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True Pepsi Lover very old Pepsi cooler riding around on this VW roof rack, always in easy reach, found in North Carolina .
... is rarer and when you find one you have found a treasure.
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Happy Birthday Sharon !
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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.
It was nice day for run at Tower Bridge in London, United Kingdom, on this day.
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There is true beauty in simplicity and in my newest article I give you three quick tips for creating images which are evocative and compelling not only in what they include but also in what they exclude. In photography, and in any of the visual arts, images which are simple, yet evocative, can be particularly powerful. Please feel free to read my article at this link. I hope you enjoy!
This image: There is an infinite beauty to moving water and it can be unlocked by looking beyond what we first see. The purple of a winter evening's twilight is softly reflected in the fast moving waters of the St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Canada.
A male, showing off his beautiful, bright metallic colours and markings.
These true bugs feed on plants in family Malvaceae including hibiscus and cotton. Both adults and nymphs suck sap from host plants. They feed mostly on young shoots, piercing the stems and sucking the sugar-rich juices intended for shoot growth.
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Hard to believe ... we didn't use ALL our bunnies (in the February Blythe-A-Day Group!) ...
... either that, or it's true what they say ... Bunnies MULTIPLY!
(... and can you spot all FOUR bunnies ??)
Happy Spring flickr friends!!
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BLYTHE-A-DAY
A flickr Group
APRIL 2023
DAY 2: "BUNNY"
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Santa Elena Augusta
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta
Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady on Thorns (Aranzazu)
Municipality of San Mateo
Province of Rizal
Philippines
SantaCruzang Bayan 2008
May 25, 2008
About SAINT HELENA
Venerated in:
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy
Lutheran
Anglicanism
Canonized:
Her canonization precedes the practice of formal Canonization by the Pope or the relevant Orthodox and Lutheran churches.
Feast:
Roman Catholic: August 18
Lutheran: May 21
Orthodox: May 19
Coptic Orthodox: 9 Pashons
**Finding of the True Cross: May 03
Symbol: Cross
Derivatives: St. Helena of Constantinople, St. Helen, St. Eleanor
Patronage: archeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, empresses
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, also known as Saint Helena, Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople (ca. 250 – ca. 330) was consort of Constantius Chlorus, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I. She is traditionally credited with finding the relics of the True Cross.
Family Life: Helena's birthplace is not known with certainty. The sixth-century historian Procopius is the earliest authority for the statement that Helena was a native of Drepanum, in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor. Her son Constantine renamed the city "Helenopolis" after her death in 328, giving rise to the belief that the city was her birthplace. Although he might have done so in honor of her birthplace, Constantine probably had other reasons for doing so. The Byzantinist Cyril Mango has argued that Helenopolis was refounded to strengthen the communication network around his new capital in Constantinople, and was renamed to honor Helena, not to mark her birthplace. There is another Helenopolis, in Palestine, but its exact location is unknown. This city, and the province of Helenopontus in the Diocese of Pontus, were probably both named after Constantine's mother.
The bishop and historian Eusebius of Caesarea states that she was about 80 on her return from Palestine. Since that journey has been dated to 326–28, Helena was probably born in 248 or 250. Little is known of her early life. Fourth-century sources, following Eutropius' Breviarium, record that she came from a low background. Ambrose was the first to call her a stabularia, a term translated as "stable-maid" or "inn-keeper". He makes this fact a virtue, calling Helena a bona stabularia, a "good stable-maid". Other sources, especially those written after Constantine's proclamation as emperor, gloss over or ignore her background.
It is unknown where she first met her future partner Constantius. The historian Timothy Barnes has suggested that Constantius, while serving under Emperor Aurelian, could have met her while stationed in Asia Minor for the campaign against Zenobia. Barnes calls attention to an epitaph at Nicomedia of one of Aurelian's protectors, which could indicate the emperor's presence in the Bithynian region soon after 270. The precise legal nature of the relationship between Helena and Constantius is unknown: the sources are equivocal on the point, sometimes calling Helena Constantius' "wife", and sometimes calling her his "concubine". Jerome, perhaps confused by the vague terminology of his own sources, manages to do both. Some scholars, such as the historian Jan Drijvers, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in a common-law marriage, a cohabitation recognized in fact but not in law. Others, like Timothy Barnes, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in an official marriage, on the grounds that the sources claiming an official marriage are more reliable.
Helena gave birth to Constantine I in 272. In 293, Constantius was ordered by emperor Diocletian to divorce her in order to qualify as Caesar of the Western Roman Empire, and he was married to the step-daughter of Maximian, Theodora. Helena never remarried and lived in obscurity, though close to her only son, who had a deep regard and affection for her.
Constantine was proclaimed Augustus of the Roman Empire in 306 by Constantius' troops after the
latter had died, and following his elevation his mother was brought back to the public life and the imperial court, and received the title of Augusta in 325. Helena died in 330 with her son at her side. Her sarcophagus is on display in the Pio-Clementino Vatican Museum. During her life, she gave many presents to the poor, released prisoners and mingled with the ordinary worshippers in modest attire, exhibiting a true Christian spirit.
Sainthood: She is considered by the Orthodox and Catholic churches as a saint, famed for her piety. Her feast day as a saint of the Orthodox Christian Church is celebrated with her son on May 21, the Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal to the Apostles. Her feast day in the Roman Catholic Church falls on August 18. Her feast day in the Coptic Orthodox Church is on 9 Pashons. Eusebius records the details of her pilgrimage to Palestine and other eastern provinces (though not her discovery of the True Cross). She is the patron saint of archaeologists. The names "Saint Eleanor" and "Saint Eleanora" are usually synonymous for Saint Helen.
Relic Discoveries: In 325, Helena was in charge of a journey to Jerusalem to gather Christian relics, by her son Emperor Constantine I, who had recently declared Rome as a Christian city. Jerusalem was still rebuilding from the destruction of Hadrian, a previous emperor, who had built a temple to Venus over the site of Jesus's tomb, near Calvary.
According to legend, Helena entered the temple with Bishop Macarius, ordered the temple torn down and chose a site to begin excavating, which led to the recovery of three different crosses. Refused to be swayed by anything but solid proof, a woman from Jerusalem, who was already at the point of death from a certain disease, was brought; when the woman touched a cross suddenly recovered and Helena declared the cross with which the woman had been touched to be the True Cross. On the site of discovery, she built the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, while she continued building churches on every Holy site.
She also found the nails of the crucifixion. To use their miraculous power to aid her son, Helena allegedly had one placed in Constantine's helmet, and another in the bridle of his horse. Helena left Jerusalem and the eastern provinces in 327 to return to Rome, bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics, which were then stored in her palace's private chapel, where they can be still seen today. Her palace was later converted into the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.
The reliquary of Jerusalem was committed to the care of Saint Macarius and kept with singular care and respect in the magnificent church which Saint Helen and her son built there. Saint Paulinus relates that, though chips were almost daily cut off from it and given to devout persons, yet the sacred wood suffered thereby no diminution. It is affirmed by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, twenty-five years after the discovery, that pieces of the cross were spread all over the earth; he compares this wonder to the miraculous feeding of five thousand men, as recorded in the Gospel. The discovery of the cross would have happened in the spring, after navigation began on the Mediterranean Sea, for Saint Helen went the same year to Constantinople and from there to Rome, where she died in the arms of her son on the 18th of August of the same year, 326.
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"when humans let me down, I just sink my nose into my horse's coat, inhale deeply and her horse smell brings peace to my soul" ~Cowgirlrightup
Give a horse what she needs and she will give you her heart in return. They say a horse is a mirror to your soul --well, I like what I see in the mirror, this mare is solid and dependable who always brings me home safely.
I remember one time in the mountains we saw a cougar, I was the only one still seated in the saddle in the aftermath of it all, everyone else was left to walk back to camp after their horses dumped them and ran off and I don't ride her with a bit in her mouth.
This was taken with my iPhone right after she came out the trailer with that "where the heck am I look" I asked her to stand. I train my horses with words and love from my heart..
this sign in jeffersonville sums up my feelings about our president and those planning to run. i think anyone that 'wants' to be president is the last person we should allow to be president.
The brakeman on BNSF's Buck Local led by BNSF GP50 No. 3160 gets ready to sweep snow off the "GW Switch" before lining it reverse so the local can enter the main in Longmont, Colorado, on November 11, 2018.
True love is like a ghost, everyone speaks of it, but few have seen it.
Place: Shahjalal University Science & Technology
Sylhet, Bangladesh.
© Niamul Photography
Standing on the top of Kambala Pass, looking down to the Yamdrok Lake, feeling like in somewhere out of the earth.
Thanks all for your visit and constructive comments.
First I got an IM about the placement of an artwork
...so far so good I found a solution for that...
Second I got an IM why I am doing this show...
ok, I answered to explain what my intention was...
Third I got an IM..."why did you placed a tip jar"....
A tip jar? Ok, I explained why we placed it...
NO answer from the other side...
I deceided to remove the tip jar immediately and
jumped over to the gallery...
Just arrived a friend told me that he received a mail
about "that" tip jar some time ago and within
seconds a small group of persons rezzed in front of
me. I looked directly into the face of Shoshana...
I felt like an accused person in my own gallery...
It was a very sad moment ...
We worked day after day for this show.
Our intention was to bring all these great
artists together. We payed all items from our
private money and that was much more as donated
from our artists and friends.
And after all these "somebody" tells you that you only
want to "make money" with the work of others...
What kind of friendly and peaceful Second Life is that?
*looks sadly around and can´t find an answer*
Jona
The man who works 2 weeks for a RL waiters tip sad but true