Notices by Terry Grundy, FRSA (terrygrundy@mas.to), page 3

Snark to be sure, but still…

Windows of Knowledge, the British Library

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

Linha Seis – Avante!

#PaulCirigliano

This is rather moving. Each of us, I imagine, could add to the list.

#HumaneBehaviour

Some windows tell a story of loss and neglect. The very fine Kentucky based photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard took this poignant photo around 1955 or 1956.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

~ Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

#BaltasarGracián #courage

#SilentSunday

“I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.” ~ Vaclav Havel

#VaclavHavel #hope #spes

#SilentSunday

#SilentSunday

Very grand windows indeed—in this case the windows of Grand Central Station, captured by Eric Steele on a clear evening.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #GrandCentralStation #Manhattan

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“How does a small, tight-knit community, absorbing signals emanating from far beyond, descend to the level of the feral? How does a religious congregation once devoted to the Prince of Peace’s call to love one’s neighbor as oneself fall prey to secular calls to make war against neighbors? What does all of this feel like, deep in people’s souls and in their bodies, on every side of this moral collapse? And what sort of things might ordinary people—on every side—do?”

Sheep again! Turkish photographer Mustafa Şahbaz gives us this 2020 image of two children and a large herd.

#MustafaŞahbaz #sheep #çocuklar

#SilentSunday

I can’t imagine a shot that more perfectly captures the sheer spontaneous joy of childhood than this one by Massachusetts photographer William Van Beckum entitled “Favourite Puddle”.

#WilliamVanBeckum #children #spontaneity #JoieDeVivre

Such elegance, such hauteur, such a fine sweeping tail—such a cat!

#caturday #cats #TailsOfNote

“So true it is that, in every condition of life, the strong man who is guilty saves himself at the expense of the innocent who is weak.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

#Rousseau #TheStrongVersusTheWeak

The very talented and observant Montréal street photographer Charles Lafrance gives us this fine, wintry shot of a lone cyclist on a snowy day.

#CharlesLafrance #StreetPhotography #SnowDay #cyclist

Toronto based photo artist Alexander Sviridov gives us this striking image he created in 2020 that he calls “Iris & Blinchik”.

#caturday #AlexanderSviridov

L’atelier musical of a friend, near Paso Robles, California

#MusicWithAView #California