The Crosby Picture Album

At the Pisgah Inn, on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina, 3 May 2014

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2020 November 12

The Wedding of Erin and Dennis on 30 October 2020

2020 June 14

Rhoda and the '84 Fleetwood Brougham on the Blue Ridge Parkway

2019 November 28 - December 1

Photos from Savannah, Georgia - some photos have descriptive captions

2019 November 7

Artwork by Rhoda, on the front cover of Scott's new book!

2019 July 1-12

Vacation photos from the Black Hills area of South Dakota - many photos have descriptive captions

2019 March 23

Bought a "Keep America Great" cap, put it next to "USA" and "Mauldin" caps - hey; that's Red, White, and Blue!

2019 March 1

Click here to see photos recently found, of a fantastic sunrise on January 7th, 2015

Click here to see a photo of Rhoda at one of "the world's most romantic restaurants"

2019 February 2

Preferred means of tranportation - 2019

Preferred means of tranportation - 1987

2018 November 11 - At the South Carolina Breakfast Club fly-in at Bishopville Airport, SC, wearing our SCBC caps

2018 September 1 - Fortune magazine gets it: MAGA makes possible Make the World Great Again.

2017 October 18

In Memoriam Joan Crosby 17 January 1927 - 18 October 2017

2017 September 29 - Sunrise in Greenville, South Carolina

2017 August 11-17 - Canada Via Rail trip

2017 August 11 - flight from Greer, SC to LaGuardia, NY
2017 August 11 - flight from LaGuardia, NY to Toronto, Ontario
2017 August 11 - Toronto
2017 August 12 - Toronto
2017 August 13 - Ontario
2017 August 14 - Winnipeg Manitoba
2017 August 15 - Saskatchewan Alberta BC
2017 August 16 - BC Vancouver
2017 August 17 - flight from Vancouver to Toronto
2017 August 17 - flight from Toronto to LaGuardia
2017 August 17 - flight from LaGuardia to Greer

2017 July 17 - Rhoda at the Passerelle Bistro, Greenville, South Carolina - one of the world's most romantic restaurants

2016 May 28 - Great Smoky Mountains Railway, Bryson City, North Carolina

2015 April 11 - Mauldin Spring Fling Auto Show

2015 January 7 - Sunrise in Greenville, South Carolina

Looking like all Hell is unleashed, and is roiling the very skies!

A crashing wave follows behind the tumult of the initial onrush!

2014 October 19 - Greenville Polo Classic

2014 June 21-29 - Trip to Washington, DC, and Chebeague Island, Maine

2014 June 21-29 - DC & Maine flights

2014 June 21 - Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum near Dulles Airport

2014 June 22 - National Art Gallery

2014 June 22 - DC Mall area

2014 June 22 - Korean War Memorial - haunting and unforgettable

2014 June 23 - Museum of Natural History

2014 June 23 - Museum of American History

2014 June 25-29 - Chebeague Island

2013 August 28 - September 2 - Decorah, Iowa

2013 June 23-30 - Alaska Inside Passage

2012 September 3 - Atlanta Aquarium

2011 December 25 - Family Portrait

2010 June 26 to July 9 - Southwest Trip - Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona

2008 May 10 - Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Garden, near Pawleys Island, South Carolina

See the Brookgreen Gardens website for more information.

No relation to me ...

2007 July 4-11 - Southwest Colorado - Telluride, Ouray, Durango, Silverton

2006 August 30 - Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Garden, near Pawleys Island, South Carolina

See the Brookgreen Gardens website for more information.

This was the front of our Christmas card for 2006

2004 July 23 Deer Point, Chebeague Island, Maine - from our 2004 Christmas card

1976 September - East Broad Top RR, CP 972, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

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19 August 2020

See a haunting, revealing look at conditions in the City of Baltimore, Maryland

3 July 2020

Video – South Carolina osprey catches a Spanish Mackerel

30 May 2020

Girls in Windows, by Ormond Gigli, taken in 1960

A train carved from the tip of a pencil by artist Cindy Chinn

20 May 2020

"Competitive Foursome"

From D Strict Holdings, South Korea ...

17 May 2020

The amazing backyard railroad of Jim Sabin

Union Pacific's Great Race to Ogden

As part of Union Pacific's celebration of the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion, the newly restored Big Boy No. 4014 met No. 844 in Ogden as a ceremonial golden spike was tapped on May 9, 2019.

17 April 2020

Hall of Mirrors? Err, Doors?

15 April 2020 - updated 3 November 2020

Norfolk Southern Still Evolving 1989 TV commercial

Norfolk Southern Metamorphosis 1991 TV commercial

Norfolk Southern Chasm 2001 TV commercial

Norfolk Southern Weathervane 2003? TV commercial

Norfolk Southern Tree 2006 TV commercial

Norfolk Southern Lonely Gallon 2007 TV commercial

Norfolk Southern Power of the Thoroughbred 2008 TV commercial

Norfolk Southern City of Possibilities 2012 TV commercial

Norfolk Southern What's Your Function? 2013 TV commercial

Alka Seltzer made a hilarious and unforgettable 1970 TV commercial, set in a prison ...

12 April 2020

Norfolk Southern locomotive in full autumn colors

1 March 2020

Mosasaurus eats Great White Shark

24 February 2020

Four Ladies and a Tiger

1 February 2020

The 1963 Chrysler Turbine car

27 January 2020

A cool stairway

21 January 2020

40-ton whale jumps completely out of the water

2020 January 4

The interesting tale of Portugal's inverted tower of the Knights Templar, in Sintra's Quinta da Regaleira.

2019 September 13

Watch this video of a dolphin who swam up to a diver, needing help.

2019 August 30

Union Pacific's great 4-8-8-4 Big Boy is back in action!

2019 February 23

1953 Bensport La Sarthe - based on a Bentley R-Type Continental chassis also see more here and here

22 January 1984

Apple Computer Macintosh "1984" TV commercial

2019 January 13

Think you have it rough? - See these photos from history.

1945 September 2

Newsreel video of the surrender of Imperial Japan on the battleship USS Missouri

1510

The School of Athens, by Raphael

The School of Athens was painted in 1510, on a wall in the Pope's personal apartments in the Vatican, soon after the use of perspective was invented. The use of perspective is clearly central to the representation of the painting's theme.

Most notably, Plato and Aristotle are at the painting's center, as founders of the two primary systems of philosphical thought.

Plato, 428 BC - 328 BC, taught that reality was elsewhere, beyond this world, represented in the painting by his hand pointing upwards, and that this world is only a poor reflection. Learning, he said, occurs through revelations about that reality. Plato was the first to systematize philosophy.

Religion is inherently Platonic, and Christian doctrine in particular is heavily influenced by Plato.

Aristotle, 384 BC - 322 BC, taught that this world is itself reality, represented by his hand held forward, with palm downward, towards the Earth. Learning occurs through evidence, study, and rational thought. Aristotle was the second to put forward a systematic philosophy.

The sciences, technology, and all that makes up our modern way of life, in contrast to Plato, are directly descended from Aristotle's works. Although there were natural philosophers prior to Aristotle, his writings were far more comprehensive, and are the predominant foundation for all of the scientific advances made since the Renaissance.

In fact, it can be argued that the Renaissance itself resulted from the introduction of Aristotle's writings (most of which had been thought to be lost) into Europe, brought there from Moslem lands and from the Byzantine Empire, primarily during the period 1000-1215.

Before that time, the only works of Aristotle known and taught in Europe were those which had been translated from the Greek into Latin by Boethius, 477 AD - 524 AD: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical Refutations.

The introduction of those writings into Europe was the central spark that ignited the transition from beliefs in revelation, the hallmark of the Dark Ages, to reasoned, reality-based thought, and the scientific principles of causality and logic, the hallmark of the Renaissance.

The works of Aristotle and the other natural philosophers of Classical Greece had also sparked the Islamic Golden Age, from about 760 until its total desttruction in 1258 by the Mongol invasion, after which the Islamic world sank into its own revelation-based dark ages of savagery and barbarism. It has remained in that state to this day, except in those locales which have been influenced by the reintroduction of rational thought from Europe and America.

Other notables pictured include Hypatia of Alexandria, c.355 AD - 415 AD, in the white robe at lower left, the last natural philosopher at the very end of the Classical period, and even more incredibly, given the mores of that time, a woman. Hypatia was, in fact, killed by a Christian mob; her dedication to science and her position as a teacher to males were considered heresy – both were explicitly forbidden by the Bible. Hypatia taught at the famous Library of Alexandria, which was destroyed at about the same time, probably for the same reasons; see the movie Agora.

Immediately in front of and below her, holding a writing slate, is Archimedes, 287 BC - 212 BC, the greatest Mathemtician of the Classical period, and credited by Galileo, 1564-1642, and Newton, 1643-1727, as the foundation for their own mathematical accomplishments, after interest in science was restored and scientific progress began to reemerge during the later part of the Renaissance period – in spite of Christian persecution of Galileo and others.