The first winter spent in California, I was completely over the moon about its citrus.
I still am.
#california #garden #citrus (at At Home in Napa)
The bok choy 🌱 plants are loving the winter rains.
#california #gardening #vegetables (at At Home in Napa)
The noise of the Pacific
fills my heart
with peace.
#california #nature #winterlight (at Stinson Beach, California)
Winter sunset over Napa River.
#california #winterlight #nature (at Napa, California)
The noise of our day immediately ceases.
#california #sanctuary #nature #wintercolors (at Knights Valley)
God bless The New York Times.
#freedomofthepress #firstamendment #newyorktimes (at At Home in Napa)
Winter vineyards at rest.
#california #pinotnoir #chardonnay #napavalley (at Carneros, California)
Pinot Noir vineyards in winter.
#california #pinotnoir #napavalley (at Carneros, California)
Goosebumps and tears
continue to wave and well,
the spirit of humanity revealed
lightens a pessimist’s sad heart.
A peace-fueled march by millions
in cities the world round,
a fire ironically ignited
with logs split by divisiveness.
Our previous detachment
keeps power
in hands of the few;
no longer 1950,
the planet’s different now,
we need to start anew.
Faces of all shapes, colors,
genders, ages,
unknown fellow citizens
toting children
oddly well behaved
in a slow shuffle,
the streets too packed
for faster pace,
a steady reminder that
changing course
en masse
is never rapid.
As if in prayer,
a weird quiet
settles over the awed,
soon washed away
by chants, cheers, music
on blocks and blocks
behind and beyond.
Soul refreshed,
legs weak and voice tired,
nursed by a hot bath and
small-batch bourbon
a double
served in a large rocks glass,
on a single block of ice
made on a street nearby
in a shadowy town that worships
power, booze, connections.
Through my steamy haze,
I can still hear
our words echoing off the
Washington Memorial:
“This is what democracy looks like.”
#womensmarch #democracy #bourbon (at The Mall (Washington DC))
Quincy Jones captured by jazz portraitist Herman Leonard (1955).
#americanart #jazz #photography #blackandwhitephotography (at Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery)
President Abraham Lincoln by American portraitist George Peter Alexander Healy (1887).
#americanart #washingtondc (at Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery)
President Bill Clinton
by Chuck Close, 2006
#americanart #washingtondc (at Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery)
President Richard Nixon
by Norman Rockwell (1968) who later admitted flattering Nixon in the painting, finding him troublingly elusive.
#americanart #washingtondc (at Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery)
Frank Sinatra captured by jazz portraitist Herman Leonard, 1958
#americanart #photography #jazz #blackandwhitephotography (at Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery)
Graffitied words to live by.
#womensmarch #washingtondc (at The Mall (Washington DC))
Self-Portrait with Pipe
William H. Johnson
1937
#americanart #americana (at Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery)
Indeed.
#womensmarchonwashington #womensmarch (at Washington National Mall)
Democracy in action.
#womensmarchonwashington #womensmarch (at Washington Monument National Monument)
Democracy in action.
#womensmarch (at Washington Monument National Monument)
#womensmarch (at Washington National Mall)