Things I Have Seen This Year

 I haven't been posting, but I am not yet moribund. Here are some of the things I've seen instead.

The Petrified Forest and Painted Desert 

 

A Spanish fort

Native ruins 

Another Spanish fort

The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard 

Emily Dickinson's house

The release of an excellent book by a friend of mine, which was dedicated to me and my wife 

A blast furnace

 The Heinz History Center

Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous house, Fallingwater

A less famous Wright house, Kentuck Knob 

The world's largest operating steam locomotive, in the company of ten to twenty thousand other people

Two Carnegie Museums, one of which I liked much more than the other

The Lowell Folk Festival