When one has friends all over as I do, one can only send a general greeting. A brief resume of the past year: I left Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona and have moved on to University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana where I'm working as a visiting assistant professor. I'm now off on my Christmas vacation.
Poem below. Images below.
I have all the best hopes and wishes for you-all in the new year.
Tchues
David
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Taurus
Watchman, how goes the night?
silent like on the plain when night was
before time was or you or I,
and silent star-crossed the sky,
girl-mounted, Taurus rising just so
in the trailing of the milk road.
Zeus! the Vigil! is it the midnight? do dead men walk, do spirits fly? but twos and threes go guarded by and in what hurry, is it flight? ---and in what shelter ends the night.
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Caption: The Annunciation circa 1440, San Marco, Firenze, Fra Angelico (c. 1395--1455).
Credit: Fra Angelico (c. 1395--1455).
Permission: Public domain at least in USA.
Image linked to Wikipedia.
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Caption: Romanian shepherd.
Credit: Friend of User:Darwinek.
Image linked to Wikipedia.
Permission: Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5.
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Caption: "The Potato Eaters (Aardappeleters in Dutch) is a painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh that he painted in April 1885 while in Nuenen, Netherlands. The painting is a oil painting on canvas and 82.0 cm x 114.0 cm (32" x 45") in size."
Credit: Vincent van Gogh (1853--1890)
Image linked to Wikipedia.
Public domain.
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Caption: "Bethlehem. The picture shows a man and a woman approaching Bethlehem with a donkey. It was taken on Christmas Day, 1898. Note: As the source shows a number of 1898 pictures "reminiscent" of the biblical story in and around Bethlehem (featuring a couple, a donkey, sometimes a baby etc.) it seems likely that at least some of the pictures were staged."
Credit: 19th century photographer.
Permission: Public domain at least in USA.
Image linked to Wikipedia.
