Temple of Dendur (15 BCE)
The Metropolitan Musuem of Art
New York

We used to go to NYC all the time, but we used to go to flee small apartments or this or that. Here we are in the happy cacoon. And with air travel a pain, hotel rates in the sky, ect ect we haven't been in a while. I can visit a great museum here in the time it would take a plane to taxi to take-off a crowded runway anymore . . . that is MUSEUM ease.

Today the New Yorker came, March 5, 2007. The cover took me back . . . one of my favorite places to stand in NYC, in the Metropolitan, gawking at the Temple of Dendur . . .

Things have changed since I was there, the museum guests are a bit older, dustier, maybe related to Boris Karloff .... then I dug for a picture in my files, it took a while, but from I found a picture I had taken -from October of 2002 (on an external hard drive . . .)


Can you tell which is which? (I scanned the New Yorker cover), and one article that caught my eye right off:

A Reporter at Large: Spider Woman Hunting venomous pests in L.A, by Burkhard Bilger


SO WHICH PICTURE DID I TAKE, which is the New Yorker Cover?

or this one?

A recipe for the winner, something Egyptian of course.....