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 [...]
After all kinds of events, including simply celebrating Easter, I'm trying to return to a normal schedule of exercise. This led me to the entirely motionless activity of finding beautiful pictures of walkways on the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC website. All pictures are in the public domain. I just want to walk into [...]
I went to a memorial service Monday for a woman who lived an amazing life and died at 103 years old. All by itself, that is astonishing. The memorial was lovely, the reception that followed was also very sweet, and I saw people that I haven’t seen for years. The event was being held in [...]
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