it's been a long cold winter...
24 January 2009
Christmas Eve
walking near Bethlehem leaving tracks in the snow in a landscape George Washington and Gen. Lafayette may recognize
Bushkill Spring House, Tatamy
My first 'formal' art lessons were held in this spring house art studio (and in a barn across the road) where Marguerite Callihan conducted weekly painting sessions. Years later she would learn from my off-loom backstrap weaving techniques where a photograph of her husband using one of my pop-sickle rigid heddle looms appeared in a local paper covering an outdoor art fair. Stone bridges along the creek remind us of the Welch immigrants who flooded the area just south of Pen Argyle where, even today, one of my two brothers lives/
Napoleon Bonapart's tomb
The marble used in the sarcophagus of Napoleon is the color of the moon in a total eclipse...I call it a deep Tomato Soup Red
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