Christmas cheer

Butter

I was looking forward to a cheese sandwich for tea but, no butter…

So I went to the local supermarket, bought this, took it home and set out the ingredients ready for assembly, wolfing-down and digestion.

Imagine my surprise when I took off the lid and foil of the butter container!

For Your Delight

What Sutherland’s power made a demand, Callas’ grace made a prayer – Casta Diva from Bellini’s Norma

Callas’ stage presence is magnificent.

Breaking news: the Minoans colonised Jupiter!

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The famous Minoan swimming dolphin, followed by a fish, can be seen clearly. Philosophers of art are attempting to decode its porpoise.

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Dolphin fresco, c. 1500 BC, Knossos palace, Crete.

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North Sydney

Powerhouse

Powerhouse

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Sunset in Peru

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

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Butterfly calypso

Rice paper or tree nymph butterflies

Rice paper or tree nymph butterflies

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As light clouds drift above

Routeburn Track, New Zealand

Routeburn Track, New Zealand

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The aesthetic relation of art to reality – design in the Sistine Chapel and in the storms of Jupiter

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Jupiter’s zones and belts dominant near its equator decay into a complex pattern of continent-sized storm swirls

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Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-1512, Vatican City

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NASA and a disk, science and art

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Seven Dusty Sisters – the Pleiades star cluster.

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A colour-composite image of the Pleiades from the Digitised Sky Survey

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The Nebra sky disk, dated circa 1600 BC. The cluster of dots in the upper right portion of the disk is believed to be the Pleiades. Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

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