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Spotted in abundance on one of my walks with Marnie, this is Lady's Smock. Other names are Cuckoo Flower, Mayflower, or Milkmaids.
Never bring this wild flower indoors, the fairies will be most upset. Legend says it's sacred for them. Sometimes it's nice to believe in fairies 😃 too !
Once used as a substitute for watercress, the Orange Tip butterfly likes it, so that's another reason to leave it where it grows.
"Where the grass is damp and green,
Where the shallow streams are flowing,
Where the cowslip buds are showing,
I am seen.
Dainty as a fairy’s frock,
White or mauve, of elfin sewing,
’Tis the meadow-maiden growing—
Lady’s-smock."
~ edited in Topaz Studio with a light texture of my own ~
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This beautiful photo "Sacred Bougny Tree" was taken with a SAMSUNG GALAXY A13 mobile phone. Enjoy the trees around you as they are sacred. In advance, Thank you for all your precious comments and faves with Gratitude, Love and Light!
Here's another image from my just concluded trip to Kenya. This is the African Sacred Ibis, a bird that was found on right on my property in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy.
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Ancient Egyptians thought animals were incarnations of gods on Earth. They worshipped the sacred ibis as the god Thoth, which was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and overseeing systems of magic, writing, and science.
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"Sacred water"
The Water Fountain Contraption (a.k.a. Temizuya)
At the entrance of Japanese Shinto shrines, you'll find a water fountain like thing that has ladles made out of bamboo or wood laid out on it (see above). It's called a temizuya, and the whole point of it is to clean and purify your body by washing your hands and your mouth. Here's the process:
Step 1: Pick up the ladle with your right hand and scoop up some water from the top portion.
Step 2: Pour a third of the water into your left hand and wash it first. Swap the ladle into your left hand, and then pour another third of the water into your right hand and proceed to wash it. All of this should be occurring in the bottom part of the temizuya, not where you initially scooped the water.
Step 3: Now that your hands are clean, you'll need to wash your mouth. Pass the ladle back into your right hand, and then (hopefully you have some water left) pour some water into your left hand. With the water in your left hand, bring your hand to your mouth and rinse with the water, finally spitting into the little area on the ground. Whatever you do, just don't put your mouth directly to the ladle, or spit back into the top area where you drew the water.
Step 4: Finally, you need to wash the ladle for the next person. To do this, draw some more water into the ladle, and now holding it with both hands, tilt the ladle scoop side up so that water falls down the handle and onto your hands. This essentially cleans the ladle, your hands, and the handle. You're now all set to make your way to the shrine itself.
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There is a pullout along Going to the Sun Road about 2.5 miles northeast of Lake McDonald Lodge which brings you to Sacred Dancing Cascade.
It's a roadside cascade that only takes a few minutes to walk to get from the large pullout to the footbridge. The Sacred Dancing Cascades in Glacier National Park are very scenic as you watch the turquoise-colored water cascading down the water-carved rocks.
We had passed by this earlier in the day but decided to stop on the way back to the cabin during the evening which worked out great so I didn't have to worry about any tourists getting in the picture.
Swayambhunath stupa is also called the `Monkey Temple' because of the many hundreds of monkeys who scamper about the temple at night after the pilgrims and priests have departed. These monkeys and a hashish inspired to the magic of sacred places for who believers.
For Smile on Saturday... Combination of Flora and Fauna.
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Image taken in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
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This is one of the last shots I took on the second afternoon visiting Ben Lomond/turapina with my camera. It shows a prominent feature known as "Old Bill's Monument". I have no idea where this came from, it may well have been an old trapper who lived in the area not long after the indigenous inhabitants had been removed to Flinders Island.
We do know that John Batman (the founder of the city of Melbourne) climbed Ben Lomond from this point with artist John Glover in 1833. Glover had just established his farm "Patterdale" not far from here, and he is reputed to have made numerous sketches.
But this photograph of mine is about something and some people much older than these colonial times. Those of you familiar with central Australian landscapes would not think this view out of place there at all. In fact it reminds me of some of the wonderful watercolours by Albert Namatjira.
I won't tell you Namatjira's tragic tale here (I'll save that for my last shots in this series), but it will break your heart. But here I want this photograph to speak for Namatjira and his ancestors - the ancestors of the intrepid people who, some 40,000 years ago, made their way across the landbridge from the mainland to settle on what became the island of Tasmania.
To these indigenous people turapina was sacred (as were most mountains in the world for most people) and the air was thick with a sense of the numinous. When you stand here and watch the sun's rays change the colours of the rocks as it sets in the valley below, you do have a very palpable sense that we stand in the midst of "a great cloud of witnesses" (Hebrews 12:1).
It's taken a while but finally this morning I managed to get a Kingfisher image I'm happy with from around my local area - I spotted this one just near Apiti looking very alert atop his observation post!
The sacred kingfisher is one of the best-known birds in New Zealand due to the iconic photographs published over many years by Geoff Moon. These early images showed in detail the prey, the foraging skills and the development of chicks in the nest and as fledging's. Equally recognisable is the hunched silhouette waiting patiently on a powerline or other elevated perch over an estuary or mudflat which converts in a flash to a streak of green diving steeply to catch a prey item.
Kingfishers are found widely in New Zealand in a wide range of habitats: the key ingredients are elevated observation posts to hunt from, banks or suitable standing trees to excavate nests in, and open or semi-open habitats which support a range of prey items.
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This cute little guy came and sat on the front rail of the houseboat, pity I had to capture him through the glass, he flew off before I could get out side understandably.