In a room in Pembroke College, Cambridge, hangs a round picture in a square frame.
Category: art
Nights of the Scorpion
Here is how Mars, Antares, and Saturn are now grouped as the Moon again comes cruising over them.
Tocra Pass
I was wondering when someone would ask me what that picture is, Continue reading “Tocra Pass”
Assos and Lesbos
This is the water across which the refugees are swarming from the Middle East into Europe.
Venus Valentina
Valentine’s morning (tomorrow) will be toward the last for seeing the two inner planets together as they stoop toward the Sun.
Wild Carrot Galaxies
White spirals: that was the cover-painting theme for my Astronomical Calendar one year (1994). On the front was a hurricane called Hyacinth, its violent spiral spanning several hundred miles; inside was the Whirlpool Galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 51, forty thousand light-years wide; and on the back was the plant called Queen Anne’s Lace, painted at true scale, I think, its flowering head six inches wide.
I remembered about this because I’ve found five other drawings I must have made of that plant in South Carolina.
The dawn was like a red, red rose
No, it was like a gold, gold lily –
But today is Burns Day.
Dusky skies
The sky over the sea yesterday morning.
And an older painting, pulled out of a closet, of an evening scene in the agora of Athens, where Socrates used to stroll with his friends.
Does the bloodroot hear?
Today, January 5, came the latest sunrise, Continue reading “Does the bloodroot hear?”
The Sea as a Bell
We traveled by train to Portugal, taking four days, but hastened home at thirty thousand feet.