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John William Waterhouse’s “Circe Invidiosa,” 1892

Oil on canvas.

Attributes of Chos-Skyon Dam-can rDo-rje Legs-pa (Vajrasadhu).

Attributes of Chos-Skyon Dam-can rDo-rje Legs-pa (Vajrasadhu) in a Tibetan “rgyan tshogs” banner.

 

First snowfall on Peace Mountain, 2017 (2)

I wish my cellphone camera were a little better — it just can’t do justice to those snow clouds among the peaks in the distance.

 

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First snowfall on Peace Mountain, 2017

Credit for the name of the mountain where we live goes to my girlfriend; I named the house — “Winterfell.”  I’m naming a lot of things after “Game of Thrones” this winter.  (Because it is “Coming.”)  Remember I shared a picture of the vestigial remains of shack, in which only a strewn roof was still intact?  That I dubbed “Craster’s Keep.”  And I am starting to think of Lynchburg as “King’s Landing.”

This was only the  initial powdering last Friday — of course the snow became much heavier that night.

 

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“Firebird” segment from Disney’s “Fantasia 2000”

Seriously, I could go either way.

Judging from the things pushed or upended, there is either an angry ghost in our attic or the cats are flying into a goddam nightly roid rage while we sleep.

I’m not sure which scenario is more disturbing.

Then again, I’m not sure which scenario is more disturbingly awesome.

Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse’s poster for “Louise,” 1900

Poster by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) for the première of Gustave Charpentier’s Louise at the Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1900.

 

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Mountains near Natural Bridge, Virginia, New Year’s Day 2017

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Cover to “Power Girl,” #2(b), Amanda Conner, 2009

DC Comics.  (Variant cover for August 2009 issue.)

 

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George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Virginia

December 2016.  These woods are among the Allegheny Mountains, along the Appalachian Mountain Range.

 

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