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Happy holiday to you all!
For some strange reason the flickr autotagger thinks the carnations and greenery are text !!!
Thema der Woche bei Macro Mondays ist: Redux 2017--My Favorite Theme of the Year
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Glückskeks
Roadside snap in Macau. A for non Chinese readers much less confidence inspiring than intended advertising sign.
The blue Chinese text 政府註册 正版正貨 actually means: "Government registered. Genuine products.".
The large black character is the traditional style 藥, meaning "Medicine", generally used to indicate a pharmacy (药 in simplified Chinese, pronounced yào in Mandarin).
This sign is hanging on a Traditional Chinese Medicine shop in the alley that leads up to the famous Ruins of St. Pauls.
Intrinsically this sign also gives an idea how much trust exist into the veracity of products sold along tourist streets in China, Hong Kong and Macau..
Archive shot, originally uploaded on November 6, 2008
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One of my favourite Christmas ornaments ... used to belong to my Mother in law. Will be back later to comment on your lovely photos:-)
Entered in the Kreative People Contest 63: Text Art
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FIRST PLACE WINNER
found in Castlemaine, Central Victoria, Australia
At 120 km driving distance from Melbourne. Castlemaine is the main town, officially a city, of The Shire of Mount Alexander, in central Victoria. Population these days about 9000.
Castlemaine began as the centre of the Mount Alexander gold fields in 1850. It was briefly larger than Melbourne, as that city's population moved to Castlemaine to seek it's fortune. Population these days about 8000.
It was the richest alluvial gold field in world history and that title has not yet been surpassed.
At it's height one of the weekly convoys alone, shipped 3 tons of gold to Melbourne.
However, the rich alluvial diggings were worked out within 15-20 years.
Castlemaine was where the "little fellows" became rich, with nearly all the gold being found within 4m of the surface.
Thus small groups of men could band together and work a stake together in the hope of winning the lottery.