Quite definitely the end of the Hallowe'en season: this skelly, lying on a garage roof, has had quite enough. Only the spider remains, hovering. And driving back from Pasadena this evening I saw definite signs of lit Christmas trees (I thought that wasn't meant to happen until after Thanksgiving?).
And it's conference season, or at least time for NAVSA, this year jointly with NASSR, the romanticists. I love interdisciplinary conferences, NAVSA above all - but. If I have one bête noire (just one? I'm sure I have a whole stable), it's people who don't realize that pictures need captions. If I'm shown this in a paper about rag trading, I want to know where these two images are from, and what they're illustrating, and where ... I tried doing a reverse image search on Google for the left hand one - it looks a bit Russian, but isn't; I also wondered if it was by Sylvia Pankhurst, but I think not ... and I didn't want to embarrass the person giving the paper. But. All I could turn up were up a couple of unattributed uses of it on the web, one of them in Greek. Should anyone recognize it, let me know ...
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