⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile
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Churchman, draughtsman, aesthete, pedant. Often tiresome, sometimes insufferable, never dull.
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Northern Lights over the ancestral cemetery.
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Northern Lights over the ancestral cemetery.
Sunflowers: just the thing for a satisfying annual garden. (Protected them from vermin until they’ve germinated.)
They grow satisfyingly quickly, and pollinators love them, too!
They grow satisfyingly quickly, and pollinators love them, too!
August 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sunflowers: just the thing for a satisfying annual garden. (Protected them from vermin until they’ve germinated.)
They grow satisfyingly quickly, and pollinators love them, too!
They grow satisfyingly quickly, and pollinators love them, too!
This is one thing that large parts of New Jersey actually get right, probably due to most of the coastline having only been developed in the 19th century as railroad resorts.
July 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is one thing that large parts of New Jersey actually get right, probably due to most of the coastline having only been developed in the 19th century as railroad resorts.
La Hambina wants to give you a hug.
May 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
La Hambina wants to give you a hug.
News that HoB had elected *someone* came immediately prior to HoD’s adjournment for lunch.
During lunch, someone in the Secretariat put the name of the winner into the resolution on the Virtual Binder, and rumors *immediately* started flying.
Bit of an anticlimax when it was actually announced.
During lunch, someone in the Secretariat put the name of the winner into the resolution on the Virtual Binder, and rumors *immediately* started flying.
Bit of an anticlimax when it was actually announced.
May 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
News that HoB had elected *someone* came immediately prior to HoD’s adjournment for lunch.
During lunch, someone in the Secretariat put the name of the winner into the resolution on the Virtual Binder, and rumors *immediately* started flying.
Bit of an anticlimax when it was actually announced.
During lunch, someone in the Secretariat put the name of the winner into the resolution on the Virtual Binder, and rumors *immediately* started flying.
Bit of an anticlimax when it was actually announced.
“Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”
May 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”
The difficulty with concrete is in how it’s used - Candela’s thin-shells are another case where it sings.
But for every one of those, there’s a thousand atrocious lumps - parking garages, substations, tower flats, and such - all miserable with rising damp and weird stains.
But for every one of those, there’s a thousand atrocious lumps - parking garages, substations, tower flats, and such - all miserable with rising damp and weird stains.
April 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The difficulty with concrete is in how it’s used - Candela’s thin-shells are another case where it sings.
But for every one of those, there’s a thousand atrocious lumps - parking garages, substations, tower flats, and such - all miserable with rising damp and weird stains.
But for every one of those, there’s a thousand atrocious lumps - parking garages, substations, tower flats, and such - all miserable with rising damp and weird stains.
On this National Historical Marker Day, a reminder that the text on historical markers is only as good as the sources cited.
Quite a bit of this unofficial marker is, quite frankly, inspired fiction, the product of fishy secondary sources, or faulty memory.
Quite a bit of this unofficial marker is, quite frankly, inspired fiction, the product of fishy secondary sources, or faulty memory.
April 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
On this National Historical Marker Day, a reminder that the text on historical markers is only as good as the sources cited.
Quite a bit of this unofficial marker is, quite frankly, inspired fiction, the product of fishy secondary sources, or faulty memory.
Quite a bit of this unofficial marker is, quite frankly, inspired fiction, the product of fishy secondary sources, or faulty memory.
On the one hand, 1700 really is a bit too early for the Great Vigil.
On the other hand…
On the other hand…
April 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
On the one hand, 1700 really is a bit too early for the Great Vigil.
On the other hand…
On the other hand…
Fulfilled is all that David told
In true prophetic song of old,
Amidst the nations, God, saith he,
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree.
#goodfriday at #valleyforge
In true prophetic song of old,
Amidst the nations, God, saith he,
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree.
#goodfriday at #valleyforge
April 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Fulfilled is all that David told
In true prophetic song of old,
Amidst the nations, God, saith he,
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree.
#goodfriday at #valleyforge
In true prophetic song of old,
Amidst the nations, God, saith he,
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree.
#goodfriday at #valleyforge
“Watch ye, and pray…”
April 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“Watch ye, and pray…”
YES
Also, fun fact, it was given in memory of a deputy to GC who died of pneumonia while there. He’s immortalized as the bearded man at lower left corner (who bears a startling resemblance to the last Rector)
Also, fun fact, it was given in memory of a deputy to GC who died of pneumonia while there. He’s immortalized as the bearded man at lower left corner (who bears a startling resemblance to the last Rector)
March 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
YES
Also, fun fact, it was given in memory of a deputy to GC who died of pneumonia while there. He’s immortalized as the bearded man at lower left corner (who bears a startling resemblance to the last Rector)
Also, fun fact, it was given in memory of a deputy to GC who died of pneumonia while there. He’s immortalized as the bearded man at lower left corner (who bears a startling resemblance to the last Rector)
In undergrad I was at St Paul’s in Troy - which is currently in transition, but quite proximate to RPI. Also the *entire* interior is by Tiffany.
March 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In undergrad I was at St Paul’s in Troy - which is currently in transition, but quite proximate to RPI. Also the *entire* interior is by Tiffany.
A couple of bonus pictures of St. Paul’s, Troy NY to brighten your Wednesday.
March 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A couple of bonus pictures of St. Paul’s, Troy NY to brighten your Wednesday.
Visited my undergraduate parish, St Paul’s, Troy NY, this past weekend.
Built in 1828 to a Gothick design by Ithiel Town, it was gut-renovated in the 1890s by Tiffany Studios.
Built in 1828 to a Gothick design by Ithiel Town, it was gut-renovated in the 1890s by Tiffany Studios.
March 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Visited my undergraduate parish, St Paul’s, Troy NY, this past weekend.
Built in 1828 to a Gothick design by Ithiel Town, it was gut-renovated in the 1890s by Tiffany Studios.
Built in 1828 to a Gothick design by Ithiel Town, it was gut-renovated in the 1890s by Tiffany Studios.
In surveying the *uggo* part of the church after Mass, I seem to have created a unique variety of cognitohazard.
March 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
In surveying the *uggo* part of the church after Mass, I seem to have created a unique variety of cognitohazard.
Kings do well in New York, right George?
February 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Kings do well in New York, right George?
The Litany for Refugees, with Part 2 in the alt text:
February 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Litany for Refugees, with Part 2 in the alt text:
Here you go! (Part 1 in the alt text)
February 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Here you go! (Part 1 in the alt text)
How meetings moving onto Zoom tomorrow due to the Eagles parade finds me:
February 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
How meetings moving onto Zoom tomorrow due to the Eagles parade finds me:
Oh, she already knew that 😼
February 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Oh, she already knew that 😼
In this house we stan Kodachrome.
February 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In this house we stan Kodachrome.
You have been prayed for today.
January 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You have been prayed for today.
Wishing one and all a very Merry Brismas!
January 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Wishing one and all a very Merry Brismas!