JRO
“Hear the drums echoing tonight But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation She’s comin’ in, 12:30 flight Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation I stopped an old man along the way Hopin’ to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies He turned to me as if to […]
The Train to Zermatt
Perhaps our Teutonic surname granted some pull with our host, but the Alpenblick Hotel gave us one of their few rooms with a nice Matterhorn view. Marcy and I continued our train trip through Switzerland today as we rolled our suitcases the few meters (Marcy said more than a few) from our hotel to […]
Onion Domes
Day five of our river cruise finds us at Passau, Germany where the Inn and Ilz Rivers join the Danube. Passau has a lovely skyline featuring the onion domes and clock tower of St. Stephens Cathedral. Churches on this site date to the year 730 and the current 1688 baroque church replaced a 15th-century Gothic […]
Beautiful Danube Blue Hour
The sun has just dropped below the horizon along the Danube, and we enjoy the melancholy blue light of dusk. We’ve had some lovely evenings here , but last night was particularly nice. There are no particularly quaint church steeples to photograph at this instant, just a very placid scene as we pass through the […]
Pareidolia
I reflect on images I see at the Birkenau Death Camp site near Auschwitz
Oświęcim
I reflect on our visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camps
