East Coast Excursion to Alexandria, Virginia

Arthur and Jeanie visit Dan and Poss

The Beauties of Brick

Cobblestone Street

Former Elks Lodge

Alexandria Doorways

The Hour: Vintage Cocktail Barware

Vintage Cocktail Glasses

King Street Blues

Baltimore Mural

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Duel After the Masked Ball”

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “The Death of Caesar”

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “A Roman Slave Market”

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Diogenes”

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “The Christian Martyrs”

De Neuville, “In the Trenches”

de Neuville, “Attack at Dawn” (detail)

Meisonnier, “End of the Game of Cards”

Gleyre, “Lost Illusions”

“On the island of Lesbos, in the late 7th century BC, Sappho and her

companions listen rapturously as the poet Alcaeus plays a kithara.”

Alma Tadema, “Sappho and Alcaeus”

Sappho and Alcaeus, 470 B.C. Vase

Daumier, “The Amateurs”

Achenbach, “Clearing Up -- Coast of Sicily” (I still can’t see the American flag!)

Boughton, “The Waning Honeymoon”

Cordier, Dafur Man and Woman

Fintlocks, 1700

Cigarette Case c. 1900

Chamber of Wonders

“The Story of Troy”

Meissonier, “Courtyard of the Artist’s Studio,” 1877 -- Watercolor

Giacomelli, “A Perch of Birds”

Alma Tadema, “Twixt Venus and Bacchus”

Bouguereau, “Italian Peasant Kneeling with Child”

Brion, “Exterior of a Church”

Ziem, “Constaninople”

Herson, “Interior of Saint Etienne du Mont”

Miller, “The Mountain Torrent”

Tissot, “The Confessional”

The Phillips Gallery

Van Gogh, Repetitions

Renoir, “The Boating Party”

Washington Ale House, Wilmington, DelawareToasted bagel slices with garlic butter!

Southern Tier Warlock Pumpkin Imperial Stout!

Dupont Hotel Dining Room, Wilmington

Longwood Gardens: Giant Elephant Ear Plant, Thailand

1000 Blooms

Chrysanthemums in the Greenhouse

Water Lilies

Tree House

Autumn Sunset

Wintherthur: Gold Beaters Sign and Fantasy on an Iron Gate

On the way to Kapnos: Busboys and Poets

Langston Hughes: Busboy and Poet

Poss’s Party, Kapnos

Years Back -- “Dorian Gray” Dan never changes!

Kapnos Chow and Gold Rush

Metro to To the National Gallery

Van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889

Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral

National Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Saint-Gaudens, Shaw Memorial

Cropsey, Autumn on the Hudson River

Daumier, Members of Parliament

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood

The Voyage of Life: Youth

The Voyage of Life: Manhood

The Voyage of Life: Old Age

Edouard Manet: The Old Musician

Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette

Jefferson Hotel, Richmond

Ceiling Glass, Jefferson Hotel

Fantasy on the Ceiling Glass in the Jefferson Hotel

Old City Hall, Richmond

George Washington by Houdon

Head, New Jefferson Statue

State Capitol, Richmond

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Maxfield Parrish, Little Sugar River at Noon

Lalique Brooch

Tiffany Punch Bowl

Amuse Restaurant

Rockefeller Room

Robert E. Lee Monument by Antonin Mercié

One Final Treat at the Hard Times Cafe:

Four Kinds of Chili!

Going Home