Baha'i Mashriqu’l-Adhkárs

NEAR FRANKFURT, GERMANY

KAMPALA, UGANDA

NEW DELHI, INDIA

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA

SAMOA

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, U.S.

ISHQABAD, TURKMENISTAN

Summer is fading

It was a beautiful and warm late Summer morning.

Pine Siskin

I saw Pine Siskins at the feeder this evening.  It seems like forever since they've visited my backyard.

моя учительница

ANNA


The maid of honor, with bride and groom.

Road Worker Trick Fail

Starry Night over the Rhone

STARRY NIGHT OVER THE RHONE  
Vincent Van Gogh

CHLOE

Two sketches of Chloe, a terrific  companion.

Tacoma

TACOMA



From Fireman's Park

Temco

Have I posted this before?  Meh, I'll probably post it again. I love this part of Tacoma.  In the photo I took from Fireman's Park, you can see Brown's Point in the upper right.  This is a photo I took during a visit to the lighthouse--a visit I've relived a thousand times.

My son totally looked like...

Tug

Tug, sitting on my work...while I'm working.

Sulaymáiyyih

"In Sulaymániyyih, for the space of one year, the Blessed Beauty confined himself almost exclusively to a stone hut with its doors closed".

Stories of Bahá'u'lláh

Backyard in Mid-August

Work in progress.

I had an blank pallet to work with 13 years ago.  I've enjoyed the challenge.  

If the planets were the same distance from Earth as our moon

THREE SISTERS

THREE SISTERS

Bahá'i House of Worship, Kampala, Uganda

I drew this while standing in front of a framed photograph hanging on a wall in the Pilgrim House on Mount Carmel, Israel, in January of 1990.  I was on my Bahá'i pilgrimage.

WAKAFRIKA

Cool CD cover.

Nathan La Franeer

A WOMAN FLEES NEW YORK CITY

I hired a coach to take me

from confusion to the plane

And though we shared a common space

I know I'll never meet again

The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirror

I read his name and it was plainly written Nathan La Franeer

I asked him would he hurry 

But we crawled the canyons slowly 

Thru the buyers and the sellers 

Thru the burglar bells and the wishing wells 

With gangs and girly shows 

The ghostly garden grows

The cars and buses bustled thru the bedlam of the day

I looked thru window-glass at streets

and Nathan grumbled at the grey

I saw an aging cripple selling Superman balloons 

The city grated thru chrome-plate 

The clock struck slowly half-past-noon 

Thru the tunnel tiled and turning 

Into daylight once again I am escaping 

Once again goodbye 

To symphonies and dirty trees 

With parks and plastic clothes 

The ghostly garden grows 

He asked me for a dollar more 

He cursed me to my face 

He hated everyone who paid to ride 

And share his common space 

I picked my bags up from the curb 

And stumbled to the door 

Another man reached out his hand 

Another hand reached out for more 

And I filled it full of silver 

And I left the fingers counting 

And the sky goes on forever 

Without meter maids and peace parades

You feed it all your woes

The ghostly garden grows

Nuthatch

Nuthatches are friendly and fun-loving little birds.  

I hear them in the neighborhood trees:  Hank! Hank! Hank! Hank!

They come within a few feet of me when I'm near the feeder, suet or birdbath.  They make sure I know they're visiting.  It's very endearing.

SALVAGING THE COSTA CONCORDIA *Update*

SALVAGING THE COSTA CONCORDIA


The cruise ship in better days.

It now rests on its starboard side off the small island of Giglio on Italy's west coast.  Apparently the ship's captain steered the vessel too close to shore and struck bottom.

A satellite image.

Here's the plan to right the ship.  Incredible engineering!

A float-on system was engineered to transport the vessel to Genoa for salvage.

*UPDATE*

Done!

Forest Theater

July Evening

Jack and Jill

This is a remarkable Jack and Jill (random partner/music). It's spontaneous. They obviously know the music to a certain extent, but she has no idea what he's going to lead (he doesn't either LOL). They went all out and lost connection a couple of times, which is why they probably didn't win, but that just shows how hard they were working.

CATS AND DOGS AND ROADTRIPS

A Little Parade

Punkerdeedle

PUNKERDEEDLE

JALC

A charter member of JALC* riding through Egypt...

*  Joshua, Avonel, Laurel and Cobb

Port Angeles, Washington

PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON

Constancy

O ye spiritual friends! Such must be your constancy that should the evil-wishers put every believer to death and only one remain, that one, singly and alone, will withstand all the peoples of the earth, and will go on scattering far and wide the sweet and holy fragrances of God. Wherefore, should any fearsome news, any word of terrifying events, reach you from the Holy Land, see to it that ye waver not, be ye not stricken by grief, be ye not shaken. Rather, rise ye up instantly, with iron resolve, and serve ye the Kingdom of God.
--‘Abdu’l-Baha

Alamo Update

Except for the concrete, screws and a few nails, I reused wood pieces salvaged from replaced fencing and a 2x8 roof joist from this pile.

The window on the right is now the new door.

I put some work into it today.  I think I've finished the outside.

Bicycles on the 4th of July

BICYCLES ON THE 4TH OF JULY

P-51D Mustang