The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

 For Halloween week, two by Robert Herrick. The first: The Hag 1.     The hag is astride,          This night for to ride; The Devill and sh...

It might help to dissipate the gloom & frustration of living in a country that apparently cannot make up its mind who would be better as...

  detail of The Girls by Tamara de Lempicka, seen at the de Young Museum as part of the special de Lempicka exhibit

  Lincoln Park, San Francisco

I was at the first performance of San Francisco Opera 's superb production of Tristan & Isolde , & went again, last night, to th...

Frost Therefore, lest this inclement friend should maim Your valued plants, plunge pots within a frame Sunk deep in sand or ashes to the rim...

  detail from one of the Battle of Pavia tapestries, currently on view at the de Young Museum as part of the special exhibit  Art and War in...

  a view from the #1 California bus, San Francisco

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ...