Queenston

Houses on a hill surrounding the bay of Acapulco:

The Pennsylvania Leatherwing is back. A garden good guy.

Yesterday as a small rain shower passed through I realized there ought to be a rainbow somewhere because the sun was still shining brightly.

I looked out into the backyard and saw the end of the rainbow reaching the ground right over our septic field.

Stadium seating in Pompeii, Italy, an area that had been uncovered from the ancient volcano eruption. The seat numbers are etched into the stone. 2nd photo is the interior of a structure that had been excavated. Our tour guide told us that a huge area of Pompeii has still not been exposed.

Pompeii is AWESOME. Visiting it and Herculaneum permanently and dramatically changed my understanding and conceptions of "ancient" peoples and their lives. Romans had such an advanced civilization (the positives in obvious and well known ways on display in these locations, without forgetting the negatives that were present in their society too in obvious and well known ways) . Their lives and surroundings (also visible in Rome, of course) had so many engineering and public works features two thousand years ago that are recognizable today as almost contemporary and modern in comparison to the abject poverty and deprivation that prevailed in so much of Europe for most of the medieval and later periods more than 1000 years later. And that remain lacking in many parts of the world today.

Yes Elmer, DH and I were very impressed by the sophisticated level of people in Pompeii. It will be interesting to see what is uncovered in the future. The ancient Romans as a whole were very advanced and expanded over a wide geographical area. While traveling in Britain, we were amazed to see the number of structures that were built by this group.

Wonderful pictures! Thank you everyone for sharing

My Coat Guard son at 20 and his just graduated from Basic Training Air Force son at 19. May God Bless ALL our people serving in the military.

You can be proud of them both...and I thank them for their service!

My vegetable garden