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Papaver Rhoeas

What joy to come home to my family and garden in Berkeley, and find spring still in bloom! These are two Papaver rhoeas---corn poppies---from our garden. I photographed each on…

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Seriously Twisted

Here's a four-panel construction based on the spiral image shown above using rotations and reflections: Related stories showing the same staircase: Waiting for Escher and Triple-Spiral Stair.

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Departure

To depart is to leave one place, but not to arrive as yet at another place. Departures are in-between. They are neither one place, nor the other. As such, departures…

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Far de Cavalleria

At the wonderful but somewhat exhausting PhotoPills Camp on the island of Menorca I photographed the Cavelleria Lighthouse this morning.  We rolled up to the lighthouse in our bus in…

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Echoes of the Past

At La Mola, the immense fortress that guarded the entrance to the strategic port of Mahon, or Mao in modern rendering, on Menorca, it is easy to feel echoes of…

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Shadows of Color

This is an image of the color shadows cast by the late afternoon sun shining though stained glass in the Royal Chapel of the Hostal dos Reis Catolicos in Santiago…

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I Hugged an Apostle

As I wandered about the interior of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, I noticed a sign saying "Embrace the Apostle." There was a line of people waiting behind a…

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Waiting for Escher

The previous images of the triple-spiral staircase were from below looking up, or from above looking down. This one is neither up nor down, it is in about the middle…

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Triple-Spiral Stair

The Vatican has its famous and grand two-spiral Bramante stair, and there are other examples of double-spiral stairs throughout the world; for example, Calling Alice (San Francisco) and Edificio Cuervo Rubio (Havana, Cuba)…

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Compostela Haraldum Davis

Today I trudged into Santiago de Compostela, having completed my Camino, tired and footsore, but happy. At the queue in the cloisters waiting for our certificates we all compared blisters…

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Music in My Head

Yesterday I wrote about group singing along the Camino. It turns out that my biggest mistake in preparing for my Camino was musical. By way of background, I like to…

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