Michele Bourdeau was 81 when she died Sunday, July 26. Explaining my relationship to her is either very simple or very complicated. But dusty today ... She was married to my brother for seven months. Then he died. Now, fifty-eight years later, she has died. I have been going through emails I had from her [...]
This statue is actually quite small, nothing close to life size. It's from the old Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary building, now closed with the students moving to a new location. I have no idea what became of it. Some of the windows moved. Some of the paintings moved. ... Saint Thomas Aquinas -- I think. [...]
Standing on the Moon Credit: NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Neil Armstrong took the picture of Buzz Aldrin in July 1969. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap950922.html Apollo 14: A View from Antares (Antares is the Lunar Module from the Apollo 14 mission. The equipment is a wheeled device that carried equipment for the team. They did not yet have a lunar rover.) Image [...]
Eye candy for today. I'm finishing a story and don't have the bandwidth to think about other things. This was part of the old Saint Charles Seminary in Philadelphia. Gone now. sigh... My favorite view as a palate cleanser... I was scrolling through pictures and found this one and the one after it. The old [...]
July 14 is also Bastille Day. I was shocked to discover, when I visited, that the key to the Bastille is at Mount Vernon, having been presented to President George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette. July 14 is the birthday of the artist who did the cover of this book. https://a.co/d/0hJIYXrY The ceiling above [...]
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