Bliss Is Where You Find It

Meet the Cat Club, from Esther Averill’s The Cat Club (1944)

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this. From my collection, 1949.

He is Baby. Postcard from my collection, ca. 1900.

Introducing the newest member of the family: Taffy! 🦮

She’s a golden retriever like Rufus, and is actually his second cousin once removed!

She’s fitting in perfectly, and knows how to pose for the camera like her big brother Scamp did!

I picture Scamp looking down from the sky like Mufasa, approving of Taffy’s arrival, but being thankful he doesn’t have to deal with her energy! He’s just relaxing at his fishpond at the sky!

She already has her own Instagram to carry on Scamp’s tradition @goldenpuptaffy !

Welcome to the family, Taffy!

🦮🇺🇸🐶☀️🦮

Coastal Scene (La nuit) (detail) Claude-Joseph Vernet

Bee Asleep

Blue poppies at Dart’s Hill garden today

Never give up

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”

—     Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew #4), 1930. Carolyn Keene. Grosset & Dunlap. First edition.

Nancy helps her friend Emily Crandall find out who stole her heirloom jewels. Emily’s aunt and guardian, Hazel Willoughby, unwisely removes them from a safe deposit box and carries them with her while lunching at Lilac Inn, only to have her handbag stolen while the diners are distracted.

“Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.” ― Carolyn Keene, The Mystery at Lilac Inn

Last one did a back flip

#TOMMY😽NAP ATTACK💤💙💫

@samirafee

Sonya Sklaroff (American,b.1970)

Springtime NYC Style, 2022

Oil on canvas

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Agatha Christie

Rambrowski digital art

the greatest city in the world