“I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.”

— Bobby Fischer

Graciela Iturbide | La frontera ‘La Virgen Morena’ Tijuana, México, 1990

Y.M.

November the sixth
Like a path in autumn
Scarcely has it been swept clear, when it's once more covered with dry leaves

“Many meters above sea level– but how many more above ordinary men!”

— F. Nietzsche

Ivan Kenneth Eyre (Canadian, b. 1935), North Hills, 2002.

Domenico Ghirlandaio - Saint Michael the Archangel and the Angels in Battle Against the Devil. Detail. 1479

The Margherita Hut (Italian: Capanna Regina Margherita) is a mountain hut belonging to the Italian Alpine Club, located on the summit of Punta Gnifetti (ital., in German Signalkuppe) of Monte Rosa, a mountain massif of the Alps lying just on the border between Italy and Switzerland.

The Nap, 1877, Gustave Caillebotte