The Wicked Witch of the West, in The Wizard of Oz.
But do you remember the name of
this character…
Almira Gulch… the witch’s Kansas counterpart?
Also played by Hamilton, she’s Dorothy and Aunty Em’s rich neighbor, who wants to have Toto put down for biting her.
Doesn’t she meet the wizard (in his real world persona) while she’s running away and he convinces her to go back to the farm just in time for the whirlwind to strike?
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Another “Wrong Hands” by John Atkinson.
Hmmm … a good job on most of these, I think… I disagree with maybe three, and don’t know a couple of others well enough to know.
There are two I’ve never heard of. Three if Arbus isn’t Diane.
Proud of myself — I got more than half of them! Unusual for our local Emily Carr to get a mention!
Oh… She’s one of the ones I said I’d never heard of, but now that you say that, I realize I have.
And I’m pretty sure Atkinson is Canadian.
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No, no. The Pepto is for New Years.
I assumed this was a salt evaporation pond (or Pepto) but it’s a natural pink lake in western Australia, of which there are several.
Did to environmental factors, some are losing their color.
Ooohh!
You shouldn’t have!
How did you know? And it’s just my size!
The elves enjoy playing skeeball on their breaks.
Of course, they’ll get more time to play in a week or so.
DOES look like skeeball
You probably know
But do you remember the name of
Also played by Hamilton, she’s Dorothy and Aunty Em’s rich neighbor, who wants to have Toto put down for biting her.
Hmmm… I dunno, but I don’t remember any school scenes.
She rides her bicycle to Dorothy’s house and says she’ll have Toto put down… Aunty Em says if Toto bites people, Dorothy has to give him up.
So Mrs Gulch rides away with Toto in her bike basket, but he escapes and runs back to Dorothy.
Dorothy runs away with him, and I think that’s how they get to Oz.
Doesn’t she meet the wizard (in his real world persona) while she’s running away and he convinces her to go back to the farm just in time for the whirlwind to strike?
I sort of halfway remember that they had an encounter, and he was some sort of charlatan or magician….
Oh! He looks in a crystal ball or mirror or something, and tells her Aunty Em is sick? Or maybe missing her?
So she goes back, but the house is carried away by the tornado. I think.
“Family of Birds”… by Olivio Ocampo
This one i can see at both sizes… But yeah.
Poor thing seems to be missing most of it’s starboard pectoral fin.
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But this one has its pectoral fin.
LOL… So big that for a moment I thought they were puppies!
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Gosh… I hope we’re not looking at a long walk to the outhouse.
My thoughts as well. You beat me to it.
Written by Willy Maket.
With photography by Betty Wont.
They’ve learned from the lost kitchen?
Try to find one pay phone now. People without a cell phone have a hard time!
I searched this, but the names were in different order in different places, and I didn’t have a clue which of three of them were which.
I only know the fellow on the left, in the back of the line, and I didn’t want to mislabel the others.
see the moon?
Yep.
the text that accompanied this stated:
find moon in 15 second
I always say those suggested times are bogus… They just want to get more comments, with people complaining, to boost their algorithms.
But in this case, the moon isn’t hidden. If your eye happens to fall on it, like mine did, it does only take seconds.
It’s very tiny. It’s just a sprinkle, like the stars, on a cupcake, but it seems to be the only moon shaped one.
Nope, they all seem to have their bottoms covered.
Clever!
“Oh drat! Now where did I put my glasses?”
“You dummy, they’re right there on your face!”
Those look like poured concrete. Somebody worked really hard to shore them up so they could be poured there.
I sometimes have dreams of stairs like those.
So did Max Escher…
Compact, space saving arrangement. Perfect for us short guys.
As long as you didn’t really want to go anywhere.
I could definitely get out from the basement stairs, 2 steps down; then I can walk around to the second story set to go up.
“Lemme see those blueprints again.”
Hope everybody’s having a great Christmas Eve, or Christmas, depending on when you see this….
I love that Saturday Basset Post cover!
A timeless classic!
They’re so lucky they could have an animated cover, even back in 1920… human magazines still haven’t caught up.
And of course that Nighthawks, who tried to say yesterday that he couldn’t do magic, could time travel back to 1920 to do it!
thanks for your kind words
Not “kind”, truthful!
As for Cleo’s Lego set…. I have a feeling she already had a few spare parts stashed around the house.
A wheel here, some rocket fuel there… and I seem to recall some ICBMs in the laundry room cabinet.
She knows Claude and Clara were trying to be kind with that gift, but she’s not big on merely “cute.”
‘Sofia and her kitten’, 2025 – Soft pastel, 16 x 20 in. By Lena Rivo, a Portuguese artist based in Spain, born 1981.
Merry Christmas.