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Merci Annie pour la jolie plante!
Thank you Cathy for the pretty vintage card!
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EXPLORED - FEB 11th 2011.
Just saw the new remake of True Grit and loved it. Jeff Bridges is the man!
I wanted this to have a gritty (excuse the pun) "western" feel to it.
HSS! A BeStill52, coffee/tea, coins, topdown prompt. Some coins my son brought back from Chile and a little book I made that I've always intended to use for a trip journal but never have gotten around to using! (KK truegrit preset.)
I shot this from the True Grit area on Owl Creek Pass Road. It is an easy drive, although this year it was more washboardy. Cars can drive, and a lot of them do it.
The top of Owl Creek Pass is a mile or so past this area.
Been a while since I've gone full on gritty.... so couldn't turn up the chance to shoot this spot I came across.
Owl Creek Pass Road is a relatively easy road to drive. I shot these aspens at the top of the pass.
Right beside the pass sign is a huge rock. It is the sleeping rock where Kim Darby slept in the True Grit movie.
Chimney Rock and Courthouse Mountain in the Cimmaron Range of the San Juan Mountains this afternoon (8-10-2016) as the clouds broke from one of the thunderstorms that doused Owl Creek Pass west of Ridgway, Colorado. It's monsoon season in the West, which has made for some rather dramatic lighting in between and even during the frequent showers and storms. Remember John Wayne's famous final charge on horseback in the movie True Grit? Chimney Rock was the backdrop... I could spend quite a lot of time in any season shooting in this region and it's certainly another I've added to my list of places to which to return.
In Alchemy y, the motto is a common component of the symbolic “Chamber of reflection,” where alchemist contemplates and reflects on the nature of death. In both Alchemy, the motto refers to a process of internal, spiritual purification.
From the Middle Ages to the late 17th-century, the so-called “philosopher’s stone” was the most sought-after goal in the world of alchemy, the medieval ancestor of chemistry. According to legend, the philosopher’s stone was a substance that could turn ordinary metals such as iron, tin, lead, zinc, nickel or copper into precious metals like gold and silver. It also acted as an elixir of life, with the power to cure illness, renew the properties of youth and even grant immortality to those who possessed it. The philosopher’s stone may not have been a stone at all, but a powder or other type of substance; it was variously known as “the tincture,” “the powder” or “materia prima.” In their quest to find it, alchemists examined countless substances in their laboratories, building a base of knowledge that would spawn the fields of chemistry, pharmacology and metallurgy.In chemistry, vitriol is iron or copper sulfate salts and their derivative, sulfuric acid. The name comes from the Latin for “glassy,” after the resemblance of iron sulfate to shards of green glass. Vitriol is symbolized alchemically as the “green lion,” a poisonous substance that appears when metal is degraded by acid. Sulfuric acid, or oil of vitriol, was used in the synthesis of the lapis philosophorum- the Philosopher’s Stone. One unique peoperty of sulfuric acid is the dissolution of metals- all except for gold, on which it has no effect. The alchemical motto for vitriol is “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem,” “Visit the interior of the earth and rectifying (purifying) you will find the hidden stone.” The motto originated in L’Azoth des Philosophes by the 15th Century alchemist Basilius Valentinus. Many of the Western world’s most brilliant minds searched for the philosopher’s stone over the centuries, including Roger Boyle, the father of modern chemistry, and even Sir Isaac Newton, whose secretive dabblings in alchemy are well known by now. Long before Newton, however, there was Nicolas Flamel, a French bookseller and notary who lived in Paris during the 14th and early 15th centuries. In 1382, Flamel claimed to have transformed lead into gold after decoding an ancient book of alchemy with the help of a Spanish scholar familiar with the mystic Hebrew texts known as the Kabbala. Whether this was true or not, the historical record shows that Flamel did come into considerable wealth around this time, and donated his riches to charity. Harry Potter fans might recognize the name, as J.K. Rowling incorporated Nicolas Flamel into the first book in her world-famous series. Originally titled “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” in the United Kingdom, it was renamed “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” for U.S. publication.
The philosopher's stone, or stone of the philosophers (Latin: lapis philosophorum) is a legendary alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold (chrysopoeia, from the Greek χρυσός khrusos, "gold", and ποιεῖν poiēin, "to make") or silver. It is also called the elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and for achieving immortality; for many centuries, it was the most sought goal in alchemy. The philosopher's stone was the central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy, symbolizing perfection at its finest, enlightenment, and heavenly bliss. Efforts to discover the philosopher's stone were known as the Magnum Opus ("Great Work").It’s a great fear widespreading within your entire being, while you wait in the “Chamber of reflection” the call from the Temple, and the chamber of reflection is outside the Masonic Temple/Lodge, but the waiting lasts too long, felt like externally, and your dear friend, who invited you to become one, is passing from time to time, saying,”It’s not to late, you still can vanish and no one will say a word, it’s normal…”. Being said like a calming words, but indeed they provide the fear, knowing, being told many times, that the process (The Acceptance Rite) is irreversible, and once being passed the tough and enormously challiging your entire being Acceptance Rite, there would be no turning back. At the time in the “Chamber of reflection” in practice, being said in true alchemical language, the VITRIOL, that burns your heart with hyper anxious fear, that something fatal would happen, and you still can stand up and go out free, … this is the Spiritual vitriol, that burns all your human personality, to the degree, that if you really have a proper idea, where you’re about to be invited for an Acceptance by the first and most important Rite in Alchemy, as so, as if you are a true seeker, you should know through those hundreds of books... So, when you strive to get yourself together and accumulate such a True Grit, like you are waiting on a death row to be hanged – the feeling in the Chamber of reflection is as such, especially, when by 15en minutes, someone empathetic to your little you is coming to say, that it’s not late to get up and exit as a man throughout the he door…All of your unholly metalls burns, as by litteraly the V.I.T.R.I.O.L – the biggest written word inside, which you don’t know a sh°t about…Untill they call you with a high, strong and manly Nobile voice to come in front of the Temple’s doors. At this moment, psychologically – and then you just feel it by your entire self – SPIRITUALLY – YOU ARE THE PURE SPIRIT, THAT YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN -indeed, long before your birth, but this you SEE AND UNDERATAND MUCH LATER – so, at that point, as a pure Spirit (Gold), cleaned by all the unpure metals built-over You for the entire life of yours – of course by the “Green Lion” you are ready to pass the process of your Initiation means, Spiritually. It’s the most glory day of your life. You are being initiated and invented to the Temple of God – which symbolize the Lodge’s inside hall (the Temple of Solomon, built, as a Home where G-d shall live… And all of that is so symbolical, that, I would said, there isn’t a single mistake in Alchemy. All is as natural, as posible, but that natural for the Spirit things are hard to be accepted by an non-purified by vitriol and then wormly accepted in the House of G-d mortals, who can’t believe, that a little part of their personality is an immortal being and their essential true Self, Who deserves the all ages motto, Know ThySelf, to be a subject of a deeper meditatation – as the Tibetan Monks are doing.
Interpretations
The various names and attributes assigned to the philosopher's stone has led to long-standing speculation on its composition and source. Esoteric candidates have been found in metals, plants, rocks, chemical compounds, and bodily products such as hair, urine, and eggs. Justus von Liebig states that 'it was indispensable that every substance accessible... should be observed and examined'. Alchemists once thought a key component in the creation of the stone was a mythical element named carmot.
Esoteric hermetic alchemists may reject work on exoteric substances, instead directing their search for the philosopher's stone inward. Though esoteric and exoteric approaches are sometimes mixed, it is clear that some authors "are not concerned with material substances but are employing the language of exoteric alchemy for the sole purpose of expressing theological, philosophical, or mystical beliefs and aspirations". New interpretations continue to be developed around spagyric, chemical, and esoteric schools of thought.
Appearance
The first key of Basil Valentine, emblem associated with the 'Great Work' of obtaining the Philosopher's stone (Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine). Descriptions of the Philosopher's Stone are numerous and various. According to alchemical texts, the stone of the philosophers came in two varieties, prepared by an almost identical method: white (for the purpose of making silver), and red (for the purpose of making gold), the white stone being a less matured version of the red stone. Some ancient and medieval alchemical texts leave clues to the physical appearance of the stone of the philosophers, specifically the red stone. It is often said to be orange (saffron colored) or red when ground to powder. Or in a solid form, an intermediate between red and purple, transparent and glass-like.The weight is spoken of as being heavier than gold, and it is soluble in any liquid, yet incombustible in fire. Alchemical authors sometimes suggest that the stone's descriptors are metaphorical. The appearance is expressed geometrically in Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. "Make of a man and woman a circle; then a quadrangle; out of this a triangle; make again a circle, and you will have the Stone of the Wise. Thus is made the stone, which thou canst not discover, unless you, through diligence, learn to understand this geometrical teaching." Rupescissa uses the imagery of the Christian passion, telling us it ascends "from the sepulcher of the Most Excellent King, shining and glorious, resuscitated from the dead and wearing a red diadem...".
Properties
The most commonly mentioned properties are the ability to transmute base metals into gold or silver, and the ability to heal all forms of illness and prolong the life of any person who consumes a small part of the philosopher's stone.[ Other mentioned properties include: creation of perpetually burning lamps, transmutation of common crystals into precious stones and diamonds, reviving of dead plants, creation of flexible or malleable glass, or the creation of a clone or homunculus.
Names
Numerous synonyms were used to make oblique reference to the stone, such as "white stone" (calculus albus, identified with the calculus candidus of Revelation 2:17 which was taken as a symbol of the glory of heaven, vitriol (as expressed in the backronym Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem), also lapis noster, lapis occultus, in water at the box, and numerous oblique, mystical or mythological references such as Adam, Aer, Animal, Alkahest, Antidotus, Antimonium, Aqua benedicta, Aqua volans per aeram, Arcanum, Atramentum, Autumnus, Basilicus, Brutorum cor, Bufo, Capillus, Capistrum auri, Carbones, Cerberus, Chaos, Cinis cineris, Crocus, Dominus philosophorum, Divine quintessence, Draco elixir, Filius ignis, Fimus, Folium, Frater, Granum, Granum frumenti, Haematites, Hepar, Herba, Herbalis, Lac, Melancholia, Ovum philosophorum, Panacea salutifera, Pandora, Phoenix, Philosophic mercury, Pyrites, Radices arboris solares, Regina, Rex regum, Sal metallorum, Salvator terrenus, Talcum, Thesaurus, Ventus hermetis. Many of the medieval allegories for a Christ were adopted for the lapis, and the Christ and the Stone were indeed taken as identical in a mystical sense. The name of "Stone" or lapis itself is informed by early Christian allegory, such as Priscillian (4th century), who stated Unicornis est Deus, nobis petra Christus, nobis lapis angularis Jesus, nobis hominum homo Christus. In some texts it is simply called 'stone', or our stone, or in the case of Thomas Norton's Ordinal, "oure delycious stone". The stone was frequently praised and referred to in such terms.
It needs to be noted that philosophorum does not mean "of the philosopher" or "the philosopher's" in the sense of a single philosopher. It means "of the philosophers" in the sense of a plurality of philosophers.
(old rodeo man looking for housing, sf, 11/22/06)
archie from texas standing on the sidewalk near the tenderloin. he's just made it here from texas. asked for a photo, says "i don't mind."
archie is an old cowboy. says he used to ride rodeo in sf. says he still has a son in san francisco and points across the way.
archie's face tells stories. he bends slightly and walks slowly. he has aged.
as i approach he is about to cross the street. a heavyset transgender woman stands in front, says something over her shoulder and crosses the street.
a few minutes later she returns. she is his son. she takes his hand, pointing to a place where he can apply for housing. he follows.
Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!
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I shot this from the pasture where the final shootout in John Wayne's True Grit.
It is located on Owl Creek Pass Road.
This is the jail wagon that was used in the True Grit movie. It is located in Ridgeway Colorado on the east side of the city park.
It was raining hard at the time, so I shot it through the open window. Decided I had been wet enough for one day, thus the fence. We ate at the True Grit Cafe on the opposite side of the park which has really good food.
This the rock in the John Wayne's True Grit where he is trapped when his horse is shot and falls on his leg. This happened at the final shootout in the movie.
We will back their in a couple of weeks. We always go up there because there are lots of beautiful aspens up there. The road has some washboard areas on it, but most cars do fine up there.
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Taken from the Griffith Observatory area of Los Angeles. Though I like the original (below) it was fairly drab. I thought it would be a good one for Sliders Sunday if I could find a good processing style for it. I think the name says it all... Thanks for your visits, comments and faves, Everyone, and keep 'sliding'!!
P.S. For those who are not familiar with the group "Sliders Sunday" - it's main focus is on the photo that has been processed - or where the processing has been 'pushed'. I enjoy the group for that very reason - it allows me to think about what I have that I could use in this way. For me the group helps me think outside the box of SOOC as well. I would never have thought to try this processing seen here on such an iconic sign otherwise or had the courage to simply post it to my stream without a group in which to place it.
This is where the final shootout was shot. If you have seen the movie, you would see the Chimney Rock on Owl Creek Pass in the shot. The cameras were setup to the left. Rooster Cogburn started his from where I shot the picture, and Ned Pepper and his gang started from the opposite end.
If you go through Ridgeway Colorado, on the southwest corner of the stop light you can see the jail wagon from the movie. If you go eat a chicken fried steak at the True Grit Cafe in Ridgeway, the park across the street from it is where the hanging scene at the first of the movie was filmed. Ridgeway has only one stop light, which is the only stop light in the whole county.
Owl Creek Pass is a road is on accessible to cars if you don't mind some washboard and sandy roads. It is beautiful up there and in the fall has beautifu golden aspens.
These are cowboys and cowgirls moving cattle from one pasture to another. We were at the final shootout area from John Wayne's True Grit that is located near the top of Owl Creek Pass Road.
It was really neat seeing them drive the cattle with the help of working dogs.
Although, you may not see cattle there, visiting this place is really worth the drive.
Fort Smith Arkansas, the location of the novel True Grit. Photographed with a Canon EOS 3 and Tokina 28-70 f/2.8 lens on Ilford HP5+
I shot this on the side of the road by Lake Travis in Jonestown, Texas. I was on my way to lunch at True Grits Restaurant and spotted this from the truck and had to pull over. The colors were so brilliant.
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Royal Logistic Corps driver & truck @ Southport's 2016 event.
Would make a nice British Army poster-boy, eh? Right, ladies?
This area is located on Owl Creek Pass Road. The road starts one mile north of the stoplight in Ridgeway, which is the only stoplight in the county. In the fall these aspens turn a beautiful gold.
This is also the chimney rock that was in John Wayne's True Grit movie. Where I am standing is where the final shootout in that movie was filmed. This is an easy road for the most part and most cars should make with no problem.
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I have a photo up in the Jordan Faye Contemporary's True Grit, alongside the work of some of Baltimore's best documentary photographers. The show will remain up until November 1st so check it out!
More info here: www.facebook.com/events/684299634981519/
... during WW1, most of them mere lads, were led like lambs to the slaughter.
Not just @ the Battle of the Somme either, which we especially remember today on the 100th anniversary of the bloodiest battle in human history. The battle lasted five months and the dead & wounded numbered over one million - and the Somme dead included my paternal grandad.
The number of bereft, destitute widows, fatherless children and maimed/crippled and/or blind survivors thereafter, all left to somehow fend for themselves, seems not to be properly recorded. All this, it needs to be remembered, was long before any such thing as a "welfare state" had even been thought of. My own (war widowed) maternal grandmother had to literally 'scrub the decks' of ships/liners in Bootle docks for several years, in order to rear my mother & her two young brothers. Her husband, my maternal grandad was a merchant navy fatality. Sadly, seemingly much more easily forgotten that those killed on land.
And yet so many of our younger generation(s) whine about having tough times now.
It is also important to remember that 'The Somme' was just one single battle, in a bloodbath of a war that raged for four years
And to think that when one gets right down to it, the First World War was, in great part, due to a greedy family squabble in the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha -- now known as our (conveniently rechristened) House of Windsor
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... I'll never, ever 'bin' it.
This brave, old blind veteran of the Royal Corps of Signals has for many years insisted on marching in Liverpool's Remembrance Sunday parade.
Seen above, he is marching at the city's (2017) annual commemorative event while being guided and supported by a Sgt Major/Warrant Officer of his old regiment. A huge mark of respect and an honour indeed. Such is the esteem in which this particular old soldier is obviously held.
Bless 'em both!
P.S. Thanks to fellow Flickrite Mike McFall, I learned today 12/11/18 that this old soldier's name is Les, and that Mike has ensured Les' family now have a copy of this image.
Pencil drawing on bristol paper. Size 11x14. A Steven Chateauneuf Creation.
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I shot this a few years ago on Owl Creek Pass Road. Owl Creek is an easy road, and a car can do it if you don't mind driving on gravel.
Part of the movie "True Grit" was filmed on Owl Creek. The final shootout was shot just before you get to the top of the pass.
Hoping the snow will melt enough so I can get up there in a few weeks. Currently many of the roads I usually drive are closed because of the deep snow.
As Mr. Campbell moves more & more into the darkness of...Alzheimer's disease, I am reminded--even though I have never been a "fan," of...
...so many, many things.
No, he was not a saint or (for me) a "life-changer" but...
...he rose in prominence as I matured into adulthood & the always bittersweet recollections of my unhappy upbringing & stormy relations with my parents...
...are wrapped up in Mr. Campbell's musical (& film) biography...&...
...in learning of his imminent retirement & decline into Alzheimer's, I am reminded of the often dark but periodically brilliant bursts of happiness that made up...
...life in the unhappy little world of my family of origin.
So for the first time in my life, I bought a CD by Mr. Campbell, his latest & last,...
..."Ghosts on the Canvas."
I am stunned: it is...beautiful & moving, replete with sadness but still somehow...hopeful.
My favorite song: "Any Trouble:"
Don't go
To any trouble
You know
I won't be here long
Hold me like a breath
You can count on me to 10
And any trouble you got
Will be gone
Don't go
To any bother
Your mother may
Never lay
Don't go
And make a fuss
And you forget about us
And any trouble you got will fade away
Don't pin your hopes
Don't pin your dreams
On misanthropes
And guys like me
Don't pin your hair
Let it hang down
Don't go to any trouble on my account
Don't go
To any trouble
You know I must say,
So long
Don't hold me like a trial It's only for a little while
And any trouble you got will be gone
Any trouble you got will fade
All the trouble you got will fade away
I bid you adieu, Mr. Campbell, as you walk quietly...into the night
This elderly man was fantastic...................sooooooo determined! He had great difficulty walking (a snails pace really) yet he didn't give up! I watched this man over a period of time while I was out and about in Southport! He walked all the way from Morrisons Superstore which is in the Winter Gardens Commercial Area nr. Kingsway right the way along Lord Street (the full length of it) which for those who don't know, is a very long street!
They don't make 'em like that anymore!!..................the real meaning of 'true grit'...........I tip my hat to you Sir!!
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These hands tell a story: when you on the monkey bars every day. but you are proud you can go from one end to the other and back to the end where you started and not drop to the ground.
Pandemic Self Care. Processing pics from the boneyard (my “vault” that stores pics I have taken, but never processed and/or posted).
Stay Safe and remember wearing a mask protects you from me and me from you. We are in this together.