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REFORD GARDENS | LES JARDINS DE METIS
Bumblebee at work !
Beautiful flowers at Reford Gardens.
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From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
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LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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We purchased these at the Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin, Germany, January 1993 (photos taken for my husband for a Uni assignment)
John Harris, Editor-in-Chief, Politico, USA, Mercedes Aráoz, Prime Minister of Peru, .Alexander De Croo, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation, the Digital Agenda, Telecommunications and Postal Services of Belgium, .Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Coal of India, .Timothy Hwang, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FiscalNote, USA, .Jan-Werner Müller, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, USA speaking during the Session "Post-Establishment Politics? " at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Greg Beadle
My first of the year.
A "Boris fairy" - is he to go on the top of the tree or at the bottom of a heap?
Only time will tell.
Soft sculptured face, felt, and feathers.
About 4 inches high.
A Christmas present for a friend.
ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. APRIL 11, 2012. Russia's prime minister, president elect Vladimir Putin addresses State Duma members. Putin appeared in the lower house of the Russian parliament to deliver an annual government report on the work of the Cabinet Office for 2011. (Photo ITAR-TASS/ Mitya Aleshkovsky)
I'm always looking to expand my portfolio and expertise in various ways of photography. I was contacted recently by a local political candidate for some media photos to use in various formats. I took a bevvy of photos and they're now being used online and on posters. I love a good challenge, and I see this particular guy going far politically.
El Hombre controlador del universo, 1934
Mural on metal frame by Diego Rivera
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
More on Diego Rivera: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Rivera
A double dose of satire from Bristol artist ANGUS, who is known for his cheeky slant on things. Here in East London he has a pop at members of parliament (duck houses, second homes etc) and the "white Oscars" - the latter very topical with the Oscars ceremony coming up shortly...
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Benjamin Harrison "Protection, Home Industries" Handkerchief
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1888
Date Made: ca. 1888
Measurement: Handkerchief: 19 x 18 in.; 48.26 x 45.72 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/6036
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
President Jacob Zuma welcomes President of Botswana Seretse Khama Ian Khama for the 3rd SA - Botswana Bi-National Commission (BNC) at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria. The BNC will deepen economic cooperation between the two Southern African Countries. (Photo: GCIS)
10 October 2022, Political Opening
Belgium - Brussels - October 2022
© European Union / Fred Guerdin
Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament
Vasco Ilídio ALVES CORDEIRO, President of the European Committee of the Regions
While he was waiting for someone, this man was looking in the window of a cigar store. I couldn't help but think that it's a double whammy of things politically incorrect: a cigar store Indian and smoking.
My Portfolio: www.hollycawfieldphotography.net/
Interesting perspective on the number of women in politics around the world. Source: Sydney Morning Herald Weekend Edition 12-13 March 2011
This was the image set that I created to replace the sexy image set that was removed from Skyrim Nexus. I had some work to mimic all scenes of the previous images, so I thought it would be funny to show you the "censored" version in comparison with the original one.
Here's the link for the original image:
Just Pinned to Politics: Wer Flüchtlinge nicht automatisch mit US NATO Plünderungskriegen verbindet ist entweder dumm oder macht das mit Absicht ift.tt/1O0S9Y4
10 October 2022, Political Opening
Belgium - Brussels - October 2022
© European Union / Laurie Dieffembacq
Elisa FERREIRA, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms
Apostolos TZITZIKOSTAS, Vice President of the European Committee of the Regions
I'm on the host committee, and I extend the invite to all my Flickr friends to attend:
Please join us on Dec. 4th for two exciting programs in one night: an Asian/Latino Democratic Presidential Forum and - immediately following the forum - a very special networking party hosted by various community groups!
VOICES TO VOTES
An Asian / Latino Issues Forum
featuring representatives from the leading Democratic Presidential Campaigns
with special celebrity appearance by Kelly Hu
Assembly Member Kevin de Leon (Hillary Clinton's campaign)
Assembly Member Anthony Portantino (John Edwards' campaign)
LA School Board Member Yolie Flores Aguilar (Barack Obama's campaign)
The forum will be moderated by Eric Byler (Asian Pacific Americans for Progress) and Sandra Mendoza (Metropolitan Democratic Club).
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
111 N. Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Event is FREE
To RSVP, email: curtischin@aol.com
6:15 PM doors open
6:45 - 8:15 PM panel/forum (will begin promptly)
8:15 PM - Tuesday Tingler at the Far Bar (more info below)
Host Committee: Michelle Borok, Grace Chee, Ricky Choi, Phil Chung, Xioamara Corpeno, David Cruz, Keith Kamisugi, Grant Kimura, Ted Kroeber, Joseph Legaspi, Monica Macer, Raul Macias, Ken Maxey, Alejandro Menchaca, Sumun Pendakur, Eric Robles, Alex Rooker, Mora Mi-Ok Stephens, Liz Sunwoo, Nhung Truong, Sarah Vaill, Nick Velasquez, Janet Yang, Nancy Yap, Phil Yu
Steering Committee: Dennis Arguelles, Charles Chang, Curtis Chin, Rhett Francisco, Vivien Hao, Go Kasai, Preeti Kulkarni, Katy Lim, Dean Matsubayashi, Sandra Mendoza, Catherine Park, Anthony Rendon, Melvin Tabilas, Sarah Tay, John Wirfs, Ed Yoon
Presented by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress and the Metropolitan Democratic Club. Venue sponsored by National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. Co-sponsored by the USC Asian Pacific American Student Services.
Immediately following the forum will be the Tuesday Tingler, a special edition of the Monday Minglers co-sponsored by Asian Pacific American Legislative Staff, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Committee and Asian Pacific Americans in Philanthropy. They will be joined by several co-sponsoring Latino organizations. Just walk around the corner to:
Far Bar at Chop Suey Café
347 E. First Street
Tel: (213) 617-9990
For more info on the party, email charles.chang@apadrc.org
Parking: several lots available on Alameda and First Streets
I wonder what this guy's political persuasions are? :-D
I'm sure he's glad how those runoff elections in Georgia turned out.
I still don't understand how this guy (I saw him get out of his car) is a liberal yet drives a crossover. Well, it is a Subaru, at least. But I think a Toyota Yaris would have been more appropriate.
Taken with my flip phone at the West Caldwell, New Jersey ShopRite.
Heather Brunskell-Evans, a UK philosopher and social theorist specializing in ethics, medicine, sex and gender sums up the impact of transgender ideology on society. This is an unapologetic gender critical feminist summation of the battle around gender self ID in Britain and the social impact such policy changes will have on women. Most of the material here I have gleaned from other books and from interviews and articles online. Including interviews of the author herself and the incidents she experienced of trans activists trying to silence and intimidate her in the context of her job at her university.
She begins with a definition of what is a woman as a political category and a class and how trans activists with the help of intersectional feminists are attempting to undermine the legal protections afforded by this category. While gender critical feminists are shamed as bigots. And the concept of binary sex considered taboo.
Some new material for me involving the birthing industry. How the act of pregnancy is coopted by elevating transmen i.e. the female to male trans person who gives birth to priority status. Proving the biological impossibility that men can have babies. Thus delivering to men this achievement (in concept only) of men being able to give birth. This event having been used to leverage the entire profession of midwifery to promote trans ideology language in an effort to be inclusive of these F to M persons while rendering all women relabelled as birthing parents and the act of breast feeding relabeled as chest feeding to be sensitive to the “men” who do not have breasts having amputated them in service of their identity.
While women in the medical world are reduced to body parts and functions i.e. menstruators, cervix havers, vagina people. If this does not sound sufficiently demeaning try on the phrase “Black birthing bodies” and hopefully the hint of racism and association with breeding cattle will jolt the mind. It is precisely this dehumanization of women that midwives have worked so hard to dispel in order to center women’s wisdom and physiological power. And while women’s health is impacted men’s health and ownership of their bodies is left alone. Men’s spaces and men’s identity are so secure that it is hardly threatened by the diminutive dick-less trans men infiltrating their spaces half terrified as they are to do so.
She covers the transboy phenomenon of the social contagion of girls wanting to be boys already covered by Abigail Shurer’s book. www.flickr.com/photos/earthworm/50178686276 And how confirming gender stereotypes confirms the need for transition for those children who don’t fit. And while promoting the “illusion of inclusion” the medical intervention works to control how women are defined by men’s terms.
She covers the Transgender Equality Report created by four trans people versed in the law which set in motion the rewriting of the Gender Recognition Act to include self ID for any male (or female) wishing to change gender can now do so by securing a Gender Recognition Certificate. This led to the erosion of women’s spaces and would render women’s sex based rights impossible to enforce. Thus the women’s rights movement is no longer about women but about men’s rights to invade women’s spaces and domains.
She coins the phrase The Butlerian Jihad after queer theory feminist Judith Butler. And concludes her treatise by linking the trans movement to the money behind it from the medical industrial complex that is poised to gain so much from all these new clients in need of expensive life term medical intervention. And by legalizing the transgender identity men will be prioritized over women’s rights.
For those who think that men will regulate themselves in a manner that does not use this new identity venue for criminal purposes I am reminded of Alan Greenspan crying “but we never suspected that corporations wouldn’t self regulate”. Men convicted of sex crimes are now in women’s prison under the guise of being transwomen and demanding sex change operations paid for by the state. Men are now in women’s domestic violence shelters under the guise of being transwomen. Their presence triggering women who have been traumatized by men and sometimes harassing the women by hitting on them. Male bodies are now in women’s sports under the guise of being female. Whether or not they are indeed transgender makes no difference when a penis is still attached. But because this is an authoritarian agenda there are criminal repercussions for saying so or objecting to such.
Is there any light of hope in this cascade of events? In her epilogue she visits the newly formed group of young women who have detransitioned from having been on the trans train. Led by Charlie Evans who is herself a detransitioned transman returning to female. This is who will have to lead this battle with their scars bared to prove their right to a voice. Because this issue arrived fully formed into public discourse as a civil rights movement and was delivered into the minds of waiting liberals who had no memory of it developing save for the high profile transwomen celebrities branding the identity into existence.
While well versed lawyers inserted an agenda fully fleshed out with well rehearsed verbiage to state their case without consulting any of those who would be impacted, namely women and girls. And a silencing already in place when they did begin to realize they’d been fleeced of their own category. Thus the mantra of transwomen are women becomes a civil rights movement. And though transgender people are already protected under the protected characteristic of gender reassignment and in the U.S. recent supreme court decision covering gender non-conforming presentations the new demand to legalize gender goes further. The category of women is rendered moot by dint of inclusion of men.
This tiresome fight may have to run its course over many years possibly decades while women go underground to form resistance blocks and fight to keep their children from being abducted by the trans train. And physically taken from them if they don't agree to the trans affirmative medial intervention their child has been persuaded and coached into demanding.
I am now satisfied that I understand what this trans phenomenon is, who is behind it, what it takes to question it and the parallel philosophies that brought it on not to mention those who will profit i.e. the medical industrial complex completely apart from the obfuscating academics. And it doesn’t really seem to have anything to do with gender identity and the protection of trans people. It has to do with power and how power is enforced through ideology and how that ideology is strong armed into existence by shutting up descent.
And like most arguments that have you on the defensive from the get go it will sap you of all your energy and divert resources from other more worthy causes more real than this psychodrama of largely white men who would be women. And only by getting distance from it can it be witnessed in a dispassionate manner.
From left to right, Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women and H.E. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States of America, were among the top women leaders at a high-level side event during the 66th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, 19 September 2011. Women political leaders made a strong call for increasing women's political participation and decision-making across the world.
Photo Credit: UN Women/Catianne Tijerina