June 21, 2020

Happy Father's Day ! It's hard getting Corona, They stopped production in April. I was able to get their Brown version. Production resumed June 1st.



Speaks for itself.



Yesterday was Summer Solstice. A few showed up.



Today, I went with a mix. Not bad. a little too much salt but quite good.



Lots of street art in Manhattan.



Watched the Battle of the Bulge. A hot mess and full of inaccuracies. A long movie, it even had an opening orchestra and intermission. The best parts: Telly Savalas as "Guffy", the Panzer youngsters singing Panzerlied (frightening in how youth can be indocrinated and Robert Shaw re-enacting Red Grant as a Nazi.






A visit to Times Square. A ghost town.

September 23, 2019

Autumnal Equinox, wish I was there today.

September 2, 2019

$10 win!



Queen’s Guard at Windsor Castle.



Stonehenge.



The Eye.



Tower Bridge.



Always go to local Farmer's Markets.



London Bridge ain't much to look at.



The Globe.



Part of the Elgin Marbles.



British Museum.



Kali Ma.



Rosetta Stone.



Ramesses II.

Inspiration for Shelly's Ozymandias:

Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

December 21, 2018

Winter Solstice.

June 21, 2017 -- Summer Solstice

On the summer solstice, the sun rises just over the structure’s Heel Stone and hits the Altar Stone dead center.



Some shots from my Peru trip. Intipunku, or the Sun Gate. Great views from a high altitude, 2,720 meters (8,924 feet). I do not think it has anything special for the Summer Solstice.



The “Temple of the Sun,” or Torreón, has an elliptical design.

A rock inside the temple could have served as an altar. During the June solstice the rising sun shines directly into one of the temple’s windows, and this indicates an alignment between the window, rock and solstice sun.



Two $20 wins ! Plus a $1 win from the Mega.



Again with the Big Sleep:
Philip Marlowe: She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up. 

March 20, 2017

Spring Equinox at 6:28 a.m.



At Machu Picchu this rock is called the “hitching post of the sun”—Intihuatana, to the ancient Incas, who celebrated the equinox at this site. Some bright mind among them determined that this day was a special one, and so he—or she—carved the 26-inch-tall stone so that it faces at a very particular northward angle—about 13 degrees, the latitude of Machu Picchu. The effect is that at noon on both the spring and fall equinoxes, for just an instant, the stone’s shadow disappears. The sun, so it seemed to the ancients, was at those moments “hitched” to the end of the stone.

June 21, 2010 - Summer Solstice

Summer solstice arrived in the northern hemisphere on Monday, June 21st at 7:28am (EDT). Sol + stice derives from a combination of Latin words meaning "sun" + "to stand still."



"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year....Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."
The Great Gatsby - Daisy
Chapter 1