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(from the archives, taken in January 2006)
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Pain froze you, for years — and fear — leaving scars.
But now, as though miraculously, it seems, here you are
walking easily across the ground, and into town
as though you were floating on air, which in part you are,
or riding a wave of what feels like the world's good will —
though helped along by something foreign and older than you are
and yet much younger too, inside you, and so palpable
an X-ray, you're sure, would show it, within the body you are,
not all that far beneath the skin, and even in
some bones. Making you wonder: Are you what you are —
with all that isn't actually you having flowed
through and settled in you, and made you what you are?
The pain was never replaced, nor was it quite erased.
It's memory now — so you know just how lucky you are.
You didn't always. Were you then? And where's the fear?
Inside your words, like an engine? The car you are?!
Face it, friend, you most exist when you're driven
away, or on — by forms and forces greater than you are.
~ Peter Cole ~
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... for a Peaceful Blue Monday
with this hardy blue-flowered leadwort / Kriechende Hornnarbe (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) in Botanical Garden, Frankfurt
from Summer 2021.
Messing about on the river.
An archive shot uploaded for the challenge.
Added to: "Weekly Theme Challenge"
Explore No. 88 on 27th April 2017.
Taken from the bridge at the head of Loch Slapin
In the absence of new landscape material, I'm posting some images which I'm encountering while attempting to organise my archived photos and which I think are worth tidying up and keeping.
From a Model A tour a number of years back. We were visiting a town way back in the wilds of "The Great Basin Desert" that calls itself Paradise. The Paradise mountains in the background, friends Model A Ford in the foreground.
24 years ago while visiting Oregon, U.S. of A, I took this photo of a parasailor from cliffside. This too was shot on Fuji Velvia slide film. At the time I was using a Canon EOS A2 film camera with a 28-105 lens.
One of the reasons why I love, love, love my old Olympus E-510. Even the kit lenses never failed to surprise me!
Decree of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna to the Senate on writing in all affairs of Pavel Petrovich, who was born on September 20, 1754, "His Imperial Highness the Right-Believing Sovereign Grand Duke" and holding a state prayer service.
October 7, 1754
Указ императрицы Елизаветы Петровны сенату о написании во всех делах родившегося 20 сентября 1754 года Павла Петровича "Его императорским высочеством благоверным государем великим князем" и проведении государственного молебна.
7 октября 1754
Not been out due to a combination of work & really dull and dreary weather. Trying some new software too.. Taken March 2012.
I just started archiving my MAD Magazine art. 26 years worth! (The first 5 years I worked there MAD kept the original art). The work has been stored in no particular order. I'm finding drawings that I haven't seen in years and basically completely forgot. It is a bit overwhelming! This is just the tip of the iceberg!!
From the archives.
The Palais de Chaillot is an iconic building in Paris. Built on the foundation of the Palais du Trocadero.
On VE Day, 8 May 1945, the U.S. Army in Paris celebrated their victory on the terrace of the palace. Over 2800 soldiers, sailors and airmen listened to the victory speech to the troops by President Harry S. Truman.
This pano is taken from the Eiffel Tower.