So beautiful it hurts

Blogworld Darling Hollister Hovey shared this with the world today, and I am following the lead.
Austria, epicenter of high culture is preparing for their opera festival Bregenzer Festspiele, where they perform opera on floating stages. Just when you think humanity is a sinking ship, you become aware of something so beautiful and inspiring happening somewhere in this world.

Check out stage sets of the past and be amazed.

Pirates in Paris on the Cherry Blossom Girl

Blue World Ring rears its brassy head again. Thanks to The Cherry Blossom Girl and a perfect kick off to summer photoshoot PIRATE IN PARIS!!!!

South Street Seaport Seamonster.....or Sturgeon

On the little beach beneath the Brooklyn Bridge lied a leviathan, swollen and smelling and swimming no more. Its head was flat like an eel and body covered in scutes like Dinosaurs.
Turns out it was a Sturgeon in the East River.

S.O.S. Save our Seaport

During the Winter of 2011 the South Street Seaport Museum closed its doors to the public. Since March the Historic Bowne Print Shop, tours of the Tall Ships: Peking and Wavertree, The Hellen McAllister Tugboat, Ambrose Lightship and sailboats Lettie G. and Pioneer are no longer open to the public. Attempts have been made to send the modest collection of ships representing New York's Maritime History away from New York City's downtown.
Join the Many Volunteers that have preserved these traditions of nautical wood working, printing, sailing, and educating youth about the East River's Ecology rally to re open the museum and the ships. If you can not attend the rally, join Save Our Seaport and see how you can get involved.

Sunny the Seal Sleeping in the Sun

Flotsam and Jetsam docks in Red Hook

Flotsam and Jetsam NY will be carried in the amazing Metal and Thread store in Red Hook Brooklyn. 398 Van Brunt Street. The shop carries work by the artisan owners as well who make amazing quilts and chain mail jewelry.

Its Alive

Dutch Kinetic Sculptor Theo Jansen builds beasts that with help of the wind propel themselves along the dunes.