Bottle of mescal with interesting additive, we passed

At the main market. Note the morels the size of a child's hand.

A block or so from the Zocalo, Mexico City

Mexico City 1866, when it was a little smaller

Nice doors at the Franz Meyer Museum.

Anatomical figure, the Visible Woman 17th c style. Franz Mayer Museum.

Sigueras, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City.

The Museum of Dolls has an enormous collection, here some nuns hard at work in a kitchen.

You know when you've got a display table like this you're in a great museum

@gammacounter.bsky.social soda display in the Museum of Objects; I see the green glass=citrus drinks seems to hold up throughout the decades

Out of US for a time while daughter minds the house

Used to be able to learn useful phrases from postage stamps, I tell you:

Let the wild jubilation begin!

Jack Womack Sr. (1929-2019) with admirers Ellie Lang and @datlow.bsky.social sometime in the 1990s. See you again somewhere, Dad.

Very pleased to be given a copy of @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social's latest by @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social

Here's where to find it:

Looks like they kept the hc FS&G cover in mind, though somewhat less subtly.

New York, 1962, first grade, six years old. Wanted to skip town and get up here already!

And here's mine:

@gammacounter.bsky.social just in. Not bad, not Mexican Coke. Change the name to "Bicentennial Cola" and you'd be able to pretend it was 1976.

Interesting weather next few days:

I've got five shelves remaining, higher not pictured; mostly fiction faves here.

"THERE'S A HERD OF KILLER RABBITS HEADING THIS WAY"

@richardkadrey.bsky.social awareness of this potentially useful device brought to our attention by @greatdismal.bsky.social

Exactly the right approach

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR Bambi Cleaners in South Philly

Wonderful to look out the window of Ghost Ranch and see that her painting exactly matches the curve of the road below:

Almost closed four years ago but discovered it's still open!

WELL WELL WELL