White Rabbits! Yes we have bananas, And music

 Suddenly it's November, after a wonderful October, and here's the monthly artisan

Working at her rigid heddle loom. That bit sticking up is the rigid heddle. The other sort of heddle is the string heddle, one string attached to each warp thread to raise and lower, changing the shed, to enable the weft to pass alternately across the work. 

I have a rigid heddle loom, like that one and here's a wall hanging I made on mine,  threads courtesy of Kamala, thank you.

And there's always music. If you've never heard Cecilia Bartoli, the most wonderful coloratura singer ever, you might enjoy finding her on YouTube. She sings a lot of Vivaldi, right up to Puccini.

The second link shows you the score as she sings, and if you can read music, you marvel at the total mastery of the complex runs and figures. Or you can just listen and enjoy, too.

Today seems to be about saluting the arts,so here's a painting that you could write a book about, so brilliant and complex is the composition.

I'm waving my arms just looking at it, all the interlocking shapes and directions, the echoing curves everywhere, the color directing your eye, the virtuosic total of it, the impact. 

And now for something completely different. My honorary granddaughter recruited her colleagues to go bananas for Halloween

Which leads me to yesterday's Misfits box 

Except today I'm finally making pease pudding, which I've been meaning to make for months and kept forgetting to soak the split peas overnight. 

I finally remembered. Left dried peas, right soaked peas ready to cook. 

Happy day everyone, remember to do yesterday what you forgot for today, and be grateful if your mind is less of a ragbag than that of your humble blogger.