#Washington national Cathedral

[gaynglican]

I went to the Washington National Cathedral :)

[eopederson]

Late afternoon stained glass projections on gothic arches, Washington National Cathedral, 8th December 2004.

Posting this to celebrate an amazing month of music with more to come. Yesterday we were awed by a presentation of Handel's Messiah (written as a musical offering for the Easter season, but worth hearing in December) in the National Cathedral. The oratorio was written for theater performance, but it is well suited to the acoustic of the cathedral. That followed a Friday concert by the Folger Consort playing my favorite composition for the holiday season, Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Messe de minuit pour Noël. In addition there have been several fantastic concerts at the Library of Congress with two more to come before the holiday.

We finished yesterday with a celebratory dinner at Le Piquette, our favorite bistro in DC, and I enjoyed a well-prepared cassoulet, the second best I have had outside of France. [For those resident in the PNW, Cafe Campagne in Seattle's Pike Place Market serves the absolute best, a delight of a quality I would expect at a good bistro in France]. It was an amazing weekend in the midst of an amazing month.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Frederick Hart in front of the completed clay for The Creation Sculpture, Ex Nihilo. 1978-84, Washington National Cathedral

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"Being a realized immortal for a breath’ is an interesting expression. Usually one considers immortals to be permanently immortal. When one`s original spirit awakens, even if only for a breath, that moment is out of time and can be called immortal. At one time when I had an experience like this about 15 years ago, a connection with an experience I had when I was 5 or 6 years old occurred. I had completely forgotten about this experience and suddenly it returned and felt very vivid and alive, and I understood that this experience had been a deep moment of awakening. These moments are eternal moments that time cannot erase, although one can become disconnected from them.

Forever is composed of Nows."

~ Emily Dickinson

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Washington National Cathedral par David Castenson Via Flickr : Washington, DC

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Art Weekend - Washington National Cathedral Rose Window

Closely modeled after 14th-century English Gothic styles, the Washington National Cathedral boasts over two hundred stained glass windows of various sizes. Rose windows, or circular rosette windows common in Gothic styles, are the centerpieces and rhe largest of these. The north rose window is 26 feet across in length and over 10,500 pieces of glass were used to construct the west rose window.

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Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC, UNITED STATES

[mydarlingdahlia]

When your fiancée (now wife) is rich as hell and insists on spoiling you despite your multiple attempts to convince her that you’d be fine with a small chapel wedding but she does this instead…🧍‍♀️

I DID NOT NEED A WHOLE CATHEDRAL.

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April 29, 2022

Washington National Cathedral

[grottweiler]

Not all grotesques are gargoyles, but all gargoyles are grotesques.

They're a lot smaller than I imagined, less than 2 feet long, which actually fits perfectly because Grott is the runt of his litter.

I designed Grott before I looked through this book, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that both the goat and the bat are represented on the Washington Cathedral. A lot of the gargoyles are just monsters, but a good handful are animals, and it was nice to see that both major inspirations for Grott's design made the cut.

I would probably put Grott under "fantastical creatures difficult to categorize" rather than "mythological characters" or "dragon."

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[rabbitcruiser]

The Kingdom of Spain ceded the territory of Florida to the United States on July 17, 1821.

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Washington National Cathedral par David Castenson Via Flickr : Washington, DC

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City Perch

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Washington National Cathedral

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Views From the Potomac: Alright, let’s wrap this summertime shit up

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anglo-catholic twitter is in shambles rn