My son casually dropped the idea that he was going to drive his family to Iowa to attend a Power Show that he remembered from his own childhood. A Power Show in this case is a showcase for old engines, steam or diesel or firewood, from the early 1900’s. My husband almost as casually — [...]
I went to an old-fashioned Power Show last week. I spent four days in the car and four days not in the car with seven other people. We stayed in an apartment above a diner on Main Street, in a town of about 5,000 people. The apartment was very long and narrow, with skylights to [...]
Maybe it's because I am going to be traveling on and off for a month but I am enchanted by the depictions of the Holy Family traveling. I stumbled across them serendipitiously. The Art Institute of Chicago had loads of stamps with the image. This is Monaco's version. Then, Hungary. Then this lovely brown ink [...]
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 [...]
I went look for beautiful cat pictures and the Art Institute of Chicago had several prints of Japanese woman playing with cats. Cats were brought in to help control rats and mice at some point during the 1700's. As a result the silk industry, under the control of women, grew tremendously. So, art! Courtesan and [...]
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