Just your average octopus. Not psychic.

via BSU

Colorado. Colors & coils make these Apache & Hopi baskets beautiful. Birds & wolves of prey, so gorgeous. Pink & blues, sunset hued images of Chief Sitting Bull & Sacajawea made with Ming Turquoise by Van Briggle.

baskets & ceramics via Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
animals via Colorado State University

Natalie Barney – crafts cabin

May Day flag

So much to take in — the Rootworks archive. Hundreds of photographs by Ruth Mountaingrove who created the lesbian-feminist community in southern Oregon.
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Rootworks, was established in the 1970s by Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove, when both women were in their 50s. “The philosophy was that we would live without men, separate from the patriarchal world,” Ruth told me in the late ’90s. “That is still pretty much the idea.”

“…As part of that dream, women experimented with new ways to live and work together – and with all sorts of activities and rituals, from house-building projects and collective gardening to the sacred circle.” – Linda Long
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The best part of the dream for me would be the all-purpose crafts cabin named ‘Natalie Barney’.

read more about Rootworks via Queerest Places
images via Ruth Mountaingrove papers – University of Oregon

Ahhhhh, the classic Eiseman 42 Day Grand Canyon camping trip via the Colorado River. 42 days!!! Floating down the river is my favorite way to enjoy landscape, water & friends. So relaxing, so peaceful. The river knows. Often if I call my family on weekends they are all on boats—except me! Not fair. This summer is the summer to float, camp & soak.

via Colorado Plateau Digital Archives

Buffy from Sesame Street, not vampire slayer. Listen to some beautiful music, see some folk fashions. I always loved when TV shows traveled somewhere. The 3rd clip (Buffy’s Morning Song) intros with the Sesame Street gang boarding a plane for Hawaii to visit Buffy and her family. They all sleep in a teepee and Big Bird brings a wagon full of cabbages for Mr. Snffleupagus.

Buffy Sainte-Marie is an Academy Award-winning aboriginal Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Native Americans. She appeared on Sesame Street from 1975 to 1982.

UPDATE : Watch this short video of Buffy discussing her work and life.
Buffy by John Walker, 2010.
via National Film Board of Canada

Don’t Pollute! Woodsy Owl’s Give a Hoot – Don’t Pollute public service announcements of the 1970s.
In the city or in the woods, help keep America looking good!
Happy Earth Day!