Only later did I see the No Photography sign. Whoops. Well, also "whatEVER".
Category: history
A walk around Chester
The George and Dragon
Walking round the wall in Chester
Simon! Squirrel running away with a nut!
Christianity is pretty dang weird sometimes.
big magpie
Walking round the wall in Chester – the bit where the wall didn't survive
[My recollection (as I add these to the blog in 2014) is that this was a bit of a race against both the setting sun and a dying camera battery or camera memory filling up.]
Car park with building with sod roof
Suddenly, 3/4 of the way round town, there's my hotel
Queen's School
old stained glass in a Chester window
Cool spooky old bricked up church in Chester
The ivy has grown over the sign on the side so it now reads "Go Care For You".
Booze-like water packaging design makes it appear I am drinking the complimentary Absolut in my hotel room
British Museum
Aphrodite surprised at her bath
chickens
Lion killing its prey
writing in the babylonian or assyrian area
It’s so tragic to think how much of this human heritage and probably lots of archaeological evidence that had never been explored has been lost in wars.
Dogs (Assyrian or Babylonian, I think)
Rameses III
in the Egyptian room
ram’s head
discus thrower on grand staircase
The Great Court
Book I noticed in the shop of possible interest to Jinx
Nice reproduction papers of some gorgeous patterns. The cover image of Nasturtiums was particularly nice.
Japanese ivory carving of a falconer
fully articulated iron recreation of a lobster, Japan
Noh mask
ceremonial shield from (iirc) Danish Britain
The Enlightenment Room
desktop orrery
orrery, from about 1750
John Dee’s ritual stuff, for John Mabry
in Tokyo
[Pretty sure these are all photos taken and captions by Dinah, despite coming from Joe's Flickrstream]
sights of Washington D.C.
man on rearing horse, cannons, nuclear weapons protester, White House, big phallic symbol
lovely entryway
flopped lions
these sprawled guys are a bit more like the real lions I saw in Africa than the usual doorway fare…
Dedicated To Art
?Renwick Gallery? Can't remember where this was…
The DAR would not approve
my reflection among the names of the dead
Vietnam War Memorial
"Dad" says the card beside a small box
Vietnam War Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial
Ah, pity this washed out. It was a note to friend listed on the wall, recalling good times together – "that deer hunt in 1964" – and saying "I miss you."
Reflecting Pool
Lincoln Memorial
Freedom is not free.
Korean War Memorial
cherry buds, tidal basin, Jefferson Memorial
Washington, D.C., tidal basin, Washington Monument, cherry buds
the tidal basin & the Jefferson Memorial and one enthusiastic cherry tree
FDR Memorial
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally it is the greatest menace to our social order.
I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in simple work. More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.
To the right of this fine idea a group of park rangers, black & white, cleancut & long-haired, were working to clean the fountain and laughing and talking together as they did so. Good work.
Roosevelt's support for the arts, expressed at his memorial
We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
I HAVE SEEN WAR
I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives.
I HATE WAR.
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
That's a cute little statue of Eleanor Roosevelt, first U.S. delegate to the United Nations, on the right.
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear
Jefferson Memorial, cherry buds
tidal basin, Washington, D.C.
I really liked this tree.
Washington Monument from the mysterious little bridge on Ohio Drive near the Jefferson Memorial
Strange little laughing guy on the mysterious bridge on Ohio Drive near the Jefferson Memorial
I asked a park patrol guy and googled, but can't find the story. Anyone know?
Jefferson Memorial
Tasty wine with dinner: MacMurray Pinot Noir 2003
Yes, that MacMurray. Fred MacMurray's ranch, apparently.
Dickensian Dinah
[Photo from December 1984, photographer uncertain.]
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