Beautiful Blue Danube 6: A Viking Cruise

Beautiful Blue Danube 6: A Viking Cruise

June 9th, 2016 | Europe, Friends, General, Travel

As we approached Vienna, the sun shone steadily and the Danube momentarily reflected blue. We passed through another lock, dropping to match the water level to the east, watching as massive gates swung toward us, a vertical opening that widened and widened, a sort of...

Beautiful Blue Danube 5: Dancing With Horses

June 8th, 2016 | Europe, General, Travel

  They moved with power and precision underneath that great Baroque ceiling as riders sat in near perfect stillness. They ranged from the sooty gray to nearly pure white, manes sometimes braided up, fetlock-length tails blunt-cut at the bottom. Uniforms signaled...
Beautiful Blue Danube 1: Departure

Beautiful Blue Danube 1: Departure

June 1st, 2016 | Europe, General, transportation, Travel

We are deeply grateful to be sitting at PHI and not at Dulles, the airport from hell that sits at the other end of the drive from hell. Nor did the choke points between our home and the departure gate make us gag. I-95 traffic was sluggish now and then but not jammed....
Retrospection 1: My Madeleines

Retrospection 1: My Madeleines

February 19th, 2012 | Genealogy, Memory, Pets, Time Passes

Memories are not, I think, narratives we remember as much as impressions, images and sensations. In that I am in agreement with Proust. Such imprints seem, at least to me at this great distance from the events, a little arbitrary although not like events seen through...