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 [...]
Category: weather
A puzzle and a metaphor
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 [...]
Snow, snow, beautiful snow.
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, [...]
Windy times and another Catholic scientist
Last Monday I was sitting at the kitchen table writing away, when I happened to look up and saw the top of a tree moving at high speed from the left of the window to the right. For a shocked moment I wondered if I was seeing a tree fall. As the tree flipped to [...]
I lost internet
Now the internet is back but I have an appointment. The original post for today relies on several pictures that I couldn't move across a dead internet. You'll just have to wait for a new Catholic scientist and some meteorology.