Charles Widman on radio this morning, saying from 22 Apr to 20-something May there will be a window of free trade due to some technicality in Commerce department rules ..... which i don't understand, just exactly how they work, but apparently the pine lobby has not got some move in by a particular deadline, so this period opens up ... he did mention 'considerable political pressure' as a counterforce to the FOs, so it sounds like people might be waking up to this issue
I remembered where i saw the russian log churches, in a 1973 book called Shelter, sort of a Whole Earth Catalogue looking publication, very well done, the Ur-haus of everywhere with drawings and fotos ... name of that lake was Onega ... here i'll type some in -
' .. Some of the most spectacular wooden buildings are at Kizhi, a small island on Lake Onega. There, reflected in the lake, stands the complex, magnificent Church of the Transfiguration, recently restored to its original splendour. It is said that the basic structure was built with an axe, nothing more, by the master builder and architect Nester, and that upon completion "... the master became lost in thought, looked at his hand holding the axe, and unwilling to admit that this very same axe might perhaps create such beauty elsewhere, suddenly, with a great swing of his arm, hurled it into the lake." |
