Save your notebooks!

A cool look at Bob Dylan's early nates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/music/bob-dylans-secret-archive.html?_r=0

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Austin Kleon offers great advice.

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I am reading my second book of The Rivers West series-The Rio Grande by Jory Sherman. I am astounded by the fresh artful metaphors Jory uses to paint scenes.
Every page has a sweet piece of word candy I have never tasted. If you like exciting  historical stories about the migration west pick 'em up.

Here is an example, the beginning of chapter eight:

     Before Matt went to sleep, the sky became a magician’s cape, rent like a shotgunned drape, starsilver leaking through the eternal fabric in tiny pinpoints of light. As always, he was absorbed in the deep mystery of the sky, the smallness of the earth in that immensity, the smallness of himself so far from heaven, the place where the spirits of the dead journeyed along the path the white men called the Milky Way. He closed his eyes and for a long time could see the afterimages on his retina, dancing like silent fireworks, silvery fountains.

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X rays of flowers.

http://hyperallergic.com/269028/a-radiologists-x-ray-photographs-of-flowers-from-the-1930s/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Witch%20Marks%20Curses%20and%20Magic%20in%20the%20Neglected%20History%20of%20Medieval%20Graffiti&utm_content=Witch%20Marks%20Curses%20and%20Magic%20in%20the%20Neglected%20History%20of%20Medieval%20Graffiti+CID_84ecad59815bfe70aa65411b3e26ffa1&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=A%20Radiologists%20X-Ray%20Photographs%20of%20Flowers%20from%20the%201930s