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Moai were status symbols. The more you had and the bigger they were, the greater your village's status. Unfortunately, moving them around the island required many trees, and when the last trees were cut on the once heavily forested island, the topsoil blew away, the islanders could no longer build fishing boats, or even escape the ensuing famine. Wars erupted and the culture collapsed. An environmental cautionary tale. The island is still largely treeless.
Rocky Point Restaurant is located 10 miles south of Carmel, a mere fifteen-minute scenic drive, between Carmel and Big Sur.
Spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean as you sit perched cliff-side; either inside through panoramic windows next to a cozy fireplace or outside on our open deck. Catch a glimpse of playful sea-otters, dolphins, seals, and many whales as they migrate up the coast.
The day steam finished on British Rail sees LMS Stanier Class 5 locomotives 44871 and 44781, slow to a stand at Blea Moor on the Settle and Carlisle Railway to be replenished with water, with the returning 1T57 05.44 Carlisle-Liverpool Lime Street 'Fifteen Guinea Special', which they will take to Manchester Victoria.
11th August 1968
Marisol Escobar, The Party, 1965-66, fifteen freestanding, life-size figures and three wall panels, with painted and carved wood, mirrors, plastic, television set, clothes, shoes, glasses, and other accessories, variable dimensions (Toledo Museum of Art, © artist’s estate)
The standard gauge Metropolitano de Granada uses a fleet of fifteen CAF Urbos 3 cars. Car 304, constructed in 2012, is seen early on 24 January 2023 approaching Estación de Ferrocarril (railway station) on one of the three unwired sections of the city's single line.
Must say, I am obviously enjoying the square format photos lately. I am particularly enjoying this one. This is nothing how I expected it to turn out, but my original idea wasn't working. I'm happy that it didn't haha
What are the odds that I would find a gerbera daisy the exact same color as the little heart button?? And I do mean exact. I had to stand the button up because I tried to take one of it laying down and it was so camouflaged that you could barely see it....LOL...
i took this the morning after the wedding when i let my hair down and it was all curly. heh. i wish i had curly hair in real life. that would be awesome.
Sunlun, 2009.
Graflex Crown Graphic, some secret 5x4 B&W film - long exposure.
Nothing is going on in there...
UGGG I know- I know, I'm late again....this however was shot when it was suppose to be :D. This is in a cotton field outside of Portland, this was the only field left that hadn't been turned over yet, and there were patches of cotton where the bricks were formed. Looked like snow- i love the contrast in colors. I will get to editing my week sixteen so its not to terribly late....but you know it will be. Rain boot alert again... and those are my sponge bob socks....i love brown and yellow together. I brought my tripod to this location but forgot the part that attaches to your camera that then attaches to the tripod so i rigged it with some hair ties- being a girl sometimes works out good. My remote was DEAD so i had to run through those pokey cotton plants in between every shot, and in between farmers and semi trucks passing wondering what the heck this girl was doing in rain boots, yellow socks, and a dress in the middle of a harvested cotton field. I waved a couple of times :D
Semana Santa (Holy Week) started this week once again in its ancient, timeless tradition in a little village called Tzintzuntzan in the Central Highlands of Michoacan, near Patzcuaro, Mexico. Three times in the last fifteen years I have gone to Tzintzuntzan to document their Semana Santa (but also because I always loved being in the church square with its ancient olive trees, to just sit there during the week and just to observe what happens). The week is filled with mysterious rituals and processions (complete with crimson hooded horsemen entering the church on horseback) that have much to do with the grafting of Catholicism to ancient Tarascan culture. Central to the week are the parades of penitents lead by seven massive crosses which have been entrusted to seven families for several hundred years. During Holy Week the crosses are taken from storage in the homes and paraded repeatedly, with great ceremony, through the village. On Good Friday, the seven crosses are arranged in front of the entrance to the church and as in villages all over Mexico the Passion Play is performed. It is said that as recently as the 1970's, in a village in the mountains near Tzintzuntzan, penitents had themselves crucified with thin nails....
[All this week I am alternating posting images of Tzintzuntzan with images I took this Sunday of rehearsals of The Passion Play for Easter Sunday Sunrise Services in Agua Dulce, which is my primary home,.....somehow it is not the same.]
[and.....despite the seductive pageantry and truly felt passion and penitence (certainly in Tzintzuntzan) I confess with Bertrand Russell "Why I am Not a Christian"....that is, I am intrigued but not seduced by the "Passion of the Christ"]]
The last time I was in Whole Foods I ran into a friend’s mother. She didn’t even say hello, she just looked at me like I was wearing a Carmen Miranda, fruit-hat or a hoop skirt and said “I thought you hated shopping here.” While I have my problems with Whole Foods, they do have some very tasty things (the Udon Soup, the baguettes, etc) and they treat their employees really well. My problem is not really with the store so much as it is with the way people think about shopping there, as though they have done their good deed for the day simply by picking up an organic pear or filtered water from Fiji. It lets people off the hook. Simple solutions to complex problems are generally just another way of saying delusion, but this is no place for a jeremiad. As I said, I like the soup and good soup goes a long way.
On a side note, these mildly fermented drinks displayed in the photo should not, under any circumstances, be shaken before they are opened. If you happen to be inside of your car, then this will result in the interior of said car being sprayed with a brightly colored and sticky liquid that smells of the worst aspects of stale beer and the bottom of a trashcan. Do not do this. But, they do make for a pretty picture.
This tart is really good esp. for anyone who fall in love with really dark chocolate (aha, I am, I really like dark chocolate and this tart is like dark chocolate in a tart form). I have to warn any people who don’t have a great love for dark chocolate, stay away from this one, because you may find this tart is too bitter for you sweet tooth, cause the main flavor of the tart came from 70% cocoa solids dark chocolate (very intense and pleased). The recipe came form COOK WITH JAMIE: MY GUIDE TO MAKING YOU A BETTER COOK by Jamie Oliver, one of my dearest chef, and I think after you taste this deeply dark chocolate tart you may agree with me.
To see the recipe go to
Deeply satisfied chocolate tart
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Single in April
Day 15
Playing around with the mid-point of this month-long challenge. Rack 'em up because there's 15 more days to go.
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Oct. 12, 2020) Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) man a refueling station as the ship conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199). McCain is assigned to Destroyer Squadron Fifteen (DESRON 15), the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda/Released)