Gracefully Grey

The front facade of the Santa Croce Basilica in ornate baroque style.

Just one of the highly decorated chapels inside the Basilica.

The stunningly beautiful Basilica di Santa Croce in Lecce, Puglia. Inside, almost no surface is left without decoration, demonstrating the skill of the artists and stone masons and the deep pockets of their sponsors.

The 13th century castle, Castel del Monte, in Puglia.

View over the countryside, seeing all the way to the Gargano area, known as the spur of Italy.

Castel del Monte, Puglia, dating from the 13th century, and the view over the surrounding countryside.

The red hues of the autumn leaves of a Japanese maple over a small Buddha. Pond in the foreground.

The wonderful colours of autumn!

Buon appetito!

Dark blue sky over fields. Moon in centre partly covered in shadow. Photo taken during eclipse.

It almost disappeared last week!

Encore un coin de la Belle France que je n’ai jamais visité

As today is World Parrot Day I’m bringing back to the timeline my favourite rendition of Whole Lotta Rosie by Tico (parrot) and Frank (non-parrot) of Tico and the Man (a truly great squawk n' roll band)

Congratulations!

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

Talk about illusions of grandeur! Another act of madness to add to the list.

Blue sky with light, white mare’s tail cloud formations.

Lots of beautiful blue sky out today. Also mare’s tails!

Definitely worth a like and a groan.

Love the Far Side!

Really nice photo!

Is that top left photo a village called Hautvillers by any chance?

Typically you can knock on the door of champagne producers and then ask for a tasting. Next time maybe…

Did you get the chance to pick up some local “produce”?

A forest floor with almost a carpet of greenery and bluebells amongst the tree trunks

And so the bluebell display begins!

You sound a bit teed off

Isn’t Congress or somebody supposed to vote on this stuff before it takes effect?

a man wearing a nike shirt with the letter e on the front Alt: a man holding his left elbow up, saying “elbows up”

Some brilliant signs there! Elbows up, protestors!

Great to see. They will have to shout long and hard before the orange one hears! Are these protests getting any media coverage?

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

No antihistamines work for you?

You are allowed a day off, you know! Go and enjoy the sunshine while it’s there.

I’m sure that comments like this will just make the protesters double down.

#Greenland 🇬🇱

Fair point.

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

Shows the level of importance they give to education in the state. It’s just more ‘keep ‘em dumb, keep ‘em maga’.