I did not notice this installation as I zeroed in on the CMA door. It did crack me up when I came out.
According to an article on Atlas Obscura, Blue Sky made and installed the chain with the knowledge of the 2 building owners, but not the city of Columbia. Permission for it to remain across the public alley was quickly granted.
This website is hilarious. https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/comedy-wildlife-2024-competition-winners.php I am on their email list. They don’t send a lot and the competition is legit. So, they get some stellar photos.
I use this every Spring to decide when I need to get out the hummingbird feeders. (You need to scroll a little to get to the map.) https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-migration.htm
This is really useful for home cooks. https://cooked.wiki/landing You can create an account to find and save recipes if you care to. But, even if you don’t, it’s a useful tool. Insert cooked.wiki/ in front of the address of a recipe you’ve found and it will pluck it out of the carefully staged photos, family history and farmer’s market produce shopping of a foodista blog to give you just the facts.
Our Story Matters is the title of an ongoing exhibition at the Columbia (SC) Museum of Art. The exhibition is kind of small (as you will see if you click through). Mostly because the pieces in it are more memorabilia and historical information than art. That said, it is an interesting display of Columbia’s equivalent to Durham’s Black Wall Street.
And there is some art. Patricia A. Montgomery is a textile artist who makes swing coats that tell stories. The one on the website now is not the one I saw. So, it appears that they are changing them out periodically. If I was closer to Columbia, I would make a point of going by to see them because the one I did see was impressive.
Sarah Mae Flemming was one of the people who stood up for the right to sit down.
And Ms. Montogmery made a coat about her.
I got Stephen King’s On Writing as an ebook this morning so that Chuck and I can share reading it. This came after a conversation about the novel my cousin is writing. (He gave us the first 4 chapters asking for feedback.)
I’ll be listening to M. R. Carey‘s Once Was Willem at work, later. It’s fantasy and not one my husband will want to turn with.
I am a big fan of both writers. So, it’s a good day.
I am the Audience 