Interiors: Argentine National Library (Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno), Buenos Aires, Argentina. This room has may layers of connections, including to my favorite author, Jorge Luis Borges.
Why it’s been quiet in the Garden lately. A brief update on where this blog is going and what's happening in my life.
Historic Photo: Neuhauser Strasse in Munich, Bavaria, 1839. This amazing picture is one of the earliest photographs ever taken in Germany.
Celebrating “The Haunting”: A masterpiece of horror cinema. Robert Wise's "The Haunting" is perhaps the greatest horror film ever made, undiminished after more than 60 years.
Earthbound starship: The strange fate of the HMS Beagle. What happened to the famous ship on which Darwin made his epic voyage of discovery?
Corruption or mercy? The Ford Watergate pardon. Why did Gerald Ford pardon Richard Nixon after Watergate? Was it an act of cronyism, or moral and political wisdom?
Interiors: First-class lounge of a Convair 880 aircraft, 1958. The idea of luxury in the skies was quite different 70 years ago than today.