A close look at the ground cover around the bog of the Lonesome Bog Hiking Trail in The Shoals.
Category: Photography
Photographic postings.
Plunge Pool, Multnomah Falls, Oregon
Neptune Pool Temple, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California
The Noms, Oakland Zoo, Oakland, CA
Shells and Pebbles, Redondo Beach, Half Moon Bay, CA
Medieval Fencers Ceiling Painting, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, 2013
Hearst Castle has the ‘largest collection of antique ceilings in North America,’ which is to say, every ceiling in the building is an original historical ceiling from elsewhere. This one depicts four medieval figures with weapons: sword-and-buckler, spear-and-shield, sword-and-shield, and another with sword-and-buckler.
Lampshade #2(b), Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California
Roman Pool, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California
Bayeux Tapestry Lampshades, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California
These lampshades, painted with scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry, were in one of the fine rooms reserves for single women visitors to the castle. Despite W. R. Hearst living extramaritally with his girlfriend, rather than his wife, there were apparently strict rules of decorum for other single female guests.