The Celestial Roof

“Happy Chinese New Year!”

Chinese New Year is a Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar. It is also commonly referred to as the Spring Festival in China and some parts of Asia.

The Ancient Window

“Blessings come in disguise.”
– Chinese Sayings

A Roman Bathhouse

“The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.”
– Iain McGilchrist

The Ancient Wonder

“It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer’s day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world’s duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.”
– Henry James

The Columns

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
– Diogenes

The Ancient East Gate

“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.”
– Confucius

The Hidden Tower

“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
– Dante Alighieri

The Tower of Legend

“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
– Rosa Parks

The Old House in the Woods

“Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Door in the Past

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
– John Barrymore