La Belle Ferronnière (1496) Saar #B114 (Issued December 10, 1956)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) France #682 (Issued July 9, 1952)

Mona Lisa (1517) Germany #687 (Issued April 15, 1952)

The Letter L: Leonardo at the Louvre Mona Lisa, La Belle Ferronnière, St. John the Baptist, Virgin of the Rocks— one-third of Leonardo's artworks are here at the Louvre as he died in France. Well-lit lamp for the Labyrinth— Lots of luck fighting the Minotaur; Legends of Lorelei on the Rhine capsized sailors with loss of lives. Freemasons' lunch at Lexington Lodge— leg of lamb, red-leaf lettuce salad, lobster, and lemon merengue pie, listening to "The Lark Ascending". Two L's in their names— Lois Lane, Louise Lasser, Lotto Lehrmann, Loretta Lynn, Louis Leakey, Lou Little, Lydia Loveless. Louis Lambert— Balzac's novel leading to hundred more in La Comédie humaine about a boy genius lost in mysticism— inspired my own search for illuminaton. Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room, Bert Lahr played the cowardly Lion, Vivien Leigh in Look Up and Laugh, Sophia Loren starred in Lady Liberty, Leo & Libra are lifelong lovers, like Lancelot and Guinevere— Apollo chasing Daphne that she turned into a Laurel Tree. Lapiz Lazuli necklace for the High Priestess with lavender, lilac and Lady's Slippers flowers in her court garden. Went to the library for lecture on Orpheus playing the lyre— music lifts me over the ladder and I'm liberated in levitation. Learn and let go is life's lesson taught by the sage Lao Tzu that less is more— May your love be luminous and lofty, lifting to the lodestar light.       — Peter Y. Chou           Mountain View, 9-16-2020