The Tower Bridge of London.
But gimme a break I like looking at it.
Still working on that damned Cathedral.
Started it years before this.
Even the real thing can take a few centuries.
At this rate it should be finished
about 29 years after I'm dead.
I'll post it then.
Mean time I'll just sit around
watching the end of the world as we knew it.
Btw it's around midnight
in da Emerald City.
We're having the first scary thunderstorm of Spring.
Strong winds then a bleeping gigantic cloud burst.
Now a steamy humid cloak drops over town.
How quickly the seasons fly.
It was snowing just last week.
Hot summer coming in a moment fall colors.
then snow again. Forever and never.
Eternity in a blink.
Love these models. Fine work!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen pix or footage of the machinery that raises and lowers the Tower Bridge? It's awesome. The Victorians were no mean engineers. They had sciences we dream not of; check out the Baron von Reichenbach some time, he's right out of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
As to watching the world end, the world we knew has indeed reached the end of its rope and we're watching its last paroxysms. The historian David Starkey pointed out that until Covid we were living in "the long 20th century," which has now ended, just as WWI put an end to the long 19th century. This world is going to be totally different. I can't say I care for the way it's shaping up just now.
They're still working on Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, and it's been well over a century so far.
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One dreads the dawn.
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