Herman’s been back home awhile, but today he sends me these pics of an abbey or church in the town where he had earlier stayed in September and October. More vicarious, armchair travel for moi.
Better understand the importance of flies — for each person on earth, there are 17 million of them — by reading this science piece from the New York Times.
Veterans Day, November 11, 2017
See: How Veterans Day went from celebrating world peace to thanking armed forces
Windshield photography. In the rain. Mt. Emily, from Island Avenue.
Seems that the people at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (hey — Herman and I have known and know that place!) have discovered organic fragments of a grasshopper in a Van Gogh painting. Read more on this quaint finding, brought to you in the spirit of seeking solace from the gush of troubling news over recent days from the world around us.