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Interior of the Salvatorkirche (Church of the Savior), a Greek Orthodox church with a slightly convoluted history:
Built in late Gothic style in 1493 as a cemetery church for the relocated cemetery of the Frauenkirche.
With the secularization in 1803 it should be destroyed, but it was used as important storage, so destruction was avoided.
In 1806 it was gifted to the Lutheran community in Munich, but due to continued usage as depot the Lutheran community could not use it. With the decision to build the Lutheran St. Matthäus church in 1825 the Lutherans returned St. Salvator to the crown.
In 1828 King Ludwig I of Bavaria gave it to the Greek Orthodox community for use, but the church building remained property of the state.
After this it remained Greek Orthodox and was renovated multiple times, most recently some interior refurbishing happened in 2022.
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Macro Mondays - Redux 2021
Pick 2 themes from 2021 and combine. I have:
Gift from 4 January
Ribbon from 18 January
My Blog
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Give me your laughter as a gift,
Teach me to dream
With just a caress
I lose myself in this sea
Give me your star,
the one that lights up this night
full of peace and harmony,
and I will hand my life to you.
Forget-me-not flowers and a silver thimble that has been passed down to me through the ladies in my family, originally from my Great Grandmother.
In Englands Victorian times, silver thimbles were often gifted from a gentleman to his sweetheart which would be worn around the waist in a small pouch attached to a chain. The pouch would also contain a small pair of scissors and a needle case.
Gifted to me by a neighbour, this beautiful blue orchid was crying out to be captured. I shone a torch inside to bring out the wonderful detail in the bloom.
Blue is not a natural colour occurring in orchids. As the flower stem is growing, a food dye is injected into the flower stem. As water rises in the stem, it takes the dye with it and into the flowers. Within 24 hours you can see the dye in the flowers. This is usually done on white orchids that have very little pigment in the flowers so that the blue shows well
Several years ago a friend gifted us with tiny plants called Bee Balm. I wasn't certain how they would fit into our garden, but I generally live by the motto, "The More, the Merrier!"
Little did I know that the plants would be four to five feet tall with underground rhizomes that spread them throughout the garden. However their incredible beauty and the fact that all sorts of pollinators and hummingbirds love them secured their place in our flower garden.
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar
I was recently thinking about some of the beautiful outfits I've been given as gifts during the past year by some truly special people I know in Second Life. So then I decided, perhaps a nice way to show how much I appreciated and enjoyed these clothing gifts would be to take some pictures of me in the outfits, and post those pictures here on Flickr.
This darling ensemble was from my friend Tabby. It's a risqué little number, but I love it!
The GPS collar arrived for Tidda! It was generously gifted to me by the shelter where I had adopted her.
Now she can run free on the beach again! She has always stayed close to me and immediately comes when I call her, but the GPS will be a backup measure for some unforeseen event that could trigger a panic reaction of running away.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Entre molts altres ocells del centric parc londinenc de St. James, podeu trobar uns quants gegantins pelicans. Resulta que ja és tradició que hi hagi pelicans a St. James des del 1664, regalats per l'embaixador rus al rei d'Anglaterra!
No he pogut comprovar quina especie en concret son, pel que suposaré que es tracta de pelicans vulgars (pelecanus onocrotalus). Aquests viuen lliurement per l'entorn del llac del parc, tot i que algun sembla que fa excursions fins al zoo per robar-hi peixos!
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelic%C3%A0_vulgar
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Among many other birds in the central London park of St. James, you can find some giant pelicans. It turns out that it's already a tradition that there are pelicans in St. James since 1664, gifted by the Russian ambassador to the King of England!
I haven't been able to check which specific species they are, so I will assume that they are common pelicans (pelecanus onocrotalus). These live freely around the park's lake, although some seem to make trips to the zoo to steal fish!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_pelican
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/st-jamess-park/things-to-see-...
My cousins gifted me with a wonderful Portuguese hat crafted from very special sheep's wool that I shall wear with pride on my return to Canada. A number of other portraits of men with hats taken over many years and many visits to Portugal are in the first comment box below. (No, that is not me in the photo above and my hat is a very different style from all of the ones depicted in the portraits.)
We are soon returning to Keefer Lake ... our months here are coming to a close. It has been a great pleasure (to avoid a bit of the harsh Canadian winter) and an even greater privilege to spend time in this marvelous country with these marvelous people. Cheers!
- Praia Grande, Portugal -
The memorial fountain was gifted to the people of Sydney by the children of Lewis Wolfe Levy in 1889. It is made of polished red and white granite and features a bronze figure. It was placed at the Domain entrance to the Botanic Gardens and was prepared at the works of Messrs Freeman, Penryn and Cornwall. The figure, a water nymph in bronze, was cast by C. B. Birch.
Lewis Wolfe Levy (13 June 1815 – 25 January 1885) was an English-born Australian businessman and politician. He was born in London, the son of merchant Benjamin Wolfe Levy and his wife Martha née Levy. He migrated to Sydney in 1840 and established himself at Maitland, before moving to Tamworth. There he took over an established store and went on to make it into one of the most significant businesses in Tamworth. In 1849 he formed a business partnership with his cousin Abraham Cohen. He was also a gold buyer during the gold rush period in the 1850s. He died on 25 January 1885, survived by his wife and thirteen of their children. His estate was valued for probate at over £245,000. Most of his estate was left to family and friends with £3875 bequested to various charitable institutions. 10599
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Watercolor Art paintings that our daughter drew and attached to the gift wrapping on our Anniversary gifts.
***Gift: something given to another....
***Gift: a personal attribute
Artistb credit: DLJohnson
This photo was given to me today. It's a scene from the Metrics Cheerleaders Saturday practice, which I attend whenever I can.
I like this photo so much that I wanted to share it. Many thanks to Shawn for taking this picture.
A macro of a wrapped Galaxy Truffle, from a box gifted to us at Christmas, taken for today's Macro Mondays' theme `gift'.
We have many pieces of Native American pottery from various pueblos in New Mexixo. This piece was given to us by John's mom. It was gifted to her many many years ago. It is from Acoma Pueblo which is approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Acoma is one of the most beautiful places you could ever visit.
Tribal elders assert that the name means 'place that always was', while outsiders say it means 'people of the white rock'.
You can identify Acoma pottery from its thin walls, distinctive geometric patterns, and black, white, and warm colors and sometimes fluted rims. Another distinct feature of Acoma pottery is that it is usually the clay material is unglazed.
Acoma Pueblo link.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo
Also for #13/125 Ceramics: 125 pictures in 2025
I had the good fortune years ago to meet a gentleman who was a gifted photographer, a dedicated railroader, and a compelling storyteller. His name, that many of you may recognize, is Doug Harrop.
He was born in 1940 in Huntsville, Utah and his photographic legacy began in the 1970s, continuing well into the 2000s. He was a career railroader as a locomotive engineer for the Southern Pacific, working primarily the territory of the Salt Lake Division between Ogden, Utah and Carlin, Nevada. Eventually, he worked for the merged Union Pacific until retirement with 38 years of service.
Each fall, Utah area photographers would gather in Salt Lake City and invite Doug to join us for pizza and a slide show. What I remember most from those gatherings was not the photography, but Doug's gift of storytelling, in particular tales from the cab during his career on the SP.
We lost Doug 10 years ago to cancer. His son Matt Harrop has entrusted me to share his photographic legacy with the world, beginning with this photo Doug claimed was "My All Time Best Shot". Many of you may recognize it, and most would probably agree with his assumption. The photo was made near his Mountain Green, Utah home. The subject is Union Pacific's Park City Local, creating a trackside snow squall on Jan. 6, 1986. I will share more of Doug's work in future days. Stay tuned.
In Erikousa (Ερεικούσσα , Ερείκουσα)
Erikousa, Othoni and Mathraki are a group of small islands in the Ionian Sea northwest of Corfu.Gifted with natural beautιes and wonderful beaches are small paradises on earth.
Thank you all known and unknown friends in Flickr for your visit
A friend once told me that if she were to be reborn, she would like to be a bird. To fly free, sing along with the breeze and no stress of a rat race society. How beautiful would that be? Yet I wish, if I were to be reborn, I would like to be human again and hopefully some of my memories of lesson learnt remains so that I can avoid repeating them, and I can still fly and sing along with the breeze despite the rat race society. Besides, I have a promise to fulfil.
Yet, since we are gifted this life, I hope we can see the beauty of little things that exist in the present, while hoping for the next best thing to happen in the future.
Location:
Korean Village @ The Black by Dior Canis
Listen, watch and smile:
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Mary Dunbar
Maas Vlakte 2 Port of Rotterdam
AIS Name EVER GIFTED
Type Container ship
Flag Singapore
IMO 9786827
MMSI 563068900
Callsign 9V5825
Year Built 2018
Length 399 m
Width 59 m
Draught Avg 13.4 m / ...
Speed Max / 24.2 kn
Deadweight 198886 tons
Gross Tonnage 219352
AIS Class A
Cargo Capacity
Capacities
TEU: 20,388 incl 1500 ref C
(No it was not set up, I just walked by after getting coffee and thought, hey, I need to capture that!)
Gifted to the city in 1879 by the master brewer, MP and philanthropic giant, Michael Bass.
Yep, you don’t get those qualities in politicians these days.
Sold off by the cash-strapped city council (probably due to underuse, thank you internet), it’s now a wedding and function venue. At least it’s not a tattoo parlour or a vape shop.
Many a time I've been wondering whether there is a "pathway", a "recipe" that leads a specific profession or activity to the top of its peers' list ? Whether there are quality characteristics of steady nature, whose presence boosts a given venture into a diachronic success, while their absence turn other similar ventures to subsequent mediocrity and gradual oblivion ?
When I posed this very question to a professor of mine once, he came to me with an amazing answer: "The key to success ... " he said " ... in every venture you decide to undertake is to try not to be a little something to almost everybody but to be almost everything to only a bunch of people".
The University of Cambridge followed that recipe and managed to be steadily ranked amongst the top five Academic Institutions of this planet for quite a few centuries now. It has a reputation that acts like "honey to the bees" to young, gifted minds from all over the globe, while at the same time it unsparingly provides both high standards' academic programs for almost all sciences, as well as an amazing Medieval environment whithin which these programs are followed and completed.
The above scene was taken from a floating boat over the river Cam. A few more will follow ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Shutter priority mode, shutter speed 1/100 s, ISO 100, f 4.5, focal length 29 mm, use of HOYA ND X 2 filter, cloudy weather white balance, center weighted average metering mode, HDR processing derived from only one RAW file, no flash, no tripod ...