Scurvy Oaks

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If you like American furniture, neoclassical architecture, 18th and 19th century portraits, old churches, old cars, and occasional pieces of opinion, this is the place for you. “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.” ― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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Thomasville.

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We stand on the shoulders of giants.

Boston Public Library:The Muses of Inspiration Hail the Spirit, the Messenger of Light.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, artist.

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We stand on the shoulders of giants

Grand Central Terminal, New York City.

Reed & Stem and Warren & Wetmore.

Years back I was in New York and meeting a couple I hadn’t seen in years.

I’m coming into Penn Station, I told the bride.

Penn Station? Oh. I heard the disappointment in her voice.

Something wrong? I asked.

No, it’s just we haven’t seen you in so long. Penn Station is like a shitty mall.

Tell you what. How about I walk the fifteen minutes and meet you at Grand Central?

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We stand on the shoulders of giants.

Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. Interior by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White.

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graceandfamily

Grace Kelly. Hollywood Hills, 1955. 📷 Howell Conant.

naptownblues

Always reblog Grace!

scurvyoaks

Wow!

portrait-paintings

Charles Lennox Cumming-Bruce in Turkish Dress

Artist: Andrew Geddes (Scottish, 1783–1844)

Date: 1817

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Charles Lennox Cumming (1790–1875), the younger son of a baronet, married the granddaughter of the “Abyssinian traveler,” James Bruce, in 1822 and assumed the name Cumming-Bruce of Roseisle and Kinnaird.

forkingandempire

Winston Churchill

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geopsych

Here’s a link with the wildfire smoke forecast over the next couple days. You can watch it on a map.

Weather Maps, Maps, Modelling, Numerical Weather Forecasting

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The John Mark Verdier House in Beaufort, South Carolina. It was built by John Mark Verdier, a French Huguenot, in 1804. The house typified Beaufort's gracious antebellum architectural style. It was a focal point of the town, a visible statement reflecting Verdier's significant wealth from trading indigo and growing sea island cotton.

princetonarchives

Princeton's Magnetic Observatory is shown here ca. 1890s. It avoided iron in its construction in favor of brass, copper, brick, and wood--even the nails were brass or copper. The bricks were Philadelphia's renowned pressed bricks, often favored at the time because they were hand made in a striking burgundy color. The building was torn down in 1909 when electrical engineering moved to Palmer Physical Laboratory.

Historical Subject Files, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC105), Box SP05, Image No. 1208.

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golftangohotel

A new study adds to the growing evidence that coffee is good for you.

Support for my coffee habit.

serpentinesheldonserpentine

And in case you need help ordering, repeat after me:

“Large hot black coffee please.”

freiherr-von-naarenburg

Coffee for my liver and nicotine to kill the ticks. This is why they should be their own food groups.

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