A Happy Holidays 2009 Search: Find The J.S. Bach Church In The Trees

The great composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach not only played the organ in this church near Weimar, Germany, but it was one of the organs he was commissioned to test, to give his approval to, before it could be performed. In many German churches in Bach's time, a new organ would not be deemed a fine musical instrument until Herr Bach said, "GUT!"

A Twenty-first Century Literary/Fine Art Salon Moment (Courtesy of the www)

Imagine yourself at 27, rue de Fleurus, Paris, 6th Arrondissement, 2009; you are in the atelier of a French painter who occupies the space where Gertrude Stein lived from 1903 to 1938 and entertained such people as Picasso and Hemingway. The painter is carrying on the tradition of the atelier's former occupant. A young American poet walks into the crowded room, displaying a feather he found recently and a poem he wrote with it, using ink from the 19th Century.

Great Fountain Water From A Spring In Central Germany

St. Thomas Church In Lepzig, Where J.S. Bach Was Cantor From 1723-1750 And W.A. Mozart Played The Organ Two Years Before His Death In 1791

Fruehling In Europa/Spring In Europe

Dogs (Hunds In German) Allowed In This Park In Weimar, Which The Great German Poet Goethe Helped Design

Paris In The Spring, 2009, Near Where The Boulevard Port-Royal Becomes The Boulevard du Montparnasse

The Texas Hill Country, 2009