Notices by Terry Grundy, FRSA (terrygrundy@mas.to)

This stunning photo of the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024—showing so clearly the sun’s far-reaching corona—is compliments of NASA.

#TotalSolarEclipse #SolarCorona #NASA

This window at Third Court, St John’s College, Cambridge, looks out onto the college’s elegant “Bridge of Sighs” that crosses the Cam for easy access to New Court.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Cambridge #SaintJohnsCollege

#WBYeats #poetry #beauty #love #WearyHearted

I might have lived,
And you know well how great the longing has been,
Where every day my footfall should have lit
In the green shadow of Ferrara wall;
Or climbed among the images of the past—
The unperturbed and courtly images—
Evening and morning, the steep street of Urbino
To where the duchess and her people talked
The stately midnight through until they stood
In their great window looking at the dawn.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #WBYeats #ElisabettaGonzaga #Urbino

Because of course…

“The U.S. Supreme Court rules state and local officials may take gifts and payments for steering contracts to grateful patrons.”

https://stocks.apple.com/AVpoq-qYHQmaRfkmdCqjBuw

“The ever-returning roses of dawn”

#SummerSolstice #RobinsonJeffers #Stonehenge #Wiltshire

“Window”, 1964, by Slovak photographer Ľubomír Štecko (1945)

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

They came. Many, many never returned.

#DDay

Synchronised Grooming

#caturday

“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable.” ~ Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future

#HannahArendt

@davidtoddmccarty @WarnerCrocker But such a splendid madness! 😀

@davidtoddmccarty @WarnerCrocker

@davidtoddmccarty @WarnerCrocker Yes, and I’ve always loved the second sentence. I suppose mental health consists, in part, in being able to embrace the value of both.

@davidtoddmccarty @WarnerCrocker I have a friend, a man who literally has no fixed abode. He moves from city to city, continent to continent, as the spirit moves him. He’s also a loyal correspondent and stays in touch with his sprawling network of friends, whom he reliably visits when he passes through one of their cities.

@WarnerCrocker I hope the move goes as smoothly as possible and that you find yourself enjoying your new place.

@WarnerCrocker To where are you moving, Warner?

REVERY

Turin based photographer Roberto Panichelli gives us this well observed and appreciative view of a thoughtful “man of the cloth”.

#RobertoPanichelli #StreetPhotography #revery

#SilentSunday

The opportunism of cats. The sheepishness of sheep.

#caturday

#SilentSunday