You can go a little further.... art Muramasa Kudo

A Capriccio of Rome with the Colosseum and Pyramid, stonemasons and other figures in the foreground. 18th.century. circle of Marco Ricci Italian 1676-1729. oil on canvas. Christie's July 2025. hadrian6.tumblr.com

meanwhile in the UK

salty sea dogs

thehistory.source

very true

ww2_history_in_pictures US Major General Leonard Gerow with German General Dietrich von Choltitz after his surrender in Paris - August 1944. Choltitz (November 9, 1894 – November 5, 1966) is sometimes referred to as the “Saviour of Paris” LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer WWP-PD

Je me rappelle…

it's the right day for this

Here’s a bit of history for all the flagshaggers who are defacing roundabouts and other public infrastructure. Oh, and GFY www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j...

At some stage, maybe even in an afterlife, you will look back on your moments and utter "what was I thinking?"

You can always tell on social media when the US wakes up. The pages and posts are full of bemoaning some or other political misdeed or malfeasance, the name of the orange head with his coterie - one could get sick of it already.

Weighing up seeing my siblings in Switzerland soon

Gaza City residents told to ‘leave now’, while UN human rights chief condemns Israel for ‘war crime upon war crime’.

Fatepur Sikri (India) 2018 with my spouse

Whatever next?

Marie Bracquemond at the Easel, 1890 by Édouard Dammouse

A Palestinian boy in Gaza rescued his birds from under the rubble after Israeli forces destroyed Al-Ruya Tower in Gaza City.

quem são? quem são?

RIP the distinguished conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, who died in Munich on Saturday, just two days short of his 96th birthday.

some things shouldn't change

graine de sel....

I loved playing this tune with improvisations on the organ...

Get some glamour in your week

Sunset at Lac de Bienne, Switzerland

Antoine Calbet (1860-1944) Untitled, c.1905.

Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau via Ruth Zimmi

Nachtschoppen

every time

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le moment idéal pour une petite sieste

absolutely

Jris Schärli-Hofer

@franglaise.bsky.social si jamais, on me trouve ici, et là.

c'est canon, à Paris

Arrogance goes before that fall