Sunday, April 3, 2011

quote:

a german colleague encounters some difficulties ... then he says ...

"i'm a survivor; germans are survivors, we've survived two world wars !"

i love the sound of old money ... penny-farthing, threepence-ha'penny, a silver sixpence, a golden guinea

a cloud tree ( ilex crenata ) in altenburg gardens

Friday, April 1, 2011

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

bits and pieces in saint peter and saint paul at longbridge deverill





in the gwendraeth valley, spring is quite definitely sprung !




















a cardigan my mother created about thirty five years ago

genius ... sheila brings back to life the last summer's bounty




up near the ceiling in a friend's spare room ... a left-over from the days when i used to mess about with paints

the painter roy hewish giving fats waller his undivided attention

monday morning at the rialto fish markets


apropos de nuffinque in venice




stuff and nonsense in venice









nothing better to do ? i'd better just tiptoe by quietly

a notorious workaholic is compelled to relax



Blimey ! The Chiesa dei Gesuiti .. Santa Maria Assunta

the inside looks like blue and white china but is really blue-ish marble inlaid on white

brodsky's garden wall


at the cemetery ... diaghelev and stravinsky


you won't see many pigeons and seagulls in canaletto's paintings ... why ?