Monday, March 31, 2014

Tomahawk

Tomahawk
Tomatoes
Versailles
Pontiac
Pontoon
Toll

Psalm 18:4
"The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid."

"A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse." ~~~Cyril Tourner



Avocado Pesto-Stuffed Tomatoes: Great appetizers for a Christmas party!





 Tomahawk


Versailles




The Hydra, an ancient serpent-like chthonic water beast that possessed many heads , the poets mention more heads than the vase-painters could paint, and for each head cut off it grew two more, it's poisonous breath and blood were so potent, even its tracks were deadly. The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Hercules as the second of his Twelve Tasks

Chess:  "Tomahawk" "Tomatoes" "Versailles" "Pontiac" "Pontoon" "Toll"

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
Puerta
Part
Port
Abel Pacheco
Strings
Ericsson
Ann Rice 

Psalm 18:3
"I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies."


Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.”~~~Melville

"Rawdon Crawley, who came dutifully to partake of his aunt's chicken"~~~Thackeray



 
Yorkshire Dales, England


Tures Castle (Bolzano), Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Tortuguero, Limón, Costa Rica


Moby Dick Art Print by Rachael Shankman


Uxmal ruins. considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya culture, along with Chichen Itza in Mexico; Caracol and Xunantunich in Belize, and Tikal in Guatemala. One of the Maya cities most representative of the region's dominant architectural style.




Bailey's Irish Cream Brownies



THOTH

Chess:  "Moby Dick" "Puerta" "Part" "Port" "Abel Pacheco" "Strings" "Ericsson" "Ann Rice"

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Tartan

Tartan
Scott 

Psalm 18:2
"The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower."



 +~+~+~ Johnston Tartan ~+~+~+ Powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells. Their stronghold was Lochwood Tower, near Beattock, which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593. The tartan was first published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Before that time border tartans were generally un-named. More likely the tartan came from the Aberdeenshire Johnstons, whose family seat is at Caskieben, Blackburn.



 Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland by Adam Burton o


 Red Deer in Lochranza, Isle of Arran Scotland


 Talia Cherry

Chess: "Tartan" "Scott"

Noah

Noah
Architect
Shewbread
Obst
Observance

Psalm 18:1
[[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,]] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

"Consider how much intellect was needed in the architect, and how much observance of nature"."~~~Ruskin

"The obscure bird clamored the livelong night."~~~Shakespeare



"Los teñidores de los dientes del lobo
Prodigaron la carne del cisne rojo.
El halcón del rocío de la espada
Se alimentó con héroes en la llanura.
Serpientes de la luna de los piratas
Cumplieron la voluntad de los Hierros."~~
Egil Skalagrímsson

Senusret I, who is offering a ritual conical loaf (shewbread?) to the god, Amun-Min.


 German Obst Torte. Amazing flavors of fruit (obst) with a light gelatin glaze (Jello works too). All on top of a light sponge cake bottom.



Chess: "Noah" "Architect" "Shewbread" "Obst" "Observance"

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Chase Manhattan Bank

Chase Manhattan Bank
Bank
Ha-ha
Banking
Shoulder
Margaret Thatcher 
Shewbread

Psalm 18:19
"He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me."

"his habitation is a flimsy affair of canes and thatch"~~~ Lesley B. Simpson

"Bond shovelled the great wad of notes out on the table"~~~Ian Fleming







Ha-ha



Workers pose during construction of 60-story tall Chase Manhattan Bank headquarters in NYC, 1959


Chase Manhattan Bank (1955) _ Chermayeff & Geismar



Senusret I, who is offering a ritual conical loaf (shewbread?) to the god, Amun-Min.

Chess: "Chase Manhattan Bank"" "Bank" "Banking" "Shoulder" "Margaret Thatcher" "Shewbread"

Paraguay

Paraguay
Managua
Breaking Bad
If
Arthur 

Psalm 18:18
"They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay."





Managua, Nicaragua



Encarnación, Itapúa, Paraguay 
Christianity - predominately Catholicism - is by far the most popular religion in Paraguay with around 97 percent of people identifying with it.
Chess:  "Paraguay" "Managua" "Breaking Bad " "If" "Arthur"

If....

If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
  And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
  And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
  If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  And which is more; you'll be a Man, my son!
© Rudyard Kipling. All rights reserved

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann
Everest
Venecia
Tenochtitlan 
Dodge Ram

Psalm 18:15
"Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils."



Dodge Ram Truck


Mexico City by David Cohen

 
Popocatepetl Volcano & Mexico City Skyline from La Cuspide


Monumento a la Independencia, Ciudad de México





 
Mexico City post office interior






 
Muerte en Venecia (1971, Morte a Venezia): la búsqueda de la belleza en el resplandor italiano de los años setenta





Chess:  "Thomas Mann" "Everest" "Venecia" "Tenochtitlan" "Dodge Ram"

Friday, March 21, 2014

Peru

Peru
Thursday
Thor
Benjamin Franklin
Thornton Wilder
Gravity
Sewing

Psalm 18:13
"The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire."

"He bore a preternatural  resemblance to his caricatures in the evening papers."~~~Evelyn Waugh

"This is a pretty time to be coming to your sewing class, I must say."~~~Lillian Hellman

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

"Your goodness still prevent my wishes."~~~Dryden








Machu Picchu, Peru



Machu Picchu, Peru


The great dish from the Mildenhall treasure in the British Museum. The Mildenhall Treasure is a major hoard of highly decorated Roman silver tableware from the fourth-century AD, found at West Row, near Mildenhall in the English county of Suffolk in 1942 & reported in 1946.








 Raquel

View from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA


 
Door to the clouds in Machu Picchu, Peru

Racoon (Mapache)



Hanging bridges on Ai-Petri Mount in Crimea, Ukraine

Chess:  "Peru" "Thursday" "Thor" "Benjamin Franklin" "Thornton Wilder" "Gravity" "Sewing"

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Bilbao

Bilbao
Billfold
Billings
Billabong
Barbacoa
Barbecue
Barbie
Charcoal

Psalm18:12
"At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire."







 Spain. Basque Country. (Pais Vasco. Bilbao. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. Architectural styles: Deconstructivism · Contemporary architecture · Expressionist architecture.



 Money Origami JET FIGHTER F-18 Airplane Dollar Bill Mothers Love Jewelry Deals Marco Bicego Citrine Ring





"French toast barbudo a la coqui": glazed barbecue string beans wrapped in ham




Billings, Montana


Barbie Doll

Chess:  "Bilbao" "Billfold" "Billings" "Billabong" "Barbacoa" "Barbecue" "Barbie" "Charcoal"