The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

a detail of The Absinthe Drinkers (Les déclassés) by Jean-François Raffaëlli in the Legion of Honor , San Francisco & a happy new ...

San Francisco sky, 2 December 2018

It is now Boxing Day, or St Stephen's, and perhaps you like good King Wenceslas are looking out: if so, here are some possible destinati...

This lovely Tintoretto is from the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the painter's birth. Merr...

I saw this Edward Burne-Jones watercolor, The Nativity, as part of the special exhibit Truth & Beauty : The Pre-Raphaelites & t...

This round-up was nearing completion when my Internet problems set in, and though my access has been restored (and will soon be improved, I ...

I have been having major issues with Internet access, and I've been trying for nearly a month to get AT&T to resolve them; regular p...

greeting Princess Tiana: Disneyland November 2017

a detail of Hebe & Ganymede by Thomas Crawford in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

a detail of Douglas Tilden's The Football Players on the UC-Berkeley campus: the 121st Big Game vs Stanford is tomorrow OK, here...