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Macro Mondays 19/03/18 theme Once Upon A Time
For this theme I choose a Tibetan story from a book of Tibetan Folk Tales, by A.L. Shelton, [1925]
www.sacred-texts.com/asia/tft/tft04.htm
If you are a parable unto yourself--there exists no evil.
Tibetan Proverb.
The Wise Bat
A LONG time ago, a very long time ago, when men and animals spoke to each other and understood the languages of one another, there lived a very powerful king. He lived far off in a corner of the world and alone ruled all the animals and men in his jurisdiction. Around his grounds and palace were great forests and in these forests many birds and animals lived. Every one seemed happy, except the king's wife, and she said that so many birds singing at the same time made such frightful discord that it worried her. One day she asked the king to call them all in and cut off their bills so they couldn't sing any more.
"All right," the king said. "We will do that in a few days."
Now, hanging under the eaves of the palace, close to the queen's room, was a little bat, and though he seemed to be asleep, he heard and understood everything the queen had said. He said to himself, "This is very bad indeed. I wonder what I can do to help all the birds."
The next day the king sent letters by runners into every corner of the kingdom, telling all the birds that by the third day at noon--and it mustn't be forgotten, so put this word down in the center of their hearts--that all of them were to assemble at the palace.
The bat heard the order, but because he was very wise and understood everything he sat very still thinking and thinking about what the queen had said and didn't go to the king's audience on the third day, but waited until the fourth. When he entered, the king said angrily:
"What do you mean by coming on the fourth day when I ordered every one to be here on the third day!" Oh, he was very angry indeed.
The bat replied, "All these birds have no business and can come whenever the king calls, but I have many affairs to look after. My father worked and I too must work. My duty is to keep the death rate from ever exceeding what it should be, in order to govern the sex question, by keeping the men and women of equal numbers."
The king, much surprised, said, "I never heard of all this business before. How does it come that you can do this?"
The bat answered, "I have to keep the day and night equal as well."
The king, more surprised, asked, "How do you do that? You must be a very busy and powerful subject to attend to all these matters. Please explain how you do it."
"Well," the bat replied, "when the nights are short I take a little off the morning, and when the nights are long I take a little off the evening and so keep the day and night equal. Besides, the people don't die fast enough. I have to make the lame and the blind to die at the proper time in order to keep the birth and death rate in proportion. Then sometimes there are more men than women, and some of these men say, 'Yes, yes,' to everything a woman asks them to do and think they must do everything a woman says. These men I just turn into women and so keep the sexes even."
The king understood very well what the bat meant, but didn't allow him to know it. He was very angry with himself because he had agreed to do so quickly what the queen had asked, and thought perhaps the bat might change him into a woman.
"I am not a good king," he thought, "when I listen to a woman's words and yield so easily, and I am terribly ashamed to have given this order. I'll just not do what my wife asks, but send these birds all back home and not cut off their bills."
So he called the birds all to him and said, "Heretofore, men haven't known how to mete out punishment and laws for you, but now I am going to make the Cuckoo your king, and what I called you up to-day for is this: I wanted to ask your King and the prime minister, the Hoopoe, to rule wisely, judge justly, and not oppress the people. If big or little come to you in a law-suit you must judge rightly between them and not favor either rich or poor. Now, you may all return to your homes."
But the king in his heart was still angry at the bat because he hadn't obeyed him and came the fourth day instead of the third, and to show him he was the ruler and to be instantly obeyed he gave him a light spanking for his disobedience and then turned him loose.
"I often receive outlines from different people, either handed over, or sent in via email, in my appreciation I went out and did em… Thanks to the fans, friends and followers: OUIE, BILL BLAST, SLICK, MEAL, FRES, POWER, DUNE 310, DIME1 and those I forgot… My email is: Info@greatbates.com" -Bates.
1x LEGO DC Comics, Super Heroes - Bat-Pod (5004590)
It's taken me one hell of a journey to complete this awesome model designed by Marcos Bessa, finally it's complete (sort-of...)
NB:
-I have replaced 2x '4634091 - Rim Wide 43,2X26 W 6 Hol.Ø 4.8 (Light Stone Grey, Rims) with '6078892 - Rim Wide 43,2X26 W 6 Hol.Ø 4.8' (Black, Rims) due to them being black on the Tumbler.
-2x '6022949 - Wheel Bearing Back' on the left hand side of the Bat-Pod are absent as I forgot to order two more :P
Rhynchonycteris naso
Long-nosed proboscis Bat - Langneusvleermuis - Fremusu (Suriname)
Canon 7D + Canon EF 300mm F2.8 L IS USM + 2x TC
sswsshhh!
thomp!
"Oohh, a swing and a miss! Bottom of the 9th and a score from Snoopy could win the game!"
sswsshhh!
thomp!
"And it's strike two for Snoopy!"
"WA! WAWA! WAWAWA!"
"We can hear Snoopy clear up here! He's giving the pitcher an earful!"
"Yep, let's hope he doesn't treat his bat like he does his golf clubs!"*
"HAHA!"
KRAK!!!
"It's a hit! It's sailing high over center! Will it make it over the fence...??"
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Westland
Snoopy Up To Bat
Item No. 8235
Musical: 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame'
NOS from the 90's.
Another of our favorite vendors from our days of our collectibles store is Westland Giftware. They had the loveliest line of Peanuts offerings.
I don't know if Westland is still in business but these figurines are a great legacy for them.
When all of the Peanuts figurines are lined up in a nice display it's truly amazing from their large ornate sculpts to their picture frames, or like today's musical 'Snoopy Up To Bat' sparkle globe!
* Snoopy has a reputation for golf club-oriented anger management! As seen in BP 2025 Day 5!
Not sure what species this is. The Methow Valley has several. We found him "hanging out" on our porch this summer. Methow Valley, Wa
another abstract....this one reminded me of a bat with wings open....but not the color.....
thanks for looking in....appreciated....best bigger....hope you have a Great Day
Another nice mooch around this place with my good mate Lensflaredave and my eldest son TDSmith95. I followed lensflaredaves example and ditched my tripod, swapped my lens for the fast fifty and took a few detail shots. I am not very good at this normally and tend to stick with the wide Sigma on a tripod but I really enjoyed the change apart from obviously 'seeing' lots of 'wide' shots after changing lenses!
Pentax K-x
Pentax SMC-M 50mm f1.7 @ f2.8
A quick one for the Lego365, that honestly I'm not sure I should be letting out of the bag yet, so consider this a teaser, a WiP, and maybe, eventually, much, much more.
Anyway, here it is, Bats ready for the house party.
You may see Tom Defoirdt photostream here
Diagram: users.ugent.be/~tdfoirdt/Diagrams/Bat.pdf
Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBSYblbuIdI
Thanks for sharing, Tom Defoirdt!!
Here are some shots of the Bat Cave, as built by co2pix and displayed at the Brick and Toy Fair in Ferndale, Washington on May 16th, 2015.
Photo taken in Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
2012/08/01
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Coming soon to the warehouse event! A very naughty baseball bat!
A peek at it in world: gyazo.com/3d7bc13d47912ef86caed7b40d71b76f
Was Watching The Swallows Up In The Clear Blue Skies And Saw This Guy Up There With Them Catching Flies! Not What I Expected To See ! Not Sure On What Type Of Bat? Any I.D. Would Be Appreciated, Maybe a Little Brown Bat?
Edit- Also entered as part of the LEGO rebrick Best-of-Batman competition. Click the link, vote, check out the other great entries, and if you're over 13, enter your own.
Life size, complete with compartments for Bat-jewelry (or purloined goods), I present my latest MOC, the Bat-Jewelry-Box.
Oh, and that handle on the side? When you turn it, Batman rotates as the music box plays it's gentle tune.
Un piccolo pipistrello salvato dopo un forte temporale. Dopo le cure si riposa aspettando la sera per partire in volo.
A small bat saved after a strong storm. After the treatments he rests waiting for the evening to fly away.
Visit and follow:
I remarked to leon that I've received strange and wondrous gifts from friends. and he looked at me and said, smiling, "I wonder why."
hmpppppf....
backstory of the pot:
I worked with an exquisitely beautiful boy in special ed who was the epitome of profound ADHD. super sensitive, we couldn't touch him, and when he started talking, if you sat and listened, his brain and mouth took him from one topic to another and to another, on and on. perseveration. I loved him. and he loved me. and he liked vampires. so affectionately he would tell me, repeatedly [that perseveration], "I vant to suck your blood".
terms of endearment.
the partner of a lady I worked with wanted to give me a christmas present. she knew of the lovely boy, and said the only thing she could think of was making me a bat pot.
I love it. it's broken now after moves, but I still have it, semi super-glued.
she, the potter, is long gone, and the beautiful boy must be in his mid 30's now, probably still wanting to suck someone's blood.
tangible evidence of memories.
the hand painted ratboy, the card, and the doll are by Sandy Mastroni
the pot is by judith, who died alone.
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