Labná

Strawberry Shortcake

Murillo 

Labná 

Fishing

Angling
String Theory
Guitar
Strawberry Pancakes
Returns
Desert-Dessert

Aguacate

Prov.13:15
"Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard."

Detail from a 15th century altarpiece by Florentine artist Bicci di Lorenzo (1375 - 1452). The altarpiece was bequeathed to the Abbey by Viscount Lee of Fareham (died 1947). It is thought originally to have come from the Capella San Giovanni Gaulberto in Sta Trinita, Florence. The central panel shows the Madonna enthroned, holding a rose, with the Christ Child.

 

Still Life with a Guitar is an early 20th century painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris. Done in oil on canvas, the work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 905.

The work was created in 1913 in the small Spanish town of Céret in the Pyrenees. Céret was popular with artists, including Picasso, who paid a visit there in the same year.

Strawberry Shortcake

 

 

 

 

Murillo en Chichen Itzá 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
 

"We may say of angling  as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."~~~Izaak Walton: Compleat Angler, ch. v 

Strawberry pancakes

LABNÁ

La fachada principal

La sobriedad de la parte posterior del arco de Labná contrasta con la ornamentación simbólica que cubre la fachada: a ambos lados del pasaje se abren las puertas de dos pequeñas habitaciones abovedadas, rematadas por el friso, que  representa unas chozas con alta techumbre de paja, a ejemplo de la vivienda vernácula, lo mismo que los motivos cruzados que evocan las celosías de las edificaciones de caña. Es también símbolo de realeza.

Chess: "Strawberry Shortcake" "Murillo" "Labná" "Fishing" "Angling" "String Theory" "Guitar" "Strawberry Pancakes" "Returns" "Desert-Dessert" "Aguacate"

Mosquitia

Mosquitia
Azul
Aguacate
Blue Lagoon
Bluefields
Avocado
Nicaragua

Psalm50:11
"I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine."

The Blue Lagoon

 

Morgan's Rock Hacienda and Ecolodge, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

Aguacate

Avocados

 

Kaieteur Falls, Guyana, Amzonian jungle

Miss Bluefields Scharllette Alexandra Allen Moses

Mosquitia

Mosquitia

 Douglas Preston is an American writer and journalist who has published twenty-six books, both fiction and nonfiction, including over a dozen New York Times bestsellers. Perhaps most popularly known for his thrillers, Douglas Preston has interested audience with a wide range of topics and publications. In the year 2000, Preston moved with his family to Florence, Italy, to write a murder mystery set in Tuscany. Instead of writing the novel, however, he became fascinated by the story of a serial killer named il Mostro di Firenze, the Monster of Florence. He teamed up with an Italian journalist, Mario Spezi, who was an expert on the case. In 2008 they published a nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, which was a huge bestseller, spending four months on the New York Times list. The book won numerous journalism awards in both Italy and the United States. It is currently under development as a film, starring George Clooney, who will play the part of Preston. He has published a number of solo novels, including Tyrannosaur Canyon, Blasphemy, and Impact. Together with Lincoln Child, he is the creator of the the Pendergast series including such popular titles as: The Cabinet of Curiosities, Cold Vengeance, and White Fire. His most recent suspense novels are Blue Labyrinth, and The Kraken Project. Before becoming a full-time author, Preston was an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and taught writing at Princeton University. He has also continued an active career in journalism, contributing to such magazines as the New Yorker, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Harper’s and the Atlantic. He lives with his wife in Maine and New Mexico.

Chess: "Mosquitia" "Azul" "Blue Lagoon" "Bluefields" "Nicaragua" "aguacate" "avocado"

The Advocate

The Advocate
Remittance
Avocado
Aguacate
Bulto Escolar

I John 2:1
"My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:"

"In the ramifications of Party doctrine she had not the faintest interest."~~~George Orwell

The Advocate hand-tooled leather briefcase - Rewards

Stainless Steel Avocado Slicer // creates beautiful, perfect slices of avocado in one easy motion for sandwiches, salads & snacks.

Chess: "The Advocate" "Remittance" "Avocado" "Aguacate" "Bulto Escolar"

Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia
Wellington
Camelot
Aguacate 
Waterloo 
Waterfall
Camel
Prov.20:5
"Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out."
Prov.20:9
 "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?"
Mark 10:27
"And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible."

"she felt welling up in her mind some peculiar imagination" ~~~Glenway Wescott

Nurosmaniye Mosque in Instanbul

Avocado stuffed with tuna salad - Aguacate relleno con atun

Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957) 

  Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington by Hiroshi Sigimoto, 1999

Chess: "Hagia Sophia" "Wellington" "Camelot"  "Aguacate" "Waterloo" "Waterfall" "Camel"

 Nurosmaniye Mosque in Instanbul
 ISTANBUL, TURKEY—While restoring the eighteenth-century Nuruosmaniye Mosque, located near Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, workers from Foundations Istanbul Provincial discovered an Ottoman-era cistern. “We removed 420 trucks’ worth of slime from the cistern. Then the magnificent gallery, cistern, and water gauge became visible. …There is also a well under this cistern. After cleaning the mud, we saw that the system was still working,” said Director İbrahim Özekinci. When the cleaning and conservation are finished in another year, he plans to turn the cistern into a museum and open it to visitors.

David Crockett

David Crockett
Aguacate
Alligator
Psalm 1:1
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."

 

Chess:  "David Crockett" "Aguacate" "Alligator"

Control

Control

Carlomagno

Nicaragua

Alice

Aguacate

Darío 

Nickel

Níquel

NINI

Ham
Sopa Negra 
Gest
Quest

Prov.14:9

"Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour." 

Sopa Negra

 Máscaras en la celebración del Güegüense (NICARA- güense ?)

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” ---F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His mouth was wide and mobile, the mouth of an actor or preacher”---Joyce Cary

“Nicoiano spoke of another lord named Nicaragua who lived about 150 miles  to the west and Gil González continued there, persuading him to become a Christian, along with 9,000 of his people. Nicaragua gave the Spaniards 15,000 pesos in the form of gold necklaces. Gil González presented him in return with a silk jacket, a linen shirt and a red hat.

  A long  conversation followed during which Nicaragua said that the total destruction of the human race would soon come, brought on by man’s many crimes and unnatural lusts. This lord aske all kinds of interesting questions of Gil González de Ávila which the conquistador must have found surprising: what was the cause of heat and cold? Were dancing and drinking acceptable? Did men have souls? Gil González  delivered a good sermon describing the benefits of Christianity and the evils of human sacrifice. He was mader aware that these Indians were terrified of the Spaniards’ beards.”---Hugh Thomas : THE AGE OF GOLD: The Spanish Empire of Charles V .Ch.X Pedrarias, Panama, and Peru; Guzmán in New Spain p.122

Chess:  "Gest" "Quest" “Control”  “Carlomagno” “Nicaragua” “Alice” “Aguacate”  “Darío”  “Salisbury Plain” “nickel” "Ham" "Sopa Negra" "Stonehenge": a prehistoric ceremonial ruin on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, constructed at its stage in the megalithic period, 1900-1700 B.C., of circular formations of huge upright stone slabs and lintels.           “Stony Point”  “Cleveland”    Saxo Grammaticus: Danish historian of  the 13^th century; transmiter of the Hamlet legend.   “Coraza” “Potemkin” “NINI”
 ham    jamón

Cornwall

Cornwall
Tikal
Copan
Aguacate
Prov.13:21
"Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed."
 Matt.12:1
"At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat."

                           Casa en Heredia (Atrio)

                                     

Taken about 30 mins before sunset, with a brisk westerly pushing the rollers in.
A feat of engineering to build these. The lower engine house was built in 1835 to contain a beam engine to pump out and drain the mine.
The other house had a winding engine to work the inclined Diagonal Shaft which ran out under the sea to a depth of 1360 feet.
It is said, on stormy days, the miners could hear the large boulders being rolled about on the sea floor above their heads.
One hell of a place to work!

Chess: "Cornwall" "Tikal" "Copan" "Aguacate"