The One Mystery
‘Tis idle! we exhaust and squander
The glittering mine of thought in vain;
All-baffled reason cannot wander
Beyond her chain.
The flood of life runs dark – dark clouds
Make lampless night around its shore:
The dead, where are they? In their shrouds –
Man knows no more. Continue Reading
“The Decline of the Woodcut” is the title of Chapter 6 of The Art of Botanical Illustration; but the woodcut, as used in botanical illustration, is still going strong in Chapter 6 as we shall see. Continue Reading
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; Continue Reading
King Croesus of Lydia. Wealthy. Powerful. Famous. Beloved by his people. The self-appointed happiest man in the world about to be burned alive? How did this happen? Continue Reading
Flow Blue China
No real flowers would give of themselves
as these do, the soft tips of their petals
easing out under the painted gold borders, Continue Reading
It’s Very Nice
It’s very nice to sit by a stream Continue Reading
The DAWN spacecraft, the one with the awesome Ion Thrusters, that has already performed an historical orbiting maneuver around the asteroid Vesta located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is closing in fast on the largest dwarf planet in the asteroid belt: Ceres. Back story here: https://gregole.com/2015/01/27/mission-to-the-asteroid-belt-codename-dawn/
http://dawnblog.jpl.nasa.gov/2014/08/31/dawn-journal-august-31/
March 6th is the day DAWN will insert itself into orbit around the weird little world that is Ceres – the closer we get, the weirder it looks. Continue Reading
You know I’m interested in songs and song lyrics and one particular genre of song is the story song about a particularly “bad” girl in which the male vocalist is either singing to said girl, usually something along the lines of “I’m on to you and I’m not putting up with any more of your nonsense“, or singing about the girl; possibly as a warning to others – “watch out, she’s nothing but trouble!” Continue Reading
For some weird reason I started thinking about dates today it being the first work-day of March and the second day of Meteorological Spring. Continue Reading
Chicago. Third largest city in the United States. The windy city, the second city, the city with big shoulders.
I’ve visited it a couple of times and always had a great time and had a business trip there late last week and over the weekend. The term “business trip” has two parts: business and trip. I’ll be covering the trip part in this blog and the question is; did I have a great time? Yes, yes, yes! Because Chicago rocks that’s why. Continue Reading
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