A Scottish friend has been spotted as he was piped into a celebration gathering!  The other evening I was walking the deck of a ship on the Rhine and I heard the strain of the Read More …

The architecturally astute may note that the title image features gothic arches that tower over a local congregation.  Cathedrals changed denominations and religions throughout their history.  Yet somewhere in their structure (theologically and practically) they Read More …

Leaving the junction of three countries (Driehoek) and moving along the Rhine River it would be simpler to focus on the historical series of castle defenses (a way the governing body exerted power or control Read More …

The wind blows across this sandstorm image and presents the hands-open waiting-women as introduction and background in the Kunsthalle.  The Holder painting is larger than life and it diminishes all who pass by.  The dessert Read More …

Winter has faded from snow to drizzle and in the courtyard at St Peter’s Cathedral the jazz band plays to the stones in the ground and the memories in the air.  This is the kind Read More …

An overgrown spark-plug bucket is covered with a wanna-be earthiness. A messy moss that will take more than a crop of spuds to render it fertile.  The cultural lesson about nature burying all the evidence Read More …

The crisis at the northern Mexican border city of Juarez is sadly much more about the murders of missing women than about immigration.  The news keeps us focused on political failures, on border security, on Read More …

The stained glass filters the light as it breaks across the chancel in the Fraumunster cathedral in Zurich. These are not ordinary stained glass windows, these are windows earmarked by Chagall design similar to the Read More …

As the globe turns, one might wonder why the palette shrinks to fit marketing models and options of choice-reductions.  The resurrection of the turntable may simply be much more than the quality- of-music debates — Read More …

The furrows between the early onions are whitewashed with hail and heavy snowflakes.  The language of winter would chill any spring.  The waiting for sunshine is taking too long so we left.  Yes we hit Read More …