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From the archives taken last August. I had always meant to post this and never got around to it. I thought the sunflower was hiding behind the petals as if it was bashful. I am on the road again for a few days. I have a new job that has me traveling. Hope to catch up with your streams when I return.
I did think about making this one B/W but I love the soft lighting and of course the red colour!
Thanks everyone for all your kind words and inspiration!!
Fashion credits:
Inque repaint: Wrap, shoes and dress from FBR Orb by Superfrock
Queen B: Everything from FBR Love by Superfrock
AG Androgyny: Corset, patines and hose from Slipper; cardigan, socks and shoes from FBR Gp Necked, all by Superfrock
Oh, it is glorious in the backyard. The grass is green, the trees are greening up, and the azaleas are blooming! The butterflies are drinking the nectar and the bees are too. More photos to come as I am able to edit them. For now, I'm going back on the porch to sit and enjoy! Just had to share this with you.
Drink it in on black.
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-->> This illustration reminds me so much of the Pac-Man pinball game..
.. look in the middle.. Shadow is comin' up after the couple to eat them. But the power of love keeps them together thru' thick n' thin.
I like how the pellets are actually on the road. And the houses of PAC-land have faces on them like crazy old 1930s 'Mickey Mouse' cartoons ..some of the Pac-Man colouring books i have..
the houses and inanimate objects have the same features with faces and hands n' stuff.
On these albums.. the ghosts aren't so much 'Evil' as they are pesky enemies.
In fact .. in the cartoon .. they were always trying to steal the Power Pellets for the boss 'Mezmoron'.. but then .. in these stories and songs.. the source for the power is actually all the fruit in Pac-Land.. and they are trying to steal the fruit.
So it the ghosts are pretty stoopit.. and a couple apples short of a full barrel. And in their off time they are buyin' socks at Kmart with Rainman er summin'.
But yeh ... stealing the fruit or thwarting Pac-Man was their whole stink.. so funny. On the X-mas album the 'Christmas Spirit ' even makes them become good and they share the holiday with the family.
Some games anymore you can actually play as a ghost. 'PAC-Man World 3' .. Pinky and and Clyde actually team up with PAC as playable characters to save their friends from an evil alien !!
Whatever the case.. you can see how these characters are so entombed into Pop-culture globally.. and yeh Nintendo's crew is cool .. but there's summin' very special about the Namco characters. Fact .. :: Past few years.. Pac-man has even crossed over into Mario's world. There are a few games liek the DS racing ones where PAC-Man is a playable character like racing against Donkey Kong and Bowser and Wario ..ect.
So cool .. guh- !!
~ t
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) pair, Large Belmont Pond, Kelowna, BC. Is he trying to hide? Being punished? Spying? I don't know; have never seen this behaviour here before....
been insanely busy - not taking many photos these days - thanks for the looks!
please see the Amazing Grace Children's Home CD we just finished at www.cdbaby.com/cd/agch
you can listen to clips and, if you wish, purchase songs digitally or the CD
all proceeds go to the orphanage itself in Awasi, Kenya
Cheers!
Folkloric
- In the Philippines, roots used as diuretic; also used for dysentery and dysmenorrhea.
- Entire plant in decoction used as alterant and antiasthmatic.
- Root considered aphrodisiac, and used for bladder gravel and similar urinary complaints.
- Decoction or infusion of leaves used in asthma; expectorant.
- Used for hypertension, menorrhagia, glandular swelling, sore throat and hoarseness.
- Powdered seeds applied to wounds and sores.
- Bruised leaves applied to bruises.
- Decoction of leaves used for diabetes.
- Powdered roots and leaves taken with milk for piles and fistula.
- Juice applied externally to fistulous sores.
- Poultice of leaves for glandular swellings.
- Leaves and roots used for piles and fistula.
- Used as antifertility agent in some parts of India.
- 1:1 ethanol water extract used for pain relief.
- Seeds used a coffee substitute
- In China, used for treatment of anxiety and depression.
- In Ayurveda, used as antiasthmatic, aphrodisiac, analgesic and antidepressant; also used in diseases associated with corrupted bile and blood, bilious fever, piles, jaundice, leprosy, ulcers, and small pox.
- In India, used for birth control.
- In Ayurveda, root is used as vulnerary, and for the treatment of leprosy, dysentery, vaginal and uterine complaints, inflammation, asthma, fatigue, and blood diseases. In the Unani system, decoction of root is used as a gargle to reduce toothache. (52)
- In the Antiles, Guiana, and La Reunion, roots used vomitive.
- In Indo-China, seeds used as emetic.
- In Mexico, used to alleviate depression.
- In Punjab and Cashmere, seeds used for sore throat.
- In Concan, paste of leaves applied to hydrocoeles and glandular swellings.
- Infusion of leaves used for dysentery; also as bitter tonic.
- Roots used for leucoderma, vaginopathy, metropathy, ulcers, dysentery, inflammations, jaundice, asthma, small pox, strangury, fevers.
- Leaves used for hydrocoele, hemorrhoids, fistula, scrofula, conjunctivitis, wounds and hemorrhages.
- Whole plants used for bladder calculi; externally, for edema, rheumatism, myalgia and uterine tumors.
- Whole plant, crushed, used for itching and scabies.
- In Malaysia, root decoction drunk as tonic; pounded leaves applied as poultice on body swellings. (48)
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Ndari, the six month old Sumatran tiger cub, peeks at the crowd of onlookers. A sense of scale is provided by the coconut in the background.
Red eared slider at Tohono Chul Park
On Sunday May 6th 2018 I joined our NANPA Meetup group for a last outing before the heat at Tohono Chul Park.
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A new house is going up on a ridgeline across the road from our neighborhood. Houses are being built anywhere somebody can squeeze one in around here. This was a windshield shot from our friendly local stop sign.