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Another take of the lovely Azusa Ono from Shinjuku Gyoen. Springs joy is always fleeting.
Cooked white rice + raw fish slices (sea bream) + raw egg yellow + dried seaweed + soy sauce + wasabi, just mix and eat.
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The wonderful thing about children is that they appreciate the simple pleasures in life, like splashing in muddy puddles.
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A newspaper, a deckchair, and a beach - what more could you ask for? (actually, a couple more degrees of warmth would have been nice, it was very cold, lol)
Dating back to the mid 1800's, the Watkins home here shows some original furnishings passed down through the generations.
The flowers look beautiful, and I love flowers, so there's a beautiful joyous smile on my face. It's all so simple. Some people seek happiness at the other side of the world or in complicated ways, yet often happiness is just easy and very close to you. Like my dress; happiness can't get closer than that. Or right in front of you, like these lovely flowers.
Someone said... The simple life isn't about rejection, it's about appreciation. And some days, that's a greasy fast-food burger that hits the spot just right.
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One of the joys of being an 'avid' gardener is to simply enjoy strolling through the different sections and wonder at the beauty of nature.
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Loved watching and photographing the skateboarding (on my doorstep in the old Tallinn boot factory).
Plain and simple, a Calla Lily was a refreshing sight as I wondered the grounds of the Belmond Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge (formerly the Orient-Express Sanctuary Lodge).
Simple corniform signs: Mont Bégo
Further to the north of Mont Bégo in the Valcomonica petroglyph megasite, can be seen dated corniform signs from the neolithic e.g. the 'roche de la Baita'. As with Mont Bégo, corniform signs can also be seen here linked with yokes - forming an early representation of a 'living tractor' - the kind that will have also been employed for ploughing and during the movement of erratic monoliths, trees and megaliths. Whilst most of the glyphs around the Mont Bégo site are certainly Bronze age, it must be very difficult to say categorically that certain of the more simple examples are not neolithic, with the rule of thumb being that heavily simplified schematic glyphs are neolithic with representational details arriving for the chalcolithic and Bronze age. Thus the above simple signs need to be seen in contrast with more detailed corniform signs (see below). They may be of the later date, they may not. They may have exactly the same 'meaning' as more complicated corniforms - they may not.
The importance of the corniform sign to Mont Bégo cannot be underestimated, and there is a statistic that if you factor out unformed marks and scratches and only count 'symbols' and 'representations', then corniforms make up close to 80% of all petroglyphs. Seeing the wide variety of expression within the category of corniform, and it can be said that the ideas associated with the corniform symbol were taken by a diverse population to a zone above the agricultural line and onto bleak but mesmerising geological spaces. Mont Bégo, with it's Vallée des Merveilles and Vallée de Fontanalba was a focus for corniform 'cow signs' and understanding the dynamic range of these signs seems to be a task. For the record, there are plentiful examples of small pecks and scratches, and even when these are included, the statistic for corniforms runs to 46% of the 30,000 or so petroglyphs.
Top left: two corniform signs. See how there is no hint of a 'real' structure: these are not direct descriptions of a subject be it a cow-form hut, a stretching skin, a cow's scull, a cow, a tool (with the horns tipped inwards the would not make a pitch fork) or cow/human spirit - the lines seem to have starting to drift towards raw symbols.
Top right : The corniform has an appearance of a jubilant humanoid. Under are two 'rouelles' or spoked 'suns'. One has six 'rays' and the other five. Others similar signs can be seen with eight spokes. These are vivid but neither systematic or common to the Mont Bégo site, so however simple and eye catching they may appear, they do not seem to be representative of the site's 'zeitgeist'. The variety of the number of branches suggests to me an informal sign and not a rigorous symbol of, for example, a sun deity. Further to the north in the Valcamonica rock art site, there are seemingly indubitable sun-like petroglyph symbols with the 'rays attached to a central circle dated to the neolithic. These seem to be more conclusively suns, and the above radiants may simply be expressive and jubilant decorations associated with decorated cows and festivals. If they are aligned to a sun God then the position on the rock is small and to the side, so subordinate. With the 'corniform' on the verge of 'dancing', a description of 'festival' and joy on the corner of a vast petrogliphic surface may be a coherent explanation. As with the image top left, excluding a neolithic date for these signs would seem to me to be difficult even though they are surrounded by multiple petroglyphs that are know to be bronze age.
Lower left : It is very easy to see that two methods were used to produce this image. 'Pecking' and then 'scratching' with no great innovations from the great paleolithic rock art site of the Coa valley. The rock surface is very hard, and today pecking might involve a hole punch and a hammer - no great change, just a need for a sharp wrist action and eye concentration. The scratching is not always present (some may also be from historical visitors) and involves a repeated action to break the peaks between the pecks and in so doing creating a unified image. This mix of technique may have repeated on a larger scale during the late prehistoric periods for regional earthworks. Studies of some large earthworks show that ditches were first made as a series of pits and then broken through to create the large ditch enclosures we can see today. There are many surfaces where the best way to dig a pit is by driving down many deep holes using a weighted pole with a chiseled end. Adding water can speed up the process by creating shatter pressures and colloids that squirt out on their own. Messy but fast. Once a series of vertical perforations has been made, these can be broken through by levering a large pole, with the rubble of the pit removed. Two pits next to each other in the envisaged line of, let's say, a henge ditch, with the dividing wall battered down and antler picks used to clean up the ruts and imperfections. Today, predictive calculations for the time taken to make prehistoric earthworks are often made using only the final antler picks - as if you cook for one hundred using only a serving spoon - which can lead to dramatic statistics and truly vast numbers of hours required. This can make prehistory look like a repetitive and gruelling adventure in space-time or, force it to approach some of slave based monuments of early civilisation.
Lower right : A purely abstract sign again with humanoid overtones - a certain joy. The curling of the horns suggests an animal like a mouflon or a goat rather than a cow. Around Mont Bégo there are rare glyphs that I did not manage to photograph that are understood to be of goats. As with Soay sheep, the mouflon is an archaic variety - an early variety of sheep that has returned to the wild. They are easy to see today and unlike Isards, they retain a slight domestication and can wait to have their picture taken while still looking very wild. A very small corniform is also present top left of this image.
In conclusion, within the category of corniform there may be two qualitatively different glyphs with the above examples within the 'simple signs' group.
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ODC, Simple Pleasures
Another lovely day for a stroll along the beach at low tide, which for me is one of those Simple Pleasures.
I relive those memories over & over again in my mind… South Italy or Sicily… I can almost feel soft, salty sea water covering my feet, and thighs, then moving up to my neck… That feeling. That Italian ethereal heaven 💙♥️
Vladimir Putin stood in the middle of the eastern Ukrainian town of Luhansk and addressed the residents. “I am not Vladimir Putin,” he began. “These vicious and false rumors are put forth by the west, by the propagandists in Europe and America. I am nothing but a simple farmer, and have toiled my entire life in the fields of Eastern Ukraine.”
“These rumors of Russian invasion are lies,” he continued. “There are no Russian troops in Ukraine, and there never have been. We can defend ourselves from the illegal and tyrannical Ukrainian government that attacks our local people. I came here to stand with my fellow Ukrainians, offering my rough farming hands in defense of our land.” At this Putin held up his soft pink hands, recently manicured and powdered.
“With me I bring my wife, Katyuska,” Putin said, gesturing to a masked special forces soldier standing behind him. “And together we bring our 67,000 children and cousins,” he continued, waving to the sea of armed Russian troops flooding the town. “Aggression towards free people cannot be tolerated. I am here with you in solidarity to protect our freedom. I bring nothing but my family and some farming equipment that I thought could help.”
The tanks rolled in all day and all night.