Sunrise from my window

2013

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

SFMOMA

2013

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

Éric Satie

French composer

1866-1925

Pfeiffer Ridge in Big Sur

2017

Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park

Photoshop collage by R H

2002

Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park

2013 

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

Louisa May Alcott

1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco

1939

Photo by Marcello Camarri

The backyard's St. Anthony

2015

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Ruth Stout

Detail of the Point Sur Lighthouse

2017

Big Sur

California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park

2008

Atop Pfeiffer Ridge in Big Sur

2017

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Sitting Bull

San Francisco's Legion of Honor

2017

Rodin's The Thinker, in the Courtyard of the Legion of Honor

2011

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

Bette Davis

André Messager

French composer

1853-1929

Detail of the Point Sur Lighthouse

2017

Big Sur

Ron age 5 (on the left), and cousins in Omaha

1958

Christ at the Column, 1632 

by Pieter Fransz, de Grebber

At the Legion of Honor

2014

Golden Gate Park

2011

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Leo Tolstoy

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

William Shakespeare

 California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park

2008

San Francisco and the distant illumination of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, seen from Twin Peaks

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Kansas City J. C. Plaza

2011

Cut-paper, pen & ink collage

Graphic by R H

1988

Detail from the artist Emile Norman's home in Big Sur

2017

Crocker Amazon Recreational Center 

San Francisco 

October 29, 1934

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Edvard Grieg

Norwegian composer and pianist

1843-1907

Gizmo

2015

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Louisa May Alcott

de Young Museum Cafe

2011

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Louisa May Alcott

California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park

2008

Fort Funston

2007

You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us

Sappho

Saffron Tower by Dale Chihuly

2008

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

 

Point Sur Lighthouse

2017

Big Sur

Ocean Beach

2013

Aquatic Park

San Francisco

April 19, 1935

Description on the back of the photo: Showing progress made towards completion of the lower wall of the seawall at Aquatic Park inSan Francisco.

Photo by Marcello Camarri

From the show Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World

At the California Palace of the Legion of Honor

2017

Gods in Color

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer and pianist

1770-1827

Liberty Memorial in Kansas City

2011

Detail of: Laocoön and His Sons

At the Legion of Honor

Laocoön

Grace

2006

The Grand Canal from Campo San Vio, 1730-1735 

by Giovanni Antonio Canal called Canaletto (Italian 1697-1768) 

Oil on canvas

Detail at the home of Emile Norman & Brooks Clement in Big Sur

2017

The visit

Mission Dolores

 

The Courtyard of San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor, with Rodin's The Thinker

2018

Grace

2006

Josef Anton Bruckner

Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist

1824-1896

Kansas City J. C. Plaza

2011

The Calling of Saint Matthew ca. 1629
Oil on canvas by Matthias Stom[er] 
At the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco

Johannes Brahms

German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period

1833-1897

John Welsh

2018

Sunrise from my window

2012

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott

Detail of:

Sutro Baths in San Francisco, ca. 1896

Unidentified artist

Color lithograph on paper

SFMOMA

2006

Lake Merced Blvd. 

October 9, 1934 

San Francisco 

Description on the back of the photo: Cutting the bank and filling over the side near culvert on unit #2 of Lake Merced Blvd. in San Francisco.

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Point Sur from Highway 1

2017

Big Sur

A light exists in Spring
Not present in the year
at any other period
When March is scarcely here.

Emily Dickinson

Detail at the home of Emile Norman & Brooks Clement in Big Sur

2017

Detail at the home of Emile Norman & Brooks Clement in Big Sur

2017

The visit

Richard Wagner

German composer, theatre director, and conductor 

1813-1883

Cut-paper, pen & ink collage

Graphic by R H

1989

Detail of the Point Sur Lighthouse

2017

Big Sur

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Janis Joplin

Gabriel Fauré

French composer, organist, pianist and teacher 

1845-1924

Visitors viewing the Bust of Edward H. Harriman, ca. 1909
By Auguste Rodin (French 1840-1917)
From the permanent collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor

 

St. Patrick's on Mission Street in San Francisco

2006

Sunrise from my window

2016

Detail of:

Golden Gate Moonlight ca. 1875

Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (American 1819-1895)

Oil on canvas

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

Detail at the home of Emile Norman & Brooks Clement in Big Sur

2017

The visit

Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

Sunset at the ruins of Sutro Baths in San Francisco

2013

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.

Jim Rohn

Isaac Albéniz

Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor

1860-1909

The Triumph of Sesostris

1631
Oil on panel by Pieter Lastman
At the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco

César Franck

Belgian-French composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher

1822-1890

Cut-paper, pen & ink collage

Graphic by R H

1986

Crocker Amazon Recreational Center 

October 24, 1934 

San Francisco 

Description on the back of the photo: Grading and leveling operation on site of baseball and recreation grounds in Crocker Amazon Recreational Center in San Francisco.

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Detail at the home of Emile Norman & Brooks Clement in Big Sur

2017

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

Thalia, Muse of Comedy, 1739 Oil on canvas
By Jean-Marc Nattier (French 1685-1766)
From the permanent collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor

Federal Transient Shelter 

San Francisco 

January 17, 1935 

Description on the back of the photo: Kitchen and Gallery of the Federal Transient Shelter 340 9th Street, San Francisco

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Point Sur from Highway 1

2017

Big Sur vacation

Detail at the home of Emile Norman & Brooks Clement in Big Sur

2017

The visit

Cut-paper, pen & ink collage

Graphic by R H

1987

Pfeiffer Ridge in Big Sur

2017

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Robert H. Schuller

Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. 

1844-1908

Fire Boat #1 and Engine #9 

San Francisco 

January 24, 1935

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Portrait of a Man, ca. 1540 

Attributed to Lorenzo Lotto

At the Legion of Honor

2017

Detail of: Laocoön and His Sons

At the Legion of Honor

Laocoön

View of Donner Lake, California, 1871-1872
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
By Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

A.A. Milne

California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park

2008

Golden Gate Park
Music Concourse
The 1924 Rideout Memorial Fountain

2011

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

Percy Bysshe Shelly

The Russian Bride’s Attire,

1887
Oil on canvas by Konstantin Makovsky
At the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco

Love and the Maiden

1877
Tempera, gold paint, gold leaf on canvas by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 
At the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco

Liberty Memorial in Kansas City

2011

The Holy Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) ca.

1475
Limestone with traces of color
French

Impressions of Chihuly, at the DeYoung Museum

2008

Robert Schumann

German composer, pianist, and influential music critic

1810-1856

Severed Head of Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1887 Marble
By Auguste Rodin (French 1840-1917)
From the permanent collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor

Sublime Beauty: Raphael's "Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn"

At the palace of the Legion of Honor
2016

Cut-paper, pen & ink collage

Graphic by R H

1989

Felix Mendelssohn

German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period

1809-1847

de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park

2013

de Young

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Christina Rossetti

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Leo Tolstoy

Fort Miley Landscaping 

October 26, 1934

San Francisco 

Description on the back of the photo: Looking north towards the left wing of Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley in San Francisco before the grounds were landscaped by S.E.R.A. workers.

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Medusa by the Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Legion of Honor

2011

Richard Strauss

German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist

1864-1949

Hermina

2008

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Khalil Gibran

Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Photo by Marcello Camarri

Cut-paper, pen & ink collage

Graphic by R H

1988

Sunset from Merchant Road in the Presidio, San Francisco

2010

You are what you settle for.

Janis Joplin

Rodin's The Thinker, in the Legion of Honor's Courtyard

2016

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Prolific and influential composer of the Classical period

1756-1791

Photoshop collage by R H

2002

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Louisa May Alcott

 

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke