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Music, Books, Birds, Stars, Cider, Wine, The Cure

Photo of Robert Smith interviewed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction. Reeves Gabrels and Roger O’Donnell smile on in the background. The extremely enthusiastic interviewer had asked Robert Smith in a particularly loud and grating American voice if he was excited as she was. (Americans, don’t be offended. I’m American. We can sound annoying.) His deadpan response is captioned in the photo “By the sounds of it, no.”
A large hand holding a half pint jar of Pinot noir with a small vineyard behind it and a hillside with some middle aged Douglas firs against a blue sky in the distance.
Photo of a wine bottle being filled with an Enomatic wine filler. Several empty bottles wait behind it to be filled. A small mason jar glass of wine sits to the right of the auto filler.
Sunset over Vancouver Island from English Bay in Vancouver.
Isaac Brock, messy haired and drenched in sweat, holds a black towel that he alternately sings to and attempts to use on his head and neck. He plays a guitar and sings an ad-lib blues song complaining about non- absorbent towels and cheap bullshit products in general. He later went on to offer to anyone that works for Amazon to contact him about making ads for the bullshit products they sell.
Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse playing guitar and singing Knocked Down By Waves amid slowly swirling green lights on stage at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver BC.
View across crabapple treetops to a Douglas Fir forest. A dense fog in the forest obscures most of fir trees farther in the distance.
View through a window out to a freshly mown field with several Turkey Vultures congregating. One is perched on a low fence, another is coming in for a landing, a few are scattered around while a small grouping of 5 vultures appear to be feasting on something together further out in the field.
Sign up in the laundry room: Hey YOU!!! YES YOU!!! CHECK AND EMPTY YIUR POCKETS BEFORE PUTTING SCRUBS IN THE LAUNDRY!!! EVERY TIME!!!
Small Pinot noir vineyard in the foreground with Douglas fir, Madrone and alder trees in the background on a sunny day with a pretty blue sky.
Fireworks stand (one of many) on Swinomish Reservation on Fidalgo Island in Washington State, USA. A plywood kiosk painted blue (with red and white accents) with a large business sign “Sonic Boom Babes”, adorned with American flags, plywood cutouts painted like fireworks, hand painted signs stating “Unsafe and Insane” “Great Family PAC’s - Great Kids’ Stuff” “Free Hats”. Lots of large fireworks displayed with a large Mastercard/ Visa sign hanging. A red, white and blue camo chair with stars sits off to the side. We visited this evening in preparation for Dirt Nap Day celebrations, when the day finally comes.
Ukigumo “Floating Cloud” Japanese Maple tree. A V- shaped japanese maple with small white leaves in front of a 3-rail fence with a large old thuja and greenery behind it.
White coffee mug with black and white photo of Simon Gallup, bassist for The Cure, with heavy black eye makeup and gorgeous huge backcombed hair.
Old milking parlor being revamped for making wine and cider. Moving some of the boozery equipment into the space- fermentation tanks, old home cider press, bladder press, fruit grinder lined up along newly metal- clad walls.
Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen singing onstage during their show at The Showbox SoDo in Seattle May 12, 2026.
Pink rhododendron flowers. A bumblebee hovers with full pollen sacs on its legs.
The cover of the fantastic album Disintegration by The Cure. A dark swirl of flowers surrounding Robert Smith’s face with “THE CURE- DISINTEGRATION” written in red letters. Everything is out of focus and all of the lighter areas are in a bluish- green tinge that gives the appearance of everything being submerged in water at night.
Glass of Pinot Noir wine on a cutting board with a loaf of bread that’s been cut into. A bread knife and two loaves of of bread are also visible.
Several swallows flying against a cloudy grey sky, chirping as they catch insects. Hummingbirds buzz by but never come into view.
Small girl at a school desk raising a giant fake hand, another giant hand resting on her desk with a paper, crayons, and red apple.
Coffee mug with a little bit of coffee left. Proof of coffee drinking for Colleen. 😂
Blue coffee mug with the artwork from The Cure’s album Boys Don’t Cry. There is a yellow sun, a pink pyramid, three green palm trees and the Cure’s drop C logo in pink. It is sitting on a wood veneered desk top with a yellowy beige textured wall behind it.
Ashley and Katie standing in front of the Treasury building in Petra with a number of other people and two seated camels in the background.
Black and white photo of Robert Smith at the Troxy, London. Taken by Tom Pallant in 2024.
List of birds ID’d by Merlin app: Brown Creeper, House Sparrow, Cedar Waxwing, Band-tailed Pigeon, Violet-green Swallow, American Robin, chestnut- backed Chickadee, Bewick’s Wren, Black-capped Chickadee
White blossoms and pink buds of Evereste Crabapple with bluebells and other blooms in the background.
Red rhododendron in bloom framed by multiple evergreen and deciduous trees and bushes in varying stages of spring emergence.
Martin Gore and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode singing Waiting For the Night at Rogers Arena in Vancouver BC
Former milking parlor with wood paneled ceiling and corrugated metal sheets being hung on walls. There is a long grate drain in the floor and a sawhorse table under a window.
Women’s bathroom at Katt’s in Mt Vernon WA with a splotches of bright paint on the wall, small disco balls hanging from the ceiling, a framed pink poster with a disco ball and the statement “Please don’t do coke in the bathroom” in 70’s style font. Two other smaller public service postings are also on the walls, which are described in their own zoomed in photos.
Mural of family in early Ford automobile- father, mother and 8 children, all with fairly disturbing faces.
Part of a painted mural showing young girls in matching white dresses with high colors. The girl in the center has a blonde bob with bangs and a sad yet dead-eyed stare. “Elaine 1906” is painted on her collar.
Robert Smith with spiky dark hair, black eyeliner, red lipstick, red button down shirt with black polka dots, silver necklace, silver bracelet, black and silver belts with arms folded on the set of the Lovecats video with a cat furry standing behind him.
Thousands of people peacefully marching down Pine Avenue in Seattle for the No Kings Protest against Donald Trump in Seattle.
The Cure performing Cold at The Ice Hall in Helsinki on October 8 2022. There is a full crowd in a dark arena. The band is playing onstage at a distance with visuals of ice shards on a screen behind. The stage is lit with cold spectrum white and blue lighting.
Swallows catching insects on the wing across a blue sky.
A stone well house set in a field with a small dormant vineyard behind it. There is a forest on the slope behind the vineyard and sunny blue skies.
Black and white drawing of skeleton with a mowhawk hairstyle and the caption: Old Punks Never Die, We Just Stand In The Back
View of shipping containers and cranes with distant mountains and cityscapes looking out over Vancouver Harbour on a sunny day.
Ferry crossing in front of shipping containers and cranes in a very foggy Vancouver Harbour.
Cartoon art of Canadian symbols- Canadian flag, map, bear, hockey, orca, fir trees, lighthouse, parliament, pancakes, totem, Toronto skyline, moose, maple syrup, mountains with river, beaver, ice wine.
White coffee mug with photo of Simon Gallup of The Cure looking gorgeous with very big back combed hair, heavy eye makeup and dark clothes holding his bass guitar.
Sour cream coffee cake with cinnamon topping fresh out of the oven.
The cover of The Cure album Seventeen Seconds. A distorted abstract image with blurred lines smudged in pink and black and fading away into a light grey background.
Dall’s porpoises surfacing in sunset- lit water with the Dan Juan Islands in the background.
Sun setting sparkling over the Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands with the Olympic Mountains in the background.
Purple and yellow iris with blue flowers, ferns and other greenery in the background.
Cover of The Cure compilation album Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities. A mottled orange and yellow background that has a subtle appearance like fire, with the an image of Robert Smith holding a guitar, taken from behind, creating a classic well-known image of the singer with his shock of large back-combed black hair.
A view from a booth at the 5 Point in Seattle. A dive bar with walls covered in stickers, a cartoon on the TV, people in bar stools to the right, and looking past the people in the booth ahead to the hall to the toilets with a neon sign that says “PLEASE DON’T DO COKE IN THE BATHROOM”
A building with “KFC Institute For Veganism” written on it, posted by California Governor Gavin Newsom mocking the outrageousness (and extreme irony of) Donald Trump putting his name on the US Institute for Peace.
2 partially full pints of cider on a marbled blue countertop
An excerpt of The Cure playing Prayers for Rain at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam Nov 22, 2022. The band roams and sways as lights change from swirling reds and oranges greens to white lights shining towards Robert Smith as he impressively elongates the note sung on “rain.”
Robert Smith laying in bed in striped blue and white pajamas, with messy big black hair, heavy eye shadow and smeared red lipstick, in The Cure’s Lullaby video.
USDA chart showing the amount of farm acreage in US from 1850 with fairly constant amount, while there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of farms and a huge increase in the size of farms since the mid 1900s.
Cover of the book “A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey” by Jonathan Meiburg. It has a tan background with a large drawing of a striated caracara, a black bird with ruddy legs, large yellow talons with long black claws, a mottled black and red head bent over with small keen black eyes and a sharp hooked beak.
Winona Ryder (as Joyce Byers in Stranger Things) staring at multicolored Christmas lights haphazardly strung on the ceiling and pinned over the English alphabet painted in black paint in three rows on the wall over a messy couch in an 80s- style living room.
David Byrne sits at a glass blowing bench in a brightly colored shirt while Ashley Rowley, in a black Go Outside shirt, leans over to help him shape the hot glass bubble. In the background in the glass studio, a handful of onlookers sit or stand in front of shelving full of containers of brightly colored glass frit while Dale Chihuly walks by in a bright red shirt.
Sunset with red clouds over Canadian Parliament and Byward Market with Ottawa sign.
Preview of seating of The Cure’s A Show of a Lost World showing in south Seattle.
Pew Research shows breakdown of SNAP recipients by race as non-Hispanic white 39.8%, black 27%, Hispanic all races 27%, and 87.8% of all recipients born in US.