The columns, calculated with varying bearing weights for various marble and granite materials, speak of gothic roots without buttresses. Each a visual marvel and a structural feat. The basilica was set out as a monument Read More …
Finding the way to the Picasso Museum was a bit like wandering a labyrinth – at every turn new hope and at every dead-end two alternatives. The museum in Barcelona features many of the works Read More …
Wandering into Barcelona Gaudi becomes real. He is not only the hermitic architect of Sagrada Familia but also the man about town who left his fingerprints on a culture, on a way of life. The Read More …
Somewhere in the world of designers and shapers… There appears an arch. Be it MacDonalds or Keystone, Omega or Rainbow and that comic great pairing of Archie and Jughead. Yet when one looks beyond the Read More …
The white ballerina (Elena Kotsyubira from the Mikhailovsky Theatre) graced the stage at the Vladimir Palace with the these turns from Swan lake. The Vladimir Palace was the last imperial palace built in St Petersburg Read More …
Just when the work was getting too much and fall was in the air… We came across a few refinements for the Last Door Keystone Retreat. The gravity fountain system and the flower gardens are Read More …
The story telling about churches in a country that tried abolish them or turn them into museums is a bit baffling. The attempts to own the churches that were turned into museums with shared stories Read More …
Just a dark thought as I was walking beside the ice-slide on Mandrogi Island. Sheltered between the artisan workshops and the long cold winters, this image was both festival and challenge. A slide every child Read More …
The grand staircase at the Hermitage speaks to an era gone by. It also speaks to a class distinction that contributed to much of the economic divide in pre-revoloution Russia. The fear of leaving St Read More …
When the news reporter for Moscow TV asked me what was different about the agricultural fair in Yaroslavl and any I had seen in Canada, I answered with one word, “Fun!” The Zucchini dressed for Read More …