Beside the Stream

 The dog and the parrot looked different but were alike.

Here are two things that look alike but are different.

This is the Butcher’s Guild in Antwerp, Belgium, the Vleeshuis completed in 1504, and here is a closer shot of the brickwork called bacon because of its alternating layers of sandstone and brick.

Here are the cliffs across the valley

and from farther away.

There is something about this southwestern snow and sandstone confection that those Belgian butchers would have just loved.