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This village in Hong Kong is called Fanling Ching Wai and it is reflected by a large pond built for feng shui reasons. On the left, in front of the old entrance gate, you may be able to spot the black village cannons!
If you ever visit scotland this is a place you really should go to!!
Seeing this picture again makes me longing and feeling moody ... Sehnsucht again :*)
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
Its saddest sound
I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
Simon & Garfunkel
El condor pasa
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"Adachi Park" is a Japanese themed garden on the banks of the Swan River, City of Belmont, Perth, Western Australia. It was created to commemorate the sister city relationship with Adachi Ku, Tokyo, Japan. I chose to create this image to celebrate one of the most beautiful locations within the City of Belmont. The photo was taken shortly after dawn on a fine winter’s morning approximately 9 months after the garden was established.
The Mayor of the City of Belmont, Ms Glenys Godfrey, proudly displays a print of 'Adachi Park Dawn Pano’ in her office. I hope that it brings some tranquillity to the business of running the city, inspires the Council to continue to create a beautiful city to live in, and extends the reach of the park to especially welcome visitors from the sister city.
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Das Geodatenamt, wie die städtische Vermessungsbehörde in Augsburg heisst, vergibt jährlich einige Hundert neue Hausnummern. Mittlerweile findet man etwa 41300 Adressen in der Stadt. Ist eine Straße bereits durchgehend nummeriert, erhalten Neubauten in Baulücken eine Hausnummer mit Bruchzahl. Bei rückwärtigen Gebäuden wird die Zahl durch einen Buchstaben ergänzt. Bundesweit einmalig dürfte die Kombination von Bruchzahl und Buchstabe sein, wie „Bahnhofstraße 18 1/3 a“. So eine Anschrift macht manchem Computerprogramm ein Problem...
Does the sound of flowing water quieten you?
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Santiago. Región Metropolitana, Chile.
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Mowich Lake, Mount Rainier, Washington.
Wind and water. That is the literal translation of the Chinese science of Feng shui, which seeks to bind humanity with it’s surroundings. The idea incorporates positive and negative polarity (yin and yang) as well as the five elements (wood, water, fire, metal and earth). The practice channels the energy, the life force of a place, known as Qi (pronounced chee), to place architecture in the most auspicious direction and orientation. In a sense it is an alignment between what you build and how you live with the universe, positioning your structure with water, land forms, even compass points and constellations. My more immediate universe changes daily though, and tonight I am here in a glacial bowl on the northwest flank of Rainier. Rainier is huge, easily seen 70 miles away in Seattle. It is so massive that weather gets backed up in its directional flow, accounting for many of the moods of the mountain, from serene and welcoming to angry and deadly. I am not the architect whose hand made the little bump of land before me; this is Rainier’s feng shui. Maybe it’s a push of magma, or one piece of puzzle from continental uplift millennia ago, but it was the hand of the mountain itself that placed this little island, and you can still feel the Qi. It is one of countless perfect designs of this place, if your eyes are open to them. This one is aligned eastward, spring-like and appropriate to Rainier’s green season, and pointing to the constellation of Scorpius, coincidentally my astrological sign. There are times I have to escape every day life, with all it’s yin and yang, letting my thoughts either breathe or rest. If I wasn’t looking for harmony, I have found it anyways, and tonight, I will sit and contemplate the wind and water.
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It's been rainy weather for two days straight and they're predicting a third and fourth. It didn't stop the neighbohood kids from celebrating the beginning of the weekend.
Who says youth is wasted on the young?
Keeping a broken clock or watch at home is believed to bring bad luck into one's life. This is because a broken clock symbolises negative energy around them..
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wabi-sabi .... Imperfection is what I found in my old rusty cat .... just what I needed for "Macro Mondays" .... this week the theme is "wabi-sabi" and I think my macro image should hopefully fit the bill!
I named him Meowi-Sabi because it sounded a bit more feline.... well he does do a little bit of meowing especially when he's hungry. 😻
He might be rather rusty old Meowi-Sabi ....but he really takes great care of the garden ....
forget the waving cat's from Japan .... he's the real deal ....
you certainly don't mess with him that's for sure.
He's a bit long in the tooth ....
but don't let his appearance fool you .... he ain't no pussy cat.
If he spotted another cat in his garden ....
.... well the fur will fly!
.... He, he.
Love & Peace everyone!
Please take care! 😷
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aka: "If kin are not close, their wills grate like teeth in an uneven bite."
This is part of Dieppe Bay where the Golden Lemon Inn and Villas are located.
The bay got it's name from the Hugenots who arrived here from France in the late 1500's.
The coconut grove on the beach, of which part is visible in this photo, was planted by the present owner, Arthur Leaman.
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A turn in a corridor suddenly reveals a glimpse beyond, another scene of harmonious peace to enjoy.
Yes, that's a Canada Goose swimming serenely in the pond - she's a regular at the Garden and became "Mother Goose" this past spring!
That first glimpse gently pulls you to walk through the moongate, and discover the world within. Each season has its own colours, and autumn creates its own special wamth.
The calligraphy over the moongate bears the name of the garden, and was cast from the actual writing of Madame Sun Yat-Sen shortly before her death.
We drove early into the nature park, hiked with our thermos bottles and camera bags into the moor to the famous lake Wildsee and waited for sunrise to come. Unfortunately, it was not quite that spectacular than we have hoped. There was a tiny bit of color in the sky, but most of it was covered in clouds. A bit too early in the year for autumnal fog, but a quiet and warm day. My primary goal wasn't the lake that morning, so I shot what I came for, the wonderful jetty surrounded by this nice birch trees. Despite I have hoped for a bit more atmosphere, I think the picture transmits all the calmness we experienced this morning.
September 2020 | Northern Black Forest Nature Park
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Lesson 18. Here I am demonstrating the ‘Vigilant Corner’ pose for cardboard boxes. This is especially useful when your home is busy and you need extra caution to avoid wind and water, but still want to keep an interested eye on everything.
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This shot was taken at the Malibu State Beach.
I shot this one with Craig, well known as pfflyers1. He invited me to a photoshoot and so fortunate that we were blessed with a great sky.
My wife and I woke up on Day 1 of a 4 day stay at Harris Beach State Park in Brookings Oregon and walked down to the south beach. As we walked down the path there was absolutely glorious golden light on the beach and I was already contemplating getting in some photography. Once we got down there I set up this composition with the wonderful light on the smaller of the sea stacks and could already see fog rolling in very quickly. I got this frame, and only this frame captured before the rapidly moving fog turned the scene to a dull gray. For the rest of our time that morning the rapidly moving fog had occasional breaks in it where the wonderful morning sun would sneak through everywhere but where I was ready to take a photo. It was still a beautiful morning on the beach, which we had mostly to ourselves.
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art of using placement to harmonize energy and create good luck. It can be applied to virtually anything, from cities, buildings and parks, right down to where you place the couch in your living room. I used to scoff at such notions, but as with many things, I've come to take it more seriously as time goes by. For ancient rituals to persists so long into the modern era, I can't help but wonder if there isn't some kernel of truth in the old wisdom. I find this the case with ancient health remedies and even astrology and numerology. I don't live by these things but I also don't discount them. Anyway Feng Shui is really something worth reading up on, and perhaps even reviewing the layout of your house (and the objects contained therein) just to see if there are any problem areas. For me it's not so much about creating good luck rather eliminating sources of bad luck or misfortune. Could be you just need to rearrange a few things or change the color of your front door. Other times the fix may not be quite as easy. One tenet of Feng Shui that has stayed with me all these years is the conflicts that a when a house sits astride a T intersection as in the case of this photo. Here the intersecting road faces directly toward the house. The presents a continuous flow of bad energy toward the house and its occupants. Take note of this as you drive around; you may find that such house (or other buildings) are problematic. Sometimes they have a high turnover rate, continually attract hard luck dwellers, or house businesses that tend to be unsuccessful. It's not an automatic out; I'm sure other forces are at play, and perhaps some people have personalities that magnify the problem will others minimize it. Certainly the bad energy can be mitigated. Sometimes simply hanging a crystal in the front-facing window can deflect the bad energy. Not sure abut any of that. But I do watch for buildings located at the top of T intersections, and pretty sure I would not purchase one. This shadowy and moody house seems to be badly in need of a window crystal. I captured this from a moving vehicle as part of my rural "drive-by shooting" series. As I've noted in prior posts, these completely random compositions sometimes turn up very dark places. Perhaps they are channeling the bad Shui.
Beauty sometimes is to find within the inconspicuous things. Some weeks ago I shot this boring backside of a storage at the City of Düsseldorf (Germany). But I was fascinated by the metal surface. I reconstructed the building a bit, added some round elements in the sense of fengshui and suddenly the japanese Lady arrives, out of the clouds. You have to know, that Düsseldorf residents Europes greatest japanese community...
There are different accounts of how the British got their hands on Looty and a handful of other Pekingese. Looty was one of five lapdogs brought back to England after the raid. Two went to the Duchess of Wellington, two to the Duchess of Richmond and Looty was presented to Queen Victoria in April 1861 by the then 26-year-old Captain Hart Dunne. Perhaps not surprisingly, Looty preferred boiled rice with chicken and gravy to the food given to the Queen’s other dogs. The Queen had a portrait of the dog painted by Friedrich Keyl at Windsor in 1861. A facsimile was released to newspapers and magazines fuelling a national interest in the little dog. Looty also enjoyed interest in the States with Harper’s Weekly reporting that the other royal dogs took exception to her ‘oriental habits’. Looty and her friend destroyed the rose’s garden of Buckingam Palast, Victoria decided to give them the opportunity to help the Yorkshire minor…The Yorkshire Terrier was a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution in England, and for dogs in those days, it was “earn your keep,” or else. Yorkies were originally bred for hunting rats in mines by blue collar miners, and while those dogs were a slightly larger than they are now, it wasn’t by much.
Early Yorkies were kept by hard bitten men who relied on the tough little buggers to control vermin in the mines and textile mills in which they worked. We think we can imagine what life was like in those days, but honestly, we really can’t. The men who had left behind farm life to earn a living in towns and cities for the first time in their lives were met with a setting that was crowded and smelly, in large part because there was no sewage, garbage collection, or running water. And then there were the rats. These creatures infected food, chewed on goods (or your toes), and created a stink. The men needed help, and it came in the form of an easy-to-carry and cheap-to-feed dog, the Yorkie’s ancestor. Not to diss cats, but a good ratting dog in that environment was faster than a cat and had more drive for the work.
Up until 1861, the fact that Yorkies had been kept and bred by miners was a bit of a secret because it didn’t fit the narrative of a breed that appeared in its first dog show that same year. Thanks to the breed’s quick wit and appeal, it moved easily from rat dog to lady’s pet during the Victorian era. The breed’s environment may have changed from gritty mine to pretty parlor, but it never lost its tough terrier roots.
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"The story is that in the palace there were found these little dogs that nobody really saw before because they were a very secret, personal part of the emperor's empresses and the eunuchs of the palace and so on," design historian Sarah Cheang says
Dr Cheang is fascinated by why to this day, stately homes in Britain are filled with Chinese things. Buckingham Palace’s 39-acre garden fulfils many roles. Described as ‘a walled oasis in the middle of London’, the garden is the largest private garden in the capital and boasts 325 wild-plant species, 30 species of breeding birds, and over 1,000 trees, including 98 plane trees and 85 different species of oak. Like the initial garden in Beijing, Victoria designed a paradise in the meddle of London, administrative "Forbidden City is man-made, it's rigid, formal, symmetrical. The Old Summer Palace was much, much richer and more beautiful." When said in the language of Fengshui, movement of air and water… Today it is a self-regulating eco-system fed from the Buckingham Palace bore hole. A ‘long-grass policy’ has encouraged the natural lakeside environment to flourish, and the area is now a favourite nesting site for a variety of water birds. The garden provides a habitat for native birds rarely seen in London, including the common sandpiper, sedge warbler and lesser whitethroat.
She says there's a strong myth that Pekingese are 'special palace dogs'.
"They become imperial loot. They become these treasures that formerly belonged to the emperor. Hence the decision to call this one dog that's gifted to Queen Victoria, Looty," she says.
"It says a lot about how acceptable it was to loot. This was normal. The British had this God-given right to go out into the world and take stuff."
Hilary Du Crow has been breeding Pekingese dogs around the world since she was 10.
She says the Queen having the dog was a big endorsement.
"The fact that the Queen had one is clearly an influence on why it became such a big deal," she says.
In the decades that followed other Pekingese were brought over.
"The dogs that you have today were descended from ones that came out later, like about 15 years later," she says.
By 1901 a breeding population was established, and the dogs became very fashionable and very popular. Queen Victoria very knew about the Chinese culture and of his numerous refinement. The gardens of the Victorian era are a copy of the Chinese gardens and the art of Feng Shui.During the destruction of the Summer Palace after the Boxer rebellion (other name of dog which the Queen baptized),a lot of extraordinary animals were sent to Buckingam Palace.Small in size but big in personality, comes from China, it was removed by the Summer Palace and given to queen Victoria. His turbulent character destroyed the rosebushes of Buckingam Palace.e queen offered a couple of these dogs-lions to miners of Yorkshire. Dr Cheang says the popularity of the Pekingese reveals a lot about how the British feel about an imagined Far East.
"I think that the connection to the exotic is part of its appeal," she says.
"They are supposed to be like little miniature Chinese emperors sitting on cushions.
"The breeders are trying to breed them to look a certain way and create what they see as a Chinese object."
An attempt to forge a connection with a palace that was razed to the ground.
"It's an important dynamic within imperialism that you have a constant nostalgia for the thing that you're in the act of destroying," Dr Cheang says.
"At the same time as you disrupt local cultures and seek to destroy them, often in order to dominate, you are mourning the loss of those cultures and trying to act in ways to preserve them. "It's important to not just to laugh at these dogs, but to take seriously what was done in terms of violence, in terms of finding yet another way in which to assert ideas about British superiority," she says.
"These dogs were actually important tools of British imperialism.
"It's not all a laughing matter."
The Old Summer Palace has other names these days — "China's national ruin", its "ground zero".
Hear how Beijing's rulers have ensured its story has become intertwined with China's national identity on Stuff the British Stole. You can listen now on ABC Listen, or wherever you get podcasts.
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The legend could be born in shelters of the light and the real history.A Shih Tzu (English: /ˈʃiːtsuː/; Chinese: 西施犬; pinyin: xīshī quǎn), also known as the Chrysanthemum Dog, is a toy dog breed, weighing 10–19 pounds (4.5–8.6kg) when fully grown. The exact origins of the breed are unknown, but it is thought to have originated in Tibet and then been developed in China.The name comes from the Chinese language word for "lion" because this kind of dog was bred to resemble "the lion as depicted in traditional oriental art." (The Pekingese breed is also called "lion dog" in Chinese.) "Shih Tzu" is the Wade-Giles romanization of the Chinese characters 獅子, meaning lion; Wade-Giles romanization was in use when the breed was first introduced in America; but, in modern times, Pinyin romanization is used, rendering it shīzi. The Mandarin Chinese pronunciation is approximately shirr-dzə. The Shih Tzu is also known as the "Xi Shi dog" because Xi Shi was regarded as one of the most beautiful women of ancient China.[9] Shih Tzu were nicknamed the Chrysanthemum Dog in England in the 1930s..The dog may also be called the Tibetan Lion Dog; but whether the breed should be referred to as "Tibetan" or "Chinese" is a source of argument, the absolute answer to which "may never be known"DNA analysis placed the ancestors of today's Shih Tzu breed in the group of "ancient" breeds indicating "close genetic relationship to wolves".Another branch coming down from the "Kitchen Midden Dog" gave rise to the Papillon and Long-haired Chihuahua and yet another "Kitchen Midden Dog" branch to the Pug and Shih Tzu. It is also said that the breed originated in China, hence the name "Lion Dog", in 800 B.C. There are various theories of the origins of today's breed. Theories relate that it stemmed from a cross between Pekingese and a Tibetan dog called the Lhasa Apso. Dogs during ancient times were selectively bred and seen in Chinese paintings. The dogs were favorites of the Chinese royals and so prized that, for years, the Chinese refused to sell, trade, or give any away. The first dogs of the breed were imported into Europe (England and Norway) in 1930 and were classified by the Kennel Club as "Apsos". The first European standard for the breed was written in England in 1935 by the Shih Tzu Club,and the dogs were recategorised as Shih Tzu. The breed spread throughout Europe, and was brought to the United States after World War II, when returning members of the U.S. military brought back dogs from Europe, in the mid 1950s. The Shih Tzu was recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1969 in the Toy Group.The breed is now recognized by all of the major kennel clubs in the English-speaking world.[1] It is also recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale for international competition in Companion and Toy Dog Group, Section 5, Tibetan breeds. In the United States, the Shih Tzu ranked the 15th most popular breed in 2013, falling slightly in popularity since 2012, when it was placed in 11th position.A couple of days after the first assault on the palace, the foreign hostages' deaths were announced, at which point the burning of the summer palace was ordered in retribution. The destruction was dressed up as an act of rough justice, but an awful lot of soldiers and officers simply helped themselves to the astonishing treasures that lay before them. A Pekinese dog was among the haul: presented later to Queen Victoria, it was re-named "Looty", in honour of the manner in which it reached British shores.
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Yorkshire terrier, also called Yorkie, breed of toy dog developed about the mid-1800s in ... black-masked face with short muzzle, considered sacred in ancient China .... Lions, for instance, have sharp teeth and claws and are good at chasing
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The Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog breed of terrier type, developed during the 19th century in Yorkshire, England, to catch rats in clothing mills..The defining feature of the breed is its maximum size of 7 pounds (3.2 kg), although some may exceed this and grow up to 15 pounds (6.8 kg). It is placed in the Toy Terrier section of the Terrier Group by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale and in the Toy Group or Companion Group by other kennel clubs, including the American Kennel Club. A popular companion dog, the Yorkshire Terrier has also been part of the development of other breeds, such as the Australian Silky Terrier. It has a grey, black, and tan coat, and the breed's nickname is Yorkie.The Yorkshire Terrier (also called a "Yorkie") originated in Yorkshire (and adjoining Lancashire), a county in northern England.In the mid-19th century, workers from Scotland came to Yorkshire in search of work and brought with them several different varieties of small terriers. Breeding of the Yorkshire Terrier was "principally accomplished by the people—mostly operatives in cotton and woolen mills—in the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire." Details are scarce. Mrs. A. Foster is quoted as saying in 1886, "If we consider that the mill operatives who originated the breed...were nearly all ignorant men, unaccustomed to imparting information for public use, we may see some reason why reliable facts have not been easily attained.The breed sprang from three different dogs, a male named Old Crab and a female named Kitty, and another female whose name is not known.[8] The Paisley Terrier, a smaller version of the Skye Terrier that was bred for a beautiful long silky coat, also figured into the early dogs. Some authorities believed that the Maltese was used as well.[9] "They were all originally bred from Scotch Terriers (note: meaning dogs from Scotland, not today's Scottish Terrier) and shown as such...the name Yorkshire Terrier was given to them on account of their being improved so much Yorkshire."Yorkshire Terriers were shown in a dog show category (class) at the time called "Rough and Broken-coated, Broken-haired Scotch and Yorkshire Terriers". Hugh Dalziel, writing in 1878, says that "the classification of these dogs at shows and in the Kennel Club Stud Book is confusing and absurd" in lumping together these different types.In the early days of the breed, "almost anything in the shape of a Terrier having a long coat with blue on the body and fawn or silver coloured head and legs, with tail docked and ears trimmed, was received and admired as a Yorkshire Terrier". But in the late 1860s, a popular Paisley type Yorkshire Terrier show dog named Huddersfield Ben, owned by a woman living in Yorkshire, Mary Ann Foster, was seen at dog shows throughout Great Britain, and defined the breed type for the Yorkshire Terrier.
Views flow, one into another, as your steps lead you along the covered walkway in the courtyard of the Scholar's Study. The beautiful Mei Hua (Chinese Plum Blossom) tree graces the courtyard, lighting it up with the most delicate, pure white flowers.
”J’occupais un vagon de troisieme: un vieux prêtre
Sortis on brûle-gueule et mit à la fenêtre
Vers les brises, son front très calme aux poils pâlis.
Puis ce chrétien, bravant les brocarts impolis,
S’étant tourne, me fit la demande énergique
Et triste en meme temps d’une petit chique.” A. Rimbaud