Monthly Archives: February 2009

Sphinx

Still Life :Studio The sonnet Ozymandias celebrates the anonymous sculptor and his artistic achievement, whilst Shelley imaginatively surveys the ruins of a bygone power to fashion a sinuous, compact sonnet spun from a traveller’s tale of far distant desert ruins. … Continue reading

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One with Beauty-Remembering Ansel Adams

“I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.” This was the personal philosophy of the great American photographer Ansel Adams whose birthday falls on February 20. He developed … Continue reading

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Across the road, seas, worlds.

  Across the Road-Msida-Malta Just shifting from one side of the road to the other can make a lot of changes in the way one sees and feels one’s route.   The moon on the Western horizon was an imposing … Continue reading

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