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Yes, Welsh mythology and Star Wars toys TOTALLY go together!

So, for Christmas my sister gave me a really cool framed poster from Wales, depicting the country’s map by the rich tapestry of its mythology. Last week I hung it on the wall.

I also put a small shelf I’d bought on the wall. I bought the shelf for the displaying of a bunch of my Star Wars spaceships.

I put them on the same wall, and it is awesome.

It's MY personal library and if I want a shelf of Star Wars ships right below my framed poster of Welsh mythology, that's what I'm gonna have! #starwars #poster #art #mabinogion

You might think that Welsh myth and Star Wars ships don’t really go together, but it’s my library and I say, they do.

Aren't they pretty! #starwars #SpaceshipsAreAwesome

Mabinogion poster. This was a Christmas gift from my sister. Hung it today! #mabinogion #poster #art #mythology


Oh, and here’s a cool detail: a part of the poster depicts King Arawn at the hunt with his hounds. Check it out: they’re greyhounds!

Detail from my Mabinogion poster: King Arawn hunting. His hunting hounds are greyhounds! #squeee #greyhound #mabinogion #poster

This led me to look up greyhounds as hunting dogs, which it turns out, they originally were…and that led me to introduce a new character to The Adventures of Lighthouse Boy. This is the first time I have ever directly based a character in a story of mine on someone I know in real life. So, if ever I get this enormous tome of a novel finished, you’ll get to read (at least in part) the adventures of Storm, the hunter-greyhound of Clan Talonhearth! Based on Cane!

Forgot to post this pic of the dee-oh-gee earlier. #Cane #DogsOfInstagram #greyhound

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Last Night’s Sky

A stunning sunset greeted me as I left work last evening, and by the time I drove home, the sky had caught fire. The first photo is right outside the front door of The Store, and the second is near my home, fifteen minutes or so later.

Sunset 1 #sky #sunset

Sunset 2 #clouds #sunset

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American Graffitoes

Last Sunday, after a day of hiking with the dee-oh-gee through Letchworth State Park (picture post forthcoming), The Wife and I looked for dinner. We found a little pizzeria in Avon, NY that offers gluten-free pizza and has a small GF bakery too, so we dropped by and got a pizza and some wings. Then, in need of a place to eat, we found a small park on Avon’s outskirts. The park is a tiny thing, alongside a waterfall called Papermill Falls. I assume there was a papermill there at one point. Here are the falls:

Papermill Falls, Avon, NY. #waterfall #wny

And this nifty-looking bridge spans the stream right above the falls:

Bridge in Avon, NY. #bridge #wny

But what was most interesting was the picnic table at which we ate. This table was under a small wooden shelter, and it has been painted and repainted quite a few times over the years, and it is also covered with graffiti. In fact, you can see old graffiti underneath the newer stuff, to the point where the old stuff is occasionally unreadable. The whole table is a giant palimpsest of graffiti. It’s really quite something. I had to document it, so here is the stuff we saw (that’s fit for inclusion in a PG-13 blog like this).

Graffiti at Papermill Falls Park I, Avon, NY. The picnic bench where we ate was a graffiti lover's paradise. #graffiti

Graffiti at Papermill Falls Park II. #graffiti

Graffiti at Papermill Falls Park III. #graffiti

Graffiti at Papermill Falls Park IV. #graffiti

Graffiti at Papermill Falls Park V #graffiti

Graffiti at Papermill Falls Park VI. #graffiti

Graffiti at Papermill Falls Park


I am rapidly becoming a fan of finding good, local joints for food on road-trips, and then getting takeout and eating in a park someplace. It’s so much more pleasurable than eating in yet another chain joint that’s just like the chain joints we have at home.

And you never know when your impromptu table will come with its own reading material!

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