by Nancy | Jul 23, 2009 | Miscellaneous
While in Chicago I also wanted to find the Bat Column, a steel and aluminum sculpture designed by Claes Oldenburg. It is on the grounds of the Social Security Building on West Madison Street. My friends and I walked down Madison Street, keeping an eye out for this...
by Nancy | Jul 5, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
This is one of the more interesting entrances to the old city. It curves inside the wall and is more like a tunnel. You can see the curve in the middle photo. The third photo shows the exit into the city, but it also gives a feel of how dark it...
by Nancy | Jun 29, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
These photos are from inside St. Sebaldus Church in Nürnberg, Germany. Besides being another lovely old church, this one has special meaning for me. This is the church Maria Sybilla Merian attended, and where her second daughter, Dorothea, was...
by Nancy | May 20, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
The sole reason I toured Albrecht Dürer's house in Nürnberg, Germany, was because I had read there was a display of his paint and where it came from. Now Dürer lived 170 years before Maria Sybilla Merian did, but things were slow to change back in those...
by Nancy | May 15, 2009 | Miscellaneous
I’m getting very tired of all the rain, storms, high winds, and, of course, tornadoes! It has rained so much I haven’t been able to get my rain barrel made; isn’t that ironic! I’m sure that when I finally get it all done…well,...
by Nancy | May 11, 2009 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
ChlörleinThis bit of architechture is a famous landmark in Nürnberg, Germany; it is called a chörlein. This one was built in 1513. Looks to me like an elaborate 3-sided bay window held up by an elaborate stone column attached to the side of the house....
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