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Was in Explore but last time I looked this shot dropped out of Explore. Thank you for the views, comments, and faves.
I was hoping to see a bar-tailed godwit which was recently reported among the marbled godwits but couldn't see one among the 90 plus marbled godwits. If anyone sees one fly through one of my photos let me know. I took about 30 photos just in case it was there and I didn't spot it, but haven't found it in any of my photos.
I drove over to the Washington Coast where I spent a couple of days photographing birds. I was hoping to get some lighthouse photos but the dull gray clouds and rain one day didn't make lighthouse photos very appealing so I ended up concentrating on birds.
I often get a laugh out of flickr's tags. They think there is text on this photo and that these birds are plants. I don't want to take time to delete all of their incorrect tags so they remain on my photos.
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L'ETA' DI MEZZO
Foto 39 - mille lire Italiane, emesse dal 1969 al 1981.
Digitalizzazione anno 2018
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CACCIA MILLE LIRE O SON GUAI.
Un mondo di furbi permeava il tessuto urbano di San Giorgio ma ancor di più a Napoli.
La famosa arte dell'arrangiarsi, tra questa gente sorprendente, assumeva toni che sfioravano la leggenda.
Ho amato subito la città, con i suoi eccessi e le sue incongruenze.
Ci vedevo la mia infanzia, sempre spensierata e piena d'ottimismo.
Frasi come questa:
"oggi non c'è niente da mangiare, meglio così.
Di sicuro non mi verrà l'indigestione."
Questo modo di affrontare la vita,
la dice lunga sul sarcasmo quasi poetico dei Napoletani.
Non sono qui a fare un'analisi sociologica approfondita,
non ne sono capace, ne mi compete.
Ma di analogie ne vedevo di continuo.
Una sola grande differenza.
Qua sembrava un enorme "teatro" dove ognuno recitava la sua parte.
Chi non ricorda qualche film in merito ebbene quell'animo era in me.
Semplice, spontaneo, vispo.
Per questo tendevo a scusarli... a capirli.
Di aneddoti ne avrei a bizzeffe ma per ragioni di sintesi vi dirò solo la punta dell'iceberg di questa
grande commedia Napoletana.
Testuali parole dalla lettera n. 15 del 19 settembre 1976, domenica.
mercato dei quartieri Spagnoli. (NA)
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" Figurati che il mocciosetto di 10 anni nemmeno,
mi voleva vendere per 500 £ una bottiglietta contenente,
stai attenta a quel che dico... ARIA DI NAPOLI.
Figurati le risate quando me l'ha detto.
Veramente senza scrupoli, non ti pare?
Quel diavoletto mi voleva vendere una bottiglia completamente vuota,
pensa che i turisti, specialmente stranieri... la comprano veramente".
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Credo non ci sia altro da dire.
Una buona sintesi.
A proposito di mocciosetti.
Sempre dalla solita lettera,
ma questa volta il ricordo era fissato indelebile nella mente.
La domenica, da poco tempo, si poteva uscire in abiti civili.
Con discrezione ne approfittavo, adducendo una fantomatica impossibilità a mettere la gloriosa divisa perché era in lavanderia.
Con occhi truci il maresciallo alla porta:
"Che non si ripeta più".
Quella domenica eravamo a passeggiare in zona mercati,
come vi avevo già detto.
D'improvviso si parano d'innanzi 3 o 4 ragazzotti,
lerci ed a piedi nudi.
Un'accerchiamento perfetto.
l'amico Rossi di Grosseto era in divisa.
Dopo alcuni secondi di silenzio, ecco puntuale la minaccia,
detta con un piglio da guerrigliero dal più grande di loro,
forse il capo.
In mano brandiva minaccioso un pomodoro maturo.
Caccia la 1000 £... o ti spuorc a divisa.
Voleva dire, minimo, una settimana senza poter uscire.
Un vero guaio.
Sapevo che poteva accadere, ne avevo sentito parlare.
Anche se pareva una leggenda,
per questo motivo mi ero defilato da una parte.
Il teppistello non si era accorto di me,
che in abiti civili non avevo dato nell'occhio.
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(comunico a tutti che da qualche mese si poteva uscire nei giorni festivi con abiti civili).
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Aggirandolo lo blocco, e con fare fulmineo,
gli rubo il pomodoro.
Appena mollata la presa sono spariti in un secondo.
Sembra una favola, eppure mi è successo davvero.
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© The text is of exclusive property of the author, Stefano Paradossi, who owns the rights and prohibits any use by third parties. The image is part of the Photo Archive of the Paradossi family.
If you wanted to know something about France for instance, you would check the encyplopedia, now you use your phone,tablet or laptop to find things.
I still love going through the encyclopedia !
Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission !!!
© all rights reserved Lily aenee
We think of text messages as a relatively new thing - but - written text has been about for almost 5,500 years.
The oldest written graffiti was found in ancient Rome around 2500 years ago.
"Romani ite domum".
Life of Brian - Latin Lesson - Romans go home!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOfQfxmTLQ
Most graffiti from the time was boasts about sexual experiences. Graffiti in Ancient Rome was a form of communication, and was not considered vandalism.
Candid shot, Sidmouth, Devon , UK.
This is a decorated leaf from a Petrus Riga “Aurora”, a medieval poem, written in England in the fourteenth century.
The text is from Liber primus regum (I Kings) and is lines 185-248 of that part of the poem and appears to be the third of the three original versions. It relates to I Kings from towards the end of chapter 5 to the beginning of chapter 8.
The size of the leaf is 268/284mm x198mm (10 1/2 - 11 3/20ins. x 7 8/10ins.).
OTHER LEAVES: -
Other leaves from the same manuscript have been found in searches of the Internet and available reference books. These are: -
1. Bernard Quaritch Catalogue 1348 “Bookhands of the Middle Ages : Part VIII, Medieval Manuscripts” (2007), Item No. 96. This was a single leaf from the Book of Numbers and it had been in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal of San Francisco.
2. Marquette University – two leaves donated by Dr. and Mrs John Pick.
PROVENANCE: -
The leaf is from the Petrus Riga “Aurora that was lot 229 in the Sotheby’s auction of Important Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures held on 11th. July 1966 and which had been the property of the Grosvenor family (the Dukes of Westminster).
The lot was purchased by the dealership Francis Edwards of Marylebone High Street, who took out the damaged leaves (and sold them separately) and offered the bulk of the book still in one piece in a number of their catalogues.
This particular leaf must have been sold to a person living in New York as the back of the frame it was mounted in had the label on it of Midtown Plaza Art Shop, Midtown Plaza Mall, Rochester, New York.
GENERAL COMMENTS: -
This is evidently one of the damaged leaves that were removed from the book. With the exception of a portion having been torn away from the bottom, the leaf is in excellent condition. It is not known how many leaves were sufficiently damaged to warrant their removal from the book more than fifty years ago. As it has only been possible to trace three others, is it probably very few.
Manuscripts of the “Aurora” were produced in large numbers in the thirteenth century to such an extent that very few copies were made in the fourteenth century. This leaf, being from one of these later copies, makes it highly desirable.
PETRUS RIGA AND THE “AURORA”: -
Petrus Riga, was probably born in about 1140, became a priest at Notre Dame de Reims in France and a Canon Regular of the Order of St. Augustine at St. Denis (also in Reims), and probably wrote the “Aurora”, a poem, between 1170 and 1200. He died in 1209.
The Aurora is essentially a series of long Latin poems which re-narrate (and often clarify) the content of several books of the Bible. It was apparently very well known in the high and later Middle Ages and more than 250 manuscript copies of the 15,000-line work survive.
The text I received from my thirteen year old son devastated me, "We're having a shelter in place so I'll be home late". The meaning behind this phrase is all too clear in America, there is a potential violent threat at school and therefore we must shelter in our classrooms until it is deemed safe. It's not the first time I've recieved this text nor will it be the last. It's our reality. With every painful word a bit of my heart breaks into pieces and scatters away.
Just a simple candid street style Snap captured at London UK of a guy smoking and texting while taking a break.
THANK YOU KINDLY" to anyone who finds this shot good enough to put amongst their "FAVES".
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