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Week 1 - Day 5
Friday = Blue Day for Rainbow Week group.
For those wondering.... the shoes and the umbrella are both blue.
If you put your feet up against an umbrella
if you put your umbrella up against the sunlight
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you can almost feel like you are on vacation
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almost
Happy Friday everyone. FUTAB!
Color Psychology of Blue
(from Wikipedia)
Seas, skies, peace, unity, harmony, tranquility, calmness, coolness, confidence, conservatism, water, ice, loyalty, dependability, cleanliness, technology, winter, depression, coldness, idealism, obscenity, tackiness, air, wisdom, Earth (planet), Virgo (light blue), Pisces (pale blue) and Aquarius (dark blue) (star sign), strength, steadfastness, light, friendliness, July (sky blue), February (deep blue), peace, mourning, truthfulness, love.
In many diverse cultures blue is significant in religious beliefs, believed to keep the bad spirits away.
Highest position: # 23 on July 6th, 2007
summer among the fields of wild lupins
(check out this version too: www.flickr.com/photos/cybelmoonstruck/31572961456/in/albu...)
The church was built by William Sinclair, a son of the Earl of Orkney, in the 1400s. The Sinclairs original name was St.Clair revealing the Norman connection to the family. William who was considered a ne’er do well by his father was never a Knight Templar. The knights had been dishonoured and disbanded by Pope Clement long before (in 1312)....
.....The Knights Templar themselves had a long, controversial and colourful history. Though they began in the spiritual idealism of the early Crusades, in time they amassed great wealth in the Holy Land and became known for their excesses. “To drink like a Templar“ was an adage of the day. They were eventually accused of heresy and sorcery by the church. Their order ended in dissolution and disgrace with the burning at the stake of their leader and Grand Master, Jacques de Molay in Paris. It is said he died defiant, condemning both the pope and the church!
more fascinating history here:
cybeleshineblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/rosslyn-chapel/
( experimenting with Topaz impressions)
I wear the world. I imitate it as a portable form of truth.
To survive, I act camouflaged within it.
I wear the world. I worship it like a cold, pocket-sized deity
Le violet est une couleur royale qui représente la subtilité, le mystère, le romantisme, l’idéalisme, la protection, la mélancolie, la fraicheur, la pureté, la paix et le luxe.
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The purple is a royal color which represents the subtlety, the mystery, the romanticism, the idealism, the protection, the melancholy, the freshness, the purity, the peace and the luxury.
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" is a song written by John Fogerty and released as a single in (early) 1971 from the album Pendulum (1970) by roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number 1 on the RPM 100 national singles chart in March 1971. In the U.S., in the same year it peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (where it was listed as "Have You Ever Seen the Rain / Hey Tonight", together with the B-side).
Some have speculated that the song's lyrics are referencing the Vietnam War, with the "rain" being a metaphor for bombs falling from the sky. In his review for Allmusic website, Mark Deming suggests that the song is about the idealism of the 1960s and about how it faded in the wake of events such as the Altamont Free Concert and the Kent State shootings, and that Fogerty is saying that the same issues of the 1960s still existed in the 1970s but that people were no longer fighting for them. However, Fogerty himself has said in interviews and prior to playing the song in concert that it is about rising tension within CCR and the imminent departure of his brother Tom from the band.
[from Wikipedia]
Happy 50th anniversary!
One of my all time favorite songs:
Happy Monochrome Monday, everyone!
Photo Inspiration
Tribute | God Save This Queen by Bimini Bon Boulash
Ok, ok, I'll come to grips with the fact that I'm a super fan. It's not every day you get to witness beautiful, intelligent, woke humans of this calibre. Creative beings like Bimini give me hope for our future, that we'll be able to move throughout life expressing ourselves and exploring opportunities without the crushing weight of societal norms and constructed idealism.
<3 keep being you.
to one's distance from the problem :-)
John Galsworthy
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cercis, gold leaf eastern redbud, 'Jn2', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
The photo shows overflow from Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.....
Quote Of The Day:
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Oh, how the idealism of the 60's has somehow failed to materialize...we live in a world of chaos, hate and fear now...what happened?
Antonio Francesco Gramsci (22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.
Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources – not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including Italian history and nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, folklore, religion and high and popular culture.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class – the bourgeoisie – use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. The bourgeoisie, in Gramsci's view, develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so that they become the "common sense" values of all and thus maintain the status quo. Cultural hegemony is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than the use of force to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced by the dominant class through the institutions that form the superstructure.
Gramsci also attempted to break from the economic determinism of traditional Marxist thought, and so is sometimes described as a neo-Marxist. He held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a "philosophy of praxis" and an "absolute historicism" that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.
The Sirius building is an apartment complex in The Rocks district of Sydney. It was built to rehouse public tenants who had been displaced after a controversial redevelopment of the the area during the 60’s and 70’s.
A decision to sell the building was made in 2015, thereby placing it under risk of demolition due to a lack of any heritage protection. It’s future remains in doubt.
I like this building. I like it a lot in fact, particularly the strong lines, crisp shadows and idealism it embodies. It’s one of only few prominent examples of Brutalist architecture in Sydney.
Shine on Sirius.
The Rocks, Sydney
June, 2019
Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, Ca.
This is another rendition of a photo I posted earlier. I just love the white potty roof almost matching the lines of the hills and color of the snow and clouds.
If only we had found a way to live up to the idealism:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSqVkuTegxY
Perhaps we never will.
to one's distance from the problem ;-)
John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933) an English novelist and playwright
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Westman Islands, Viking cruise, Iceland
“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.” (by Catherine Breillat)
…Many of the most important Bay Area artists of the time were hired to create the artwork. The twenty-six project artists worked together to support the unified theme of ‘Aspects of Life in California, 1934′, depicting scenes of agriculture, education, urban and rural life, and New Deal idealism
- John Galsworthy.
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We spent our first sunset at Saguaro National Park at the signal Hill location. To be exact, I hiked a bit away from the signal hill to a nearby hill with a bit more elevation and afforded more flexibility to set up my tripod. While I initially focused on the light falling on the nearby hills, something interesting caught my eye. As the sun got near the horizon, the backlit saguaros looked spectacular, especially towards the setting sun . With the haze as the background, I liked how the saguaro forest almost blended into the pure white light from the sun. The elevation of the hill allowed me to set this scene beautifully. It's one of my favorite images from our winter road trip.
Interesanti facts about the New College
www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/about/history/new-college
The foundation of New College was the product of the zeal that arose from religious conflict.
New College was founded as the theological college of the Free Church of Scotland. It opened for classes in Edinburgh’s New Town on 1 November 1843 before moving to the Mound soon after. Rev Dr Thomas Chalmers laid the foundation stone for the current building on 3 June 1846*.
The Free Church had left the Church of Scotland at the Disruption of 1843. The Disruption was a time of division, when over a third of the ministers and perhaps half the lay membership left the established Church of Scotland in protest against what they perceived as state efforts to undermine the Church's spiritual independence and integrity.
Against all odds, the outgoing clergy and laity formed the Free Church of Scotland as a new national Church, free from state connection and acknowledging only the headship of Christ. Amid the idealism and fervour aroused by the Disruption, the struggling Free Church founded New College as an institution for educating not simply a learned ministry, but a new Scottish Christian leadership.
The hope was that these new leaders would guide the nation through a new Reformation, reassert the spiritual independence of the Church, and elevate the religious and moral conditions of the Scottish people.
For a time, New College was envisaged as a free university, a citadel of conscience which would stand against the system of patronage and privilege that for centuries had enabled the Crown and members of the gentry and aristocracy to dominate the religious and intellectual life of the nation.
In 1935, New College was merged with the Faculty (now the School) of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh, following the reunion of the Church of Scotland and United Free Church in 1929.
Theology had been studied at the University since its earliest days.
Theology at the University since 1583
The University of Edinburgh was, at its founding in 1583, largely a theological college for the training of clergy in the Church of Scotland. The first Principal of the University, Robert Rollock (c.1545-1599), was appointed Principal in 1583 and became Professor of Theology from 1587. The first endowed professorship in the University was the Professorship of Divinity (1620). This was followed by the Professorship of Hebrew and Oriental Languages (1642) and the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History (1694).
New College today
Today New College is two things. It is the place in Edinburgh where the Church of Scotland trains its ministerial candidates, and the name of the building which houses both that training college and the University’s School of Divinity.
The School of Divinity offers broader academic study across a wide range of religious beliefs, ancient and modern, with no expectation that staff hold any particular faith perspective.
Amsterdam - Ten Katestraat - Hasebroekstraat
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This is a composite of six photos of real buildings (or parts of them) which I shot at the amazing Hayden Tract in Culver City, California.
I have repositioned, distorted, painted and otherwise manipulated them not-quite-beyond recognition, but close. The parrot in the tire swing is, of course, complete fiction ;-).
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Today WAH visiting Those Were the Days
A retake of a photo back in 1990.
I worked as a manager for a telecom company for more years than I care to remember. This was me back in 1990 being a super hero and delivering a briefing to other managers in some rah rah way before attending a conference where I had to deliver it all over again. We certainly embraced the work hard play hard culture. They were enjoyable days.
Mary Hopkins released Those Were the Days back in 1968. Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Дорогой длинною" (literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism. It also deals with tavern activities, which include drinking, singing and dancing.
I must admit I really disliked this song and turned off the radio when it came on.
Antonio Francesco Gramsci (22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.
Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources – not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including Italian history and nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, folklore, religion and high and popular culture.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class – the bourgeoisie – use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. The bourgeoisie, in Gramsci's view, develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so that they become the "common sense" values of all and thus maintain the status quo. Cultural hegemony is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than the use of force to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced by the dominant class through the institutions that form the superstructure.
Gramsci also attempted to break from the economic determinism of traditional Marxist thought, and so is sometimes described as a neo-Marxist. He held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a "philosophy of praxis" and an "absolute historicism" that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.
For me, abandoned structures are at their oxymoronic best when collapse is obvious, but vestiges of better times remain. It's that juxtaposition of good and bad that I always seek out when visiting places like this. I want to see traces of the former owners, and the mark they left on these places when they called them their homes. It's all about context, of shooting ruins not just for the sake of the destruction, but establishing a wider view of how these places fit the current environment. One aspect of this is the simultaneous deterioration of manmade structure and the resurgence of nature as vegetation attempts to reclaim the land. This old barn checked all of those boxes for me on a harsh, snowy day last April. At first glance approaching from the front, the building seemed to be still largely intact. Moving to the side revealed the dramatic extent of structural failure. The once well kept yard was now a tangle of overgrowth that made it difficult to take even small steps without fear of tripping and falling on any manner or sharp and rusty debris. But the crowning glory of the scene was the remains of the white picket fence. One of the quintessential aspects of the American dream, now spindly, broken and badly in need of a paint job that will never come. It put me in mind of a bleached white rib cage from a roadside deer carcass. Skeletal remains to mark the death site, the last signs of the living before all traces fade into nothing.
Justicia carnea or the Brazillian Plume Flower photographed in the Begonia House at the Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington (NZ)
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Luigi De Luca (Naples, 28 November 1857 - Naples, 1938) - Cloistered Dream (1890) - plaster sculpture - Museum and Royal Wood of Capodimonte
Sogno claustrale raffigura una giovane monaca ardente di desiderio, che si abbandona alla lettura di un libro che parla d’amore, una fanciulla nel pieno rigoglio fisico che si ribella alla vita del convento.
La critica ne lodò la linea larga, l’indovinata espressione dell’insieme, sottolineando che l’autore non si era fermato alla sola testa, ma aveva colto un momento dello spirito, era riuscito a dotare l’opera di un’anima: materia e spirito, idealismo e sensualismo, fremito e sentimento, erano i caratteri che alcuni critici misero in evidenza nell’osservare l’opera, ma, più in generale, nel considerare la nuova produzione dello scultore.
Sogno claustrale (Cloistered Dream) depicts a young nun burning with desire, reading a book about love, a young girl in the full bloom of life who rebels against convent life.
The critics praised the broad line and the well-chosen expression of the whole, emphasising that the artist had not stopped at the head alone, but had captured a moment of the spirit, had succeeded in endowing the work with a soul: matter and spirit, idealism and sensualism, thrill and feeling, were the characteristics that some critics highlighted when observing the work, but more generally when considering the sculptor's new production.
Living Close to Nature: Bamboo village, tree house settlement and
Living in harmony with the environment instead of against it - this need is increasingly becoming a driving force in many areas of our society. "Green" architecture and sustainable building materials ensure that the desire to live in harmony with nature can be realized, at least in part, for the average citizen as well. Extraordinary living concepts that we will present to you here show how close to nature people can live if they invest more - in terms of time, money, energy and idealism.
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I am back to my yellow challenge: "What does yellow represent" in Google and this was their response: "The Color Yellow. Yellow, the lightest hue of the spectrum, signifies joy, happiness, betrayal, optimism, caution, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard and friendship". So I decided to try my hand at
imagination, and found it a pretty big challenge, I hope you like what I have done.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
"Salad days" is a Shakespearean phrase meaning a youthful time, when a young person is filled with enthusiasm, idealism, and innocence, still 'green' to the ways of the world...and it was first spoken in 1606 by Cleopatra in Shakespeare's play 'Antony and Cleopatra' in Act 1, Scene 5...today, it is used to refer to a time of someone's peak abilities and success...
This young instar Black Swallowtail, just turning green, seems to be enjoying it's salad days of dining on Water Hemlock, which would make a poisonous salad for us!
For your knowledge, I decided to make my life more challenging and interesting so looked up "What does yellow represent" in Google and this was their response: "The Color Yellow. Yellow, the lightest hue of the spectrum, signifies joy, happiness, betrayal, optimism, caution, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard and friendship". So I decided to try my hand at
illness, and found it a pretty big challenge, I hope you like what I have done.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
" Un homme qui n'a pas peur de regarder l'enfant qu'il a été, et de lui demander s'il est fier de ce qu'il est devenu. Un homme qui croit encore à une certaine forme d'idéalisme. Je suis un rêveur. Et il en faut des comme moi, pour maintenir un peu d'illusion au milieu des êtres comme vous."
" A man who isn't afraid to look at the child he once was and ask him if he's proud of the man he's become. A man who still believes in a certain form of idealism. I'm a dreamer. And we need people like me to maintain a little bit of illusion amidst people like you. "
the fact that this flag has been misused and corrupted by a very long line of politicians and bankers does not diminish the idealism. have a happy holiday!
I am back to my yellow challenge: "What does yellow represent" in Google and this was their response: "The Color Yellow. Yellow, the lightest hue of the spectrum, signifies joy, happiness, betrayal, optimism, caution, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard and friendship". So I decided to try my hand at
optimism, and found it a pretty big challenge, I hope you like what I have done.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
Francis rebuilt the Church by first rebuilding churches. Francis would not have gained the followers that he did if he had not been literal in his commitments. It was precisely his idealism that drew people to join him. There is simple beauty and attraction in doing what needs to be done regardless of other consequences.
-FRANCIS AND CLARE A True Story, Jon M. Sweeney
Blindly driving around backroads is the stuff of legend, isn't it? It's one of the "American Dreams" where you just get in the car, forget the map, and drive.
Of course, as those of us who have actually tried that have found out, usually, you just drive and don't find much. Sometimes we don't figure this out soon enough.
My trips since this discovery are meticulously planned and laid out, plotted and mapped. Everything I want to see is noted. Every road I want to travel is selected.
Of course, since I've been doing this for over two decades now, I understand that all plans will fail. It's really the only certain thing about traveling backroads: whatever you have planned will not work out how you planned it.
So in all of my details and in all of my forethought, I leave room for error and improvisation. It's very difficult to do this on a map. Apart from giving yourself alternative routes, there's not much you can do.
This preparation is mental. Since I know going into it that it might not work out, I am mentally preparing myself for this possibility. I'm tempted to call it a "disappointment," but at this point, it's not even that. It's just part of the trip.
This photo was taken on a detour. I went down a road (my brain remembers it as the sandhills of Nebraska, but my notes say it was North Dakota), and it dead-ended in someone's yard. Legally, it might have continued on (this happens), but socially, I thought it was a bad idea to just drive through what appeared to be their property.
Anyway, it's winter now and I wish it were summer.
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'Idealism Begins at Home'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Fuji NPZ 800; x-06/2003
Process: DIY ECN-2
North Dakota
July 2022
En el monumento a Cervantes de la plaza de España de Madrid, no podía faltar la mención en lugar destacado de sus dos personajes más célebres, Don Quijote de la Mancha y Sancho Panza. Aquí podemos ver sus imágenes, realizadas en bronce por el escultor Lorenzo Coullaut-Valera, situadas delante de la del escritor y algo separadas de ella, como si aún estuvieran recorriendo los campos de La Mancha, al igual que llevan haciéndolo desde hace cuatrocientos años, no llevando más acompañantes que el noble idealismo de Don Quijote y el más práctico realismo de Sancho Panza.
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In the monument to Cervantes in the Plaza de España in Madrid, mention could not be made of his two most famous personalities, Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza. Here we can see his images, made in bronze by the sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut-Valera, located in front of the writer's and something separated from it, as if they were still crossing the fields of La Mancha, as they have been doing for four hundred years, not carrying more companions than the noble idealism of Don Quixote and the more practical realism of Sancho Panza.
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When Coit Tower was completed in 1933, its interior consisted of over 3,000 square feet of blank wall space. But in early 1934, the building became the pilot project of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), and offshoot of the Civil Works Administration, one of the ‘alphabet soup’ of federal agencies that put people to work during the Depression. One of the goals of the PWAP was ‘…to support professional artists and thereby create quality art.’
…Many of the most important Bay Area artists of the time were hired to create the artwork. The twenty-six project artists worked together to support the unified theme of ‘Aspects of Life in California, 1934′, depicting scenes of agriculture, education, urban and rural life, and New Deal idealism. Inspired by the 1920s public art movement in Mexico, the decision to use the medium of fresco for the murals was linked to artists such as Diego Rivera, with whom several of the Coit Tower muralists had worked. In fresco, the artist paints directly onto a wet plaster surface; as the colors dry, the picture becomes part of the wall and any changes must be chipped out. The muralists earned an average of $31.22 per week, completing the project in six months’ time.
…Before the Tower opened to the public, during the politically charged atmosphere of the 1934 Maritime Strike, several murals were negatively described in the press as depicting Communist symbols. Eventually one of the controversial pieces was removed, and the building finally opened to the public in October 1934.
Please open your mind.
See what you can find.
I found out today we're going wrong,
We're going wrong.
[Cream,
We're Going Wrong, 1967]
Among the first British settlers to arrive in Georgia, Mr. Noble Jones snuck a small plantation into the new colony, despite Georgia not wanting plantations, slaves, or the planter class such as South Carolina had. Inspired by Enlightenment thinkers, Georgia trustees envisioned an egalitarian way of life, pursuit of liberty, and working with one's own hands on one's property (not proxy hands via slaves but by the sweat of one's own effort) for its colonialists. The new colony provided a second chance for Britain's destitute in debtor's prison.
But riches are what cried out in the New World, not failure or poverty. All one needed to see about acquiring wealth was on the other side of the Savannah River in South Carolina–i.e. plantations, slaves, and the existence of a wealthy planter class. That rich conservative southern reality gnawed at the liberal enlightened idealism of Georgia, the only colony in America, including New England, that prohibited slavery. It was not until much later, in 1777, that another, the newly independent state of Vermont, banned adult slavery while keeping black children enslaved until they were adults.†
Savannah's Wormsloe Plantation started as an exemption to smaller regulated plots of land in the need for a large military base against Spain's Florida colony. If not used for defense purposes, the colony of Georgia's trustees envisioned Noble Jones not making a rice or cotton plantation out of it but rather making a silk farm out of his land. Silkworms, hah! Jones dutifully obliged. Unsuccessfully.
As economic pressure came for Georgia to loosen its prohibition on slavery, Jones was able to bring in enslaved people to work his plantation, the Wormsloe Plantation.
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†Note: See Wikipedia: "The [Vermont] delegates forbade adult slavery within their republic, although the Vermont constitution continued to make allowances for the enslavement of men under the age of 21 and women under the age of 18."
For your knowledge, I decided to make my life more challenging and interesting so looked up "What does yellow represent" in Google and this was their response: "The Color Yellow. Yellow, the lightest hue of the spectrum, signifies joy, happiness, betrayal, optimism, caution, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard and friendship". So I decided to try my hand at jealousy, and found it a pretty big challenge, I hope you like what I have done.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
The walled garden adjacent to the house has long borders of lavender and a dovecote. No sign of any doves, but there were plenty of bees on the lavender bushes and white roses that scrambled over the walls..On a sunny summer’s day, Nymans Gardens just outside Handcross near Haywards Heath conjures up all the romance and idealism of the early 20th century