Monday, April 7, 2014

Gallows

Gallows
Space Needle

Psalm 18: 22
"For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me."



“hanging in a kind of void between my mother’s fried chicken and the cold prison floor”~~~James Baldwin







 The Space Needle in Seattle, Washington with Mount Rainier in the background • photo: Eugeniu Cozac on Flickr


  
Her children may be growing up fast, but Brooke Shields is taking time to savor their childhood with a family-fueled weekend stroll. The family of four were captured holding hands in New York City on Saturday, cherishing their blossoming adolescence .....




Gallow Lamp





 Gallows
 Peter the Great hanged and executed the people who helped Sophia rebel. When Peter sent Sophia to a convent he hung the leaders of the rebels outside her window of the whole winter.



 
brick pattern for patio or path? - Heart of Midlothian (This marks the site of the Old Tollbooth Prison. Prisoners were executed, usually by hanging from the gallows, on the site now marked w/ the Heart of Midlothian. To this day, Edinburgh people still spit on it as they pass - if you care to look closely enough! :-) -- photo by davydubbit, via Flickr



Chess: "Gallows"  "Space Needle"

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