Broken Air Con Joins JOE (Jazz Object Ensemble)

Jazz Object Ensemble

Tripp

 

Nephew Tripp 💗

Fort Worden

 

With granddaughter at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington

Laurel's Flowers

 

Константин Сомов

 

Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Russian: Константин Андреевич Сомов, November 30, 1869 – May 6, 1939) was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. Born into a family of a major art historian and Hermitage Museum curator Andrey Ivanovich Somov, he became interested in 18th-century art and music at an early age.  WikiArt

Пастораль 1896

 Портрет Луизы Морган

Опушка леса. Лигово 1894 

Вечерний пейзаж

Портрет А.И.Сомова, отца художника

Интерьер на даче Павловых

Пашня  1900

 

Dogwood 2021

 

My backyard dogwood is showy this year!

вика с бабушкой

 

Victoria with her Grandmother

The Garden Temple

 

The Garden Temple

Studio City CA

The Garden Temple is an enterprise in Studio City, California, that "...designs and crafts products for garden and home. "  I was disappointed to find the gate locked that Sunday in 2008 when I was visiting Southern California as I wanted to walk about the temple grounds.  It's quite compelling. 

I gleaned these pictures from their website.

In 1956 we lived in a little house around the corner, long before the neighborhood evolved and the Garden Temple came into being.  Our house and most the the neighborhood has been razed and rebuilt, so it is serendipitous that the backyard where I spent so many hours as a nine year old--  alone and with my brothers-- has become a place of art and serenity. 

The small shed in the picture had been one brother's chemistry lab, and later another brother's bank. 

Danny Boy

DANNY BOY-- by Eva Cassidy

 

Mothers are the First Educators

 

Day Lily Garden by Debra Stewart

"...mothers are the first educators, the first mentors; and truly it is the mothers who determine the happiness, the future greatness, the courteous ways and learning and judgement, the understanding and the faith of their little ones." --'Abdu'l-Bahá

Tea Kettle

 

Magnalite Tea Kettle

John Gordon Rideout

ca. 1940

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

What's in a Name?

Saw this screen name on a weight loss site: 

  "Anita Newbody"

Spring Day

 

Having been a renter for most of my life, developing my own backyard over the last 20 years has been as rewarding as I always imagined it would be.  It is particularly so in the Spring, when it comes to life after so many months of rain and chill.

 

             

"The problem with owning a home is no matter where you sit, you're looking at something you should be doing."--Sam Ewing

 

 

Cosmonaut Day

 

Today is Cosmonaut Day in Russia and other former USSR countries.

Ruston Way

 

Leaves of One Branch

 

"The interdependence of the peoples and nations of the earth, whatever the leaders of the divisive forces of the world may say or do, is already an accomplished fact."

Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 122

Carmel Point

 

Sunset-Carmel Point

Bill Cooke

Cat Watching Tom and Jerry

Clothes Make the Man

 

'Modern Neanderthal'

Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany

 

Potrero Hill San Francisco

 

Photo by Marvin Santos

Nature's Dance

 

Someone collected these tree branches and called them "nature's dance"

The Ferris Wheel is a Halo

 

 

Photograph by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Tug Likes Turkish Velvet

 

Tekyeh Dowlat

 

A Holy spot for Baha'is, but not for its charm or historic events of state that occurred upon it.

Tekyeh Dowlat by Kamal-ol-Molk

Tekyeh Dowlat (Persian: تکیه دولت‎ lit. "State Theater") was a Royal Theater in Tehran, Iran. It was the most famous of all the ta'zieh performance spaces, for the Mourning of Muharram. It has a capacity for more than 4,000 people. Built in 1868 by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar south-east of the Golestan Palace ...the Royal Theater's sumptuous magnificence surpassed that of Europe's greatest opera houses in the opinion of many Western visitors. It was here that Reza Shah proclaimed the downfall of the Qajar dynasty. 

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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar's funeral at Tekyeh Dowlat.  He was assasinated.

Prime Minister Reza Pahlavi addressing the opening session of the Constituent assembly in Tekiyeh Dowlat 6 December 1925

Significantly for Baha'is, the Tekyeh Dowlat was built above the Siyah-Chal, or "Black Pit", the place of imprisonment of Baha'u'llah, and where He became aware of His station.

"While breathing the foul air of the Siyah-Chal, with his feet in stocks and His head weighed down by the mighty chain, Baha’u’llah received, as attested by Him in His Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, the first intimations of His station as the Supreme Manifestation of God—He whose appearance have been foretold by the Prophets of old in such terms as ‘the reincarnation of Krishna,’ the ‘fifth Buddha,’ the ‘Shah Bahram,’ the ‘Lord of Hosts,’ the Christ returned ‘in the glory of the Father,’ the ‘Spirit of God,’ and by the Bab as ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest.’ " – Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Baha’u’llah, Volume 1, p. 10.

Section through the Black Pit. Baha'u'llah, together with about 30 other Bábí's, were confined in the lowest level.

Of His confinement, Baha'u'llah wrote:

"We were all huddled together in one cell, our feet in stocks, and around our necks fastened the most galling of chains. The air we breathed was laden with the foulest impurities, while the floor on which we sat was covered with filth and infested with vermin. No ray of light was allowed to penetrate that pestilential dungeon or to warm its icy-coldness. We were placed in two rows, each facing the other. We had taught them [the imprisoned Babis] to repeat certain verses which, every night, they chanted with extreme fervour. ‘God is sufficient unto me; He verily is the All-sufficing!’ one row would intone, while the other would reply: ‘In Him let the trusting trust.’ The chorus of these gladsome voices would continue to peal out until the early hours of the morning. Their reverberation would fill the dungeon, and, piercing its massive walls, would reach the ears of Nasiri’d-Din Shah [Persia’s king], whose palace was not far distant from the place where we were imprisoned. ‘What means this sound?’ he was reported to have exclaimed. ‘It is the anthem the Babis are intoning in their prison,’ they replied. The Shah made no further remarks, nor did he attempt to restrain the enthusiasm his prisoners, despite the horrors of their confinement, continued to display. "– The Dawn-Breakers, pp. 631-632.

In 1868 the dungeon was filled-in and the Tekyeh Dowlat was built above it. The Tekyeh was destroyed in 1947. The site was acquired by Baháʼís in 1954, but was confiscated by the Islamic Revolution of 1979. 

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Horsing Around

Meadowlarks

 

Meadowlarks in field near Chehalis, Washington

Photo by Winston Rockwell

Snow Day