Where's Rudolph?

S&P Annual Returns ~ 1928 – 2022

Not a good year for equity investors, particularly in high-tech company holdings.

Think green . . . and long-term! 

Resolution: Get More Sleep

The Wall Street Journal's 12 Holiday Gifts Tailored to New Year's Resolutions is a head-scratcher. 

I get the resolution to drink less alcohol and the WSJ's recommendation to choose French Bloom's alcohol-free sparkling wine.

And I'm intrigued by the resolution to get more sleep. That said, at $40,000, Tiffany & Co's bedside table race car clock would give this pinchpenny nightmares.

'Tis the Season

Believe ~ George Booth

Do you believe in Santa Claus?

Basketball Trades

It's good news Brittney Griner is coming home to America and her family. But America is in a deadly proxy war over Ukraine with an increasingly desperate Russia and Vladimir Putin.

A prisoner exchange trading convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor "Merchant of Death and Sanctions Buster" Bout doesn't bode well.

The swap on the tarmac in the United Arab Emirates was surreal.

And what about Paul Whelan?

Vineyard Haven's Cassie Dory

Mother, how come is everything white?

Splash!

Happy Blamesgiving 2022

Doomsday Clock

2022 Midterm Elections

Ghost Island Farm

Stopped at the farmstand this afternoon for lettuce and tomatoes at Ghost Island Farm in West Tisbury.

Rusty's parking lot had something else in mind. Halloween wasn't quite over. Or was it the midterm elections?

George Booth ~ RIP

George Booth, another remarkable and memorable New Yorker cartoonist of my youth, has stopped guffawing.

Hopper's New York at the Whitney

Horizontal perspectives and windows. Great exhibit. 

And contemporary merchandising.

Jefferson Market Library. 

First a courthouse in 1877, then a women's prison was added, and since 1967, a branch of the New York Public Library. 

It was our sanctuary and garden when we lived on West 11th Street.

Fall on the Vineyard

The End is Nearer

Lockdown

Chris Ware's Lockdown.

 

Pow! Bam! Thwack!

Personal Pronouns

Billboard seen yesterday driving south on the West Side Highway.

Fall

Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Cross River, NY.

Today Is A Good Day

Judge Hits Record 62nd Home Run

Aaron Judge's record 62nd home run gets both front and back covers!

8 Billion People

"In just 48 years, the world population has doubled in size, jumping from four to eight billion people. Of course, humans are not equally spread throughout the planet, and countries take all shapes and sizes. The visualizations in this article aim to build context on how the eight billion are distributed around the world. The next global population milestone – nine billion – iill likely be reached sometimes in the 2030s." – Visual Capitalist

A Brief Disagreement

The latest from Steve Cutts.

All Rise

Waiting for 61

 

Aaron Judge Ties Babe Ruth

Aaron Judge's 60th home run in 147 games ties Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60 homers in 154 games. Roger Maris's 1961 record of 61 home runs in 162 games is next. How many more can Judge hit with 15 games remaining in the regular season?

And what a game, capped by a comeback win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the bottom of the 9th with Giancarlo Stanton's walk-off grand slam. 

Martha's Vineyard Migrants

What an odyssey. All in less than 48 hours.

RIP ~ Queen Elizabeth

 

Beach Fertility Ceremony?

On a walk near Split Rock in Upper Makonikey, we encountered this unusual circle of stones, anthropomorphic arrangement of vegetables, and flowers. The rising tide and full moon washed it all away overnight.

Sunset Highway

Mushroom

 

Sailing on Long Island Sound

JJ Sempé's Last Cover

RIP, Jean-Jacques Sempé.

Talk to the Hand

 

Summer Waves

Doomscrolling

There's a Pattern

Can you connect the dots?