A Moment Of Your Time - Please

Gay, married, man mid 60’s just traveling around here looking for interesting things. Open for chats, on occasion, and reblogging from time to time.

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Château de Fontainebleau, France

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(via Pin on Flowers, Gardens & Trees)

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Ferrari 375 MM Coupe Speciale 1955 by Ghia. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

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William Faulkner first editions.

SOLDIERS’ PAY (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926) [Faulkner’s first novel]

THE SOUND AND THE FURY (New York: Jonathan Cape, 1929) [told in 4 parts]

AS I LAY DYING (New York: Jonathan Cape, 1930)

SANCTUARY (New York: Jonathan Cape, 1931)

LIGHT IN AUGUST (New York: Random House, 1932) [a true Southern gothic]

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! (New York: Random House, 1936) [told entirely through flashbacks]

WILD PALMS [aka IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM] (New York: Random House, 1939)

INTRUDER IN THE DUST (New York: Random House, 1948)

THE REIVERS, A Reminiscence (New York: Random House, 1962) [Pulitzer Prize Award winner and Faulkner’s last novel.]

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William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.

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Chicken Alfredo Lasagna Soup

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MY BELOVED SHAWL COLLAR CARDIGAN

by André Larnyoh

Recently my family paid me the honour of visiting my relatively new flat. After showing them round and receiving the obligatory nods of approval, my sister suddenly, and loudly, gasped. “You STILL have this thing?!” She was pointing to a navy shawl collar cardigan draped over a chaise longue (you read that right) that I’ve had since my first year of University. 

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Shelby 427 S-C Cobra 1966. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

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ALTERNATIVE STYLE ICON: BABAR THE ELEPHANT

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

It wasn’t until I read The Story of Babar as an adult, to a young child who loves elephants, that I realized how jarring Jean de Brunhoff’s charming childhood story is. The Babar stories lay in my mind as a vague genial tale of a mellow, rather formal, pachyderm civilization. I had forgotten that the young Babar’s childhood idyll, as soon as described, ends with the peremptory shooting of his mother by a big-game hunter (the so-called page 2 dilemma for bedtime-reading parents). And I had forgotten that the distraught Babar’s discovery of #menswear (early 1900s edition) takes his mind off of her murder.

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