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The color version of the photo above is here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).
Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.
The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.
I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.
Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )
Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.
It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.
It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.
If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).
Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: “Mamma, papà, non piangere, se sono consumata, è stata la risaia che mi ha rovinata” (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder
The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).
Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.
It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.
They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).
I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.
I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).
I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.
So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.
I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).
Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.
That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.
To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.
From a Rugby on the left to the International on the far right they're all here ready to be auctioned off.
"And the next item for purchase today is lot number 51640. This is titled 'Awkward dancing robot thingy' and is by the artist Toa Hordika Nuju. This is a spectacular piece ladies and gentlemen, baffling but nonetheless beautiful. I will now open the bidding at $10,000..."
"That's $10,000, is there anyone to open? Surely you would agree this is a commanding piece of art? Surely..."
Brisbane Auction Galleries is an interesting wooden building on Abbotsford Road, Bowen Hills.
Post processed from RAW in Adobe Lightroom 6.
I'm auctioning this image as 30x30 cm paper print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper (Lambda C-Print, matt) for the Haïtians. Please leave a comment with your offer.
www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/
No flickr account?
Mail me your bid - I will place it in the comments on your behalf: marlon.kowalski[at]marlonkowalski.com
Auction ends on 24th January, 2010 at 12:00 MST.
The winning bidder has to pay that amount to the Medecins sans frontiers:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
When they do this, they MUST make a screen grab of the donation confirmation page to send to the photographer. This is the only way the photographer knows that you have paid and can arrange for the print to be sent to you.
I will pay for the print to be produced and pay for shipping, so all of your donation goes straight to the cause.
www.flickr.com/photos/luftraum/2689888736/
1 € = 1,44 $ ;-)
The British Sunbeam-Talbot Company launched in July 1948 their first new post-war model. One could choose from a saloon or a 2-door convertible. Type 80 had a more modest engine size than the 90.
It's not clear if this convertible is a type 80 or type 90. They share the same body, and registration documents were lost.
Seen at the viewing days of the Palmen Barnfind Collection Auction initiated by Gallery Aaldering, Brummen and provided by Classic Car Auctions, location Dordrecht.
More info: www.gallery-aaldering.com/nl/the-palmen-barnfind-collecti...
More photo's: www.classiccar-auctions.com/nl/lot-details/18125/Main%20c...
1195 or 1944 cc L4 engine.
Ca. 1160/1240 kg.
Production Sunbeam-Talbot/Sunbeam 80/90/Alpine series: July 1948-1957.
Production Sunbeam-Talbot 80/90 Mk1 Convertible: July 1948-1950.
Original first UK reg. number: exact date unknown.
British documents not present.
For sale since May 24, 2023.
Dordrecht, Einsteinstraat, May 29, 2023.
© 2023 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
price USD2500
email:artxindia@yahoo.com
this pictures are uploaded with low resolutions so changes in colour may vary,
Appears in the latest James Bond flick "No Time To Die" apparently
www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2021-11-27/cars/ref-1...
Assistant Principal Johansen & Principal Graae
additional photo to existing page: www.flickr.com/photos/gunnarsgear/1572959305/
I have completed my train MOC which I will be donating to this year's Esther Walner Charity Auction at Brickworld 2019. The auction item will include as seen here:
1. Santa Fe EMD F7A Warbonnet Locomotive with full power Function equipment and stickers by OKbrickworks. This model is 8-wide and is ready-to-run.
2. Santa Fe EMD F7B locomotive, unpowered, with stickers by OKbrickworks.
3. Power Functions remote.
4. USB drive (16 GB) with the PDF of the instructions for both locomotives
(Track not included)
Credit where credit is due, I would like to thank and recognize the following:
OKbrickworks - for not only donating the stickers for both locomotives, but for offering to sponsor the B unit, which prompted me to include it in the auction.
Nick O'Donnell - for donating a large chunk of the parts from his Bricklink shop - Cincinnati Brick Co.
Karl Joffre - for donating all of the Power Functions elements, allowing this model to be ready-to-run - motors, battery box, remote, everything.
And last but not least Nate Brill, who's peerless work on his NYC E unit windshield made my original MOC possible.
If you are attending Brickworld this year, I encourage you to attend, even if you have no interest in bidding. There has been discussion that if you are not attending, but know someone who is, you could bid by proxy. Bryan Bonahoom is happy to take your money (for charity, of course).
The Calgary Fire Department responded to a call with reports of smoke and fire at an abandoned Auction Galleries warehouse in the 400 block of 7th Avenue S.E, Calgary at around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning (14 June 2023). The building has been completely destroyed
Auctioned to become a parts car. Around it from left to right are- Olds Jetfire, Ford Deluxe Tudor, '37 Ford Tudor and Packard 120.
**Not my photo** Mattel has a bunch of OOAK dolls up for auction on Charitybuzz. Info on my blog at insidethefashiondollstudio.com/2012/11/29/holy-barbie-cha...
Base doll - CCS 08SS Yukata Rose Chocola & Replica Licca no. 18
Replica Licca's outfit - Aster's craft shop
Replica Licca's shoes - Nabi's dream
Doll-house - GamJa
I'm auctioning this print to help the people of Japan.
I would like you to start the bidding at $35
Depending upon style, the print will be no larger than 8" on the smaller side, Epson Professional Glossy paper.
The original is a Polaroid image. This will be a print. You will determine the style, with Polaroid borders or not.
Please leave a comment with your offer, and please, only comment if you wish to bid, all other comments will be deleted . thanks.
WANT TO BID - BUT YOU DON'T HAVE A FLICKR ACCOUNT?
Please just email me with a bid and I will place the bid in the comments on your behalf: email to susanann@humboldt1.com
The bidding will end on Friday March 25th, 2011 at 9 pm, [California] Pacific Daylight Savings time. At this time, the person who wrote/commented or emailed the highest amount will have to give this amount to a legitimate charity involved in the effort for aid for the people of Japan. On proof of donation (please take a screen grab of your donation confirmation page!), I will make the print and ship it to you, at my cost.
all of your donation goes straight to the cause.
For more information on this [and recommended charities]:
CPA - CHARITY PRINT AUCTIONS - JAPAN
www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/
If you would rather have another image on my stream, you may select it. Size will depend on the image. [and I have to determine print-ability.]