Bud Shank.

Chet Baker & Bud Shank.

Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was a alto saxophonist and flutist who rose to prominence in the early 1950s. He spent the 1960s as a first-call studio musician in Hollywood. His most famous recording is probably the version of Harlem Nocturne used as the theme song in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.He is also well known for the alto flute solo on the song "California Dreamin'" recorded by The Mamas & the Papas in 1965.

Ludwig van Beethoven – Bagatelle in A minor, Wo Op. 59, "Für Elise"

"For Elise" is one of Ludwig van Beethoven's most popular compositions, it was not published during his lifetime but was discovered by Ludwig Nohl 40 years after the composer death. The exact  identity of "Elise" is unknown. Nohl, affirmed that the original autograph manuscript, now lost, had the title: "Für Elise am 27 April [1810] zur Erinnerung von L. v. Bthvn" ("For Elise on April 27 in memory of L. v. Bthvn").

The pianist and musicologist Luca Chiantore argued that Beethoven might not have been the person who gave the piece the form that we know today. Chiantore suggested that the original signed manuscript, upon which Ludwig Nohl claimed to base his transcription, may never have existed

Therese Malfatti, widely believed to be the dedicatee of "Für Elise"Bagatelle.

I do

Marble head of Hermes. Hellenistic copy after a 5th cent. BCE herm. Found in the Theater Quarter of Delos; now in the Archaeological Museum of Delos.

Hermes is a deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Hermes is considered the herald of the gods, as well as the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide" — a conductor of souls into the afterlife. In myth, Hermes functioned as the emissary and messenger of the gods. In Roman mythology, Hermes was known as Mercury, a name derived from the Latin merx, meaning "merchandise," and the origin of the words "merchant" and "commerce."

The folk scene: Tom Paxton

Tom Paxton released more than 50 records and has become a rather respected songwriter in the realm of protest song. His classic, "What Did You Learn in School Today?" is one of his better known tunes.

Fumio Fujita, 1979

Ernest Hemingway pictured with Sylvia Beach, founder of the world-famous bookstore Shakespeare and Company. Paris 1944.

"Be Not Inhospitable to Strangers Lest They Be Angels in Disguise,"  Shakespeare and Company’s motto written above the entrance to the reading library.

Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent English-language bookstores that have existed on Paris's Left Bank.

The first was opened by Sylvia Beach, an American, on  November 19, 1919, at 8 rue Dupuytren, before moving to larger premises at 12 rue de l'Odéon in the 6th arrondissement in 1922.

Beach, an American expatriate from New Jersey, developed the store as a lending library as well as a bookstore. During the 1920s, Beach's shop was a gathering place for many then-aspiring writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, James Joyce and Ford Madox Ford. It closed in 1941 during the German occupation of Paris and never re-opened.

The story is that Beach denied a German officer the last copy of Joyce's Finnegans Wake so the Nazi’s ordered it closed.] When the war ended, Hemingway "personally liberated" the store, but it never re-opened.

The second bookstore is situated at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, in the 5th arrondissement, and is still in operation today. Opened in 1951 by American George Whitman, it was originally called "Le Mistral," but was renamed to "Shakespeare and Company" in 1964 in tribute to Sylvia Beach's store and on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth. 

Salzburg, Austria, Photo by Ernst Haas.

Art is ALMOST everywhere, if you look for it. The artist, the architect in this case, connected his vision to us through these stairs

In other words, despite it all . count your blessing

This is FANTASTIC advice, really it is.

Magic

Solitude

Solitude

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

Weep, and you weep alone;

For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has trouble enough of its own.

Sing, and the hills will answer;

Sigh, it is lost on the air;

The echoes bound to a joyful sound,

But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go;

They want full measure of all your pleasure,

But they do not need your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all,—

There are none to decline your nectared wine,

But alone you must drink life’s gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded;

Fast, and the world goes by.

Succeed and give, and it helps you live,

But no man can help you die.

There is room in the halls of pleasure

For a large and lordly train,

But one by one we must all file on

Through the narrow aisles of pain.

Freddie Hubbard & Wayne Shorter

 Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was a jazz trumpeter who played bebop, hard bop, and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop. Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is a jazz saxophonist and composer who came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report.

 

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) AKA Joe Green

Sabine Weiss

Sabine Weiss n July 23, 1924) is a Swiss-French photographer and a prominent representatives of the French humanist photography movement.

Happiness

Erechtheion. The portico of caryatids., 1882, Vasily Polenov.

A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means "maidens of Karyai", an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: "As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants". An atlas or telamon is a male version of a caryatid, i.e. a sculpted male statue serving as an architectural support.

Alfred R. Waud

Alfred Rudolph Waud (pronounced Wood) was an English born artist and illustrator, most notable for the sketches he made as an artist correspondent during the Civil War when all images in a publication had to be hand drawn and engraved by skilled artists. Photography existed but there was no way to transfer a photograph to a printing plate at the time.

In 1860, Alfred Waud became an illustrator for the New York Illustrated News and was assigned to follow the Army of the Potomac into battle. Alfred Waud attended every battle of the Army of the Potomac between the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 and the Siege of Petersburg in 1865.  Waud died in 1891 in Marietta, Georgia, while touring battlefields of the South.

John Armstrong Jr,

A daguerreotype of John Armstrong Jr, 1840. Armstrong was the last surviving delegate to the Continental Congress, dying in 1843. He is the only delegate to have been photographed

John Armstrong Jr. (November 25, 1758 – April 1, 1843) was a soldier and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War

Talk about an accomplished life.

He was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the younger son of General John Armstrong a renowned Pennsylvania soldier born in Ireland of Scottish descent. John Jr.'s older brother was James Armstrong, who became a physician and U.S. Congressman.

John broke off his studies in Princeton in 1775 to return to Pennsylvania and join the fight in the Revolutionary War.  Armstrong appointed as aide-de-camp to General Hugh Mercer and carried the wounded and dying Mercer from the field at the Battle of Princeton. Armstrong then became an aide to General Horatio Gates.

In 1783 Armstrong became an Original Member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. He was named the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania's militia and served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under Presidents Dickinson and Franklin. In 1784, he led a military force of four hundred militiamen into a controversy with Connecticut settlers in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.

Armstrong,  a Jeffersonian Republican,  was elected in November 1800 to a term ending in March 1801. He took his seat on November 6 and was re-elected on January 27 for a full term (1801–07), but resigned on February 5, 1802.

In February 1804, Armstrong was elected again to the U.S. Senate.  President Jefferson appointed him U.S. Minister to France, and also represented the United States at the court of Spain in 1806.

When the War of 1812 broke out, Armstrong commissioned as a Brigadier General, and placed in charge of the defenses for the port of New York. In 1813 President Madison named him Secretary of War. Armstrong was so convinced that the British would 'not' attack Washington D.C. that he did nothing to defend the city even when it became clear it was the objective of the invasion force. After the destruction of Washington, Madison, usually a forgiving man, forced him to resign in September 1814.

He published a number of histories, biographies, and some works on agriculture. He died at La Bergerie, the farm estate he built in Red Hook, New York in 1843.

Look at the colors, you can almost feel the warmth, the end of a summers day.

Sunset at Sea, 1911, Childe Hassam

Kyuin Shim — Bowl IX (sculpture, 2014)

saori yamashita photographed performing in Arianna Hartanov’s if only by kathee miller.