Paging Ozymandius…
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Paging Ozymandius…have you seen this colossal metal statue of Ghengis Khan in Mongolia?! It really makes me want to read a biography about him because, excuse my ignorance, but I always thought he was a really bad guy??!
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LESSER METALS, BUT MORE EASILY ACCESSED:
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The first recorded use of silver as a colour name in English was in 1481
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ConranUSA.comclick Lexon’s porcelain “Coffee Time” Expresso Set $65
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Ralph Lauren Spring 2010
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Restoration Hardware
$2995 NOW $1,799.99
9-foot beveled window dormer floor mirror inspired by a landmark New York building.
Framed in wood
Finished in antiqued zinc metal
Approx. 385 lbs.
Includes anti-tip kit to keep mirror stable
Dimensions: 69″W x 14″D x 102″H
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Restoration Hardware
Royal Master Sealight Pendant $450-595
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LOVING this whole Axel Vervoordt phase at Restoration Hardware. At first I was annoyed. Now I’m just going with the flow…There’s enough Axel for everyone.
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Guinevere London UK
Silver candlesticks (c.1905) scared to ask price.
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Silver Cologne by Amouage
Gets a “Strongly Recommended” and 3 stars from Luca Turin who suggests it as an alternative to Chanel’s “Pour Monsieur”
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Julien‘s Troy Adams soaking tub, inspired by Japanese Ofuro tubs. $18,450 . Why so pricey? Each is handcrafted with perfect corners, then welded and polished by hand. Uh huh.
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Pottery Barn salt shakers $19.00!
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Pottery Barn “Antique Silver” spreaders (set of two) $19.
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Slim photo …..
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Gorgeous Mercury glass Hundi lanterns in the Amanbagh Resort, Rajasthan, India
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Slim photo
“Sterling Silver” roses from my garden.
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And on the subject of silver… I was driving home last night ( I’m still listening to The Beatles remastered CD’s) and singing unabashedly along to “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” (thinking do I care? I’ll never see the people in the car next to me again) and I suddenly realized that I remember every single solitary word to every song on those albums. Me, of the infamous bad memory. Not only that, I could remember what song was coming next on most of the albums as well. Like I just knew 100% that “Oh Darlin” would follow Maxwell, yet if you paid me a million doll, er no, ten thousand dollars to tell you the sequencing of the songs without the audio prompt I would never be able to. Should we have music accompanying our classes at school? Is music some sort of memory Viagra? Perhaps we would then retain the information on the same almost primal level as we do song lyrics. Would I have listened for example, when I was learning about GHENKIS KHAN??
Just putting it out there…
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
PS. This is the most masculine picture I could find of him. D’ya think he was conflicted about Byron?!
Ozymandius Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Stumble It! 
Love that mirror! Though I may have to just settle for the spreaders and shakers from Pottery Barn.
I have been endlessly listening to The Beatles/Paul McCartney too. We watched Paul’s New York concert last night. God I love that man. I wish he would just let his hair go gray however. It just doesn’t look right to be 67 and not have SOME gray!
I love the music and memory thing. My old Abbey Road album had a bunch of scratches on it and when I listen to the CD I still expect to it to skip at certain points. And singing along with the music? It really is a must. It amazes me sometimes to think of how much memory our brains hold.
I think I’ll go pour a glass of wine and sing along with John, Paul, George and Ringo now………
I love your anticipating the skips- so true! What a great observation.
The pictures you include of your flowers are absolutely beautiful and inspiring to a novice greenthumb, and the occasional addition of literature is a treat. I recently came across your blog and am now regularly reading it. Thank you for an uplifting blog!
I love your photos. Personally, I adore roses (especially the smelly, fragrant ones). All of the new research on listening to music while learning or performing a task indicates that certain music stimulates the brain and increases IQ and/or performance; other music, such as heavy metal, has the opposite effect. Apparently Mozart gives the best results. And yes, Byron and Percy were both conflicted. Thanks for this fun post–I’m still chuckling about Percy.
- Those roses are STUNNING. I must ask if you do the gardening yourself or if you have a gardener? because it would make me feel so much better about myself if you had a gardener, since i could never grow those myself
. Either way, i am impressed by your flawless taste and execution.
- As for our Percy Bysshe Shelley situation: light in the heels, i’d say. Is that an expression people use or am i confused? Anywho, as far as Ozymandius goes, i am getting a visual of a future in which a modern day Ozymandius is transposed into a tacky gold TRUMP placard excavated and marveled at among the rubble by archaeologists pondering a man obsessed with so much gold and his own name….hmmm.
So funny, I was driving home from work at 2 in the morning today thinking the same thing about music. I was listening to Andrea Bocelli in the OR and then to 15 year old Annie Lennox in the car and couldn’t stop thinking how fascinating it was that I knew every word, even the Italian- which I don’t speak. I used to study to Annie Lennox. Maybe that’s how I got through med school.
Anyway, I wish there was a way to open up that part of the brain in my 15 year old to help him with his homework.
Wonderful pictures, loving the mirror and the lamp…
The Beatles, I bought my hubby the new cd’s … not that we did not already have all their cd’s… anyway, he will not let anyone touch the box not alone the cds… I am hearing bits I have never heard before… remastered is amazing… fab hehe
So true that we know what song is next, just means your a real fan and listened to the records alot! So many memories with the music…
Your “Sterling Silver” roses are swoon-worthy!
love the sealight pendant from Restoration Hardware, it’s a shame that in Canada it costs roughly the same as the floor Mirror……aargh!
wonder if they’ll still charge Canucks a ludicrous premium even after our dollar goes over par:(
those roses are stunning! and the salt shakers are really adorable, unfortunately Pottery Barn Canada doesn’t carry them, what’s a girl to do? maybe i can move to Santa Barbara and live with you?
Your roses are incredible!
Slim Paley–would that be a combo of Slim Keith and Babe Paley, perhaps? Two friends who were incredibly stylish….
can I live in your blog?
I’ve been trawling your archives but couldn’t resist stopping to comment here. Yes, I’ve seen the big Ghengis Khan, and climbed right to the top of him. We do think of him as a bad guy, but he’s very popular in Mongolia, and it’s a point of pride if you can demonstrate that you are descended from him.