Something Beautiful

Marian McPartland, still going strong

It's hard not to find Marian McPartland inspiring. Now ninety years old, she still plays the piano and has her own radio show. It should happen to all of us!

Owl (and more)

I just love this Burrowing owl.

This photographer who caught that one has a number of fine photographs at his site  -- check out this Vermillion flycatcher. 

San Miniato

Today is Sunday and therefore time to go to church.  Here is the exterior, and here the interior, of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte, just outside Florence, Italy.    And now the interior again, but this time in black and white.

Bonus:  A rather astonishing statue in the cemetery behind the basilica. 

St Dominic, by Fra Angelico

Lady piper

You don't see this very often -- a lady piper in a fifteenth-century manuscript.

Skellig Michael

The Forgotten Hermitage of Skellig Michael, by Walter W. Horn, Jenny White Marshall, and Grellan D. Rourke

The David Allen Company

Decision-making - the Natural Planning process.

Stand at the threshold…

Just looking at this photo makes me feel peaceful -- Stand at the threshold….

Bookslut

Did you know about Bookslut?

Fiction Connection

This looks pretty amazing -- Fiction Connection.