Very clever ad placement. (click to enlarge)
Smart idea. Well done photoshopping.
Yup, I KNOW the feeling! 
Paper airplanes? Really?
I think I know these guys!
airport design really IS all on paper!
Careful about that first step...its a lulu!
Occasionally the light comes out, and all that gold leaf just pops! The church is "Romanesque", which is to say, there are two aisles formed by columns, a central clerestory, and a large apse, or half dome in back. Look closely at the pillars...they have been robbed from some antique roman temple, even the scrollwork at the top of the pillars are different from column to column. Its quite possible, even probable, that these columns are on their original bases, that the church was built around them. And there would also probably be plenty of pagan foundations, say, a mitraeum, or some such place of worship because the early church liked to build on the old places. A sacred site is a sacred site...and besides, it helps if the foundations are solid.
Above is the right hand ambulatory (aisle)...leading to the south chapel. The south chapel is usually the prettiest since the sun really perks it up. The north chapels in all these churches often hold the oldest artwork since there is no sun to fade it. They often stuck bell towers over the north chapels since they tended to be cold and uncomfortable anyways. This auld kirk is nae exception.
From the outside, you can clearly see the old architecture. Chances are most of what you are looking at has been fixed or replaced sometime in the last fifteen hundred years, but the lines are just as they were laid down when this church was built...in 500 AD. Of real interest to me is the roof...doesn't it look like the roof of a greek temple? It should. It is.
And this is a closeup of the old east wall. The sun has faded the old paintings almost to invisibility, but hey, they are nearly a thousand years old, so they can be forgiven for being a little faded!
My friend's new dog. Her name is Tavi, you know, from the Rudyard Kipling story Rikki Tikki Tavi. Just five months, and she stayed still long enough for this picture! Wow!
Winter chores. Replacing oven elements. Tavi is learning how to do that. This was trickier than most stove elements because it had screws! Oh well, usually happens this time of year because everybody is cooking up harvest feasts, and the old elements are getting the first workouts since the weather turned warm back in the Spring.
Lest there be any doubt, winter has arrived. Not like last year when we didn't get snow until well into January! This has the depressing look of snow which is here to stay. Though that is unlikely....I often go motorcycling in December.
October class graduated at the Plant Rec Centre. 
I helped to open a Chinese Martial Arts training centre in the west end. The fine gentleman guiding my hand is Trench Tai, and in back are the VIPs.
a fine fence. more work than it looks!
started a deck.
beautiful doors, made a great gate!
Cospicua. One of the "three cities". They have grown together, as you can see in the below picture. The above pic is taken from just inside the old east wall, the building probably was owned by a wealthy noble way back in the day. The big double doors would open into a little courtyard way in back. The roofs are typical flat maltese roofs, with railings around them. I presume they would provide patios up there, and like many places in the Med, a place to sleep which would be comfortable and cool. The imagination follows the long dead noblemen (few of whom were actually born here!) who would come back from raucous meetings in Valetta and Fort St. Angelo as they tried to deal with Ottoman incursions, smuggling, piracy, and heresy.
The evil pumpkin hoards have no chance! 
Allow me to turn my back to the camera...
Perfect form!
Left handed way.
Nice armour dude!
Those pumpkins never had a chance.
Big claymore, big punkins...
Brenda went to the ceremonies downtown. 
And in a tradition which seemed to be becoming more and more common people came up to the monument to the unknown soldier, and drop off their poppies. 
on Friday, I had to deal with a poor old dawg...poor guy. Couple of weeks ago, he broke his foot...clearly his bones were getting brittle.
(Murray Whetung will lay the wreath at the Curve Lake cenotaph on Sunday.
To the right is the Belgian War Museum. To the left is the Automobile Museum. Through the arches under this big gate is the European Union Parliament. 
