While wondering through Het Rembrandthuis Museum, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last autumn, a painting caught my eye. The walls of the Rembrandt House were covered with paintings salon style, and although it was hard for the eye to isolate any image, this particular painting caught my attention and held it. The painting, The Last Supper, [...]
While in The Hague, Netherlands last autumn, I took a few hours to look into the Escher Museum (Escher in het Paleis or Escher in the Palace). In the past I have not regarded M.C. Escher too highly, consequently I was surprised at how much I enjoyed seeing the work. I discovered how the following [...]
This past fall I had the opportunity to see several early Piet Mondrian paintings in the Gemente Museum (Den Haag, The Netherlands). Although he is most famous for his later simplified Neoplastic art such as Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1937-42, I prefer his earlier works that have a concrete subject and yet contain [...]
Photography from our two week trip through Germany has been posted. We made a U-shaped trip this October (view our approximate route on Google Maps). We made sure it was after Ocktoberfest. Drunken tourists were the last thing we wanted to see on our trip. For most of the more than a 1000-mile trip, we [...]
This will have to be quick. It’s past midnight here in Frankfurt. We’ve seen over eight castles close up and many more from afar. We had some Fiederweissen (fresh grapes, as in this year’s harvest, plus yeast) at a wine museum in Burnkastel-Kues the other day. It was great! We’ve had pork about every night. [...]
With the 2008 Olympics winding down and our plane tickets to Germany purchased, I thought that I would upload and post my photographs from my month’s stay in Greece for the 2004 Athens Olympics. I worked within the International Broadcasting Centre (IBC) for the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). You can still read my blog from [...]
We are waiting on graduate school admissions to decide whether to buy a house which will determine when we are going to Netherlands/Germany for one or two weeks this summer or fall. We really like our missions focused church and have made many friends there –although almost all of them are married with kids so [...]
Rachel and I went on a canoe trip on the Wisconsin River and traveled to Chicago to the art museum. The canoe trip was about 8 miles and was a day long trip.
After walking around the Art Institute of Chicago for four hours, we sampled some of the “Taste of Chicago” vendors just south of [...]
Tonight, I finished posting the rest of Rachel’s photographs of our honeymoon in Ireland. She picked her favorite three-hundred and I posted them to our online photo album and uploaded the prints to Snapfish. If you don’t have an entire weekend to cycle through the over seven hundred photos in our online album. You can [...]
I have a new favorite store. About a month ago, I started thinking about Ireland in the winter. Maybe this a little overboard for 30-40 degrees Fahrenheit, but I wanted to make sure we had the supplies to stay out in rainy, windy 30-degree-weather for 3 hours straight. We do live in Indiana, however, and [...]