Santa Monica

Santa Monica
Johannesburg
Churchill
San José
Oro

Gold 

 

 

Matthew 5:14
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”

 

Santa Monica: Populus felix in urbe felice ("Happy people in a happy city")

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santa Monica, Ca.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tutankhaamun's gold mask, decorated witn enamel and precious stones

Although Tutankhumen's tomb was discovered in 1922, the splendour of his treasure only became fully apparent three years later. First the three funerary "chapels" built of gilded cedarwood had to be opened. Then  the heavy lid of the pink granite sarcophagus was lifted revealing two coffins of gold-plated wood, followed by a third coffin of solid gold. Only then did the excavators come face to face with the pharaoh's mask, an astonishing work in polished gold set with multicoloured stones.
 

 

 

Chess: "Santa Monica" "Johannesburg" "Churchill" "San José" "Oro"

Norway

Mount Baker

The Deer Hunter

Norway

Santa Monica
Gen.3:3

"But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." 

 Santa Monica Sunset, California

by Robert Landau, Corbis

 

Diana Dău 

                                     

 Chess: "Norway" "Santa Monica" "Mt. Baker" "The Deer Hunter"