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When you look into a mirror
Do you like whats lookin at you?
Now that youve seen your true reflections
What on earth are you gonna do?
True Comics / Heft-Reihe
- Empire Builder
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Editor: William Allen, Ralph Ellsworth, Lloyd Jacquet
Parents' Magazine Press / USA 1941
Thomas Beauchamp and Katherine Mortimer, holding hands through the centuries, showing not just their undying love but also their equal status.
It is You who returns to me today and swims anxiously around my awareness again. Opalescent beams and the feeling of wet pour over my starving perception and I hear a faint whisper telling me that I have run too far into the dry and suffocating thoughts of a bleak and mundane world. Laughter, like perfect bubbles of fresh insight, dances in the space between us. Excitedly, You urge me to play once more in the world of limitless songs and inspired stories.
Oh yes, sweet redeemer, You drench and revitalize my understanding with radiant blue.
Blue like the unlimited and expanding sky. Blue like the awe-inspiring and swirling waves of an imagination that cannot and will not ever end. Blue like the true blue power of a dream that crystallizes out of the purest desire to love and magnify for its own sake. Blue like the Great Blue Heron that stands staunch and ready peering toward the horizons of its kingdom. Blue like the skin of the all attractive Krishna energy that calls the Universe to rise and dance in ecstasy. Blue like those eyes that drowned my entire existence with one first glance. Oh yes. Let Us redefine the "Blue" of Eternal Opulence and remember ourselves flashing across an overflowing night sky which by its very nature abases any weak and deflating thought into complete oblivion.
Oh the immortal words of the Master Poet Kabir resonate in the core of my Being tonight:
"I laugh when I hear that the the fish in the water is thirsty."
My favorite flower picture I took this year. I like the way the color, the bokeh blends and the fragile and beautiful this rose looks like … Hope you like it. I am currently working on a video with my 2016 prefered pics, stay tuned :) via 500px ift.tt/2hOg9H6
If the lover of old stones that I am is always delighted to find a monument «dans son jus», as we say in French (literally, “in its own juices”, meaning in its original –and often run down– state), full of authenticity and atmosphere, and allowing one to “read” its history just by looking at the shape, size and appareling of the stones, it is also true that sadness often comes into play as one acknowledges the decades, if not the centuries, of neglect and dereliction suffered by some of the finest pieces of our heritage.
The Romanesque church of Condé-sur-Arnon (département of Cher in the old province of Berry, central France), dedicated to Saint Dennis, is deemed to have been built, for its oldest parts, during the 11th century. My opinion is that this is a Year 1000 church, as attested by the flat apse and small apparel. Likewise, the archaic capitals, with motifs full of faith and of a touching naivety, far from the æstheticism and sophistication of large urban churches. This is a humble countryside church, yet it features some very interesting architectural and artistic traits that set it apart.
The misfortune of this church was the 1844 merger (at a time when this sort of procedure was not at all in fashion!) of Condé with the neighboring village of La Celle. The latter’s church was retained as the new parish church, and Saint Dennis was simply abandoned. As explained on the Wikipedia page devoted to this church, “the monument leaves an impression of desolation. As a matter of fact, when one compares current indoor views with those described by Deshoulières in 1931, the resemblance is striking.” Listed as a Historic Landmark as early as 1862, the church was probably not maintained at all until the 1990s, when it benefited from some emergency restoration works, mostly woodwork and roofing, thanks to a mayor mindful of heritage issues.
This church’s main originality lays in the fact that the choir and apse are raised almost two meters above nave level, as is sometimes seen in monastic churches (e.g., the Benedictine abbey church of Cruas in Ardèche, southeastern France). Totally bare, the nave is decorated with several Mediæval alfresco paintings (the Danse macabre could be early Renaissance) that are in a pitiful state, eaten away by dampness. The ceiling is a simple wood vault from the 1780s, but considering how the side walls lean outwards, I am convinced that this church was originally stone vaulted.
The choir, while of a great sobriety, is decorated with very harmonious and well-proportioned blind arcatures, and bathed in a typically Romanesque, soft and unusually plentiful light. It still retains its barrel vault.
Below the choir and apse is a semi-undergound crypt reachable via two low and dark tunnels running along the side walls. The floor plan is basilical and copies that of the choir. Light is scarce as the windows are very small. I had to use flash to light it properly for the photos. There are six columns but only one of the capitals’ faces is partly decorated, showing a naive and pure feminine visage with archaic traits. The faces of the other capitals seem to have been prepared for sculpture but none was ever undertaken. Contrary to the walls of the church itself which are of mediocre quality, the crypt is entirely appareled in very nicely cut stones.
All in all, and aside from some very eroded modillions, the only sculpted decoration can be found around the western portal, which features four short columns supporting the voussures, which are made of harmonious but bare arch stones. The four capitals are quite rough, archaic in their manner as most of what can be seen in this very old church. The motifs mix daily life scenes with quasi-Pagan themes, as if the Church had found it necessary to appropriate age-old beliefs in a region of France still very much permeated by myths and legends pre-dating Christianity, and still very alive among the masses —I was almost about to write “... and to this very day”!
The many esoteric theories that have been developed about this church, even around Year 2000, seem to confirm this.
I was moved by the very sorry state of this church and I got in contact with my local colleagues of the Fondation du Patrimoine, drawing their attention to this monument, one of the oldest in the region, in the hope that maybe this initiative will trigger an awareness for the interest and need to restore and preserve this unusual village church.
The western façade offers the same decorative sobriety as the rest of the church. However, the apparel is much neater and reveals that more funds were available at the time when that gable wall, which was the last part of the construction, was tackled.
True Detective: The Authentic Magazine of Crime Detection. Vol. 58, Number 3, January, 1953. Cover by Ozni Brown
100%...Always Handheld... A true pleasure being here on Flickr with all you guys. Thanks for the visits. denis
Vidalia is the most loving feline in our household. She loves all people and all critters. She even adores Bogart and Magnus, seeking out affection from both of them. Is there anything Vidalia doesn't love? Oh, besides benadryl, that is. I got benadryl down her throat ONE TIME back when she had a nasty allergic reaction to an additive to the lysine chews. The second time I tried, she drew blood from the side of my nose and managed to spit out the red-colored liquid while running down the stairs. Sigh.
Ahhhhh, memories. . .
And, quite clearly, Vidalia adores SunStones' catnip toys.
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... And a little grime! The door was locked tight, but there's that orange extension cord going in the bottom.
Coonalpyn – from Desert to Downs.
In the early years, Coonalpyn was known as the Ninety Mile Desert. It was not a desert in a true sense as it consisted of Mallee scrub, yaccas and banksias interspersed with lagoon and swamp flats, low fossil limestone hills and sand ridges. Early in 1850 Police Inspector Tolmer travelled through this vast uninhabited area on his way to the Victorian Goldfields to safely bring gold back to SA for assaying here. After 1852 Government wells and signs were established every 20 miles to aid travellers passing though the desert country. The pastoral era began with John Barton Hack who had a pastoral property here and chose the name Coonalpyn Downs for his estate from a local Aboriginal word meaning barren woman. Coonalpyn Downs was a 123 square mile leasehold property. It had several owners in the 19th century and the homestead was a substantial six roomed stone dwelling. By 1895 the land from Tailem Bend through to Coonalpyn and Tintinara was being managed under pastoral lease by the Cooke Family. Parts of it were resumed by the government to create settlements along the intercolonial railway line to Melbourne but larger areas were not resumed until the early 20th century. Coonalpyn is situated in the Hundred of Coneybeer which was declared and surveyed around 1895. (Frederick Coneybeer was a unionist and state parliamentarian for most years from 1893 to 1930.)
In 1887 the Adelaide-Melbourne rail link opened up the area and a small settlement at Coonalpyn was established. It began with the Coonalpyn Post Office followed by the primary school in 1889. But the township of Coonalpyn was proclaimed in 1909. The Coonalpyn Congregational (now Uniting) Church on Poyntz Terrace now the Dukes Highway was built in 1927 but Congregational services were held in the old institute from 1907. Fund raising for the Coonalpyn Congregational Church was under way by 1919. Also in 1927 the primary school moved from the institute hall where it had been held to a new government school room in the western part of Coonalpyn. Coonalpyn originally had two Lutheran Congregations (Bethlehem and Emmanuel) which were formed in 1930 and in 1940 respectively. They both held services in the Institute but in the early 1950s the two congregations cooperated to build a Lutheran Church at a cost of £5,000 that both congregations could use. The new church was dedicated in November 1952 and was the first Lutheran Church in Australia to serve both main Lutheran synods (ELCA and UELCA). In 1966 with Lutheran churches unification it changed its name to Redeemer Lutheran Church. E.T.S.A power came to Coonalpyn in 1962. Before this, private operators supplied electricity. A boost to the community occurred in 1968 when a water pipeline from Tailem Bend to Keith was constructed. The Coonalpyn Hotel was proposed in 1953 and finally constructed in 1956. The town has a general cemetery on the outskirts. The stone RSL Hall was the original institute hall which closed in 1953 when a new one opened. This institute was open by 1906 and during the 1930s and 1940s Catholic masses were held within it. The old institute was sold at public auction in 1954. It is not known when the RSL acquired it. The new 1953 Institute was built at a cost of £8,000 and it was opened by the Premer Sir Thomas Playford. Catholic masses were moved to the new institute after 1954. The town also still holds an annual agricultural show which was first held in 1945. A new bank of Adelaide opened in 1954 in the former chemist shop. The town was growing.
In the early 1950s the town boomed as the so called Ninety Mile Desert was transformed into the Coonalpyn Downs with the addition of trace elements to the soil which suddenly made them productive for some crops but especially for pastures (subterranean clover) for sheep and cattle. This important work took years of research and development and the actual discovery of the importance of trace elements to soil fertility was only discovered by intelligent chance by scientist Hedley Marston and his colleague David Riceman. Riceman noticed grass under coper power lines was greener than grass elsewhere because of constant dripping water from the wires in winter. He investigated this further. Marston’s work with trace elements transformed the Ninety Mile Desert from poor scrub to thriving farms carrying luxuriant pastures. Deficiencies of copper and zinc as well as of phosphorus in the sandy soils of the area were demonstrated by Marston's colleague, D.S. Riceman. Co-operative experiments with a private landowner, Mr J.E. Becker (later Sir Ellerton Becker) were begun by Riceman in 1944 which led to a definition of the mineral nutrients limiting pasture establishment. Superphosphate appropriately supplemented with copper and zinc gave spectacular pasture and cropping results. The Australian Mutual Provident Society invested capital in family farm holdings and first developed much of the land which it later sold to farmers. The prices of land in the Coonalpyn district and Keith area rose from about 25/- per hectare to about £25! This was a major scientific breakthrough. Much of David Riceman’s experimental work was carried on the property of Sir Ellerton Becker near Keith.
Today after decades of decline it is now revitalised by the silo art of the town. Bulk handling of grain began in SA in the early 1950s but most silos in the Upper South East were only built in the 1960s or later. They are now managed by Viterra grain buyers and exporters. Victoria began silo art in Australia and created a specific silo art trial across the Victorian Wimmera several years ago. Coonalpyn decided to follow suit in an attempt to revitalise the town. The silo art in Coonalpyn was only completed in April 2017. The paintings are 35 metres high. Five silos were painted and the work was done with a grant from the Coorong Council. $80,000 was needed for the project with local fund raising and grants from Country Arts SA and the Regional Arts fund. The Coorong Council employed the services of Brisbane artist Guido van Helten who created the first silo art mural in the Victorian Wimmera town of Brim. Helten visited the town of Coonalpyn for most of the month of February and decided to use actual portraits of children from the Coonalpyn School. They are truly stunning and they are encouraging some of the four to five thousands vehicles a day that pass through the town to stop and look more closely at the silo art. Van Helten has painted similar giant silos in Florida, Russia, Mexico, Poland, the Ukraine, and Belgium etc. To take advantage of the silo art a new café and coffee shop has opened in Coonalpyn. South Australia is unlikely to create a silo art trail as the next silos transformed by art are in Kimba about 660 kilometres away! Above is the silo art of Brim in Victoria’s Wimmera painted by the same artist but it is less successful than the Coonalpyn silo art. The colours are drabber, all the faces look downwards and it is extremely difficult to tell that the third figure form the left is a female farmer. In our view he should have made the contribution of local women to farming at Brim much more obvious. Coonalpyn is also the home of the Careship Coorong snail farm. It was established in 2011 to provide a kind of therapeutic environment for people suffering from dementia. Volunteers run the snail farm and the coordinator learn of the scheme from care farms in the Netherlands. The farm is home to about 15,000 snails which will be harvested from 2018 as they are destined to become a gourmet style of pâté. The dementia volunteers capture escaped snails and ensure the gardens are thriving to provide food for the snails. The farm has received an Alzheimer’s Australia award and it is the first snail farm in Australia but the concept of care farms for dementia sufferers is more common in Europe.
May 4, 2023 - Full Flower Moon, as seen and photographed from my Church in Long Beach, CA at 9:24 PM.
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Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Nikon D810
Tamron 150-600mm G2
600mm at f/11
ISO 100
Spot Metering
Edited in Lightroom
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I finally got round to having a makeover with the truly fabulous Cindy at BoysWillBeGirls. This was my first pro makeover and I had an amazing time. More pics to come! xx
The day was unseasonably warm and the color inside the conservatory was fantastic.
A task I put on myself was to find softness in different forms. I felt that when I came across this setting I had accomplished the task. "True Softness" appeared along with a wonderful soft contrast as well. Thanks for viewing...
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Stunning in Black
A pair of ravens I witnessed at a rest stop in Yellowstone. No care in the world that I was there and continued this preening even while I went to the car to get my camera and came back. Using the stump as a pedestal is what made this scene interesting and worth capturing in my opinion.
Curiosity and Bogart are quite a pair. . . it's taken a while, but Bogart is finally getting comfortable with all the biting and bathing and interactions that happen. When Curiosity holds his head and bathes it from the tip of the nose to the top of the head and even takes time to clean out the ears, Bogart seems to be so content. . . I hope that he is.
(Still cleaning. . .)
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