Dear Loyal Readers, Thank you for your extraordinarily kind visits to my blog since its inception in March of 1019! Your number has passed the 125,000 mark! That is so beyond any expectations I had that it is almost beyond belief.   For some time I have not been posting any essays, although my list is extensive and work on several subjects is still in progress. I wish to end with the styles of domestic architecture current to the end of the Nineteenth Century.   Elements have entered my life to slow me down. AGE has also crept upon me and now I am a very old man, weak of…