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- terryl lee chapman
- The photo of me is taken in Ladakh India by my daughter in 2008, as we were walking along a village street with an open drain.
"uncontacted" Indians in Brazil
"uncontacted"
"uncontacted"
In cotton and wool on Everest 1924
Mallory and Irvine top left
George Mallory nametags
George Mallory and wife Ruth
George Mallory 1886-1924
Andrew Irvine, Mallory's equally doomed partner on the climb
Grandma Peggy
something comfy
James Tissot: Prophet Ezekiel
My beautiful lamb cake from my 100 year old Griswold lamb cake mold
Dream come true: Best ebay purchase this year...My beautiful lamb cake from my 100 year old Griswold lamb cake mold
The Risen Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene at the Tomb
Rembrandt von Rijn 1638
The Entombment
Body of Christ being prepared for the tomb
Ode to a Moth
Lamayuru from a distance
Lamayuru Monastery celebration
This is what we experienced, unexpectedly, at Lamayuru: a celebration to welcome a very high-ranking monk visiting the monastery. I was so dumbstruck I couldn't even take photos, but I found these online taken by someone who was also there, Raum Feur
Lamayuru
Lamayuru man
- Feur
Lamayuru woman
- Feur. I remember seeing this woman but wasn't brave enough to photograph
Lamayuru woman
- Feur
The coolness factor: people say that Barack could pass as one of his own Secret Service men
Good luck with Georgie Porgie today!
young monks
"Fresh from their morning puja, or prayer session, these novice monks are captivated by a scene during the annual festival at the remote Lamayuru monastery, the oldest Tibetan Buddhist institution in Ladakh in northern India"
Lamayuru Monastery: postcard from the fridge
My lifelong dream, to go to a place like this- and then I did go, to this exact place, as if by magic!
Kimberly McDonald earrings
Honna's tools of trade
Velveteen Rabbits for Obama!
Palm Sunday, Jesus Enters Jerusalem in Triumph
The crowds joyfully wave palms and lovingly welcome Jesus to Jerusalem in triumph. In the days to come the tide will turn and these same crowds will want Him dead.
gumdrop tree
Christopher Columbus bumps into the already inhabited Americas,
totally by accident, on his way to India, after other explorers had already discovered America, let's say Leif Erikson or Henry Sinclair and The Westford Knight, (remember the mid-1400's corn carvings in Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland) yet we still celebrate Bumbling Columbus 500+ years later?
My three-year old grand-daughter Maya
surfing with her grandfather in Santa Cruz
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Decorus and sedate in comparison to the way people are feeling these days
From the book "Family of Man"- Depression Photo of Woman Migrant Worker: by D. Lange
Here we go again
St. Peter's Church Cape May Point
California Academy of Sciences - 2012-ish quality in this room
California Academy of Sciences - a 2001-ish quality in this room
tree as monolith
California Academy of Sciences roof
Bruni-Sarkozy
Palin's tete-a-tete with Kissinger
Take note that Kissinger is averting his eyes to Ms. Palin's attempt at a Sharon Stone fatal attraction
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1900 Galveston Hurricane
Why Not a Ground Zero Apple Orchard
Cern component - 50 feet across
Hadron Particle Collider: lovely!
Tina Fey (Sarah Palin) John McCain
How strange is this 2004 cover?!
Have a Hot Dog, at least, on Labor Day
Greg Mortenson: Wondrous Being!
I cannot believe I never read Three Cups of Tea before this week! It takes place about 100 miles from where we were a few weeks ago, I could have learned so much by reading it beforehand. But better late than never!
I snapped this photo on the Leh-Kargil road, just in time to capture his fading face forever
Om Tattoo from Ladakh
Leh Palace, prototype for Potala
still pure
Onward!
Along the Ancient Silk Road: Summertime in Leh
Leh 1909
View of Leh from "Potala" side
Prototype for the Potala Palace
Leh is a little Lhasa
Leh environs
The road into Leh
Can you imagine?
Leh is up there by that "line of actual control"
George Mallory, Alabaster on Everest at 27,000 feet
Mallory as he was found, resting in peace 1999
Salila
Beautiful setting for ten days of silence and no eye contact, in the Himalayan foothills
Salila Vipassana Center Dehradun India
Honna begins Vipassana here today, July 5th
Brad Pitt as Jesse James
No you don't, you just think you do
Happy Fourth of July!
Congress Hall
Congress Hall
I Ching Hexaram 56: The Wanderer
Ladahk woman and babe
@ Brad Carlile
Ladakh monk
@ Brad Carlile
view from Leh
@ Brad Carlile
Leh
The Good Old Days
Monet's lilies, rarely seen
considered to be the first large scale modern art, painted 1919
eighty million spent today for Monet
Vetruvian Man on the Euro
Leonardo da Vinci and the Euro, and a slight hint of Pranic Healing?
Jaw Pain!
Yellow scarf passing by
from Honna in India- one of many
Honest Abe Lincoln
Abe, our tallest president, 6'4"
Fort at Jaisalmer
Jaisalmer
Imagine! So Why Do You Think Obama's Nomination is Reminding People of John Lennon Lyrics Tonight?
India map
Mother's Day
Descent of the Holy Spirit
WIllie later on
Willie Nelson early on
Serene Dogwood
Dogwood and Lilac
Van Now
Van Then
Wu Zhengdan on pointe on the head of her husband, Wei Baohua
Roy Rogers and Trigger
Handmaiden by Lamplight
Sir Mick at Buckingham Palace with dad and two daughters
Mick 2008
Mick Jagger 1973
Voyager Golden Record
My little Hillary collage
My Leopard
Hard to believe I took this myself, in the wilds of Africa, with my pocket Panasonic, from the safety of a Jeep.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
David Brooks
Op Ed Columnist New York Times, wrote the very funny piece about how "memory is the new sex" and how Boomer environmentalists will soon start saying hopefully that we are "reducing our mental footprint"
Carrying on into another generation
my kids, their mates, my granddaughter, and me
My kids all grown up
Good old dad, still going strong at seventy-one in Istanbul, 1993
My parents, nearing seventy
They were such youthful, fun and generous grandparents for my kids and my sister's kids!
My Mom, Ruth Ellen Thomas Chapman
born August 8 1922
My Dad, Dr. William Leroy Chapman
born April 10, 1922 Happy Birthday!
mandala
Ava's India
The Doctor
by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes
The Eldest Doctor Chapman
editorial upon my grandfather's passing
My grandfather, The Honorable Dr. L. E. Chapman, as a young man
around 1910
Grandfather's notes from 1900, in Greek
Caduceus
My dear dad, young and hot at 21
Grandma Peggy at age 17, 1914
my mom's mom
My grandfather's notes from Medical School @1900
Pediatrics
Wash your hands before lunching with the elephants! Botswanan wash basin
Our hosts provide gently and well- notice the little yellow soap on top of the round "soapdish" on the far right
My up-close and personal time with a kind, thoughtful wounded elephant at a refuge camp
elephant ear
Me being ravished by elephants in Botswana
Better than nothing!
Friedrich Nietzsche 1882
McCain Nautical Pin
Young John McCain
Barack back a ways
Bill and Hillary 1970
Hillary back in the day
Fresh in from hunting and swilling whiskey with the guys? Bet those hard working fellows loved having HER along!
Rosslyn ceiling
fanciful!
Astonishing Rosslyn Chapel
Apprentice Pillar
The Green Man
mysterious carvings at Rosslyn Chapel
Rosslyn Chapel carvings of corn
15th century carvings predate knowledge of corn in Europe
Rosslyn
Rosslyn South Entrance
Springtime At Giverny
Claude Monet 1886
Westminster
Bertrand Russell
Bob Dylan 2006
Bob Dylan 1966
Last Supper by Salvador Dali
This painting fascinated me for years after I first saw it in the National Gallery in Washington. It made me think that maybe Dali was sane after all. You have to see it for yourself to appreciate the beauty of it, and especially the beauty of the lustrous satin robes.
Mary Queen of Scots
something rotten at the State Department?
Some of Our Leaders
my little collage
One Leader
May be Different from the Others
Those wonderful old Sunday School pictures
Jesus Blessing the Children
Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
When I was in third grade my grandmother gave me this as an oil paint-by-numbers kit and I was so proud when it was done! (Whatever happened to those really good paint-by-number kits?)
Judas betrays Jesus, with a kiss
Giotto's "The Kiss of Judas" from the Scrovegni Chapel
Peter's betrayal foreseen
Jesus to Peter: "Before the cock crows you will deny me three times"
Grandma's Jesus
Werner Sallman's famous old portrait comforted many
Remember What People Can Do
Palm Sunday Cross
Beware the Ides of March
Et tu Brute? Assassination of Caesar on the Roman senate floor by senators including his once dear friend Brutus, March 15, 44BC.(painting by Vincenzo Camuccini)
Pray for Tibet and the Tibetan people
This weekend Chinese authorities are using tanks, tear gas and guns to maim and kill Tibetan monks and citizens who are protesting the Chinese occupation and desecration of their homeland
Scrovegni
.....Memento
taken from the back of a sweet man at the Polka Dot Ball
Lady of Guadalupe
once while living in Mexico in the sixties I nearly got The Virgin of Guadalupe tattooed on my hip but chickened out after the first poke of the pen, wondering "What would my mother think?"
Ajijik Street Scene
Happy Leap Year "08
Go Get Your Man!
My little Hillary collage
Hillary as Lorena Bobbitt, Cruella Deville and Dr. Strangelove
WIlliam F. Buckley
Albert Einstein
I Wouldn't Mind Being Marjorie Merriweather Post
Or Peggy Noonan, Presidential Speechwriter
Board member Manhattan Institute
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Or Brangelina
Cape May Harbor in February, taken with my cellphone
The Dalai Lama
1st time skiing in 40 years!
Home sweet home
Steve Fossett
Our transcendent moments in Botswana
The three lions- Mambo Brothers -return triumphantly
Heavenly moments at Singita
Taken with my little point and shoot camera!
Sweet Valentine
Piping in the Haggis
SIr Edmund Hillary at 87, Antarctica 2007
Hillary at home 2003
SIr Edmund and Tenzing Norgay
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love my Soloflex and that Whole Body Vibration
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