Mount Baker was particularly beautiful and impressive yesterday afternoon too. The sky was clear, except for Mount Baker which was surrounded by snowy, wind blown, wispy clouds. I'd like to learn what type of equipment and technique you need to take landscape photographs someday.
I was thinking about writing about everyday life. Mundane things like broken furnaces and miraculous things like sunsets, healing, new life - babies, plants, animals, people, sunrises, mountains, weather...lots of miraculous things around us.
We just need to look.
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One of my favorite books about some mundane and miraculous things, like raising chickens, is E.B. White's "One Man's Meat". Here's a quote from Amazon -
"One Man's Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. Whites witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm. Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Mans Meat can best be described as a primer of a countrymans lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style."
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I also love James Thurber's classic funny writing. I used to entertain myself during summer vacation with books of his from the library. Those were the prehistoric times before cable TV, Playstation, X-box, Nintendos, internet(s), and computers.
I recently ran across the book "Is Sex Necessary" by E.B. White and James Thurber, it sounds fun to read and look at.
From the Publisher,
"The classic send-up of sex manuals and how-to books--and one of the funniest books ever written. "One of the silliest books in years, and perfectly lovely."--Saturday Review"
and the product description,
"The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examine those great mysteries of life -- romance, love, and marriage. A masterpiece of drollery, this 75th Anniversary Edition stands the test of time with its sidesplitting spoof of men, women, and psychologists; more than fifty funny illustrations by Thurber; and a new foreword by John Updike."
E.B. White books at Amazon.
James Thurber books at Amazon.
