futbol ... hombres !!!

never mind kicking the ball, i am kicking myself for never previously encountering this photographer ... Rafael Sanz Lobato ... hombre !!!

sorolla ...

julio romero de torres ... lived in cordoba ... very popular in his lifetime ... postcards were made ... etc, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Romero_de_Torres

i once heard the old ken russell smirking because a young television executive had dismissed his work as "not filmic enough"

you could start by watching the debussy fillum, if only for the music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsdAIYmSHAg

via lucy in ponty ... face to face with humanity in the land of my fathers

the manics ...    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwwtOd3pMlk

so ... vincent, ( and don ... )

if you were to make your way to the musee d'orsay nowadays, you could hardly see this picture for the moving throng of international visitors

but they are not pilgrims

they pause for a few seconds to take a quick picture

hundreds in turn will stand besides the painting with two fingers raised besides their ears

not many encounter the painting itself, or know, or care ...

and so i wept, but only for a few seconds

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let777/letter.html#n-9

etc, etc ...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Gogh%2C_Vincent_van_-_Irises_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

and here's a letter to vincent from paul gauguin ...

http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let675/letter.html

official update ... second grandson is being named "NOA"

hooray ! hooray ! hooray ! she's had another boy !

A second grandson arrived yesterday afternoon, 17th July 2013 @ 1820.

A brother for Alvi.

No name yet.

Weight 7lbs 8 ozs.  Mother and child doing well.

I am happier than ever.

when we got home from paris, there were quite a few birthday cards waiting for her on the mat ...