Et voilà l’histoire de saint Julien l’Hospitalier, telle à peu près qu’on la trouve, sur un vitrail d’église, dans mon pays. — Flaubert, Trois Contes

The window, paid for by Rouen’s fishmongers, portrays them peacefully plying their trade at the bottom, furthest from Christ — but also easier to see.

Rouen, Normandy, 2026.

To every opinion an opinion of equal weight is opposed. — Sextus Empiricus

Does it matter that these are not the original painted inscriptions on the ceiling of Montaigne’s study?

Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, Dordogne, 2025.

Here the Big Thompson River is an earthy sparkle of leaf, bug, stone, silt, where the trout live head upstream, face first in the water’s jet. 

Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, 2025.

The Church of the Good Shepherd, built in 1868 and financed by the widow of Samuel Colt, who founded the gun manufacturing plant nearby. Its Armorers’ Porch, decorated with acanthus and Colt revolver parts, reflected on by Wallace Stevens in “St. Armorer’s Church from the Outside” in 1952.

“A sacred syllable rising from sacked speech…”

Hartford, Connecticut, 2024.

On the heels of Shelley, at Casa Magni. Weather overcast, gray sky, gray rolling waves.

Lerici, Liguria, 2023.