A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
The very heavy rain this morning must have been the straw that broke this old camel's back! The sun finally appeared just before sunset tonight so I ran out to Villa Pamphili and had the unexpected adventure of using a giant umbrella pine as a balance beam.
Liturgical: Wednesday of Holy Week Spy Wednesday-- “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?”
Station Church: Santa Maria Maggiore
Sanctoral: Rupert, Apostle to Bavaria and Austria +718; John of Egypt, +394
Human: All the history of today on one page! 1915--Typhoid Mary captured and put into quarantine (a second time) for life.
Natural: The protective role of giant trees in a forest.
Quote: "As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself." --J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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