Sunny Side Up

My luggage - which went missing - has been found! The sun broke through! UCSD between terms is an oasis of calm - and every book is on the s...

This national weather map, from today's San Diego Union-Tribune , isn't detailed enough to tell you what's going on here. If you...

looping out beyond the Verrazano Narrows one of many majestic anvil thunderheads over New Mexico multi-layered cloudscapes over Arizona and ...

This is a picture of HeLa cells ( source ), which, cultured in their gajillions over sixty years, have been responsible for countless scient...

A soap bubble artist at work in Washington Square Park today.

Behold Job's place in Peter of Poitiers' 13th century genealogy of Christ (French 13th century, now resident here ) - this is about ...

One of my favorite things in the print version of the Times is this way of presenting temperature forecasts for the coming days. I suppose ...

Nature one-ups art in the National Cathedral. (The prisms were the beveled edges of the frame of a clerestory window high above the choir st...

Weekend in Washington! (Monet's luminous "The Stroll" at the National Gallery of Art alone vaut le voyage . Seen from across ...

This time it's Galileo , in whose museum in Florence remains of a finger, a thumb and a tooth are displayed like relics. They were, inde...

If you google my surname persistently, you will come upon this lovely lady, Francine L. A singer and performer in the teens and twenties, sh...

Remember that garden I cultivated two years ago? I can still see it from our fourth floor perch. In a year and a half of near total neglect ...

Hagiography, indeed martyrology, lives! "Agora," the Spanish/Portuguese historical drama directed by Chilean director Alejandro Am...

From the third floor of the Time Warner Center...

Was lucky enough yesterday to see an amazing play, one of the best in years, London's Complicite theater and Simon McBurney's "...

Characteristically brilliant cartoon by Andy Dietsche in the Episcopal New Yorker . Particularly inspired: 7:15 Rite I Eucharist (Children M...

Can you believe that typological interpreta- tion of Job is alive? These guys can hardly believe it, but they're part of it - two of Job...

The heat wave-stricken trees today. Compare Monday and last week .

Praised be the Web for its treasures! Praised be for the intercession of flickr , through which I found an altarpiece to Saint Job featured ...

When I said last week that the trees outside my window were wilting in the heat, you probably thought I was exaggerating. I did. If only! Co...