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Step through the doors of the Niagara Apothecary and see how pharmacists practised their profession over 100 years ago. Liquor by the barrel or the bottle (and even by the glass), flavourings, paints, dyes, leeches, tobacco and snuff – these were the stock-in-trade of a 19th-century pharmacy. You'll see rows of patent medicines, "miracle cure-alls" for everything from hair loss to tuberculosis. The only restorative ingredients in most patent remedies of the time were opiates and alcohol, so pharmacists were handy with a mortar and pestle to custom-make prescriptions.
The Niagara Apothecary opened its doors at this location in the late 1860s. It operated for over 100 years under a succession of six owners, closing in 1964. The Ontario Heritage Trust acquired the property, led its restoration and opened it as a museum in 1971.
The original interior fittings of the Apothecary, all in use until 1964, have been painstakingly restored. The hub of the Apothecary was the ornately carved dispensary, which dominates the rear of the museum. With the exception of certain proprietary drugs, even pills were made at the dispensary.
The Niagara Apothecary at the Sign of the Golden Mortar is an excellent example of high style, mid-Victorian commercial architecture. The Italianate façade with its arched glazed double doors and two arched plate glass show windows; and the interior, with its lustrous black walnut and butternut fixtures, elaborate plaster mouldings and crystal gasoliers projected an impression of 19th-century
On the way from Hiroshima to Matsue, the Highway Bus made a short restorative stop near Myoshi. The scenery was spectacular, but also the colorful flower borders of the stop-over.
Here's a Spiderwort, Tradescantia, named, of course, after that great botanist father and son John (c.1570-1638) and John (1608-1662) Tradescant. This is the horticultural variety and its brightness would have lifted my heart were it not already high in the mountains. The view is from a bus window and hence just a bit 'murky'.
This mural was designed by aboriginal artist Jerry Whitehead and painted with artists Vince Dumoulin, Larissa Healey and Travis Nelson for the RestART program.
The word “RestART” (restorative justice through art) is a compound of “restorative” and “art”.
RestART is an initiative created in 2002 by restorative justice practitioners with members of the VPD Anti-Graffiti Unit. This is one of their pieces located on the Granville viaduct at 900 Terminal Avenue (by Home Depot).
Vancouver’s Integrated Graffiti Management Program, with the Grandview-Woodland Community Policing Centre and Vancouver Police Department were responsible for this piece the 14th RestART workshop and mural.
This RestART workshop included six youths and four mentor artists exploring the impacts of graffiti and discussing the need for collective responsibility in finding solutions and alternative options to the negative ramifications of illegal graffiti.
The mural is based on community, the individual and the collective responsibilities of family members.
RestART is a restorative justice art program that provides youth who have previously engaged in illegal graffiti with opportunities to express themselves in a positive way.
The Integrated Graffiti Management Program is focused on prevention, deterrence and eradication of graffiti.
Soap and matching candle from my dear friend Val. The little sparkly candleholder in the background is also from her. I tried the soap yesterday during a long, restorative bath (part of a "me day" after having had 30 people in on the 1st for Hoppin' John). It is truly the most luxurious soap I've ever used!
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Rudbeckia laciniata photographed at Ty Glyn Davis Trust Walled Garden
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This image was captured during a late summer trip to the southern Colorado Rocky Mountains. The weather had been fairly active throughout our stay, with thunderstorms rolling through most afternoons. But they were the calm, restorative kind of thunderstorms -- you know, the ones where the rain lightly pitter-patters on the tree leaves as thunder gives a gentle rumble off in the distance and your body finally fully relaxes as you take the longest exhale you've taken in you don't know how long... those kinds of thunderstorms. ⛈♀️
One evening after a storm had passed through, I noticed bands of misty cloud forms beginning to dance around the lush green mountain slopes. The clouds were changing shape quickly as the air and humidity vapors swirled around the alpine atmosphere, so I speedily snapped my shutter button in an attempt to capture this dynamic scene. It was as if the forest was taking deep inhales and exhales as she felt the rejuvenation of the storm wash over her. In post-processing, I liked this particular image best because the cloud looks like a big ocean wave getting ready to crash over the tops of the beautiful palette of green pine and aspen trees, and something about that notion feels tranquil. 💆♀️
Rio Grande National Forest, CO | Aug 2022
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Happy Days! This morning after a restorative stay at the Leith Toy Hospital - a much revered establishment in Edinburgh, Scotland, dear old Ted is home, and looking much younger than his 90 odd years, I must say!
Over a nice cup of tea and a biscuit - he has been me telling his plans for the future. Being unable to see for a good many years - he assures me his new shiny glass eyes are working wonderfully well - and as his right leg is now firmly reattached he’s looking forward to running around the garden and climbing trees and maybe a return to Scotland - although this time he’d prefer a relaxing holiday by the sea!
I can't recall a more prolifically blooming spring. Walks have been a real restorative in grim times
I can't recall a more prolifically blooming spring. Walks have been a real restorative in grim times.
Stamford Georgian Festival
Quacks were nicknamed “advertising professors”, and many of these hustlers rose to fame and fortune by using the media to their advantage. Dr Richard Rock (c. 1690–1777) became so famous that he appears in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress, albeit in an unflattering light. Rock advertised his “Antivenereal Cathartic Electuary” in the press and with trade cards, and he gave out a printed “Book of plain Instructions” with every bottle. But he also sold his “itch powder” and famous “Viper Drops” from a one-horse chaise in London's Covent Garden, and so he straddles the junction of the old-fashioned world of quacks who sold remedies directly to a mob, and the new breed of marketing-savvy traders who exploited print media.
Quacks selling proprietary medicines frequently colluded with newspaper publishers, who not only ran the vendors' advertisements in their pages, but often sold the remedies on the printers' premises for a cut of the profits. Another ploy was the “puff”, which was ostensibly an article reporting impartially on the wondrous efficacy of a new drug, but which was actually a kind of “advertorial” paid for by the manufacturer of the remedy.
I can't recall a more prolifically blooming spring. Walks have been a real restorative in grim times
Alley behind 18th
(2757) Today is Ozzy's 8th birthday. He is getting over being sick. He is getting his restorative sleep.
Fuji X-T10
35mm F/2 WR Lens
Feeling a bit under the weather so in need of a restorative. I'll let make your mind up regarding which one I picked.
Grade ll* listed building about to find itself under the mallet of so called restorative development.
LR3280
another from my restorative sunny day with my camera. amazing what some quality lens time can do for my outlook on the world. =]
happy monday.
Another shot from my lunchtime walk in the fog today along Bronte Creek in Oakville, Ontario Canada. This is one of my restorative places when things get busy in life and I need to clear my mind.
For Trish Mayo, one of flickr's major art mavens, and an excellent photographer, who just happens to live in my Upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights.
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It would appear that the Bulgarian conceptual artist, simply known as Christo, is back at work, wrapping something--in this case, the aerial subway station of the Number 1 train at 125th Street.
However, this is not the case. I checked his website, where I discovered that his only project having anything to do with the United States is in Colorado--and that's being delayed by a court case...
christojeanneclaude.net/mobile/projects?p=over-the-river#...
What probably is occuring here is repair or restorative work being done on the bridge that supports the subway tracks and platform. Perhaps they were inspired by Christo, though. They certainly chose some very nice pale-blue cloth to protect the area they are renovating. It's quite artistic, and very much in keeping with the aesthetics of the Master and his late wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
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The Heart of Harlem
Upper West Side, Manhattan
New York City, USA.
Title created for the group Six Word Story.
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- Whimsical is the dialogue with silence ....
Necessary ... restorative ....
Perplexing ...
It's good to talk to our humanity ....
With own ...., with self .....
- Caprichósos son los diálogos con el silencio....
Necesarios..., reconstituyentes....
Desconcertantes...
Es bueno hablar con nuestra humanidad....
Con la propia...., con la de uno mismo............
Sometimes life has a way of getting too hectic and you can feel a bit overwhelmed. That's how I have been feeling the past few days, so after lunch I made a coffee and headed down to the beach where I just sat in the sun and let the world go by. I have to say I felt 100% better leaving than what I did arriving. Amazing what a bit of sea air can do.
❄️W I N T E R S O L S T I C E❄️ As the earths axis tilts farthest from the sun, may the days be longer & brighter & continue to fill us up with magic & dreams✨✨ Winter is a wonderful restorative time for rest & inner sanctum..🌟
Kayakers are gliding on the still surface of Otago Harbour. The great city of Dunedin is visible in the distance.
Newport State Park, WI
Last week I had a great, though intense week traveling for work - the kind where I got a lot done, and I felt accomplished. However, we all know that you can't run at 110% all the time without burning out. For me it's important to take a little time each day to "do" some "non-doing" - not working, not accomplishing something, and not even sitting and thinking, going on a walk, or reading a comforting book. Just observing my thoughts without getting carried away by them. It creates space for creativity and empathy, and feels restorative.
On the weekend I found the perfect spot for that in Newport State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. This park only has backpacking sites, so Alyssa and I carried all our stuff on our backs and hiked to our campsite and had a little fire. The next morning I woke up at 4:30am (the day is so long around the summer solstice, ugh) and walked out to the shore amidst many of my mosquito and spider and bird friends to watch the sun rise. No human friends were to be seen, though. I took a photo and walked every so often, but I also spent a considerable amount of time just sitting and observing both the sun rise and my mind. Even though I wasn't doing anything, time seemed to continue, the sun still rose, and the waves continued to gently lap at the shoreline. In a fast-paced world full of glowing screens and push notifications, sometimes it's necessary to get back to the basics. I felt very calm and restored - ready to take on the next week. I then walked back and took a two hour nap and spent the rest of the weekend with my wife :)
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Captured: June 2016
Camera: Nikon D610
Lens: Nikon 16-35mm
Settings: ISO50, 16mm, f/11, 1/60sec
A nice restorative vegetarian dinner at the Jaiwana Haveli Roof Top Restaurant in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Sitting outside in the mild evening air, we had a view of Lake Pichola and two of its islands: Jagniwas Island which is taken up entirely by the famous Lake Palace Hotel built by Maharaja Jagat Singh II in 1754, and Jagmandir Island which has a 17th-century palace built by Maharaja Karan Singh and expanded by Maharaja Jagat Singh.
I love being in the woods.
Quiet.
Peaceful.
Fresh Air.
Magical.
Restorative.
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This one again plays with the idea of nature being a healing, and indeed, restorative, place to be; a theme often used in fairy tales. I've got another deep-in-the-woods shoot today which I'm quite looking forward to :)
Model: Aly Darling.
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