SDL is subsumed by a much bigger, faster, better roller coaster: the Great Bear.

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village at Sunrise

Güterzug 43685 M.annheim Hgbf - D.omo II ( 555 m - 1`325 t ) mit Lokomotive MRCE Dispolok TXL ES 64 F4 - 086 ( Hersteller Siemens - Fabriknummer 21639 - Elektrolokomotive Triebfahrzeug ) und Lokomotive Nordcargo SDL-NC ES 64 F4 - 093 ( Hersteller Siemens - Fabriknummer ..... - Elektrolokomotive Triebfahrzeug ) am Bahnhof Spiez im Berner Oberland im Kanton Bern der Schweiz

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Foto gemaakt door Sanne de Leeuw de Bouter

Salon du Livre de Paris 2013

UKTI and SDL hosted the Global Information Management Seminar and Reception on 22 Nov 2011.

SDL and UKTI hosted the Global Information Management Seminar and Reception on 22 Nov 2011.

And heated conversations, like this one. The lady is a supporter of SDL and quite upset that the majority of the people on the town square actually are opposed to her and her buddies hateful worldview.

Prickly Pear cactus in Scottsdale, AZ

Bristol VR at Ilse of Wight bus museum

With LambdaRogue 1.0.1, I offer an optional pure graphical tileset, with no ASCII at all. It is based on tiles from various Nethack and Angband tilesets, altered by me.

February 20th protests in Edinburgh against racist SDL/EDL

A few members of the SDL.

Foto gemaakt door Sanne de Leeuw de Bouter

Old Adobe Mission, Scottsdale AZ

Isle of Wight Bus Museum, Ryde, 15 April 2018. (image 1190)

Besançon le 5 octobre 2007. Edition 2007 du Festival Musiques de Rues. Fanfare La Tulipe au square Saint-Amour. Photo Simon Daval / Motsdimages.net

www.sdleisure.com.au

Edinburgh Stop the War (blue banner) outside the Central Mosque. Demonstration against the EDL/SDL (English Defence League/ Scottish Defence League) in Edinburgh Sat 20th of Feb 2010

And more discussion. This one on the topic of covering the faces.

Hove

Glück in Fesseln, Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Sangerhausen

Hamletmaschine, Ulricianum Aurich

Foto gemaakt door Sanne de Leeuw de Bouter

Scenes from the anti-facism/racism march in Edinburgh 20th February 2010. Organised against threatened protests by the SDL. Peace, gender and religion are highlighted on this protestors sign.

And important conversations.

Besançon le 5 octobre 2007. Edition 2007 du Festival Musiques de Rues. Fanfare La Tulipe au square Saint-Amour. Photo Simon Daval / Motsdimages.net

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Table of Pears: Still in Life

This photo captures a pair of bowls filled with fresh pears from our garden, resting on the dark reflective surface of the table in our sunroom. The harvest this year is smaller than usual—something that seems to be true for most of our fruit trees, except for the quince. Yet this pear tree has never failed us. Since the day we planted it, it has given fruit every single year, even in the shadow of a much larger tree that looms nearby. Many small trees bend away from such rivals, their branches shrinking back from the competition, but not this one. It simply grows, unbothered, and continues to give. There’s a quiet lesson in that resilience.

I rearranged the bowls and took this photo when I became aware of the contrasts while I was looking at the table. The pears sit in two contrasting vessels: one a dark, perforated bowl, the other a golden wireframe, their designs echoing the balance between tradition and ornament. Beside them stands a gasoline lamp, its glass decorated with blue and green floral patterns, a reminder of older forms of light. The reflective surface of the table catches not only the fruit and the lamp but also my own faint silhouette, camera in hand, balancing the shot.

Photographing rectangular objects like this table without a tripod can be a challenge—angles shift with the smallest movement, and it becomes a bit like playing a tabletop balancing game. Before pressing the shutter, I even wondered whether the table itself might fit the 16:9 frame of the image. By chance, it nearly did, though I had to scale it slightly.

We’ve already made a little jam from this year’s pears, though far less than in more abundant seasons. The fruit season continues, however—quince and medlars will be ready to pick in October, carrying the rhythm of the garden forward.

This image is in fact about its own story, about persistence in the face of shadows, the quiet generosity of a tree that never complains, and the small rituals of harvest that mark the passing of the seasons and a tradition.