mulatto diaries

creating a bye-racial world

fair and good features….on the dark half

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Tiffany

Good Lord!!

Ebony & Ivory

San Jose Mercury Evening News, November 30, 1887. Here’s the “tragic mulatto” principle taken to extremes by cruel Nature. Or then again, maybe circus life would have offered more to this kid than whatever hardscrabble misery awaited him in post-Redemption Florida. If only we had a name other than “it” for the child in question, I might be able to find out what happened to him.

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reblogged from The Hope Chest

art by Kaadaa

fall, i love you

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Tiffany

She saw this little tree being blown about by the wind and devised a plan to help the tree keep his leaves.

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candle on the water

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Tiffany

lighthouse

a fall river

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Tiffany

This is the Caño Cristales. For a brief period each year, this unique Colombian river blooms in a dazzling multi-colored display.During a brief span between the wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right, the many varieties of algae and moss bloom in a dazzling display of colors. Blotches of amarillo, blue, green, black, and red—and a thousand shades in between—coat the river.

This is the Caño Cristales. For a brief period each year, this unique Colombian river blooms in a dazzling multi-colored display.

During a brief span between the wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right, the many varieties of algae and moss bloom in a dazzling display of colors. Blotches of amarillo, blue, green, black, and red—and a thousand shades in between—coat the river.

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