For the last two days it has been foggy and because of the snow cover, it has been mostly white.

So I went looking for pictures of summer and this is what I found.

I suspect that this is one of those photos that has more meaning to me than anyone else. (Translation: it’s not a great photo but I like it.) But you do have to appreciate the pure blues of the sky and water in this photo.

And you should have been with me the morning I took this. It was one of those quiet mornings on Lake Oahe that I dream about. It was cool but there was promise of warmth. The only sound was that of birds calling and of distant cattle lowing. You would think that a sailor would yearn for wind but as I’m sure I’ve said before, there is something pure and spiritual in floating quietly on a body of water in a place that is anything but empty.

This is a view of the outskirts of the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia.

In brief, Bartholomew was martyred by being skinned alive. But during the Second Coming, he is resurrected with a new skin. The artistic version of this story that I am most familiar with is in the Sistine Chapel in Michelangelo’s brilliant Last Judgement of Christ. In that version, too, he is holding both his old skin and the knife that was used to flay him. In Michelangelo’s version, some art historians say that the face on the old skin is the face of the artist.

I don’t know whose face is on the sculpted version I am showing here

Just beyond the pottery featured in yesterday’s post I encountered this scene. Maybe it’s not at special as I think it is, but I liked how the human on the left complemented the figure on the right. It results in symmetry that would be absent with the standing woman.

In this case I was confronted by this collection of pottery at the beginning of the museum’s African collection. The spherical shape and the brilliant arrangement of these pots reminded me of circling planets. Thus the title of today’s post.

Purchase Prints

New Orleans is gearing up for Mardi Gras and so some of the shops along Bourbon and Royal streets are stocked with masks. This one struck my fancy because of its color, though I’ll admit that the processing for this one (as with yesterday’s post) involved some pretty strong software filters.

I was wandering through the French Quarter and I bumped in to the Louisiana Supreme Court Building. I took several photos but this is one I liked the most.

This is an iPhone photo and I’ll admit that this photo is heavily doctored. I started in an app called Filter Mania and finished in Instagram. Like it or not, doctored photos are all the rage these days.