Monday, May 30, 2016

Alors, I resume…

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Mt. Baldy hike, April 24 Eastside Road, May 29, 2009— I T HAS BEEN a long time since my last post here. One of the recent distract...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Road trip

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Paso Robles, March 29, 2016— W E'RE ON A SHORT road trip with a 13-year-old grandson, introducing him to favorite California roads of ...
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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Ladies Voices

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CURTAIN RAISER followed by LADIES’ VOICES an opera in five acts to words by GERTRUDE STEIN music by CHARLES SHERE 1987 commi...
Saturday, March 05, 2016

Back to the blog…

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Eastside Road, March 4, 2016—   M ARCH. TWO MONTHS into the new year , I resume. I was apparently temporarily frozen, the proverbial deer...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Dutch interiors

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Prinseneiland, January 7, 2016— O NE OF MY FAVORITE Dutch painters is Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597 - 1665), who specialized in the depic...

Modes of transportation

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photo: Grace Zivny Hammarby, Stockholm, January 10, 2016— W E BEGAN THE LAST leg yesterday, leaving our delightful Amsterdam apartment...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

Three photos from the window

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Prinseneiland, January 7, 2016— I   HAVE BEEN WRITING here recently about the pleasures of orderliness and clarity. The opposite has it...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Clothing

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Prinseneiland, January 4, 2016— T HE PEACOAT has served me well. I bought it at least fifty years ago, in the mid-sixties, when peacoats a...
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Monday, January 04, 2016

Alvar Aalto

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Prinseneiland, January 4, 2016— H ERE YOU SEE , rather stretched horizontally in a desparate attempt to fix a perspective problem, one of ...
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