Inside Hatch of an Apollo Command Module

 

Timely Architectural Image

 

Mike's Hawk

 

Caspar David Friedrich's Painting, Cloister Graveyard Under Snow

This is one of my favorite examples of German Romantic Landscape painting. The actual painting was destroyed in WWII but this photo of the painting remains. I've written a poem below in homage to the spirit it conjures:

...The cathedral's remains project their heavy weight outward into the air.

Lying beneath the ruin of its aged fabric can be seen the small stones that were once its body in small piles like cookie crumbs with the taste of earth.

Remnants of foliage kiss a musty sweetness onto its roughened cheeks and the memories of vines cover its great stone walls like the wrinkles on a face furrowed with wisdom.

A procession of black-clad voices can be heard echoing between the clouds and its form.

A vacant space where there was once a window calls out and an abbey bell walks a narrow path to ears humbled by an allegiance to melancholy.

The heavens are sad and invite you to their contemplations...

 

The Virtue -- and Dignified Repose -- of Melancholy

 

Almost Impressionist Night Scene

 

A Hum Transposed Upon Water Through Synesthesia

 

The Gate to Hell

 

Old Tree and Flower Pots

 

Nostalgia, Contrasts, and a Mundane Afternnoon

 

Varieties of Bathroom Stuff Juxtaposed for Maximum Effect

 

Neo-classic Corrosion (always a big favorite with me)

 

Trees on a Hill in Kyoto

 

Artifacts on Tatami

 

Homage to Andrew Wyeth

 

Winter View Beneath an Umbrella

 

Winter Train Station

 

"I'll Be Back"

Will be posting artworks or photos again, eventually. Right now, 'caught in a whirlwind of time deficit and computer ordeals.

Thanks for pondering my stuff...

Just Some Mushrooms

 

Commuter Train in Winter

 

Global Warming...Ah, I mean "Climate Change"

 

Space Flight Seating

 

Winter Rice Fields

 

Rustic Japan in Winter

 

The Japan That Occasionally Looks Like Pennsylvania