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Caught a lovely scene with kites cross crossing the sky against a beautiful sky and treeline. The seemed so foreign to the sky and i nearly cropped them out but it made for a lovely distraction as they glided back and forth into the frame I decided they had to stay!. Apparently the kite is an ancient device that is believed to have been invented in China by two philosophers in the fifth century B.C. named Mo Di and Luc Ban.
The little inventor and his trusty owl build a steam engine…
Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following innovative creations:
{-Maru Kado-}'s Barn Owl!
Contraption's The Operator's Overture Train Engine, The Repairman's Requiem Train Car, The Stratus Sailors Train Car, Mark's Lamp, Mark's Shelf with Books, Mark's Revolving Book Case, and The Story Teller Clock!
kunst's Screwdriver, Mechanic's Cloth, Vintage Oiler, Bolts & Nuts, Nuts Jar, Bolts Jar, Industrial Bench Lamp, and Welder Bench!
8f8's Storyteller's Burrow Old Armchair and Old Rugs!
NOMAD's Science Lab Cabinet!
zerkalo's Books!
anxiety's Quebec Hall!
The little prince wears the following durable styles:
Hotdog's Spencer Jumper!
Katatonik's Juggy Hat!
Contraption's Worker's Gloves!
Contraption's Machinist Goggles!
Let's keep building a world founded on kindness and compassion where everyone can create a brighter today!
Occasionally, I have fun reusing a pose, just to see if I can come up with something that has a completely different feel. This is one of those times.
Elysion's Cirque du Reves event was recently, and I was inspired to make an outfit for the event, as well! It was such a lovely event, I do hope they have more!
It's perfect, as there was so much new stuff that fit perfectly.
The Avenue has some wonderful stuff from Zibska! The Yingtai decoration, along with the blush and lipstick are striking with the Aceri eyemakeup that came out for the event! Grab it before it's gone! The headpiece is unrigged, so you can have fun with some of the falling petals, like I did!
Azoury's Cyrus Boots seriously made me excited the moment I saw the ad. I couldn't wait to get them. Grab them at Cosmopolitan before the next one!
Hitch a ride over on my blog!
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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
~ Mary Lou Cook
Taken at Toronto Park
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The screw thread is believed to have been invented around 400 BCE, by Archytas of Tarentum, a Greek philosopher sometimes called “the father of mechanics.” The general principle of the screw was applied early on, in cities like Pompeii, to extract olive oil and grape juice. It was further developed the Greek mathematician Archimedes to alter water levels. The water screw, first mentioned in Mechanica of Heron of Alexandria, was made from wood and aided farm irrigation and rid ships of bilge water.
La causa sui es la mejor contracción interna que se haya inventado jamás, una especie de violación y de atentado a la lógica. Pero el orgullo desmesurado del hombre le ha conducido a enzarzarse cada vez más en las temibles profundidades de este absurdo. El anhelo del "libre arbitrio", entendido en el sentido superlativo y metafísico que aún domina, desgraciadamente, en los cerebros semicultivados, la necesidad de soportar la completa y absoluta responsabilidad de sus actos y de descargar de ella a Dios, al mundo, a la herencia, al azar, a la sociedad, no es otra cosa que la necesidad de ser uno mismo esta causa sui. Con una audacia que supera la del barón de Munchausen, se intenta tirarse a sí mismo de los cabellos para salir de la ciénaga de la nada y entrar en la existencia...
(...) Somos nosotros, y únicamente nosotros, quienes hemos inventado, como tantas ficciones, la causa, la sucesión, la reciprocidad, la relatividad, la necesidad, el número, la ley, la libertad, la razón, el fin; y cuando introducimos falsamente en las "cosas" este mundo de signos inventados por nosotros, cuando lo incorporamos a las cosas como si les perteneciese "en sí", obramos una vez más como lo hemos hecho siempre: creemos una mitología...
(...) Y de una manera general, si mis observaciones son exactas, el problema del determinismo se considera desde dos aspectos absolutamente diferentes, pero siempre de manera absolutamente personal: unos creencia en sí mismos, de su derecho personal, de su propio mérito (es el caso de las castas vanidosas); otros, por el contrario, no queriendo ser responsables de nada, ni culpables de nada, impulsados por un íntimo desprecio de sí mismos, exigiendo descargarse no importa dónde del fardo de su yo. Cuando éstos escriben libros, tienen la costumbre hoy de tomar a su cargo la defensa de los malhechores; su disfraz más amable es afectar una especie de socialismo de la piedad. Y, efectivamente, el fatalismo de los abúlicos se embellece extraordinariamente en cuanto que logra presentarse como la "religión de la souffrance humaine". Este su modo peculiar de demostrar su "buen gusto".
(Más allá del Bien y del Mal) Friedrich Nietzsche
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything
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There is no Beauty Without Some Strangeness
- Edgar Allan Poe
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The Raven:
Ravens are among the smartest of all birds, gaining a reputation for solving ever more complicated problems invented by ever more creative scientists.
The Raven is an acrobatic flier, often doing rolls and somersaults in the air. Young birds are fond of playing games with sticks, repeatedly dropping them, then diving to catch them in midair.
People around the world sense a certain kind of personality in ravens. Edgar Allan Poe clearly found them a little creepy. The captive ravens at the Tower of London are beloved and perhaps a little feared: legend has it that if they ever leave the tower, the British Empire will crumble.
Common Ravens can mimic the calls of other bird species. When raised in captivity, they can even imitate human words; one Common Raven raised from birth was taught to mimic the word “nevermore.”
The oldest known wild Common Raven was at least 22 years, 7 months old. It was banded and found again in Nova Scotia.
(Nikon D750, Nikor 80-200/5.6, 1/320 @ f/8.0, ISO 400, edited to taste)
Du cercle à la roue il y eut l'être
Autrement dit l'éternité
Le mouvement traduisait la mémoire
D'une évidence sans chronologie
Avec l'errance pour origine
L'origine s'inventait les couleurs de l'aube
Quand le temps naquit des langes d'un orage
Le crépuscule cessa d'être un sentiment
Puis vint l'arc-en-ciel
Comme rêve d'une ombre immobile
D'invisible la roue se fit passage
Trouée d'absence
Le cercle inscrivit l'apparence
Il y eut un début à tout
Le règne de la terre
Condamnait l'oeil à voir et seulement
Au centre se tenait le point frileux de la pensée
L'idée du centre
Le réel reçut alors l'infini
D'une vision du coeur
A. Velter Le Haut-Pays et la traversée du Tsangpo
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Dios amaba a los pájaros e inventó los árboles. El hombre amaba a los pájaros e inventó las jaulas...
L'invention du téléphone et des télécommunications intercontinentales a permis -d'après certains penseurs libéraux- l'avènement d'un village planétaire où tous, nous sommes reliés au reste de l'Humanité tels des frères et soeurs humains.
Et voici donc la preuve à quel point les télécommunications nous rapprochent. :-))
With new invention (and lunch!) in hand, the little gamer announces, “I’m going in!”
Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following super creations:
HAIKEI's Like A Humid Day Build, which is available at Kustom9!
NOMAD's Retro Gamer Desks and Chairs, which are available at Rewind: 90's Throwback Event!
NOMAD's Snack Vendors, which are available at MadPea International Food Fair!
NOMAD's Rejected Games, Retrowave Clock, Gamer Coffee Table, and Lunch Meal!
Thank you to all the designers out there who invent cool new items that encourage us to play and expand our imaginations!
Keep shining bright, my friends!
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Ana's reaction: (i love her poetry!):
she had a frontier made of glass.
sometimes she feels
she could arrive
she doesn't have sure
about the
future's door
i believe
she must arrive
to that
clear department
of
open
windows
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* Vista de unas antiguas bodegas a la salida del teatro El Jardinito en la ciudad de Cabra de Córdoba, (La Igabrum tartesso-romana). Centro geográfico de Andalucía.
* La industria vitivinícola sigue siendo muy interesante en la economía egabrense pues son famosas sus bodegas y vinos dentro de la denominación Montilla-Moriles, si bien antaño eran más abundantes que en la actualidad. La huerta, el olivo y la vid, fueron riquezas seculares en esta tierra de manantiales y aguas junto al mármol rojo y las piedras de caliza extraídas de sus canteras.
* Evocaremos ante esta estampa colorista el soneto del argentino Jorge Luis Borges dedicado al vino.
¿En qué reino, en qué siglo, bajo qué silenciosa
conjunción de los astros, en qué secreto día
que el mármol no ha salvado, surgió la valerosa
y singular idea de inventar la alegría?
Con otoños de oro la inventaron. El vino
fluye rojo a lo largo de las generaciones
como el río del tiempo y en el arduo camino
nos prodiga su música, su fuego y sus leones.
En la noche del júbilo o en la jornada adversa
exalta la alegría o mitiga el espanto
y el ditirambo nuevo que este día le canto
otrora lo cantaron el árabe y el persa.
Vino, enséñame el arte de ver mi propia historia
como si ésta ya fuera ceniza en la memoria.
(JORGE LUIS BORGES. Poemas.)
Boredom on a damp day sets in :-) Oh thank you thank you to whoever invented PhotoShop!!! :-)))) Anybody coming for a ride then?
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* Arco de triunfo del Carrusel. Ubicado entre el Museo del Louvre y los Jardines de las Tullerías. París. Francia.
* (Foto tratada con el programa PSP. 07, en la que me he permitido algunas licencias de fantasía en la estructura y la luz).
El arco de triunfo del Carrusel es un monumento que data de 1809 y que se encuentra en la plaza del Carrusel. Napoleón Bonaparte lo mandó levantar en conmemoración de sus victorias militares. Fue construido por Pierre F.L. Fontaine y Charles Percier, según el modelo del Arco de Constantino en Roma. Con entradas en cada una de sus cuatro caras fue declarado Monumento histórico y más adelante Patrimonio de la humanidad.
Bajo este arco rememoré los versos profundos y sinceros de la escritora española Ana M.ª Fagundo
Arcos triunfales sobre la noche de otro sueño
se yerguen ahora potentes y empeñados
negando que en la batalla se había perdido
el sentimiento,
la luz,
aquel sesgo alborozado de mi verso.
No hubo derrota. No me venció el tiempo
que tuvo otoño entre sus manos
y galopó enloquecido hacia un invierno
duro, devastador.
Todo fue un truco. Un invento
de viejas batallas simuladas por otros gestos
y otras palabras
que no eran mías.
Las mías eran palabras
que cantaban. Cantaban. Cantan.
Palabras que seguirán, mientras yo siga,
cantando entre la noche,
cantando a pleno día,
cantando desde la siempre madrugada de mi verso.
Y ese es el triunfo, el monumento que yergo
con mis manos, desde mi sangre,
desde el hondón de mi poema,
para decir que sí, que fui, que soy,
que estas son mis señas,
mis huellas,
mi única posible identidad para la sombra
y para la luz;
para la brisa suave de los tactos
y para el aguijón agudo de los gritos.
Este es mi triunfo:
palabra siempre viva,
palabra siempre en ciernes.
(ANA Mª. FAGUNDO. Poemas.)
Les Painted Ladies, qui sont-elles ?
Typiques d’une époque, les Painted Ladies reflètent l’architecture de style victorien, sous l’époque victorienne et le règne de la Victoria 1ère de 1837 à 1901, puis de style édouardien, sous le règne d’Edouard VII, de 1901 à 1910.
Le terme « Painted Ladies » a été inventé par les écrivains Elizabeth Pomada et Michael Larsen en 1978 pour décrire les jolies maisons colorées de San Francisco, et a ensuite été repris pour qualifier d’autres maisons du même style dans différentes villes, comme à Charles Village à Baltimore, à Lafayette Square à St Louis, à Columbia-Tusculum à Cincinnati…
Merci beaucoup à tous pour votre aimable commentaire et vos favoris très appréciés - bien cordialement ! au plaisir !
Thank you very much to all for your kind comment and your very appreciated favorites - well cordially - au plaisir -
Herzlichen Dank an alle für Ihren freundlichen Kommentar und Ihre beliebten Favoriten - herzlich! zum Vergnügen
A clematis flower finding its way through a ceanothus shrub. I could not have invented this colour arrangement. It just "happened". And this makes me think that I have scissors in my head. What I mean is the photographer's temptation of controlling the colour arrangement. But colours can also simply "happen" - without my ego policing their boundaries. And why not?
Invento os dias e já deles vivo,
ainda que se demorem
para minha tão grande pressa.
O amor é já minha premência,
meu abandono e a saudade do que virá e
meus olhos intentam enxergar
no recôndito deserto dessa solidão.
E já tudo acontece
e me transformo em cais urgente,
em rumor de primavera, seiva fremente
à sua espera,
sombra do amor que a tudo transfigura,
ainda que habite em névoas,
em tudo que só existe em meus sonhos.
Obrigada pelas visitas =)
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
-Sidney Sheldon
SLURL: Kintsugi; Spirited Beyond
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[10th out of 12 Photos]
P.S. I took this picture a month ago but isn't it ironic on how my posting mood goes. This so fits the steampunk frenzy I am on right now and gives me more inspiration to write about this. Of course the Creativity globe was better fitted in the more 'developed' areas of Kintsugi's little town. Too much rust collecting along the metallic buildings.
There is just so much to say about creativity. I mean don't you feel a tingle every time you see pipes fuming, then turning of the wheels for results and so on and so forth. I guess that is how our brain really looks like on the inside, a multi layer of pipes over pipes with so many switches, wheels and buttons ready for us to produce what have been bubbling up and brewing for who knows how long. Sometimes some ideas get stuck in various pipes or maybe a new idea manages to flow easily along. Then you have 'muses' who tend to press buttons for you or pull down switches without your knowledge! Isn't it amazing how the mind works in such ways that sometimes you just need to give your head a tap to work properly. :p
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... Inventing a sun that illuminates the shadows ....
- Inventando un sol..., que ilumine las sombras....
Zeche Hannover
Innovation und Geschichte erleben in der Burg für den Bergbau.
Mit ihrem wuchtigen Malakowturm erinnert die Zeche Hannover in Bochum an eine Burg aus dem Mittelalter. Erbaut wurde sie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Innovativ war die Fördertechnik, die hier erfunden wurde. Sie ist noch heute weltweit im Einsatz. In der Maschinenhalle dreht sich bei Schauvorführungen die große Treibscheibe der Dampffördermaschine von 1893. Sie ist das älteste Exemplar, das man im Ruhrgebiet am Originalstandort sehen kann.
Hanover colliery
Experience innovation and history in the castle for mining.
With its massive Malakow tower, the Hannover colliery in Bochum is reminiscent of a castle from the Middle Ages. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The conveyor technology that was invented here was innovative. It is still in use worldwide today. In the machine hall, the large traction sheave of the steam hoist from 1893 rotates during demonstrations. It is the oldest example that can be seen in the Ruhr area at its original location.
🇫🇷Toutes les villes du Tyrol du Sud était germanophones à 90% jusqu'en 1918. Le traité de St Germain en Laye(1919) attribue le Sud tyrol à l'italie.Avec Mussolini ,une italianisation sytématique du Sud Tyrol commence....l'enseignement scolaire en allemand est interdit,et les noms de lieux sont remplacés par des noms à consonnance italienne,la plupart inventés.En 1925, des écoles clandestines se créent avec un enseignement en italien....Un accord Hitler Mussolini accordent le choix pour les habitants entre nationalité allemande et émigration , ou italienne ....La seconde guerre mondiale freine l'exode, mais 75000 personnes opteront pour l'allemagne. Quand les allemands occupent l'italie, les jeunes sont enrôlés dans l'armée allemande(8000 de ces jeunes mourront durant la guerre).....Actuellement au Sud Tyrol , environ 70% parlent en allemand ,mais ce pourcentage est moins important dans les villes que dans les zones rurales.
🇩🇪 All the towns had a German name. 90% of South Tyrol was German speaking until 1918. The treaty of St Germain en Laye (1919) gave South Tyrol to Italy.with Mussolini, a systematic Italianisation of South Tyrol began.... school teaching in German was forbidden, and place names were replaced by Italian sounding names, most of them invented. In 1925, clandestine schools are created with teaching in Italian....An agreement between Hitler and Mussolini gives the inhabitants the choice between German nationality and emigration, or Italian .... The Second World War slows down the exodus, but 75,000 people will opt for Germany. When the Germans occupied Italy, young people were conscripted into the German army (8000 of these young people died during the war)..... Currently in South Tyrol, about 70% speak German, but this percentage is lower in the cities than in the rural areas.
🇮🇹 Tutte le città avevano un nome tedesco. Il 90% dell'Alto Adige era di lingua tedesca fino al 1918. Con il trattato di St. Germain en Laye (1919) l'Alto Adige fu ceduto all'Italia.Con Mussolini iniziò una sistematica italianizzazione dell'Alto Adige: fu vietato l'insegnamento scolastico in tedesco e i toponimi furono sostituiti con nomi dal suono italiano, per lo più inventati. Nel 1925 vengono create scuole clandestine con insegnamento in italiano....Un accordo tra Hitler e Mussolini dà agli abitanti la possibilità di scegliere tra la nazionalità tedesca e l'emigrazione, oppure quella italiana .... La Seconda guerra mondiale rallenta l'esodo, ma 75.000 persone opteranno per la Germania. Quando i tedeschi occuparono l'Italia, i giovani furono arruolati nell'esercito tedesco (8000 di questi giovani morirono durante la guerra)..... Attualmente in Alto Adige circa il 70% parla tedesco, ma questa percentuale è più bassa nelle città che nelle zone rurali.
🇬🇧 All the towns had a German name. 90% of South Tyrol was German speaking until 1918. The treaty of St Germain en Laye (1919) gave South Tyrol to Italy.with Mussolini, a systematic Italianisation of South Tyrol began.... school teaching in German was forbidden, and place names were replaced by Italian sounding names, most of them invented. In 1925, clandestine schools are created with teaching in Italian....An agreement between Hitler and Mussolini gives the inhabitants the choice between German nationality and emigration, or Italian .... The Second World War slows down the exodus, but 75,000 people will opt for Germany. When the Germans occupied Italy, young people were conscripted into the German army (8000 of these young people died during the war)..... Currently in South Tyrol, about 70% speak German, but this percentage is lower in the cities than in the rural areas.
🇪🇸 Todas las ciudades tenían un nombre alemán. El 90% del Tirol del Sur era de habla alemana hasta 1918. El tratado de St Germain en Laye (1919) entregó el Tirol del Sur a Italia.Con Mussolini, comenzó una italianización sistemática del Tirol del Sur.... se prohibió la enseñanza escolar en alemán, y los topónimos fueron sustituidos por nombres que suenan a italiano, la mayoría de ellos inventados. En 1925, se crean escuelas clandestinas con enseñanza en italiano..... Un acuerdo entre Hitler y Mussolini da a los habitantes la posibilidad de elegir entre la nacionalidad alemana y la emigración, o la italiana ..... La Segunda Guerra Mundial frena el éxodo, pero 75.000 personas optarán por Alemania. Cuando los alemanes ocuparon Italia, los jóvenes fueron reclutados por el ejército alemán (8000 de estos jóvenes murieron durante la guerra)..... Actualmente en el Tirol del Sur, cerca del 70% habla alemán, pero este porcentaje es menor en las ciudades que en las zonas rurales.
"And the littleness of his movements
Hides himself
Invents a charm
That makes him invisible
Hides in the air"
Björk_Hidden Place
In the crypt of the Medici Chapels the original crown of the Nova Sacristia dome after the restoration. The "polyhedron" designed by Michelangelo is inspired in a way invented by the genius Leonardo da Vinci.
Inventé en 1832 par Julien-Joseph-Hippolyte Fénoux, le mât-pilote d'une hauteur de douze mètres, le mât indiquait grâce à une aile triangulaire, une boule noire et un drapeau rouge orientables, les consignes aux navires pour pénétrer dans le port.
“No inventes, no engañes, no robes ni bebas; pero si inventas, invéntate un mundo mejor; si engañas, engáñale a la muerte; si robas, róbate un corazón y si bebes, bébete los mejores momentos de tu vida.....”. ( Will Smith )
Textura lenabem . anna ¡¡Thanks ¡¡
Muchas gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios
Un montón de besos ¡¡
Thank you for your visits and comments
Kisses
The mechanical kitchen timer was invented in 1926.
This was my mother's from some time in the 60's. It works fine today but my kids and grandkids prefer to set a timer on their phones.
Created for Crazy Tuesday
Vintage Technology
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"Qui a eu cette idée folle un jour d'inventé l'école
Qui a eu cette idée folle un jour d'inventé l'école
C'est ce sacré Charlemagne, sacré Charlemagne
De nous laisser dans la vie que les dimanches, les jeudis
De nous laisser dans la vie que les dimanches, les jeudis
C'est ce sacré Charlemagne, sacré Charlemagne
Ce fils de Pépin le Bref nous donne beaucoup d'ennuis
Et nous avons cent griefs contre contre contre lui
Qui a eu cette idée folle un jour d'inventé l'école
Qui a eu cette idée folle un jour d'inventé l'école
C'est ce sacré Charlemagne, sacré Charlemagne
France Gall - Sacré Charlemagne
By Leona
It was my Uncle Peter who put his finger on it in his gentle Cork accent. “You can’t have the one without the other,” he said, as I glowered into the final Irish breakfast of my visit one morning many years ago. The party was over and it was time to skulk back towards life and the hamster wheel. I always think of those simple words when the holiday is over. The triumph of arrival, ever balanced by the sinking sensation in the pit of your stomach when it’s time to go home again. The last trudge back to the hire car from the beach after sunset. This time tomorrow the angler will almost certainly be out there on the rocks again, oblivious to the fact that we’ll be back in British airspace. The couple in the apartment next door who arrived here yesterday will be heading down to the pool area, armed with rubber rings and sunscreen as we do the drive of shame, stopping at reception to return the key cards and just about managing a forlorn, “Yes we had a lovely time thanks. We’ll be back next year.” Seconds later the receptionist will have forgotten us entirely, as she moves on to the family surrounded by suitcases who’ve just been whisked here by the transfer bus from the airport. In Lajares, the front of house team at La Boqueria, who’ve served us so many times won’t register our final farewell as they prepare for the lunchtime rush. Just one more of those goat’s cheese salads feels like a dream right now. I’ve had six or seven of them since we’ve been here. Had one today in fact. I don’t even look at the menu anymore - “ensalada de cabra por favor!” And the sun will continue to blaze uncaringly over the island as we taxi down the runway and set course for the icy dampness on the other side of Europe.
But it’s always that cruel last afternoon on the beach when I feel it the most, as the sun begins to lose its warmth and the light starts to fail. It’s what we come for - those lazy afternoons under blue skies next to the ocean as furious winter enters its final phase and kicks in the doors at home. There will be sunshine as we drag our bags into the airport terminal from the hire car, but it won’t be ours like it was today and yesterday. Now it belongs to the angler on the rocks, the couple next door, the waiting team at la Boqueria and the family who just got off the plane. It’s always at this moment that we wish we could be magically spirited home at the snap of a finger. Just get it over with - we’ll sacrifice the final evening. Why has nobody invented the teleporters like Captain Kirk had on the Starship Enterprise yet?
We remind ourselves that spring is on the way - and we live in Cornwall for goodness sake. Our own back garden is a tourist Mecca in itself. Half the country would auction their vital organs on eBay to set up home on the peninsula. And there’s no hamster wheel anymore since we retired. Thoughts of these make it easier, but there’s still that tedious journey - and the weather on the other side. Even in beautiful Cornwall the weather is horrible in winter. There’s the summer hike in Scotland to look forward to as well - yes I know about the midges - done battle with those before and they won’t put us off. Menorca in October too - we’ve never been there before. There’s a long distance hiking trail we like the look of, so we’re already thinking about a second visit before we’ve even made the first. Stuff to look forward to - other mountains to climb, especially in Scotland. There’s always the next adventure. We never go away without having the prospect of at least one future escapade sizzling in the wok to keep our spirits from flagging as we face the impending temperature collapse. It’s what keeps us going, especially in winter. Ali had a retirement gift in the form of a holiday voucher with a well known operator and we really ought to think about where we’re going to cash that one in. So many places to see. We have to do this stuff while we’re still young and healthy enough - you never know what life might fling at you when you least expect it.
One thing that never fails to amaze me is that you can get on a plane in a freezing rainstorm at home, and just a few hours later arrive in a place like this. It’s as if there’s a conjurer hiding in the clouds. At some point tomorrow, as the pilot tells us we’re somewhere over the northwest coast of Brittany, the sky will darken along with the mood of the passengers, a stubborn yet sizeable minority of them wearing flip flops and t-shirts as if summer will have somehow arrived three months early and surprised us all when we touch down at Bristol. But our plane will descend through soupy grey clouds, the windows speckled with raindrops as for the first time we see an endless web of orange lights spreading away into the distance, just before thumping down onto a blackened wet runway. We’ve had some rain in Fuerteventura this time, but never for more than three or four minutes and almost always followed by bright warm sunshine. When we set off for home, it will still be warm and sunny here, as if under an enchantment - life on the island of perpetual summer will carry on as if we were never here at all. We’ll drive down the fast road to the airport, leaving the white dunes of Corralejo in the rear view mirror, spotting side roads we never explored, making plans for next time before we’ve even left.
But there’s no denying that this sunsoaked Spanish archipelago has seen us off in style today. As I stand here on the beach behind my tripod, gazing at the spot where the sun has just dipped below the sea, the clouds light up in a fierce display of golds, oranges and pinks, a fine farewell flourish. I wonder whether the angler has even noticed, lost in his own world at the edge of the ocean. Again I think of my uncle’s words in these moments. There’s always the next time to look forward to, even if my home made goat’s cheese salad won’t be half as good as the one at La Boqueria.
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Preparazione di una risaia
Come accade per tutte le specie coltivate sin dall’antichità, è difficile precisare l’esatta zona di provenienza del riso quasi certamente originario dell’Estremo Oriente, dove ancora oggi vivono due tipi di riso selvatico.
Le prime notizie certe sulla coltivazione del riso risalgono al 2800 a.C. Recenti scoperte archeologiche hanno stabilito che anche sulle assolate colline della penisola indocinese questa attività era in atto nello stesso periodo, grazie alla realizzazione dei famosi terrazzati che rappresentano una delle più geniali e pittoresche soluzioni inventate dall’uomo per vincere i dislivelli naturali.
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For the great upcoming theme calles #vintage i decided to use an casette tape which lots of us remember. Back in the good old days we used those tapes to listen to our favorite music. And who of us don`t remember it when we had to roll up the mashed up tape by hand ?
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips in 1963, Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette (Musicassette), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Although other tape cassette formats have also existed - for example the Microcassette - the generic term cassette tape is normally always used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity.
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