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Bright pale-green parrot with a red shoulder patch; note blue rump in flight. Male has black back. Occurs in a wide variety of habitats where it feeds primarily in trees. Flight style recalls a large pigeon. (eBird)
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We first saw a small flock of these parrots at the very top of some distant trees, but this one flew down just a little bit closer so that I could capture her likeness for posterity.
Muirhead Bushland, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Tropical Australia.
Thank you www.flickr.com/photos/dorchesterdorset/ (Tranter Dewy) for researching and enlightening me.....this is the white marble tomb of Abraham Blackleech Gent who died in 1639 and his wife Gertrude. The tomb is situated at the east end of the north aisle in Gloucester Cathedral. According to an article in the British Library the two recumbent effigies are most likely by Samuel Baldwin, and are of good quality with carefully carved hands, faces and costumes.
At their feet is this inscription:-
To the happy Memorie of Abraham Blackleech Gent. Sonne of William Blackleech, Esq. a Man not only generally beloved in this Life, but deservedly endeared to Posterity, by rare Examples of seldom'd pattern'd Piety expressed in his Bounty, to Saint Paul's in London, to this Church, to the Highways about, and the Poor in this City ----- Who laying aside the vileness of Mortalitie, was admitted to the glory of eternity.
Nov. 30. 1639
Gertrude
Handheld, Zeiss ExoLens (Wide-Angle), Shoulderpod S1, quietly & respectfully edited in Snapseed on iPad Pro.
I want to contribute that passion of living to posterity in the best way I can :-)
Larry Fink
HSS! Truth Matters!
orchid, denver botanic garden, colorado
Ephraim Portman Pectol and his brother-in-law, Joseph S. Hickman, were two of the earliest and most active advocates for protecting the Waterpocket Fold area for posterity. It is fitting, then, that Pectol's Pyramid (showcased here) is best seen from the Hickman Bridge Trail, as the main route through Capitol Reef National Park, Utah Highway 24, passes between them in the deeper Freemont River canyon.
Natives of nearby Torrey, Utah, they wrote articles and sent photographs promoting the region to newspapers in Utah, after Pectol's election to the state legislature in 1928. This attention eventually led to President Franklin Roosevelt setting aside just over 37,000 acres as the Capitol Reef National Monument in 1937. President Richard Nixon signed the Act to Establish Capitol Reef National Park in the State of Utah into law in December 1971.
Recognition:
Selected for Display - FEB 2022, National Parks of the United States (online gallery) by R Gallery + Wine Bar in Boulder, Colorado
Accepted for Display - JAN 2020 Darkroomers Photographic Club, San Diego
Elaborata con Photoshop.
Olio essenziale di Garofano ,stimola e rinforza il potenziale energetico, scioglie i legami troppo stretti con il passato. Allontana gli spiriti molesti e gli insetti.
Così era scritto...........hai posteri l'ardua sentenza..!
Clove's essential oil, stimulates and enhances the positive energy, helps loosen the ties with the past. Bugs and malignant spirits repellent.
Thus was written, .....posterity shall judge...!
Yesterday morning on the freeway I accidentally saw through a gap between high hedges these in red, blue and yellow shining fields ... 10 minutes later I stood directly in front of it to hold on to posterity ;-))
Gestern Morgen auf der Autobahn sah ich zufällig durch eine Lücke zwischen hohen Hecken diese in rot, blau und gelb leuchtenden Felder...10 Minuten später stand ich direkt davor, um dies für die Nachwelt festzuhalten;-))
Danke für deinen Besuch! Thanks for visiting!
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Sometimes in the middle of a long drive you just need to get out of the car and strecth your legs.
It's 8:45 in the evening, and I left Salt Lake City mid-day en route to Thayne, WY for an overnight before rising early to drive to Grand Teton NP the next day. Driving Idaho 34 near the Blackfoot Reservoir in Soda Springs, I decided I needed to get out of my Jeep and take in the cool evening air. The idyllic greens and blues of a clear Spring evening required a capture for posterity.
There is nothing famous or notable about this site, the hills are unnamed, and the crops are just beginning to grow in the field; but, to my eyes, it sure is pretty.
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On this day we stopped for lunch somewhere in northern Iceland, and right there in front of us was this amazing view. Never one to pass up a photo opportunity, I captured the view for posterity. It's just one of those shots we take along the way.
Once buried in an urn there is nothing more left of life, but obviously posterity is a different matter.
Most of my photos are shown at an exposition at the Fotoscope Island, created by Korgi Lerwick.
Fotoscope
A paradise for SL shutterbugs, Fotoscope contains a variety of photo-friendly backdrops featuring individual, couple, and group poseballs so Residents can capture that perfect image for posterity in any situation.
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Actually I thought the image needed some people interest so I asked my son to walk over to the waters edge.....Unfortunately he slipped and that is the imaged that was captured!!!!
Twisted knee and a graze captured for posterity 😁😁😁......
Thanks for visiting.
Just a bonus triptych taken after a couple of glasses of wine and handheld whilst sitting enjoying our own bbq outside our caravan. Our wonderful Red Arrow display team were putting on a show at the G7 summit . They were only at the next beach along and I correctly guessed that we would get at least a sight of them so my camera was lying on the table in readiness. You can just make out part of the number 7 left by the vapour trails.. Was nice to experience actually and a bbq with a bit of a difference so why not take a few photos....another memory after all :)
Ihren Namen erhielt das Harzer Flüßchen Ilse alten Legenden zufolge von einer gleichnamigen Jungfrau bzw. Prinzessin, welche sich hier in die reißenden Fluten stürzte bzw. gestürzt wurde.
Der berühmte deutsche Dichter Heinrich Heine hat der Ilse in seiner "Harzreise" ein unvergleichliches Denkmal gesetzt. Ebenso hinterließ er der Nachwelt eine eigene Variation der Sage um die schöne Prinzessin Ilse.
According to ancient legends, the Harz river Ilse was named after a virgin of the same name. Princess, who plunged here into the raging tides or was overthrown. The famous German poet Heinrich Heine has set an incomparable monument to the Ilse in his “Harzreise” He also left his own variation of the legend about the beautiful Princess Ilse to posterity.
Website: www.heiko-roebke-photography.de
Even though I love the change of seasons, I am often reluctant to see my favorite flowers fade away in the fall. One way to preserve those blooms for posterity is to place them in one's freezer. Until the ice begins to melt, you'll have flowers as fresh as the day it was picked.
The Cathedral complex in Lincoln contains many fine, old buildings, all crying out for photographers to record them for posterity!
It was the very end of the afternoon. The shadows were lengthening and the last lights of the setting sun beautifully illuminated the slopes.
I had taken advantage of my walk, Eyes full of wonders, I was returning to my starting point.
Given the beautiful light, I fixed one last time for posterity this beautiful church which will have charmed me throughout the day.
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Charmante église bourguignonne
C'était la toute fin de l'après-midi. Les ombres s'allongeaient et les derniers feux du soleil couchant illuminaient bellement les pentes.
J'avais bien profité de la balade. Les yeux plein de merveilles, j'étais en train de retourner à mon point de départ.
Vu la belle lumière, j'ai fixé une dernière fois pour la postérité cette belle église qui m'aura charmé tout au long de la journée.
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Vergisson - South Burgundy - France / Vergisson - Bourgogne du Sud - France
He was convinced I was trying to steal his soul. I had to convince him I was only borrowing it for a fraction of a second (1/800th of a second to be exact) to preserve it for posterity, thus giving him a type of immortality. He finally agreed, albeit with some trepidation.
San José Renaissance Fair.
It's not the most exciting photo, but it's the first test photo with my new (to me at least) lens so I thought I'd save it for posterity.
Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
A rider and his mule train heading down Bright Angel Trail to Phantom Ranch on the Colorado River far below in the bowels of the beautiful Grand Canyon.
Take care and have a great day
There are now birds that I turn my nose up at. Not because they aren't beautiful, but because I now think that after hundreds of shots I have had enough of them. Such is the case with the kestrel. Still a red list species, so you should jump for joy every time you see one, because you have to immortalize such a rarity for posterity. Not so, because a praying kestrel is soooo passé for a bird shooter who is becoming a bit blasé.
At this moment I actually had that too. Far away a kestrel on a post, "just let it sit and poop on that thing, I'm not going to take a picture of that".
But hey, blood is creeping where it can't go, so I grabbed the camera and took pictures. I wanted to see how long it would last before she (yes, she is a female) would choose the air. It works as follows: take 10 careful steps, take a photo and then take another 10 steps, etc. This time I was able to sneak up to 20 meters and the lady just stayed put. I even caught her starting to fall asleep. So luckily I wasn't interesting either. At 20 meters distance I decided not to sneak any further, because I could now see her tonsils. So let her sit on her post!
Located in San Francisco’s amazing Golden Gate Park is the fascinating Japanese Tea Garden which were part of the 1894 Japanese Village exhibit of the California Midwinter International Exposition. At the expositions end a Japanese gentleman Mr Makoto Hagiwara who was a Japanese landscape architect made a gentleman’s agreement with park superintendent to create a Japanese Tea Garden permanently as a gift for posterity. My west coast damsel and I had a wonderful time exploring the grounds. #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany @kehcamera @mpbcom #usaprimeshot #tamractales @_visit_san.francisco @visitcalifornia #omd #microfourthirds #micro43
Boxford Roman mosaic is a mosaic at Boxford near Newbury, West Berkshire, England, rediscovered during an archaeological dig in August 2017. It dates from the Roman period. The 4th century (AD) mosaic is over 6 metres long. Its central panel is thought to show Bellerophon, at the court of either Iobates or Proteus, battling Chimera.
Anthony Beeson, an expert on Roman mosaics, said it is "without question the most exciting mosaic discovery made in Britain in the last 50 years and must take a premier place amongst those Romano-British works of art that have come down to modern Britons".
The mosaic was uncovered during a community archaeology project, investigating three Roman sites near to the village of Boxford, which was led by the Boxford History Project, the Berkshire Archaeology Research Group and Cotswold Archaeology, which began in 2011. Earlier in 2017, a villa "of modest size" was unearthed at Boxford. The mosaic was found at the southern end of this building. Only one half of the mosaic was uncovered. It was subsequently reburied, to ensure its preservation.
Further archaeology was undertaken in 2019 and an open day for the public occurred on Saturday 31st August 2019,
It will be covered again to preserve it for posterity.
When I first moved here in 2013, there was a HUGE invasive Camphor tree in the front yard, ripping up the sidewalk and my driveway. It had a big, dead, hollowed out limb right so I could see it perfectly from my porch. In that dead limb is where I first met the Great-crested Flycatcher. I love so many birds, but I know in my heart, this species is my favorite.
They built a nest and raised the babies right in that limb, and I got to see for the first time such a wonderful display of nesting birds. I took hundreds of photos.
I had to have it cut down and after that they went elsewhere. This past year, I heard them way across the street. I learned how to do one of their calls, and I actually called them and they came to me. To my backyard and I took a few lousy shots for posterity. It was getting ready to storm. So I just spent forever editing this one and only keeper so that I could post it.
Do you believe it? This one came way over here to see if Miss Nancy was the one who was calling them! Thank You, Jesus.
Pilot Peak, with Index Peak to the right.
Pilot Peak is a striking pinnacle in the immediate northeast of Yellowstone National Park. It is part of the volcanic Absaroka Range which forms the massive eastern escarpment of Yellowstone Plateau. The name Pilot Peak, and it's obvious neighbor, Index Peak, refer to the alignment of the two summits. From the north, they line up to resemble the sight on a mariner's sextant. They proved invaluable to pioneers of the Greater Yellowstone region since they, along with the nearby Tetons, mark the boundaries of the steaming plateau known as Colter's Hell. The Washburn expedition in 1870, credited with 'discovering' Yellowstone Park, used Pilot Peak to guide them to the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and the incredible Geyser Basins beyond. This expedition, armed with photographs by Jackson and paintings by Thomas Moran, convinced Congress to pass the Organic Act of 1872, creating the world's first National Park. The words are inscribed on the Roosevelt Arch outside of Gardiner, Montana: "...to be preserved ... for the benefit and enjoyment of the people."
Sure glad they saved this precious area for posterity.
Happy Friday!
The original Women’s Peace Camp on Greenham Common closed on 5 September 2000 after 19 years of continuous presence outside the Greenham Common Airbase now known as New Greenham Park.
The women believed that the events of this important period should be represented by a permanent reminder for posterity. It was envisaged that a small piece of the site which had been occupied would be turned into a Commemorative and Historic Site.
After the camp closed West Berkshire County Council granted planning permission to create the commemorative and historic site, later known as the Greenham Common Peace Garden sited at the yellow gate where the original protest began in 1981. This is now adjacent to the main business park entrance. The women envisaged the garden would create an opportunity to heal the breaches that developed between the protesters and the community of Newbury.
The Garden was designed by Roderick Griffin.
It depicts the four elements of earth, fire, water and air.
The garden incorporates a sculpture by Michael Marriott FRBS depicting flames – symbolising a campfire. Campfires being the source of much comfort for the protesters who were living outside in all kinds of weather.
The sculpture is surrounded by seven standing stones from Wales representing the Welsh Group “Women for Life on Earth” who came from Cardiff. Some of whom were the first to set up a Peace Camp outside RAF Greenham Common Airbase.
It was there that occurred the horrendous crime that posterity would remember " The tragedy of Paolo and Francesca "
E' li che è occorso l'orrendo crimine che i posteri amano ricordare come " La Tragedia di Paolo e Francesca "
Tanjung Piai, Malaysia. Found sprawled across the mudflats at Tanjung Piai, these mudskippers are known for their "dances" when they square up against each other. The dancers typically puff up their bodies and mouths, and extend their fins to appear as big they can, and leap up into the air to show off their prowess. These jumps happen in a split second so I am glad to capture this instance of this individual trying to intimidate his rival for posterity.
Some images taken in October 2016, which I didn't include in the original collection so posting for posterities sake.
Diary note: After spending 5 days in the remote mountains of the Ben Alder Estate in the Scottish Highlands, we broke camp early on Friday morning. The Highland ponies watched us as we moved on out and one of them crossed the river to see me. I guess she was after seeing what food I had left, but we'd eaten the lot - otherwise we'd probably still be staying in there! These Highland ponies are free roaming on the estate and are used for carrying red deer off the hills when they are culled during the hunting season. They're tough, strong ponies and I couldn't help but be stirred by a pang of sadness as I said goodbye to them and their homeland on that Friday morning. I think it was knowing that I will probably never pass this way again - so many other wild places left to explore in the Highlands.
When thin clouds pass the moon at night, a corona (aureole) is often seen around the moon.
This luminous phenomenon is caused by diffraction of light on the water droplets or ice particles of the clouds.
A moon with a corona is considered to be the oldest weather sign recorded in writing. It was printed in cuneiform writing on soft clay tablets by the Assyrians as early as 2,700 years ago and left to posterity.
A halo is supposed to indicate treacherous weather in about 24 hours. If you see a lunar corona, like here, the low has already come much closer.
It was raining that day ; ))
🎧 Soundtrack: Moon Over Bourbon Street
There's a lovely, jazzy live version too, but you see and feel the sadness of the band as it was the day of 09/11 (night already in Europe / Italy) 🎧
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Wenn nachts dünne Wolken am Mond vorüberziehen, sieht man häufig einen Hof (Aureole / Corona) um den Mond.
Diese Leuchterscheinung entsteht durch Beugung des Lichts an den Wassertröpfchen oder Eispartikeln der Wolken.
Ein Mond mit Hof gilt als ältestes schriftlich festgehaltenes Wetterzeichen. Es wurde schon vor 2.700 Jahren von den Assyrern in Keilschrift in weiche Tontafeln gedrückt und der Nachwelt hinterlassen.
Ein Halo soll auf einen Wetterumschwung in gut 24 Stunden hinweisen. Sieht man den Hof, wie hier, ist das Tief schon viel näher gekommen.
(Quelle: Bergwelten - Wetterregel - Mond mit Hof)
Es hat an diesem und am nächsten Tag geregnet ; ))
allgemeine Infos: Wikipedia - Korona
The last 'task' of each day. It could be one sentence, but I usually write about half a page. It's just for me and when a book is full up it is discarded. It's not for posterity. The act of writing is the essential.
*ღღ* Cosas de casa *ღღ* : lápices/pencils
Thank you for visits, favs and comments.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized.
He composed more than 600 works, many of which are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is considered among the greatest classical composers of all time, and his influence on Western music is profound. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
He lived in Paris in 1778. (from Wikipedia)
Happy 265th Birthday, Wolfie!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburgo, 27 de enero de 1756-Viena, 5 de diciembre de 1791) fue un compositor, pianista, director de orquesta y profesor del antiguo Arzobispado de Salzburgo, actualmente parte de Austria, maestro del Clasicismo, considerado como uno de los músicos más influyentes y destacados de la historia.
La obra mozartiana abarca todos los géneros musicales de su época e incluye más de seiscientas creaciones, en su mayoría reconocidas como obras maestras de la música sinfónica, concertante, de cámara, para fortepiano, operística y coral, logrando una popularidad y difusión internacional.
Mozart vivió en Paris en 1778. (tomado de Wikipedia).
Feliz Cumpleaños 265, Wolfie!
The Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a, better known as the Paris Symphony, is one of the most famous symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The work was composed in 1778 during Mozart's unsuccessful job-hunting sojourn in Paris. The composer was then 22 years old. "Mozart's Paris Symphony is quite noisy. It has vigorous, stirring tuttis, with a lively violin line and an active line for the basses, lending the music extra animation. The actual thematic matter is relatively conventional, more a matter of figures than melodies, but there is not development as such, and most of the working-out of ideas comes at their presentation."
These are seed heads from a type of thistle we have growing in one of the flowerbeds. They're being taken out next week when the flowerbed gets tidied up so I thought I'd capture a shot of them for posterity!
Bon week-ends all round :-)
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
Yesterday's post in a larger context.
I don't know if they have a building inspector in Quadeville, but that electrical wiring does not seem up to code to me, heh heh. It seems that someone has fallen onto hard times here.
So, what's special about Quadeville? Well, they do have a Pentecostal church, and a sign in the window of the chip 'n' poutine shop across the road from this place indicated that they are eager to save our souls.
There is also The Beryl Pit (Quadeville East Mine) owned by a company called Aquarose, where for a fee rock-hounds can look for and collect beryl. Collection permits may be purchased at Quadeville's MacEwen gas station where they will also give you directions to The Pit. - www.mindat.org/loc-6641.html
But, Quadeville's biggest claim to fame is that Al Capone's Canadian hideout is alleged to have been in the area. We did ask for directions, and tried to find it, to no avail, however. Here's a link to the blog of someone who apparently did find it and photographed it for posterity: simpsonecofarms.blogspot.ca/2014/09/al-capone-hideout-in-...
Arabesque ornament (decoration) whose pattern is formed by flowers or tendrils.
Arabeske Verzierung (Dekoration), deren Muster aus Blumen oder Ranken gebildet wird.
Karakusa (arabesque) pattern ... It is traditional design in Japan. Arabesque means longevity and good luck for posterity.
Karakusa(arabesque) Muster… Es ist traditionelles Design in Japan.
Arabesque bedeutet Langlebigkeit und viel Glück für die Nachwelt.
Con su gota de lluvia a la espalda y sus tonos metálicos esta hembra posó para la posteridad.
With its raindrop on its back and its metallic tones, this female posed for posterity.
Avec sa goutte de pluie sur le dos et ses tons métalliques, cette femelle a posé pour la postérité.
The line is virtually closed at this point and Wallace Station is redundant. Good job that the townsfolk recognised its importance and saved it for posterity. The I-90 freeway passes this spot now, but the station was moved to a new site a little closer to town
The first triangular stamps ever offered in the USA, released by the United States Postal Service in 1997 for the Pacific 97 philatelic exhibition. The stamps were issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of postage stamps in the US.
I didn't specifically purchase the stamps to collect; I used up all except the last four stamps, which I saved for posterity. That was my habit up until Internet bill pay and e-mail put an end to sending traditional stamped mail.
The cropped width of this photo is right at the 3-inch (76.2mm) maximum.
Potsdam Germany
Sanssouci is the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. It is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for the numerous temples and follies in the park. The palace was designed/built by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to fulfill King Frederick's need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court. The palace's name emphasises this; it is a French phrase (sans souci), which translates as "without concerns", meaning "without worries" or "carefree", symbolising that the palace was a place for relaxation rather than a seat of power. The name in past times reflected a play on words, with the insertion of a comma visible between the words Sans and Souci, viz. Sans, Souci.] Kittsteiner theorizes that this could be a philosophical play on words, meaning "without, beware" or it could be some secret religious message which nobody has interpreted, left to posterity by Frederick II.
When the first settlers came to the Illinois prairie in the early 1800’s, an acre of land suitable for agriculture could be purchased from the government land office for a little over a dollar. That same land would cost you over ten thousand dollars today. Hopeful farmers and their families poured into Illinois to establish farmsteads that would support themselves and their posterity. Large families were needed to provide workers for the farm where work was never ending and chore lists were a mile long. Sunup to sundown was the rule of the day. Back then a grown son could hope to purchase a farm of his own eventually and follow in the footsteps of his dad and granddad. As late as the nineteen sixties this was still a good possibility. Today however, unless you inherit your land it is almost impossible to enter into farming. The high land and equipment costs make it highly unlikely. Large tracts of first rate Illinois prairie are being bought up by rich entrepreneurs like Bill Gates who have the money for such large expenditures. Farmers now are farming land they will never own. Grown sons must now seek occupations other than farming if they wish to continue living in a rural area. The land is so valuable now that heirs are selling it off for the money, causing the unbroken chain of family ownership to cease. That dollar and a quarter an acre land that great great granddaddy worked so hard to improve so his family would have a secure future is gone with the Illinois prairie wind to God knows where. A way of life forever changed by the shifting fortunes of commerce.
It’s a typical British summer with crazy weather, especially for Crazy Tuesday, it would seem. A really heavy downpour washed all sorts of decaying old leaves, seeds and general rubbish along with the flow of rainwater over the paving stones, as it searched for the lowest points and eventually to drain away. This collection of bits ‘n pieces of detritus collected in one depression, just waiting for me to notice and record it for posterity!
For the group ‘Crazy Tuesday’, theme ‘Within a 5 minutes walk’.
The coastal village of Carbis Bay, which is near St Ives, was the location of this year's G7 summit which took place in June.
World leaders from the seven most powerful countries in the world will met there to talk about big, global issues as they
tried to form plans of action. Carbis bay beach was a few miles from the beach near where we camped and is just visible in the previous photo. We happened to travel down just as a cavalcade of motor vehicles with outriders passed us going up the motorway to pick up Joe Biden from Newquay Airport.
A Royal Navy ship the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier carrying two helicopters constantly circled the bay and drones were always going over our head as we relaxed outside our caravan whilst tucking into a bbq the same time they were having theirs but our menu not quite so exotic lol..but I still managed a few pics of the RAF display team The Red Arrows as they put on their display as for each manoeuvre they regrouped over our heads. We stayed put as we didn’t want to get stuck in traffic jams but you can see why the St Ives Bay Area was chosen but it put the locals out quite a lot as traffic was not allowed without a resident pass to get in and out of here whilst the summit took place…