Friday, February 28, 2014

Davy Jones

Definition
Right
Davy Jones
Precursors

Psalm 24:8
"Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle."



 
sailboat sunset.

"the crafty smile, which was the precursor of the little joke"~~~Hawthorne

 Puerto Viejo, Limón

"outlines are not clear and concepts are not precise"~~~ Conrad M. Arensberg

"The setting up of this Maypole was a lamentable spectacle to the precise separatists that lived at New Plymouth."~~~ Thomas Morton

"the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below"~~~Thornton Wilder

"A way of liberation can have no positive definition"~~~Alan W. Watts

"The men said it blissfully, leering at each other with dirty smiles"~~~Stephen Crane


Davy Jones (Duppy Jonah)

Chess: "Definition" "Davy Jones" "Precursors" "Right"

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson
Command
Safe
Hold
Garden
El Jardín
Launch
Midnight In Paris

Prov.24:7
"Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in."

“a lavish expenditure on looking glass and marble” ~~~Evelyn Waugh 

Scarlett Johansson


1940. German invasion of Paris.


Fishing in the Guanacaste off shore waters, Costa Rica





 
Versaille Gardens, France




 
Midnight in Paris




Chess: “Command” “Safe” “Hold” “Garden” “El Jardín” “Launch”   “Scarlett Johansson”

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Grant

Grant 
Connection

Psalm 24:5
"He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation."



“With stern and austere gravity he persevered in his task”~~~Scott
 
“For he was great ere fortune made him so”~~~Dryden


 






Grand Pacific Drive, Wollongong, Australia





 Lotus blossom waterfall in Bali, Indonesia



 Devil's Punchbowl Falls, Arthur's Pass, New Zealand 



General Ulysses S. Grant

Chess: "Grant" "Connection"

Friday, February 21, 2014

San José

San José
Maroons
Sugar Mills
Promenade
Panorama
Caribbean 
Bonsai

Psalm 24:2
" For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods."

 "A row of guns were booming at a distant enemy"~~~Stephen Crane


Panorama de los Cerros de Escazú desde el oriente de San José 



Sugar Mill ruin, Caribbean



 
Real swans in Langley Park by jerry lake




-Pine Bonsai Japanese Bonsai Garden





E. Katie Holm, “Nanny of the Maroons: Jamaica, c. 1680 — c. 1750,” part of the series Women Warriors, 2011 Nanny of the Maroons was a Jamaican spiritual leader who fought against British slave trading during the eighteenth century. An expert strategist, Nanny implemented the use of camouflage and guerilla warfare to protect her people…

THE SUGAR INTEREST
 ENGLISH SETTLERS IN Jamaica knew them as  Maroons, black slaves of fierce character whose ancestors had escaped when their Spanish owners were driven from the island by the British in the 1650s. These slaves had fled to remote mountain glens in the center of the island, and there they had  survived and prospered for more than eighty years, repelling all English efforts to dislodge them. Year by year their numbers had grown as new slaves , imported into Jamaica at great expense, worked a few years on the sugar plantations, then disappeared into the mountains to form the new stock of Maroons.   CARIBBEAN: Ch.VII The Sugar Interest. James A. Michener



Chess:  "San José"" "Maroons" "Sugar Mills" "Promenade" "Panorama" "Caribbean" "Bonsai"

Herald

Heraldry
Colorado
Blue Sky
Stephen Crane
Marrow
Neymar

Psalm 24:1
[[A Psalm of David.]] The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.


 "He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold"~~~Stephen Crane


"Virtue adorned his mind"~~~ John Ford

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."~~~Thoreau


Belinda





 
turquoise honey creeper






 Inna







Origins of Heraldry



- Colorado Springs, Colorado


 There is just something so Special about Telluride, CO, in the summer and the winter. Its so breath taking. There is a ton to do, and its not too hoighty-toighty like some other mountian towns.




Durango Train #Colorado

Red, gold and blue

Chess:  "Heraldry" "Colorado" "Blue Sky" "Stephen Crane"  "Marrow"

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Rice

Rice
Riboflavin
José Ribera
Oregon 
Riddle

Psalm 24:3
"Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?"






José de Ribera The Immaculate Conception of Monterrey (1635)







 
Mount Hood, Oregon




 
Kinkaku-ji temple in snow, Kyoto, Japan



 Masada, Israel



 
Antique 19th C. Meiji Japanese Sterling Silver Dragon Tea Pot Vase Chinese Attributed Miyata Nobukiyo







Ribera, Jose de - Musica in Piazza (1591 - 1652) "The Little Spaniard", Ribera, was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy.


Chess:  "Rice" "Riboflavin" "José Ribera" "Oregon" "Riddle"

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Carabobo

Venezuela
Simón Bolívar

Bush
Carabobo
Mines
Lemming
Megaterio
Avestruz
Nandú
Rhea
Emu
Kiss

Prov.27:12
"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished."



Cindy Crawford as George Washington




Michael Jackson kissing Brooke Shields





 
Gene Simmons(KISS) and Brooke Shields, 1979





Gene Simmons and Brooke Shields

  
Paul Stanley (1974 Photo session for Kiss tour...The band just released their self-titled debut album and were three shows into their KISS tour before taking these photos in New York City. At this point, the group had been together almost a full year to the day.)





Ñandú. Photo by our professional photographer & wildlife guide Diego Araya


Fortín Solano, Puerto Cabello (Estado Carabobo).


Chess: “Venezuela” “Ñandú” “Carabobo” "Bush" "Kiss" “Mines” “Possessive” “Avestruz” “Ostrich” “Emu”
 array : Mathematics. a.A rectangular arrangement  of quantities  in rows and columns, as in a matrix.. b. Numerical data linearly ordered by magnitude.   “a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears” [Melville (“John Updike”)]  “Hummel’s voice, though slight, was expertly pitched to pierce the noise of the shop” [John Updike (“Louis Armstrong”)] “Long survival is no more self-evidently the final measure of the worth of a society than it is of an individual.” [Joseph Wood Krutch (“The Ark”)]

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Arm

Arm
Everest
Descent
Golden Fleece
Snowy 
NeFerTiti (Queensense) 

Prov.27:10
"Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off."
 John 14:6  
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."


"You and love are still my argument"~~~Shakespeare
"Sheathed their swords for lack of argument"~~~ Shakespeare 
"similarities cannot always be used to argue descent"~~~Isaac Asimov 


Men's Watch


 Snowy Day, York, England












The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Jacopo da Empoli





 
Greek Mythology: The Drakon Kholkikos (or Colchian Dragon) was an ever-wakeful, giant serpent which guarded the golden fleece in the sacred grove of Ares at Kolkhis. When Jason and the Argonauts came to fetch the fleece, the beast was either slain by the hero or put to sleep by the witch Medea. In one version of the story, preserved only in vase painting (image right), Jason was first devoured and disgorged by the dragon.






Everest 





A French restoration period gilt and patinated bronze French mantle clock, depicting the mythological Jason, capturing the Golden Fleece with the head of the slain hydra at his feet



 
The Nefertiti Bust is a 3,300-year-old painted limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Believed to have been crafted in 1345 BC by the sculptor Thutmose. / Neues Museum Berlin




Chess: "Arm" "Everest" "Golden Fleece" "Snowy" "Descent" "Nefertiti (Queensense)"