Home Page Photo Archive from January 2011
Some of the photos and captions that have appeared on the Home Page of Paradoxplace since early 2009
(the dates refer to when the photo was on the home page, not when the photo was taken).
Link to photos which appeared on the Paradoxplace Home Page in 2007 and 2008 and in 2009 and 2010.
Food photos from the home page can be found in "Simply the Best Meals"
February 2012
Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321 (56))
portrait by Giotto, in the Bargello, Florence
January 2011
Fairford Parish Church*
Christmas 2011
* pages for Fairford parish church were to be our fun project over Christmas,
but sadly the time window evaporated ........ it really is a stunning place, so we'll get there soon!
La Capricorne (The Sea Goat also the Billy Goat)
December 22 - January 20
January 2012
Sunday 25 December 2011
This is the 1997 poster for the Santa Fe (New Mexico) Winter Spanish Market
December 2011
Thursday 22 December 2011
Killing a pig for Christmas, and Sagittarius (right)
(November 23 – December 21)
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres
December 13 is the Feast of Santa Lucia,
Patron Saint of Siracusa (Sicily)
November 2011
Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England, died near Lincoln
on 28 November 1290.
November 2011
December 2011
Chloe Bradburn, 2 weeks, chats to Papa Paradox, 3500 weeks, on her first Christmas (2010).
October 24 – November 22
Wine Decanting and Scorpio
Le Scorpion (The Scorpion)
Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres
November 2011
November 11th is Armistice Day
29,000 men from the Welch Division were killed or wounded in WWI
Spain
October 2011
Flowers for Ognissanti (November 1) in the beautiful little cemetery at La Foce (South of Siena)
12 October 1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in America
Thursday 6 October is the Feast of Ste Foy (Santa Fe)
September 2011
Libra - Le Balance (The Scales) - September 23 – October 23
Capital in the Basilique Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay - West Burgundy
"Noli me Tangere"
September 2011
St Michael & All Angels Font, Castle Frome (Herefordshire)
September 2011
La Vierge (The Virgin) aka Virgo (August 24 - September 22)
in the Zodiac Window of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres
Chartres Cathedral Medieval Zodiacs
September 2011
Leo the Lion (July 23 – August 23)
August 2011
Central Roof Boss - York Minster Chapter House
July 2011
Le Cancer (the Crab) - June 22– July 22
July 2011
Flower petal tapesteries everywhere in Italy - this lot covering the nave floor of the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari
Mourners on the tomb of La Beata Urraca Lopez de Haro (1170 – 1262 (92)),
Abbess of the Cistercian Abbey (for nuns) of Canas, La Rioja
June 2011
Other memorable tombs in Spain and Portugal
The Gemini Twins, May 22 - June 21
Eglise St-Lazare, Avallon, Burgundy
June 2011
15 June 1215
Magna Carta was signed in Runnymead
796 years' ago
June 2011
Real Monasterio de Neustra Señora de Rueda
(Our Lady of the Water Wheel) - Aragon
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
by Titian
Taurus the (mer-) Bull - 21 April - 21 May
Basilique Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay
MAY DAY
1 May 2011
May Day in Salamanca (Spain) May Day in San Pietro in Vaticano (Rome)
MONDAY 26 APRIL 2011 - ANZAC DAY IN AUSTRALIA
23 November 1918 - paternal Grandfather Paradox (Dr Jimmy Fletcher) photographs the Indian Cavalry on parade in Baghdad
18 January 1921 - maternal Grandmother Paradox (Clare Sproule) photographs the Indian Cavalry on parade in Peshawar
160 years earlier in October 1759 5xGreat Grandfather Paradox (Samuel Hampton) had been a founding officer of the Bengal Native Infantry in Calcutta. A son and grandson of his were Generals in the Bengal Army.
So it's not really surprising that the Paradox is genetically predisposed to military band marching music
SATURDAY 23 APRIL 2011 - ST GEORGE'S DAY
Vittore Carpaccio (1450/60 - 1525) in the
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice
Fra Angelico frescos Cell 3 of the Convent of St Marco in Florence
25 March is the Feast of the Annunciation
Aries - March 21– April 20
Le Bélier (The Ram) and spring flowers
April 2011
February foot warming and Pisces
March 2011
A little sea fella in a spandrel in the facade of Notre Dame la Grande in Poitiers.
February 2011
February 2011
Capricorn (December 22 - January 20)
La Capricorne (The Billy Goat with smig)
January 2011
"Hello Again" - the Magi return for Epiphany - 6 January
January 2011
Killing a steer for Christmas - in other places usually broiling a pig or two suffices,
but up in Carlisle they are made of sterner stuff.
December 2010
December 2010
Christmas and Adriano's memories of the early 2000s in Chianti - Masaccio's 600th and Fra Angelico's San Marco
(click on the photos, or click here for more Nativity moments)
Sagittarius (November 23 – December 21)
Le Sagitaire (The Archer)
December 2010
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