Lying Scale

Thutmose III Blue Glass Eyptian Jug

This beauty resides in the British Museum in London.  This is what the description says:

This jug is one of the earliest Egyptian glass vessels to have been found. The few glass beads of the Old Kingdom (about 2613-2160 BC), made a thousand years earlier, seem to have been the result of a mistake in the similar process of faience manufacture. The Egyptians began producing glass in quantity in the New Kingdom (1550-1070 BC). The technique was perhaps brought to Egypt by Syrian craftsmen, as its introduction seems to coincide with the successful Syrian campaigns of Thutmose III.

John Constable's Clouds

If you look at this pic long enough, you will keep seeing different shapes in the clouds. Constable painted this in water colors in 1871.

Hildegard von Bingen ............ one

There's something about medieval tunes that gets me going. This piece is from Hildegard von Bingen or Saint Hildegard as she is known. (1098-1179.   St.Hildegard was a nun who was also a composer and   a  poet.... it is also believed she wrote several plays .... religious ones of course, but very few have survived.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M48_LZUpo0Q

All life is dangerous

All life is dangerous. We forget that, we who have been reared in one of the small pockets of civilisation. For that is all that civilisation really is. Small pockets of men here and there who have gathered together for mutual protection and who thereby are able to outwit and control Nature. They have beaten the jungle - but that victory is only temporary. At any moment, the jungle will once more take command. Proud cities that were, are now mere mounds of earth, overgrown with rank vegetation, and the poor hovels of men who just manage to keep alive, no more. Life is always dangerous - never forget that. In the end, perhaps, not only great natural forces, but the work of our own hands may destroy it. We are very near to that happening at this moment. from The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

The astral beauty of the Marble Statue of Venus

Marble statue of Venus - sculpted probably in Rome between AD 100-150 and found when digging in Lazio, Italy. British excavators found this beautiful piece when digging at the site of a Roman villa in 1794.

The beautiful face of the statue has been copied several times after it's discovery and although some areas of the statue had to be restored the head was very well preserved.

This statue now resides at the Royal Museum in London.   I have seen it and it's a thing of sublime beauty.