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170 520 heads 1K11 10.52 Birmingham New Street to Leicester approaching the foot crossing at Water Orton. Certain crossings, such as this one, have been a real focus of late due to the high number of fatalities occuring at them; they have just a warning sign, to pedestrians, and a Whistle Board, for the train. I was quite surprised to see a Network Rail notice proclaiming 'Trains DO NOT sound their horn when approaching the crossing'. I'll let them off for not using the term 'Whistle' but surely an audable warning of a trains approach, from the train, is a cost effective method of warning persons crossing; especially if they happen to be slightly visually impared.
The cardinal is the one bright note in our late-winter landscape here in New York. He is a very welcome sight at the busy bird feeder. Here, he is patientoy waitng his turn, perched in a large bush.
A digitally-painted photograph.
I made this card using the Simon Says Stamp Handwritten Floral Greetings and MFT Horizontal Stitched Strips. I used gold embossing powder and vellum for the leaves. I made this for the latest SSS flickr challenge #51
Brief note on reverse "4. Batt. Der Koch Israel mit einem Schweinskopf".
Pork was a staple of the German Army and thousands of pigs were slaughtered each day to keep sausage on the menu.
An interesting pig-fact is that in Germany in 1915, owing to food restrictions and rationing, the bureaucracy declared pigs were taking food from the mouths of humans and in a bid to preserve supplies, five million pigs were slaughtered in the so-called Schweinemord to both make food and preserve grain. However it did little to increase the supply of grain, as officials did not take into account the use of pig manure as fertilizer on small farms. Because of this, killing the pigs actually decreased crop yields.
The postcard arrives quietly, tucked between ordinary mail, its edges worn from miles of travel and time spent crossing oceans. She turns it over slowly, smiling at the familiar handwriting, and for a moment the distance shrinks—sunlit streets, salt air, shared laughter all pressing close. It’s a small thing, a few lines and a picture of somewhere warm, but it carries so much more: reassurance, longing, and the gentle reminder that even while they’re apart, she’s being thought of, missed, and loved.
At the end of the trip as far as we get on the Gunbarrel, the next day we walked ahead about four miles to where we found the tracks in the mud made by the vehicle we heard revving in the distance today. We had met him before, John Walters, see trip notes by Mary for 8th July. He had camped about 3 miles from us, the fire was still warm.
We walked up the track to see how bad the mud was and reached the point where the Land Rover ahead had been winching along in the wheel rusts dragging his diff and axle.
He had had pulled small trees sideways in the wet off to the side and laid a corduroy of sticks in the wheel ruts to progress…
We got a gallon of water from a puddle and walked back to the others. We had been away for three hours!
We could not get John's Land Cruiser close enough to pull us out, so we used our small 7 to one hand pulley with about seven people pulling.
As we got the Kombi spinning and reversing out the people pulling had to run 7 times faster than the Kombi until they fell over backward in the mud.
The cable tied across the front on the roo bar was a stay from a yacht given to us by Bob and Anne Crowe's dad for the trip. We later wrapped it around the bumper on #Smoky60Series where it travelled #roundaustraliawithspelio for the next twenty years…
But we were out and managed to find some firm ground off the track to camp and have dinner and a rest.
The end of our trip North of Giles to Alice Springs..
shortcut #roundAustraliawithSpelio
Scratching his head....
Ever wanted an outfit but just never got around to getting it as there were many other outfits you wanted more? There are SO many Francie outfits I wanted that ‘Note The Coat’ always got passed over for something else, but I always really loved its simple, clean lines and that wonderful bark-like texture of the crepe fabric! I also LOVE those short 60’s double breasted coats, and the fact that its white reminds me of something that Courregés or even Valentino would have done, as in that famous all-white collection he designed in 1968. This coat of course, was released a year earlier, as Francie was always a trendsetter! I decided to go ‘all-white’ here and do a typical 60’s head-to-toe monochromatic look on my 1966 bend-leg Francie, using the stylish white cotton hat from the later ‘That Girl’ doll from 2002 and the white pleather pants from ‘Leather Limelight’. She also borrowed Tressy’s camera for the day, as I needed something black, white and graphic swinging from her arm! I may do another look without the pants and substitute some space age white Mod boots next…
Notities van bezoekers na een rondgang door het Dolhuys ('museum van de geest' in Haarlem) en een blik in de spiegel
Notes of visitors of Dolhuys ('Madhouse', museum about mental problems and psychiatry in Haarlem), after finishing their visit with a look in the mirror
A little note from me to some admins:
Please do not place any invitation likns on my images if you really insist on my giving awards in your groups because I have no intentions of upsetting you by violating your group rules. Please read carefully before you place any invite links for any invites placed under will be regarded as those that require no compulsory awarding.
Nevertheless, I appreciate anyone who visits my photostream. Thanks for your kind understanding!!!
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一張可以完全表達一個人對照片內容的最深沈的感受的照片才是張絕佳的照片。
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
～Ansel Adams
Cars & Coffee Hobart December 2016. www.facebook.com/carsandcoffeehobart. See www.opticalnote.com/carsandcoffeehobart for higher quality images. Don't forget to join us on Drivetribe!
A note to the people I follow. I am very short on time, and I don't know what happened with the layout. Where is my friends button/link? Is there none anymore? Why make it so hard to find the pics of the people you follow? I am just going to the Flickr home page and will fave whatever I like going through it, but I may not leave a comment, so, please, don't be offended. It doesn't mean any lack of interest. Just consider the fave an equivalent to a like on FB. It does look like that's what they have done in effect. I would have to click through to leave a comment, and then go back to my home page to see the other latest pics of the people I follow. Not efficient at all!
This piano stood in the Sony Center in Berlin — one of those public instruments where anyone can sit down and play.
In this moment, the daughter of a friend started to play, completely lost in the sound.
No audience, no stage — just light, concentration, and quiet emotion.
I wanted to capture that sense of stillness and honesty, when music becomes something visual.
Fujifilm X-T3
🔹 1/250 s | f/2.8 | ISO 400
🔹 Developed in DxO PhotoLab + Nik Silver Efex
WEEK 49 – Union Avenue OfficeMax, Set III
This shot takes a look from our vantage point along the left-side wall back towards that back left corner, where once again we see the large, original-to-Julius-Lewis corner picture window in all of its glory. Well – most of it, anyway. If you zoom in really closely you’ll see that the bottommost panels have been papered over, effectively limiting its height to beginning above the shelving as opposed to running the true full length from floor to ceiling. In any case, we still see enough of it to get the effect, and I must say I also like the exposed angled beams above the window as well – I wonder what those looked like and were used for, back in the day.
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
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With some Haiku Notes:
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Other dimensions
providing information,
just don't look; but see.
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Take aim and you'll see
truth behind reality
in both yin and yang
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It's all in your mind
concentrate and be mindful
sense reality
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The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect, because it is only through practice that one can attain a higher level of existence and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.
1. Right View
Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realise the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessarily an intellectual capacity, just as wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that all beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our actions, right view yields right thoughts and right actions.
2. Right Intention
While right view refers to the cognitive aspect of wisdom, right intention refers to the volitional aspect, i.e. the kind of mental energy that controls our actions. Right intention can be described best as commitment to ethical and mental self-improvement. Buddha distinguishes three types of right intentions: 1. the intention of renunciation, which means resistance to the pull of desire, 2. the intention of good will, meaning resistance to feelings of anger and aversion, and 3. the intention of harmlessness, meaning not to think or act cruelly, violently, or aggressively, and to develop compassion.
3. Right Speech
Right speech is the first principle of ethical conduct in the eightfold path. Ethical conduct is viewed as a guideline to moral discipline, which supports the other principles of the path. This aspect is not self-sufficient, however, essential, because mental purification can only be achieved through the cultivation of ethical conduct. The importance of speech in the context of Buddhist ethics is obvious: words can break or save lives, make enemies or friends, start war or create peace. Buddha explained right speech as follows: 1. to abstain from false speech, especially not to tell deliberate lies and not to speak deceitfully, 2. to abstain from slanderous speech and not to use words maliciously against others, 3. to abstain from harsh words that offend or hurt others, and 4. to abstain from idle chatter that lacks purpose or depth. Positively phrased, this means to tell the truth, to speak friendly, warm, and gently and to talk only when necessary.
4. Right Action
The second ethical principle, right action, involves the body as natural means of expression, as it refers to deeds that involve bodily actions. Unwholesome actions lead to unsound states of mind, while wholesome actions lead to sound states of mind. Again, the principle is explained in terms of abstinence: right action means 1. to abstain from harming sentient beings, especially to abstain from taking life (including suicide) and doing harm intentionally or delinquently, 2. to abstain from taking what is not given, which includes stealing, robbery, fraud, deceitfulness, and dishonesty, and 3. to abstain from sexual misconduct. Positively formulated, right action means to act kindly and compassionately, to be honest, to respect the belongings of others, and to keep sexual relationships harmless to others. Further details regarding the concrete meaning of right action can be found in the Precepts.
5. Right Livelihood
Right livelihood means that one should earn one's living in a righteous way and that wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. The Buddha mentions four specific activities that harm other beings and that one should avoid for this reason: 1. dealing in weapons, 2. dealing in living beings (including raising animals for slaughter as well as slave trade and prostitution), 3. working in meat production and butchery, and 4. selling intoxicants and poisons, such as alcohol and drugs. Furthermore any other occupation that would violate the principles of right speech and right action should be avoided.
6. Right Effort
Right effort can be seen as a prerequisite for the other principles of the path. Without effort, which is in itself an act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided effort distracts the mind from its task, and confusion will be the consequence. Mental energy is the force behind right effort; it can occur in either wholesome or unwholesome states. The same type of energy that fuels desire, envy, aggression, and violence can on the other side fuel self-discipline, honesty, benevolence, and kindness. Right effort is detailed in four types of endeavours that rank in ascending order of perfection: 1. to prevent the arising of unarisen unwholesome states, 2. to abandon unwholesome states that have already arisen, 3. to arouse wholesome states that have not yet arisen, and 4. to maintain and perfect wholesome states already arisen.
7. Right Mindfulness
Right mindfulness is the controlled and perfected faculty of cognition. It is the mental ability to see things as they are, with clear consciousness. Usually, the cognitive process begins with an impression induced by perception, or by a thought, but then it does not stay with the mere impression. Instead, we almost always conceptualise sense impressions and thoughts immediately. We interpret them and set them in relation to other thoughts and experiences, which naturally go beyond the facticity of the original impression. The mind then posits concepts, joins concepts into constructs, and weaves those constructs into complex interpretative schemes. All this happens only half consciously, and as a result we often see things obscured. Right mindfulness is anchored in clear perception and it penetrates impressions without getting carried away. Right mindfulness enables us to be aware of the process of conceptualisation in a way that we actively observe and control the way our thoughts go. Buddha accounted for this as the four foundations of mindfulness: 1. contemplation of the body, 2. contemplation of feeling (repulsive, attractive, or neutral), 3. contemplation of the state of mind, and 4. contemplation of the phenomena.
8. Right Concentration
The eighth principle of the path, right concentration, refers to the development of a mental force that occurs in natural consciousness, although at a relatively low level of intensity, namely concentration. Concentration in this context is described as one-pointedness of mind, meaning a state where all mental faculties are unified and directed onto one particular object. Right concentration for the purpose of the eightfold path means wholesome concentration, i.e. concentration on wholesome thoughts and actions. The Buddhist method of choice to develop right concentration is through the practice of meditation. The meditating mind focuses on a selected object. It first directs itself onto it, then sustains concentration, and finally intensifies concentration step by step. Through this practice it becomes natural to apply elevated levels concentration also in everyday situations.
An Additional Haiku Note:
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Take time be aware
we are no-thing but our thoughts
so said the Buddha
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Personal Thoughts from August 07, 1976
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Energy is one.
Individuals are parts of that one.
Individuals through a source such as Love
(or other emotion or virtue) are one.
Thoughts are a source of energy.
Energy is neither created or destroyed.
Thoughts are neither created or destroyed.
Individuals are tuned-in to thoughts.
We do not think; we experience thought.
Our level of development is how we use
these thoughts to experience other
thoughts.
We are actually experiencing energies.
Our level of development is how we can
tune-in to these energies.
Our true purpose is to think and develop;
think and develop; become the source of energy.
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