Wicker and wood. (Check out the lamp/table in the lower left corner.)
From the outside: Leonard Mudge residence in Delray Beach, Florida, February 1959. The upper porch is shown above.
Both photos are by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
We spent Thanksgiving in Basel, Switzerland, arriving in time for the formal opening of the city’s Christmas market.
The lovely old city center, with many buildings from the 14th century, was mostly decorated with fir trees and lights. It was an idyllic place to start the holiday season.
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Almost every German city and town puts on an elaborate Christmas market during the Advent season.
The Stuttgart market — held since at least 1692 — is an excellent one. It made The Telegraph’s top 10 list this year.
As I walked around it on Thursday, taking these snapshots with my phone, I wished that I could also capture its wonderful smells: bread and pastry, sausage, and hot spiced wine (Glühwein).
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The labyrinth at Leonardskirchplatz in Basel, Switzerland, on Thanksgiving Day.
The small square — on a hill spur above the old city center — is next to the 15th century Leonardskirche or St. Leonard’s Church.
The labyrinth was installed there in 2002 from a design by Agnes Barmettier.
On the right side of the sign is a poem, “Labyrinth Spell” by Ingrid Gomolzik, meant to be spoken before entering the circuit: “The labyrinth is a mystery. . . the giant, the path in the middle, the way to ourselves.”
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Torn turned and tattered
Bowed burned and battered
I took untensed time by the teeth
And bade it bear me banking
Out over the walled welter
cities and the sea. . .— Robert P. Baird, from “The Labyrinth“
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