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January 2012 Archive
29 January - Fluff Update
Back in September, I received a communication from a group of Cat Leroy's admirers, worrying that Leroy was looking ragged and thin and unwell. I explained that it was merely the shedding of his winter plumage, and that the return of cold weather would bring him back to his leonine magnificence. The recent snap posted above (and here, in extraleonine 3D) shows that the old boy is once again in full fluff...
However, moments later, Leroy and his fluff showed a clean pair of heels (in 3D) as he exited stage right, pursued by Natasha, who thought he was putting on airs.
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22 January - On the Trail
It's been getting tougher to get the cats interested in a walk in the woods nowadays, but Natasha and Nutmeg did agree to accompany me for a bit of a hike the other day. Above, Natasha in the fullness of her winter ruff - 3D version here.
Nutmeg - 3D version.
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16 January - Der Frontfliegerkatze
I thought I knew the von Wallingsfurt collection pretty well, but I just found another photograph that had been mistakenly filed elsewhere - here is the great ace Lothar von Wallingsfurt himself, standing by his Rumpler C.IV, mascot in the front seat.
The von Wallingsfurt Collection
Lothar's Story
Lothar in a Hans Grade monoplane
Lothar's Taschepanzer
Lothar in Naval Uniform
Lothar on a Beer Stein
Theo in the Bicycle Infantry
Theo, Amphibious
Theo's Pickelhaube
Cats of War
Christmas Truce 1914
Count Zeppelin's Cat
General Enoch Wallingford and Jemmy at the Battle of Darnestown, 1814
Franco-Prussian Cat Besieged
Maryland Artillery Cat
Bugler Cat
Secesh Cat at Gettysburg
Bashi-Bazouk with Cat
Cats of the Great War
Dragoon Cat, Lincoln's Cat, Christmas Truce Reenactment Cat
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14 January - Sugarloaf, Painted
Ascent of Sugarloaf, Frederick County, Maryland by Adolphus Norbeck, 1887. Oil on canvas.
Should've recalled, when I posted previously on the 3D summiting of Sugarloaf Mountain, that the Janus Museum actually possesses a canvas by the great Adolphus Norbeck commemorating an expedition of a team of Washington Grove men in 1885, led by the noted soldier and explorer Captain Thaddeus Wallingford, who also appears in Norbeck's After the Battle of Derwood, Maryland, 1864. Tragically, Wallingford later went missing during an attempt to find the source of Cabin John Creek.
Other Works by Adolphus Norbeck from the Janus Museum's Collection:
Bald Eagle
A Forest Duel, Washington Grove
The Voyage of Life
Missouri Flatboatman Tragically in the Grip of St. Vitus Dance
Portrait of Commodore Nathaniel Wallingford
Portrait of Philip Wallingford, MFH
After the Battle of Derwood
A Trooper of the Maryland Cuirassiers
Wallingford Grove (wood engraving)
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2 January - On the Summit
It's becoming a tradition, my skipping the traditional New Year's Day journey to beautiful Sugarloaf Mountain, so instead I'll post images from a recent summiting of the mighty peak - in spectacular 3D (red/blue glasses req.), a first. We look out over scenic Frederick County, Maryland and on to less scenic Howard County. Further on to Anne Arundel County, Chesapeake Bay, the Eastern Shore, and on to the Canary Islands.
And also a 3D panorama, possibly the first 3D panorama of the view from Sugarloaf. And now...
... A scene that I would be better off attempting to blot from my memory forever instead of posting to these pages - the Janus Museum's maintenance man, Gus Norbeck, in drink taken and in hideous 3D, letting loose with A Wand'ring Minstrel I at the Fellows' New Year's Eve party. I've warned them about liquoring him up...
New Year's day marked the ninth anniversary of this here blog. My thanks for your kind attention.
Previous Sugarloaf Posts:
New Year's 2011
New Year's 2010
The Hornbostel Institute Great Monadnock Expedition
New Year's 2009
New Year's 2006
From Old Hundred Road
From Mt. Ephraim Road
From Thurston Road
Summiting Sugarloaf, November 2007
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