Like many people I’m shivering inside my house these days and doing things that seem suitable for this — much colder than necessary — weather. (And I’m not an AI. I hear that AI is fond of dashes but sometimes they are the right punctuation!) For instance, I’m cooking special things. Years ago, when my [...]
I find this picture fascinating. Actually I find the original on my back porch fascinating. The heap of snow on the table shows something odd about how much frozen water fell from the sky. The table has a pyramid of snow that is around eight or nine inches deep some inches in from the edge. [...]
In my efforts to bring order out of chaos in my household, I occasionally look at my bookshelves and, gulp, remove books. This time I found something called —ITESTA Seminar with Father Stanley JakiITEST WorkshopOctober, 1991 I thought it was the perfect candidate for removal to another home, especially since I have no idea why [...]
A friend sent me this photo of a painting on the wall of a church he had visited. The picture came in as a fuzzy image at first which sometimes happens when iPhones send pictures to my Not an iPhone. Because I knew the church's name was Saint Helen I carelessly though that it was [...]
The Shy Museum Goer dropped a lovely blog post about snow over the weekend. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/01/05/the-fine-art-of-depicting-snow/ She says that snow was first found in Western European art in the 1500's. Go check out Pieter Bruegel's painting of the Epiphany in the snow. Diane Tucker is always fun. The Jericho Society has images from the Vermont enthusiast, [...]
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