Originally built in 1882. I thought it would be fun to include a 1910 photo beneath the shot I took tonight.
The hotel is … owned and operated by Virginia Tech? I did not know that.


Originally built in 1882. I thought it would be fun to include a 1910 photo beneath the shot I took tonight.
The hotel is … owned and operated by Virginia Tech? I did not know that.


Happy Easter, all!

Pastel.

Photograph.


Postcard.

Give me my passage home, let me see that harbour once again, just as it was before I learned the bad words. Patriarchs wiser than Abraham mended their nets on the modest wharf; white and wonderful things undressed on the sand dunes; sunset glittered on the plate-glass windows of the Marine Biological Station; far off on the extreme horizon, a whale spouted. Look, Uncle, look. They have broken my glasses and I have lost my silver whistle. Pick me up, Uncle; let little Johnny ride away on your massive shoulders to recover his green kingdom, where the steam rollers are as friendly as the farm dogs …
— excerpt from W. H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror

“Lighthouse near Westkapelle,” Piet Mondrian, 1910


Oil on canvas.
