Acorn Street

View from the top of Acorn Street.

Madeleine Monday (In Her Easter Bonnet,,,)

Elegance and attitude in front of our house on Easter morning. She got that hat Saturday at the art museum, where we went to see a show called Degas, Impressionism And The Millinery Trade. It was about the fascination of those painters with the art of ornate hat making, the height of fashion in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. 

We stopped in the shop after viewing the exhibit. Ellie was quite taken with the straw hat, modeling it for us with the price tag still attached, a la Minnie Pearl. We'll see the other grandkid in Michigan next weekend.     

Splitting the waters

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Today is the 7th and last day of Pesach.
We remember how on that day Moses led the newly-forming Jewish People out of Egypt through the split waters of the sea.

"And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided" -- וַיִּבָּקְעוּ, הַמָּיִם

- Exodus 14:21

"When God split the Red Sea, all the waters in the world divided, even the waters in cisterns and ditches, in jars, cups, casks and bowls ... the supernal waters, too, divided ..."

 -- (Midrash Mechilta)

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Whichever holiday you are celebrating today, have a happy and meaningful one! 

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Acorn Street Visitors

Acorn Street on Beacon Hill is arguably one of the most picturesque and photographed streets in Boston.

Something Is Happening Here But You Don't Know What It Is

So said Bob Dylan back when I was in high school.  One of the disadvantages of teatrical photography Is that I can pay too much attention to visual images and lose track of what is happening on the stage. That happened during some of Five Fifths when the connections to the original fairy tales grew thin.

There were a couple of sequences in which people spent a lot of time arguing about the meaning of texts (I thought only lawyers, literature professors an theologians did that) while actual life happened beyond them. I got a little lost.