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| Cornells Wierlingens' Explosion of the Spanish Flagship During the Battle of Gibraltar, in lurid detail |
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| My favorite group portrait, which we somehow missed in May, Bartholomeus van der Helst's Banquet at the Crossbowmen's Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Munster |
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| Reflection in one of the silver breast plates |
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| And in one of the glasses |
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| Night Watch mob |
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| Milk Maid mob |
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| One of my favorite Hals, The Merry Drinker |
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| And my favorite Hals, Portrait of a Couple... |
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| Great museum |
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| Namely, the household goods, as I call them; here, some incredible hand-painted tea sets, for two, for twelve, etc. |
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| 45 miniature silver items in a doll house kitchen |
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| More table ware |
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| How to do big hair in the 18th century |
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| Hand-painted Meissen cutlery set |
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| More Meissen...reminding us of the Green Vaults |
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| Lots of flowery dresses and flowery head-gear |
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| In the magic lantern collection; some were too lewd even for me (to post) |
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| Evolution of double-reed instruments |
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| Traveling harpsichord |
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| Oh yes, there is a Delft department; here, a perpetual calendar |
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| Breughelesque Delft |
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| What really knocked us out was the engraved glassware |
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| Thus |
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| And particularly the stippled engraved glassware |
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| Sort of pointillist in glass, pretty amazing |
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| Interesting house/porches near Fontaine-Henry |
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| Meteo on the street in Caen |
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| Lawn ornaments near Utah Beach |
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| Message on a German gun emplacement: "Who changes the children, changes the world" |
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| Gun battery in Cherboug: Sic transit, Gloria |
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| Normandie humor |
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| One sees rather few home-built rigs in France...here's one |
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| Your bones are being evicted from this cemetery |
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| So you've pulled into a parking lot at a scenic overlook and are admiring the sights when up rides a bicycliste/asshole to exercise his male rights just outside your front windshield... |
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| Medieval pizza maker in Vitre |
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| French hot dog |
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| Ingredients for Kouign Aman...Food of Satan |
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| What happens when you fall asleep reading |
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| Sic transit, Gloria |
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| Clock tower in Amiens |
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| Belt and suspenders approach |
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| You find defibrillators right out on the street here and there |
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| American culture is everywhere; well, you don't see much light beer, our major contribution to cuisine |
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| On the lawn of a monument, some kind soul has placed plastic flowers on all of the dog poop mounds |
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| In Deauville, a pizza vending machine; in operation only during high season |
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| Interesting cafe table |
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| In case you've ever wondered what 35E of dog poop looks like |
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| In a barber shop in Fecamp...a large model of the Bismarck/ Tirpitz |
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| Only cupcake shop we saw still in business |
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| Hazards of harbor fishing |
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| 59 different colors |
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| Camping with rabbits in Honfleur |
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| Municipal signage in Deauville; possible interpretations... no male topless dancing, no topless males, no topless male singing and dancing... |
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| Baba in Dives...love the little syringes of rum |
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| Double-decker chair in Caen church |
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| Sort of |
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| Cool chair covers |
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| No smoking apartment in St. Malo |
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| Helluva party |
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| And you think you're reno was bad... |
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| The French abhor empty space and will fill it with nearly anything and call it sculpture |
