Dad's reaction to racers - Isle Of Man

My Isle of Man

Ayyam-i-Ha Party, Cairo, Egypt

Ayyam-i-Ha Party, Cairo, Egypt

Ayyam-i-Ha Decorations

Ayyam-i-Ha is a period of the Baha'i year devoted to charity, hospitality, social events, and the giving of gifts. Here are some decorations celebrating the event.

The Gift of God to this Enlightened Age

‘Abdu’l-Baha 

"The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers.”    

                          

Taraval Street overlooking Ocean Beach

TARAVAL STREET OVERLOOKING OCEAN BEACH

Love for Sale

Homestead Cabin

HOMESTEAD CABIN, BIG SUR


Sketched on a warm summer afternoon in the shade with a Tombow pen.

Sketched from a photograph in pencil.

Baha'i Principles

Wearing Religious Symbols

“Someone wished to know if it were a good custom to wear a symbol, as, for instance, a cross. He said: “You wear the cross for remembrance, it concentrates your thoughts; it has no magical power. Bahá’ís often wear a stone with the greatest name engraved on it: there is no magical influence in the stone; it is a reminder, and companion. If you are about to do some selfish or hasty action, and your glance falls on the ring on your hand, you will remember and change your intention.”

– Abdu’l-Baha, Abdu’l-Baha in London, p. 93

Farewell, America

Birds in Winter Forever Stamps

Social Evolutiion

SOCIAL EVOLUTION

Consolation

Face:  Beniamino Bufano

Abdu’l-Baha consoled a mother who was grieving the recent loss of her dear child with these words:

"That beloved child addresseth thee from the hidden world: ‘O thou kind Mother, thank divine Providence that I have been freed from a small and gloomy cage and, like the birds of the meadows, have soared to the divine world—a world which is spacious, illumined, and ever gay and jubilant. Therefore, lament not, O Mother, and be not grieved; I am not of the lost, nor have I been obliterated and destroyed. I have shaken off the mortal form and have raised my banner in this spiritual world. Following this separation is everlasting companionship. Thou shalt find me in the heaven of the Lord, immersed in an ocean of light.’"



Abdu’l-Baha (Selection From the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, pp 201)

USMC Pass and Review

Vintage San Francisco Watercolors

Vintage San Francisco Watercolors

Hoh Rain Forest

HOH RAIN FOREST

Sorrow upon Sorrow

Praying for young Tim, who entered eternity this afternoon.

Christmas Lights of St. Petersburg, Russia

Building Site

LOT


Looking North

Looking South

Looking East

Neighborhood

Genius Loci

Surfing in Sitka, Alaska

The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running -- Bass Cover

Plugged In

Sketched on the Palmetto-- a train  somewhere between Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia.

A Contribution

My work hides in plain sight.

Крокодил Гена - Голубой вагон (The Blue Coach)

Голубой Вагон

Медленно минуты уплывают вдаль,

Встречи с ними ты уже не жди.

И хотя нам прошлого немного жаль,

Лучшее, конечно, впереди!

Скатертью, скатертью дальний путь стелится,

И упирается прямо в небосклон.

Каждому, каждому в лучшее верится,

Катится, катится голубой вагон!

Может, мы обидели кого-то зря -

Календарь закроет этот лист.

К новым приключениям спешим, друзья,

Эй, прибавь-ка ходу, машинист!

Скатертью, скатертью дальний путь стелится,

И упирается прямо в небосклон.

Каждому, каждому в лучшее верится,

Катится, катится голубой вагон!

Голубой вагон бежит, качается,

Скорый поезд набирает ход.

Ну зачем же этот день кончается -

Пусть бы он тянулся целый год!

Скатертью, скатертью дальний путь стелится,

И упирается прямо в небосклон.

Каждому, каждому в лучшее верится,

Катится, катится голубой вагон!

In English

The Blue Coach

All the minutes gradually fly away -
And you shouldn't wait for them again!
And, of course, we're sorry about the past, but yet
All the best is certainly ahead!

Chorus:
Spreading like tablecloth,
Distant way goes on,
And it can reach right heaven's horizon.
Everyone, everyone
Should believe in the best.
The Blue Coach
Is rolling, rolling on...

Maybe we offended someone just in vain?
The calendar will turn over that page.
We are rushing forward to adventures, Friends!
Hey, come on, speed up, Engineer!

Chorus

The blue coach is running and swinging on.
The rapid train is speeding up it's pace.
And how come this day is coming to the end?
Why can't we prolong all happy days?


Chorus

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Arthur Hill Gilbert

ARTHUR HILL GILBERT (June 10, 1893 – April 1970) was an American Impressionist painter, notable as one of the practitioners of the California-style. Today, he is remembered for his large, colorful canvasas depicting meadows and groves of trees along the state's famed 17 Mile Drive. Gilbert was part of the group of American impressionist artists who lived and painted in the artists' colony scene in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach during the 1920s and 1930s. Wiki

G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe 

(Lower left)

West Coast Swing

Unchoreographed fun.