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Sweet Thea on Main Street 4789 Main Street is the place to go for Fresh Hand-Made Croissants, Breads, Cookies, Pies & Fruitcake Fresh sourdough bread daily! Come enjoy our handiwork?

We make everything by hand using real ingredients - lots of butter - and lots of work.

When nature becomes geometry — the extraordinary world of Serge Gladky.French artist and designer Serge Gladky (1880–193...
10/17/2026

When nature becomes geometry — the extraordinary world of Serge Gladky.
French artist and designer Serge Gladky (1880–1930) looked at the natural world and saw an endless library of shapes, patterns and possibilities.
Flowers, leaves, shells and microscopic forms were simplified, rearranged and transformed into exuberant geometric designs. His work sits at that wonderful intersection where Art Deco, abstraction, science and nature all seem to collide.
Gladky was particularly fascinated by forms that were normally invisible to the naked eye. In works such as his celebrated Nouvelles Compositions Décoratives, tiny organisms and botanical structures become startlingly modern explosions of circles, spirals and colour.
Some look like flowers. Some look like machinery. Some could have been designed yesterday.
For today's POTD, a wander through the wonderfully strange imagination of Serge Gladky.

Happy National Dictionary Day! 📖October 16 is National Dictionary Day, celebrated on the birthday of Noah Webster, born ...
10/16/2026

Happy National Dictionary Day! 📖
October 16 is National Dictionary Day, celebrated on the birthday of Noah Webster, born in 1758.
Webster believed the newly independent United States should have a language — and spelling — that reflected its own identity rather than simply following British conventions. His dictionaries helped popularize distinctly American spellings such as color instead of colour, center instead of centre, and defense instead of defence.
His great American Dictionary of the English Language appeared in 1828 after decades of work and contained some 70,000 entries.
And in honour of Mr. Webster, a little educational effort of our own:
I just memorized six pages of the dictionary…
I learned next to nothing.
We'll see ourselves out.

October 15, 1951 — “Lucy, you got some ’splaining to do!” 📺On this day, American television audiences first met Lucy and...
10/15/2026

October 15, 1951 — “Lucy, you got some ’splaining to do!” 📺
On this day, American television audiences first met Lucy and Ricky Ricardo when I Love Lucy made its debut on CBS.
Starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, alongside Vivian Vance and William Frawley, the series became a phenomenon — and helped invent the language of television comedy along the way.
Its production was groundbreaking. Rather than relying on the fuzzy kinescope recordings commonly used to distribute live television, I Love Lucy was shot on 35mm film using a three-camera setup before a live studio audience. The result looked better, preserved beautifully, and helped establish a production model that sitcoms would follow for decades.
And then there was Lucy herself: the chocolate factory, the grape vat, Vitameatavegamin and an apparently endless series of terrible plans pursued with absolute confidence.
More than 70 years later, we already know exactly how badly this is going to go — and we still laugh.
Happy I Love Lucy Day!

Remembering Bing Crosby — who died on this day in 1977.For generations, Bing Crosby was one of the most familiar voices ...
10/14/2026

Remembering Bing Crosby — who died on this day in 1977.
For generations, Bing Crosby was one of the most familiar voices in the world — singer, movie star, radio personality and the seemingly effortless master of the relaxed crooning style that transformed popular singing.
His recording of “White Christmas” became one of the most successful recordings of all time, while his films — including the Road to… comedies with Bob Hope — made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Crosby was also famously devoted to golf. On October 14, 1977, after completing 18 holes at a course outside Madrid, he reportedly told his companions:
“That was a great game of golf, fellas.”
Minutes later, walking back toward the clubhouse, Crosby suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 74.
A remarkably appropriate final afternoon for a man who once said that if he could live his life over again, he would devote more time to golf.
The Road to Hollywood — Bing Crosby, 1947.

Can a painting behave like music?French artist Georges Valmier (1885–1937) called this remarkable 1920 painting Fugue — ...
10/13/2026

Can a painting behave like music?
French artist Georges Valmier (1885–1937) called this remarkable 1920 painting Fugue — borrowing its title from a musical form in which themes are introduced, repeated and transformed as different voices weave around one another.
It's an appropriate title. Shapes overlap, colours answer one another and fragments seem to advance and retreat across the canvas, creating rhythm without depicting a conventional scene at all.
Valmier's relatively short career passed through many of the great transformations of modern art. He began under the influence of Impressionism, embraced Cubism around 1910, and by the early 1920s was moving increasingly toward abstraction.
Fugue catches him right at that fascinating threshold: the recognizable world hasn't quite disappeared, but colour, shape and rhythm are beginning to become the subject themselves.
Fugue, 1920
Georges Valmier (French, 1885–1937)

Thanksgiving, 1918.“Eat less, and let us be thankful that we have enough to share.”Created for the United States Food Ad...
10/12/2026

Thanksgiving, 1918.
“Eat less, and let us be thankful that we have enough to share.”
Created for the United States Food Administration during the final year of the First World War, this 1918 poster asked Americans to conserve food so that more could be sent overseas.
There was no mandatory national food rationing in the United States during the war. Instead, the government appealed to people to voluntarily consume less, waste less and share what abundance they had. Posters like this turned conservation into an act of participation.
More than a century later, we don't need the wartime message to appreciate the larger thought behind it.
Thanksgiving can be about abundance — the table groaning with good things and the pleasure of sharing them with family and friends. But perhaps gratitude also means remembering that having enough is itself something to be thankful for — and having more than enough gives us something to share.
Happy Thanksgiving.

10/11/2026

Sorry - we made lots - but we will run out of pumpkin pies this morning - sold out!
Still have lots of these lovely pumpkin with Candied pecan tarts available

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
10/11/2026

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The strange, quiet world of George Ault.American painter George Ault (1891–1948) found his subjects in ordinary places: ...
10/10/2026

The strange, quiet world of George Ault.

American painter George Ault (1891–1948) found his subjects in ordinary places: barns, streets, rooftops, telephone poles and small-town buildings.

But in his paintings, the ordinary becomes something else.

Ault stripped landscapes down to strong geometric shapes, sharp edges and pools of light surrounded by darkness. People are often absent. Roads seem deserted. Buildings stand alone. Even when nothing is happening, there is an uncanny feeling that something just happened — or is about to.

He spent the later years of his life in Woodstock, New York, where the surrounding landscape inspired some of his most memorable paintings, including his remarkable series depicting Russell’s Corners at night.

His work has the precision of modernism, the stillness of Edward Hopper, and an atmosphere entirely his own.

For today's POTD, a wander through the beautifully lonely world of George Ault.

We can do it! But first, lunch. 🥪The wartime image of the capable, self-reliant working woman became one of the enduring...
10/09/2026

We can do it! But first, lunch. 🥪
The wartime image of the capable, self-reliant working woman became one of the enduring visual symbols of the 1940s — although apparently even the arsenal of democracy occasionally needed a toasted sandwich.
Some heroes wear welding goggles. Some make a really good grilled cheese.

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