Adalbert

A folder I began doctoring in my freshman year of high school, I believe, and continued working on through high school and a year or two be...

Empty Wind Heavy roof, beams, green and blue-cored, beneath the eaves. In low basins switch turtles, eels, and rock fish; bleached mout...

I'm in the midst of reading the challenging biography Alan Turing: The Enigma , by Andrew Hodges, published in 1983. The tome unw...

Stereoscopic card of the U.S. Battleship Indiana from 1899. A search on the Googles indicates the ship was involved in the Battle of Santia...

Unsent postcard depicting German conductor and composer, Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954), published in Stuttgart (apparently attached to a ...

A few hours ago watched Stuart Gordon's 2005 tv adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dreams in the Witch House ( I guess it sounds mo...

Stereoscopic card, from around the 1890s or early 20th Century.

Winter Wild blackness rolls in the skies. Its whorls are city coals, sheets of skeletal water shimmer in the harbor. The feathers of ...

Unsent postcard from Nantes in Western France, depicting a neolithic dolmen or portal grave.

Photo of my great-grandfather Ludwig Falk (cf. entry of September 10, 2010, and others) in old age, together with, from left to right, his ...

Hand-coloured stereoscopic card depicting a scene from the Russo-Japanese war period. I don't suppose "foraging" is anythin...

Canopic Fair Spike to Spica: The elder photons of constellations unassigned signal bovine reptiles The Fisher King is dead, a vendor o...

When I first look at an unfamiliar blog, one of the first things I notice is the date of the most recent entry. I am bemused when the date ...

Oneonta Gorge, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. Photograph by Cross and Dimmitt. The overexposure produces a feel of the fugitive overlaying...

Selenite Fog "The colour is of all the sunsets and sunrises of the earth combined" Parallel to the sky runs a band of mist, ...

Horsetail Falls, Columbia River Highway, Oregon. Another ectoplasmic time lapse postcard out of the camera of Cross and Dimmitt. Undated,...

In the not long ago I read The Sorceror's Ship by Hannes Bok (1914-64), a gift. I was previously familiar with Bok as an artist and il...

Paris Here are a couple of the Gargoyles which overlook the Notre Dame. It is a wonderful church. Leave Tuesday for a trip thru the b...

May 30th 1912 Dear Judge On this day of memory. I will issue you your 10% interest in property, the picture of which you will find on ot...

While in the past I was a devoted reader of various comics, with special interest in undergrounds and horror comics such as the 70s DC titl...

Some students (and the teacher) from my first grade class at what was then known as Boring Grade School in Boring, Oregon (now known as Naa...

I finished not long ago Ivan Doig's Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America , published in 1980. The work is a...

Columbian by Jonathan Falk Sanguinity on the short and railed floor, hawser, clear light of the river grass and front window. Face ...