This is starting to look like "home" :) http://t.co/3ZPStx7S #
- From the archive: : Bridges http://t.co/JDU8WxpA #
- One of my favorite maps (of a favorite country) http://t.co/MERic2oN #
- From the archive: : Have you ever…. http://t.co/syGpgJio #
- Sunrise, sunrise…(from the new house window) http://t.co/iiQG53H1 #
- From the archive: : happy garden thoughts http://t.co/ME6RiVX1 #Random #
- From the archive: : inside-out http://t.co/Q1N78V6y #
- From the archive: : Happy Solstice to You! http://t.co/4xSsseYP #
- First home-cooked meal at the new house http://t.co/bkXesnMg #
- From the archive: : making me sad… http://t.co/YvF6Ywcf #
- Looks like first dinner in the new house will include the fancy candelabra http://t.co/mp83jxJf #
- From the archive: : arbor http://t.co/o6eYZzqV #garden #
- Any friends our there have a connection to get us a table at Totoraku in LA? I'd definitely make it worth your while :) #
- From the archive: : Reading is Sexy http://t.co/yRT86TPi #Random #
- From the archive: : reflection http://t.co/aJZCfmil #books #
- Worst. Commute. Ever. #the55isabigparkinglot :( #
- Spontaneous sushi stop @ shikibu http://t.co/rAG3yzwq #
- From the archive: : vanilla-ish http://t.co/GqHwLMfM #garden #
- New office sign! :) @ Memorial Hall http://t.co/mT4ejAt5 #
- Sitting between a man reading "Trains" magazine & one man smoking a joint. :) @ Ruby's Diner Orange Depot http://t.co/xL7QBXt4 #
- From the archive: : this damnable war, part II http://t.co/w54nWWSR #world #
- KTLA filming in front of our house (because of UCI prof turned arsonist) http://t.co/s1GjnhwP #
- From the archive: : at the beach http://t.co/4KaHlh3p #
- From the archive: : the rapture http://t.co/RcXMWC3q #Random #
- From the archive: : poppy new year to you! http://t.co/B0av0shP #Random #
- A good spot for getting caught up on my academic reading.. @ Venice Public Graffiti Art Walls http://t.co/Npn7jcny #
- From the archive: : Simplify http://t.co/6u7aXKEx #
- Next course: bisteca alla fiorientina #yum http://t.co/6CQEJFR3 #
- Starting dinner with mussels, from the grill http://t.co/GgqFCjdy #
- From the archive: : when i grow up http://t.co/z0C41hdd #