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National Squirrel Appreciation Day is noticed on January 21. It’s everything in regard to the squirrel. They are so beautiful, from the large cute eyes, to the little standing ears, to the fluffy-tailed hair. The nut-burying herbivorous animal performs a vital function within the setting. It is essential to understand and acknowledge these scurrying animals for his or her lively function. National Squirrel Appreciation Day was created to acknowledge all various kinds of squirrels.
**The squirrel in this image was destroying a towel we had draped over a picnic table to dry. He was so cute that we didn't have the heart to scold him.
"The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year, making the ROM the most-visited museum in Canada"
" The Royal Ontario Museum acknowledges that this museum sits on what has been the ancestral lands of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Anishinabek Nation, including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, since time immemorial to today."
Thanks for visiting, enjoy each day.
acknowledging light in each
towards the common good
taking form only where eyes seek it
deeper still in ancient patterns
Rush ~ The Twilight Zone
As I browse through Flickr and other sites, I am at times blown away by the images I see. It can be by a majestic landscape, a subtle expression in a portrait, the frozen action of an athlete, the colors and shapes of an abstract or just the light. My heart will skip a beat, my pulse will quicken, I am moved. I am forced to stop, examine everything a bit closer, to think about how and why the photographer captured the image. It will circle back to my own work and I will try to think about whoever is viewing my images and hope they too will be moved in some way.
Yesterday I listened to a Ted Radio Hour podcast "The Meaning of Work" www.npr.org/podcasts/510298/ted-radio-hour. One of the people telling their stories was Dame Steve Shirley, an inspiring and fascinating woman. One of the things she said was "I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last." I love this so much and it is made more meaningful when you calculate out the days of life expectancy. My 5 year old daughter and I figured out yesterday that one million hours is 114.155251 years and there are 36,524.25 days in 100 years. Some days it feels like our lives will go on forever but when you stop and acknowledge that there is a limit to our existence it can make you view your life in a very different and profound way. Start today and make your life worth saving!
I will thank you now for your visit and any comments you may leave as I likely won't have time to acknowledge them but just know they are read and appreciated.
Looking over the shore of Loch Leven, at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, the harsh yet stunning mountain terrain to the north gives a hint of the nearby Ben Nevis.
Possibly Scotland’s most historic glen, and recently acknowledged as its most romantic, it was also used for filming part of the third Harry Potter film, ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’.
“Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die….”
Mark Knopfler, Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits Album 1985.
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But let me hold you once more
My brother
My brother
In my empty arms
You were all I had left
And I find I still cannot let you go
But I know I must
Let sorrow run ahead
To greet the rising sun
And we will meet again
When my time here is done
Until then I will never forget
Never forget
All that we saw
As blood ran in the mud
And minds split in two
Love was scattered by bullets
And memories shattered
Like splintered bone
But I held on to you that day
I didn’t want you to ever be alone
Continued in a very humble way by Shelley Turner for Remembrance Day 2025.
This work is also for my friend Simon, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thinking of you.
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For this Remembrance Series I decided to post up another detail of my painting “The Wished For’ which although I had planned to do as requested by my lovely followers, this detail took on a meaning all of its own, and not just for the ‘Vanitas’ concept in the painting. This coming Remembrance Day and the continuing unrest and painful wars in our world had me thinking more deeply about the cost of war on humanity than usual.
At the same time as I was musing whether to post this detail of the painting up, and the iconic image of a human skull that represents all of us, I happened to come across the song “Brothers In Arms” in a playlist of mine. The two together just sparked such emotion, and more poetry on my part.
So this work is a continued piece and is based on Dire Straits wonderful and poignant song “Brothers In Arms” that was written in 1982, the year of Britain’s involvement in the Falklands War.
In 2007, Mark Knopfler recorded a new version of the song to raise funds for British veterans who he said “are still suffering from the effects of that conflict.”
And it seems that nothing has really changed either. The effects of current wars will continue for many generations to come and the mental scars are just as unforgiving as the physical ones.
I place this work up here in Remembrance to all of the Fallen in the wars of the past, the present time and possibly into the future, as man does not seem to really want to learn from the devastating effects of war or acknowledge the human failings that cause them in the first place.
But just as we think all is lost, life can arise from the scars of war. As Merlin places his hand on the skull in my painting, creatures have begun to find their homes in the bones, and from the old branches of the yew tree new growth has sprung to remain ever-green.
We build our lives on the past, but let us always remember what went before, and never forget.
And here is a link to Dire Straits beautiful song. It is one of those rare moments now where I will brave You Tube to place a song up here, because this song should be heard this day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk
And if you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:
I've not acknowledged any comments on my photos for a while now, so please accept my apologies for this - I've been a bit preoccupied with photography and mountains!
My climbing partner and I are travelling to the Highlands of Scotland (via Wales) so I may be off the airwaves for a couple of weeks. I love the inspiration you can draw from the work of Flickr members so I'll try and check in to Flickr as and when I can.
Thanks for checking out my photos and I hope to be able to post some half decent photos of Britain's mountain scenery when I return.
Let's acknowledge when Amtrak did run in winter weather: a Vermonter that's seen a few things stops at White River Junction. Charles W. Bohi, Brian M. Schmidt photo
Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. Tongariro National Park is the oldest national park in New Zealand, and It has been acknowledged by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site of mixed cultural and natural values. The active volcanic mountains Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro are located in the centre of the park.
The middle ground. The place where you aren’t at point A or point B. It’s the between space. A transition can be a battleground or a journey. Sometimes we are between seasons in life. We must acknowledge the place where we were before and look forward to the new change that lies ahead. Let this be a hopeful reminder to enjoy the moments, laughter, and place you are in. This post goes out to the residents who are between seasons. I am rooting for your journey to become an adventure of a lifetime. – Bliss
What’s she wearing?
Pose: Lyrium
Head: Lelutka
Body: Legacy
Hair: Doux
Skin: Tres Beau & Velour
Eyes: AG
Nails: E.Marie
Make-Up Lips: Velour
Make-Up Cheeks: Evermore
Make-Up Eyes: Veechi
Enhancements: Izzie’s
Body Glitter: Cynful
Clothes: Blueberry & Aetron
Necklace: Kibitz & Michan
Earrings: Vibing
Food: Hangry
Fireflies & Chick: MishMish
Have an adventure:
SIM: Missing Melody
BellaTech - Supporter - bellatechnation.com/2022/12/01/between-seasons/
Celebrating life by acknowledging those who went before. Looking like a modern Caterina in a dress by I.M.Collection @ Sense and shoes from Ghee @ Fashion Essentials. Info & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2021/10/101921imc.html
when he acknowledges himself a liar :-)
― Mark Twain
HPPT!!
Jury hybrid magnolia, 'Iolanthe', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
True novelty is preserved when we acknowledge our own limitations, and a life of wisdom is one that continually seeks knowledge.
Beethovan Moonlight Sonata: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-MT5zeY6CU
Credits (I rarely make stuff. I don't receive any kickbacks or lindens but I view SL photos as collaborations between the photographer's creativity, the things people create, landscapers/set designers, the viewer and camera capabilities. Like movies, books and articles, credits are given to acknowledge everyone's work so here we go:
Camera: Firestorm Snapshot (edited in Photoshop)
Landscaping: Liv (olivialillyfrost) landscaped a place for her and Lacy's 5 year anniversary. She lent it to me for a photoshoot when they weren't on.
Collard & Collard Upright Piano by Koshari Mahana
Giant sunlight by HPMD, Sasaya (sasaya.kayo)
Nanohana by alirium
Dandelion w.parachute ball and flowers by Garden of Dreams, Kristina Simon
Water Lilies Display by Mesh Plants, Reid Parkin
Model (me)
Mesh_Fairy Tale Princess Gown by Inara's Fantasy Couture
Princess Tiara Royal -Silver by Tabou Irresistible
Eternity Rubys ring female 1.0b by Bandit Jewelry
Sweetheart :: Bracelet by Cae (caelan.hancroft)
Whimsy :: Necklace :: Pewter by Cae (caelan.hancroft)
Lesli (Solid) - Browns by Doe Hair
Slink Hands V2.1 - L - Casual
Slink Hands V2.1 - R - Elegant
Shape: Tessa shape Vv by Wow Skins & Shapes
Skin: Isidora05 *medium02* brunette (CL) by Essences Skins
Eyes: Luminous Eyes Emerald by OTR (Over The Rainbow)
Amy - Lashes by Linden Labs (is in library section of inventory)
AD- Face Light by Aldegan Design, Aldegan Albanese
"Though the bush was on fire it did not burn up" (Exodus 3:2)
It seems so obvious that we usually don't stop to acknowledge the miracle of electricity which in some respect resembles the miracle of The Burning Bush, because it seems that the wire burns for eternity without burning out.
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וְהִנֵּה הַסְּנֶה בֹּעֵר בָּאֵשׁ, וְהַסְּנֶה, אֵינֶנּוּ אֻכָּל -שמות ג,ב
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זה נראה כל כך מובן מאליו שאנחנו בדרך כלל לא עוצרים להודות על הנס של החשמל, אשר במובן מסוים מזכיר את נס הסנה הבוער, משום שנראה שהתיל בוער לנצח ואֵינֶנּוּ אֻכָּל
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Iceland, where Trolls and Elves are acknowledged and celebrated; where, if you open your imagination, you can sense Odin, Thor and Njord carving and shaping the mountains and fjords of this magical island.
We stopped at Geysir, in the hope of seeing him spout a jet of steam. As if Njord had heard us, for a moment the strong winds dropped, the rain eased, the majestic downslope clouds darkened ominously - and at that moment, Geysir blew a plume of steam in the shape of Frigg, queen of Asgaard.
Even for a land steeped in mythology, this was a magical moment.
Who is your favourite in the Norse pantheon?
I've not acknowledged any comments on my photos for a while now, so please accept my apologies for this - I've been a bit preoccupied with photography and mountains!
My climbing partner and I are travelling to the Highlands of Scotland (via Wales) so I may be off the airwaves for a couple of weeks. I love the inspiration you can draw from the work of Flickr members so I'll try and check in to Flickr as and when I can.
Thanks for checking out my photos and I hope to be able to post some half decent photos of Britain's mountain scenery when I return.
It can be worrying to see someone struggling as they get older. One of the best things you can do is talk it over together with the person you're worried about, discussing your concerns and listening to each other.
Having those conversations isn't always easy. Family and friends can be deeply unsettled by signs that suggest a loved one isn't coping. Sometimes people find it difficult to have open conversations because they don't want to cause offence, or have strong emotions of their own, not wanting to acknowledge that a loved one is getting older.
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
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Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54950920265
** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51121244013/
Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/22949342829/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
Explored!!!....thanks for the recognition of this image. Thanks for all the congrats and compliments. Always nice to have one's images acknowledged.
Celebrating life by acknowledging those who went before. Looking like a modern Caterina in a dress by I.M.Collection @ Sense and shoes from Ghee @ Fashion Essentials. Info & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2021/10/101921imc.html
First of all, acknowledging my friend, Richard S Warner (Visionheart), for the title, as well as the inspiration (In spite of, sir... that's just the way I roll... ha! Ha!) for this Tall, Skinny-assed Images Series.
As with the previous image, this is a 7-frame pano, stitched top to bottom. Full-size TIFF... lots of detail with magnifier.
Nothing expected, free of anticipation some things just fit together. Pictures of the view from the window turned into exposures of the light available from inside and out and then my old worn and loved Tarot box went to centre stage and took a bow. Some how some thing happened all at once and together in unison.
The Tarot cards within the box are two versions of, “The Smith–Waite,” or, “Rider–Waite–Smith,” or, “Waite–Smith Deck.” Originally and for decades Artist Pamela Colman Smith was not mentioned in the name of the deck, but the publishing company Rider was often mentioned when it was sold as the, “Rider Waite Deck,” and Rider continued to be a part of the name for the book and cards long after Rider were not publishing them. This box is for, “The, Original Rider Waite,” is no longer in production. The other deck, along with, “The Original Smith–Waite,” still in the box, is, “The Universal Waite,” that should be titled, “The Universal Smith-Waite,” and is recoloured by Mary Hanson-Roberts.
Underneath the top coat of green paint the original lettering and the image of the Major Arcana card numbered XIV that of Temperance, particularly the folds in the Angel’s robes can be seen. The 30 years age of this box is nothing in long historic roots of Tarot. It carries memories for me holds two decks with two artists showing the figures of European Tarot in a form modernised and expanded with a newly devised pictorial Minor Arcana. In 1909 the publisher Rider released, “The Key to the Tarot,” and in 1910 a revised version was retitled as, “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot,” by A.E. Waite. The name, “Rider Waite,” was used to describe the 78 cards and the books and various booklets both to accompany the cards and also sold separately. To acknowledge the artist who recast several of the Major Arcana and made 56 original versions of the Minor Arcana the publishing phenomenon with over 100 million copies is often now referred to as, “The Smith-Waite Deck.”
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“Today, more than 100 million copies of the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck are in circulation in over 20 countries, making it the most popular Tarot deck ever made. As we set forth to recover lost histories and systematic erasures of women’s intellect and labor, this exhibition provides an essential piece of the puzzle.”
Ray, Sharmistha, Hyperallergic, 23 March 2019, “Reviving a Forgotten Artist of the Occult.”.
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Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today.
Orange ribbons to acknowledge the unmarked graves of Indigenous children on the properties of government funded Residential Schools across Canada. A horrifying part of our colonial history.
For more information: wanuskewin.com/isl/uploads/2021/06/Orange-Ribbons.pdf
I've not acknowledged any comments on my photos for a while now, so please accept my apologies for this - I've been a bit preoccupied with photography and mountains!
My climbing partner and I are travelling to the Highlands of Scotland (via Wales) so I may be off the airwaves for a couple of weeks. I love the inspiration you can draw from the work of Flickr members so I'll try and check in to Flickr as and when I can.
Thanks for checking out my photos and I hope to be able to post some half decent photos of Britain's mountain scenery when I return.
Looking over the shore of Loch Leven, at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, the harsh yet stunning mountain terrain to the north gives a hint of the nearby Ben Nevis.
Possibly Scotland’s most historic glen, and recently acknowledged as its most romantic, it was also used for filming part of the third Harry Potter film, ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’.
Hale o Keawe was a mausoleum that housed the remains of deified high chiefs, located at Pu`uhonua O Hōnaunau, now a National Historical Park.
In April 1819, Queen Kaʻahumanu, the most powerful wife of King Kamehameha I, publicly acknowledged her embrace of Protestant Christianity and encouraged her subjects to be baptized. In 1829, Queen Ka'ahumanu ordered the removal of the remaining bones and the complete deconstruction of the temple.
The platform of the temple survived until high surf, including at least two tsunamis in 1868 and 1877, caused extensive damage. In 1967 the platform was restored, and the thatched hale, wooden palisade, and ki'i were rebuilt. The Hale o Keawe structure and carved wooden ki'i were replaced most recently in 2004.
Happy Fence Friday! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
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All rights reserved. Please respect my copyright and do not copy, modify or download this image to blogs or other websites without obtaining my explicit written permission.
Can we please acknowledge THAT THIS FIGURE IS WAY TO GOOD TO COME IN THE SET IT DOES. LIKE SERIOUSLY NORMALLY THIS WOULD BE IN AN $800 BUT ITS NOT. YESSSSSSSSSS. On another note I modified the lex mech a little bit (the arm) which I’ll post tommorow.
Boulder Beach along the eastern side of the Park Loop Road. Park rangers won't acknowledge this beach. While I don't have the exact directions, I believe you go past the Gorham Mtn parking lot and the very next parking area is where you park. Go across the road and there is a path down to the beach. Go at low tide and be very careful getting around. The beach is an "ankle buster".
Weather conditions were not good on this day with a light rain falling. Combined with the mist coming from the ocean waves it was nearly impossible to keep my lens clean even with trying to use an umbrella. I took numerous shots but this one was the cleanest. I hope I managed to adequately remove the water spots off the image. Need to get back here. I think this was my favorite location in the park.
Thanks for viewing my photos. Comments are always welcome.
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The Pipes of Pan is an oil-on-canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Painted in 1923 during Picasso's classical period, the painting depicts two statuesque men of mythological origins. Frequently acknowledged to be his cornerstone work during this era, the painting makes use of a large canvas and a classical color palette that are acutely reminiscent of the ancient world. The subjects which Picasso chooses to explore within this work– male Greek youth, musical pipes, as well as the Mediterranean setting– all hark back to classical ancient art.
This work was painted at the crux of Picasso's classical period from 1919 to 1929, in which he was greatly intrigued by classical art. At the time that he had painted The Pipes of Pan, Picasso was traveling extensively in Italy, and consequently drew inspiration for this painting in the Greco-Roman art he found there. His admiration for such is evident in the pensive and motionless way he portrays his subjects, as well as the tactile yet unembellished background. Additionally, the subjects themselves are Greek by nature– the pipes held by the figure on the right are a clear reference to the pipes of Pan, the personified Greek god of “life in the periphery”– who essentially functions as the embodiment of peripheral attitude (free-ranging, and lustful but frustrated) and pastoral life. The setting of the painting, too, is evidently Mediterranean by its sunny blue background.
There has been known controversy in the past regarding the so-called “true nature” of the subject for this particular painting. At the era of this painting, Picasso, who was deep into his fascination with classical art, met Sara Murphy in 1921. She was a beautiful and wealthy American expatriate who became flirtatiously involved with Picasso, their relations leading all the way up to the conception of this painting. Infrared photographs of The Pipes of Pan taken in the 90s revealed an initial composition that included four total figures. Many art scholars believe that one figure was to be Venus, depicted as Sara, and that another figure was to be Mars, depicted as Picasso. However, a possible reason why this initial idea was scrapped was because Picasso's infatuation came to a head– perhaps Sara rejected him, and so he erased her from the painting composition.
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
- Laura Esquivel
Fishing vessel - Franciscan no 1
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This boat was warming up her engines and preparing to depart Fisherman's Wharf in Steveston.
The captain appeared to be collecting his gear, from the hatchback, of the car stopped on the port side of the boat.
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~Christie (happiest) by the River
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Estate of the Art
Can a winery elevate the craft of winemaking to a fine art? Of course it can. Can a winery dedicate itself as a temple to works of fine art? Why not? But can a winery that does one also achieve the other? Good question. Now, if you were to put that question to Bacchus, god of wine, mischief-maker and generally acknowledged originator of the practice of horsing around, we know just where he'd send you: straight to the horse's mouth.
And not just any horse. He'd send you to Pegasus, the winged horse of ancient myth whose hooves brushed against the earth, unleashing the sacred spring of the muses. Lucky earth. That spring gave life to grapevines, and the wine that flowed from them inspired poetry and art in all who drank it.
In that spirit, a couple of millennia later, we set out to create a place where the wellspring of wine and the muses of art could live together -- a sort of temple to wine and art. Not a museum or a sacred shrine way up in the clouds, but a haven here on earth. The kind of place we know Bacchus would approve of, where art and vines seem to spring from the same fertile soil, where smiling is encouraged, and pleasure and serendipity are all around you.
And in tribute to those fateful hoofbeats that started it all, we called that place Clos Pegase. Clos being the French word for an enclosed vineyard -- an estate winery, where every wine is made from that vineyard's own grapes. Which is what we are. And Pegase being the French word for "Pegasus." Which sounded nicer with clos.
Can wine and art come together to create an experience as lofty as Olympus and as lusty as the rascal Bacchus? We think so. Here's our story.
The Making of a Winemaker
Now, if you were to ask the wise-acre, Bacchus, "how do you make a small fortune in the wine business?" chances are he'd reply: "start with a large fortune."
In the case of Clos Pegase, that large fortune came from -- of all places -- the Japanese publishing industry. In 1955, our founder, Jan Shrem, who was studying for his Master's degree at UCLA, took what he thought was going to be a little vacation in Japan. He fell in love with the place -- and with a woman named Mitsuko -- and he decided to stick around. For the next thirteen years.
To support himself, Jan began importing English-language reference and technical books to a market hungry for all things Western. He was in the right place at the right time. Building on his success, he began translating and publishing books in Japan as well, and, by the time he sold his company in 1968 to elope with Mitsuko to Europe, it had grown to some 50 offices and nearly 2,000 employees.
In 1980, after 25 years in the publishing business, Jan found himself at a crossroads. He had built a publishing empire. And, in the meantime, Mitsuko had introduced him to the mysteries and pleasures of wine -- an interest that had quickly turned into a consuming passion. He decided the time had come to listen to his "inner Bacchus" and devote his life to winemaking.
Jan enrolled in the enology program at the University of Bordeaux, where he soon became fascinated with the idea of combining ancient winemaking practices with emerging technologies. Nowhere was this combination more vital and exciting than in California, so, armed with the Napa Valley address of the dean of American winemakers, Andre Tchelistcheff, Jan headed west.
With Tchelistcheff's help, Jan eventually created a unique wine estate -- and an equally distinctive style of winemaking. He began by purchasing a 50-acre vineyard in Calistoga in 1983. Later, he would add more than 400 additional acres in the northern and southern ends of the Napa Valley.
A Temple Among the Vines
By the mid-1980s, it became clear that Jan's new wine estate would need an anchor -- a building to serve as its base of operations. But Jan was thinking bigger than a mere roof and walls. He envisioned a place designed to showcase his extensive art collection in a way that made it accessible to everyone; a focal point that could match the majesty of the rocky knoll that rises above the valley from the center of the vineyard; a place of celebration, education and pleasure; and a visible, visit-able symbol of his winemaking philosophy.
Working with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jan sponsored an architects' competition. From a field of 96 entrants, the judges selected renowned Princeton architect, Michael Graves. He was commissioned to build a "temple to wine and art" at the base of the knoll and a home for Jan and Mitsuko at its summit, with sweeping views of the Napa Valley below. Within the knoll itself, 20,000 feet of aging caves would be excavated, including the breathtaking Cave Theater, a dramatic setting for celebrations, presentations and special events.
Construction was completed in 1987. The spectacular structures Graves created -- and the surrounding sculpture garden that includes some of the world's greatest twentieth-century works of art -- have won international awards and generated great excitement in the wine industry. The national press has been generous in its praise as well, describing Clos Pegase as "a place of pilgrimage" and "America's first monument to wine and art."
And, just as Jan had hoped, the stately symmetry of the building reflects his own winemaking ethos. "In architecture, as in our wines," he says "I believe we have achieved balance, harmony and symmetry in the classical Greek sense, avoiding the baroque concepts of high oak, high alcohol and high extract to create food-friendly wines of quiet elegance. These are the hallmarks of what has come to be known as the 'Clos Pegase style.'"
The Clos Pegase Style. It's there as you walk through the grounds. It's there in the cool stillness of the caves. You find it when you round a corner in the vineyard and come face to face with a sculpture that's both beautiful and as disarmingly irreverent as Bacchus himself. And it's there on our label, in Jan's favorite painting from his collection. There, depicted by the great 19th-Century French artist Odilon Redon, is the winged horse, Pegasus, his front hooves rearing toward the heavens, his back hooves firmly planted right here on earth.
I am sure that those who are seeing this picture will not acknowledge this effort by Indian Railways to repaint WAP-7 in Duronto livery.2259 Sealdah New Delhi Duronto Express approaches Chander Nagar Halt behind GZB WAP-7 30246 in Duronto livery.Train running late by 45 minutes
Ronda, a city widely acknowledged as one of the most spectacular in Spain and which enjoys a setting so naturally dramatic it could be in a fairy tale. Built on a ridge and split by a most impressive gorge plunging down hundreds of feet, Ronda’s almost impregnable position meant it was one of the last bastions of Moorish power, only falling to the Christians in 1485. During the 18th century, the two halves of the town were joined by its iconic stone bridge.
I borghi più belli d'Italia
the most beautiful villages in Italy
La prima notizia di Pitigliano appare in una bolla inviata da papa Niccolò II al preposto della cattedrale di Sovana nel 1061, dove viene già indicato come luogo di competenza della famiglia dei conti Aldobrandeschi. Nel 1293 Anastasia, figlia della contessa Margherita Aldobrandeschi, sposò Romano Orsini portando in dote la contea di Sovana e la sede della contea fu trasferita proprio a Pitigliano. Gli Orsini governarono queste terre per secoli, difendendole dai continui tentativi di sottomissione da parte di Siena e Orvieto prima, e della Firenze medicea poi. Fu solo nel 1574 che Niccolò IV Orsini cedette la fortezza ai Medici e nel 1604 Pitigliano fu annessa al granducato di Toscana, ceduta dal conte Gian Antonio Orsini per saldare i propri debiti.
Pitigliano and its area were inhabited in Etruscan times but the first extant written mention of it dates only to 1061. In the early 13th century it belonged to the Aldobrandeschi family and by the middle of the century it had become the capital of the surrounding county.
In 1293 the county passed to the Orsini family, signalling the start of 150 years of on-again/off-again wars with Siena, at the end of which, in 1455, a compromise of sorts was reached: Siena acknowledged the status of county to Pitigliano, which in exchange placed herself under the sovereignty of Siena.
From then onwards the history of Pitigliano resorbs into the gradually wider ambit first of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1562) then of the united Kingdom of Italy.
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{update on my 366 project}
hi guys, you may have wonder what happened to this project of mine. well, i have still been taking photos daily but just not posting them here. i've learned that i don't really like this project. i have days i feel like shooting (most days) and days i don't. when i don't feel like it, the photos aren't as good or are just quick snapshots. i don't want to share those here! i would still like to fill up this set by the end of the year but i may make the really crappy shots private. to those of you who post your 366 photos daily, you are awesome. i admire you very much. doing mostly film, it's been hard to keep track for me. i never got into a good groove with it. anyway, just wanted to acknowledge the project here. it's still happening... just behind the scenes!