I Claudius

I, Claudius, 1976 BBC television adaptation of Robert Grave's I Claudius.

Best TV series ever.

"I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus... this, that and the other, who was once, and not so long ago, better known to my friends and relatives as Claudius the Idiot, or That Fool Claudius, or Claudius the Stammerer, am now about to write the strange history of my life."

Penguin Café Orchestra

Simon Jeffes and the Penguin Café Orchestra

Johnson Wax research tower under construction

Frank Lloyd Wright

Homo neanderthalensis

taken with a Pentax K1000

October 2010

requiem Fauré

Requiem de Fauré, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir.

Ruinas de Santa María de Moreruela

Cistercian Abbey of Moreruela, 1170-1225.

taken with a Pentax K1000

October 2010

Billie holiday

Billie Holiday, (Herman Leonard photography)

Lady in Satin, Billie Holiday, 1958

Santa Lucía

Saint Lucy, martyr

in Toro, Zamora.

taken with a Pentax K1000

October 2010.

The Raven, by Manet

L'énigme de l'arrivée et de l'après-midi

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)