This is a portrait in oils that I just finished of Nancy and Tinker. Nancy is the love of my life, a lifelong friend, and my wife. Everyone who knows Nancy loves her. They can’t help it, she is just that kind of person. She radiates compassion for all beings…especially the four-legged variety. She is…
Hill and valley and still water, mountain and canyon and deep are the work of one creation; and why have I been placed in it? And what do I do in it, with such a little while before I am gone? The valley stays, and the hills I climb now, and the still waters run,…
Hill and valley and still water, mountain and canyon and deep are the work of one creation; and why have I been placed in it? And what do I do in it, with such a little while before I am gone? The valley stays, and the hills I climb now, and the still waters run,…
What do these images have in common? There is a town on the coast of Italy, west of Rome, near the mouth of the River Tiber called Ostia. I should say, the ruins of a Roman town called Ostia Antica. It was a Roman seaport town that reached its peak during…