London vacation - August 2010 - photos map

Among the most picturesque treasures of Romania are the Painted Monasteries of Bucovina (in northeastern Romania). Their painted exterior walls are decorated with elaborate 15th and 16th century frescoes featuring portraits of saints and prophets, scenes from the life of Jesus, images of angels and demons, and heaven and hell. Deemed masterpieces of Byzantine art, these churches are one-of-a-kind  [ ... ]

The Church of the Annunciation, (sometimes also referred to as the Basilica of the Annunciation) is a church in Nazareth. History The church was established at the site where, according to Roman Catholic tradition, the Annunciation took place. Greek Orthodox tradition holds that this event occurred while Mary was drawing water from a local spring in Nazareth, and the Greek Orthodox Church of the [ ... ]

Although the world would call me free 
Each year the more her slave am I, 
For in her very way to be 
There's I don't know what, I don't know why. 

With life's tomorrow time you grasp, 
Its yesterdays you fling away, 
And still, in spite of all remains 
Its long eternity, today. When one thing goes, another comes 
In this wide world by heave [ ... ]

See the swallows quit the eaves  
And fall the yellow walnut leaves, 
The vines with autumn frost are numb, 
Why don't you come, why don't you come ? 

When death did not exist, nor yet eternity,
Before the seed of life had first set living free,
When yesterday was nothing, and time had not begun,
And one included all things, and all was less than one,
W [ ... ]