My NY, NY: Queensboro Bridge

Queensboro Bridge between Manhattan & Queens, NY

My NY, NY: Manhattan Bridge

Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn side, NY

My NY, NY: Empire State Building

Sunset on 34th Street and Park Avenue. View of the Empire State Building, Manhattan, NYC

My NY, NY: Purple Manhattan

View of Manhattan Skyline in Purple, NY, NY

My NY, NY: Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge, NY

Signage: Rachel's Take-Away

Rachel's Take-Aways, Nassau, Bahamas

Signage: Camden Lock

London, UK

Signage: Live Bait & Tackle

Highlands, New Jersey, USA

A ~ Z of Marvelousness: M is for Murals

Mural ~ the Apotheosis of Washington

• The marvelous “Apotheosis of Washington”,  in the eye of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, was painted in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi. 
• The mural depicts George Washington rising to the heavens in glory, flanked by female figures representing Liberty and Victory and surrounded by six groups of figures. The mural is suspended 180 feet above the Rotunda floor and covers an area of 4,664 square feet.
• It took 11 months to finish.
• Apotheosis means “the raising of a person to the rank of a god, or the glorification of a person as an ideal”. 
• George Washington was honored as a national icon in the nineteenth century.

A ~ Z of Marvelousness: J is for Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons ~ Sacred Heart

• This marvelous steel heart, tied up with a gold ribbon, is by one of my favorite sculptors -  Jeff Koons - and it was part of the "Jeff Koons on the Roof" exhibition on the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2008.

A ~ Z of Marvelousness: H is for Height

Height

• "The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is." Phillips Brooks
• I took this picture at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, USA

A ~ Z of Marvelousness: D is for Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik, Croatia

• Marvelous: The beautiful, medieval city of Dubrovnik. The color of the sea and the the sky are almost exactly the same…
• The city is a UNESCO world heritage site and was founded in the 7^th century. It is seriously rich in history.
• The city survived the Croatian war of the early 90's a little damaged but will probably continue to flourish.
• Definitely a “must see”...

Doors: Ruin

Nassau, Bahamas

Sunset: Sky

  

Bayahibe, Dominican Republic

Sunset: Fire

Can't remember where I took this picture...

Sunset: Beach

San Juan, Puerto Rico