Are we there yet? I'm afraid I'm going to be asking this all week since I don't do time changes very well. Even my work computer is still hung up an hour. How about you? Did you remember to set your clocks forward? World Time Clock
What Happened On Your Birthday
Stephen Hawking's Time Machine
The Corpus Clock & Chronophage
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Clock Tower Penthouse
Make your own clock
Baroque Pendulum Clocks
Keep your eye on that clock, this post is only beginning to tick.
Update: I've just finished finding and sizing all the photos. A hundred of them. So I better break this up into four separate entries.
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I hope the neighbors like it. Enough of them have stopped by to investigate. By the time one neighbor peered through the hedge and whispered (loud enough to be heard) "Oh she's at it again, working on her trout stream," my dry creek had taken on a life of its own. 
Remember that little audio device with a play list of all house-related songs I posted two years ago? Anyone recall that? Anyone still here? When I first introduced it, it had a few dozen songs that quickly grew to a few hundred, with a few hundred glitches in accompaniment. Every time I threw it on the turntable for a test spin, half the tracks went missing; yanked by YouTube because of the change in internet copyright laws. I redid it and redid it, painstakingly segging and searching songs that kept disappearing until the whole mess became unlistenable. And then I shelved it. Well, last week I hauled it all back to the recording studio and this time I'm calling it a wrap, all two hundred recordings. So without further ado, please crank up your speakers for House Music for the House. But hurry.
So long, 2011, been good to know ya. Here to usher you out, on account of 2012 bein' his centennial celebration, is folk legend Woody Guthrie. But first, a few words on Woody from another American giant, John Steinbeck.
Standing resilutely like a fortress over the city and lake of Locarno, Switzerland, this stunning home incorporates the best of both worlds: traditional stone masonry enforced with the clean contemporary lines of concrete. The house feels both comfortable and protective, evoking a sense that one could get from an old castle. It emits a sense of quality and understated elegance that is uncommon in most modern houses. The architectural firm of Wespi De Meuron has shown remarkable self constraint. Nothing in this house is overdone. Both less and more.
This "modern farmhouse," designed by Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts + Partners, was named Interior Design magazine's Best of Year 2010 Residence. Rustic yet elegant, simple yet grand, the Villa San Spirito is a restoration of 15th century lime stone buildings high atop the Croatian Island Lopud off the Dalmatian Coast. 
