Hopper To It!

Bismuth crystallizes in gorgeous crystals that have a hopper (like a grain hopper, see?) shape, so they're often just called hopper crystals.

...and they're really pretty...

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A little thanksgiving

One image from The Tree of Life that intrigued me was of a spiral of stained glass windows below which the camera twirled. The shot wasn't more than a few seconds, but the gorgeousness of the glass and the oddity of the receding spiral has stuck with me.

So I did a little hunting and found that the windows are actually part of the ceiling at the Chapel of Thanksgiving, the major architectural feature of Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas, Texas. Having been to Dallas, I'm a little disappointed that I didn't find time to see this beautiful building and its apparently pretty bucolic setting, including this Norman Rockwell mosaic which I know I've seen somewhere before...

But it's the chapel's Glory Window that was featured in Tree of Life. Stunning...

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Handsome gents

 

There aren't all that many gents that I feel comfortable saying are straight up handsome.  There are, however, a few...

• George Peppard (circa Breakfast at Tiffany's)
• Brad Pitt
• Pierce Brosnan
• George Clooney
• Taye Diggs