Anderson Japanese Gardens

Public garden on fourteen acres in Rockford, Illinois. Meticulous. Full of calming streams and a real teahouse.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Dad built himself a small "shack" as he called it to be as far away from the family noise as possible. That way he could work to his heart's content and not interfere with the noisy comings and goings of the likes of my brother and me and our friends. It was not wired for electricity, so when it was late or dark or stormy, he would light his kerosene lanterns and keep pounding away on his typewriter.

Preludi Autunnali

Four piano songs by Gian Francesco Malipiero. Solemn chords evocative of Mompou, with plaintive notes of birdsong. Written in 1914.

Manual coffee grinder

From beans to cup.

Ermita

Sebastian Schutyser photographed abandoned Spanish hermitages (ermita) using a pinhole camera.

Spencerian penmanship

A fine slender hand. Mott Media sells copybooks.