SOME BEAUTIFUL PLACES AND A FEW THOUGHTS ON BEING ALIVE
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 Zoroaster said to please God we must think good
thoughts, say good words, and do good deeds. Saint Francis would have added recognizing and appreciating God in
nature. Were they alive today, they would add that those good words and God-filled places should be shared on a
web site. Wouldn't they? Im sure. CLICK on the picture to see more of this beautiful place, and find an external
link to even more beautiful pictures!
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WHAT's NEW? It is December 2001, and this former Netscape site has been redone
and reconfigured and placed here in the "www.thoughtsandplaces.org" domain. Links to my other sites at
BOTTOM of this page!
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 Spain! My first time there. I was very impressed
with Madrid, and saw some of the city as well as several nearby destinations of historic importance. I was especially
impressed by the natural setting and the friendly helpful people. Click on the picture and see some of what I saw,
in four installments linked at the bottom of each page.
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Saguaro National park near Tucson Arizona was the scene of this "burning
bush." Please take several short trips with me into mountains and a cave.
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This is Beatrice receiving the message of her death as a flower. In the
background Dante catches a glimpse of the God Love. A scene of elements from Dante's Vita Nouva! This was painted
in 1872 by the English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, using his deceased wife, Elizabeth Siddall, as the model.
(It hangs in the Art Institute of Chicage, see linked page for an online source and for MORE ART!).
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Click on this picture to explore the Divine Feminine in words and pictures. The pictures were taken in the Cluny
Museum (and some added in June 2000 from elsewhere in Paris). The page also has a link to a review of a Margaret
Starbird book, to which I added some artwork in June of 2000.
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Please visit one of my all time favorite places in France, Mont Saint
Michel, the only piece of French territory north and west of the Loire to survive the hundred years' war without
falling to the English.
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Visit the Buttes-Chaumont Park in Paris on a mostly cloudy, sometime rainy
Fall day. Just click on the image and Voila!
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| This site is meant to be a somewhat messy garden. Please enjoy its unruliness. Watch for briars
and thorns in the bushes. Take off your shoes: there is no dog poop (in my very subjective opinion, that is). |
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