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Saturday night was just myself and Bella and we went into town. A much more unusual night for us, mostly away from the usual haunts.
We did go into the Star early on and I did karaoke in there. Very enjoyable and much much better than my last performance in there (which I didn't post - it was a proper disaster, ha ha).
After The Start we wen to The Mission in the old town, then on to the Scale and Feather, then I took Bella to Spiders nightclub, the alternative nightclub where I spen a large portion of my youth!
It was a top night, hugely enjoyable.
In The Star.
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The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. The building houses one of Europe's great civic art collections. Since its refurbishment the museum is the most popular free to enter visitor attraction in Scotland, and the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. It is located on Argyle Street, in the West End of the city, on the banks of the River Kelvin. It is adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and is situated immediately beneath the main campus of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill.
The construction of Kelvingrove was partly financed by the proceeds of the 1888 International Exhibition held in Kelvingrove Park. The gallery was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and opened in 1901. It is built in a Spanish Baroque style, follows the Glaswegian tradition of using local red sandstone, and includes an entire program of architectural sculpture by George Frampton, Francis Derwent Wood and other sculptors. (wikipedia)
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I love this dress - light and floaty and summery.
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I love the neckline on this dress.
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I had to go out this morning. I was pleased to find this great sign at the building's gift shop. 8-)
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Drinks in the Cosmo with a group of the girls who had stayed for Saturday too.
One of the comments to my prior posted bear picture in my photostream was critical of my posting a woman (Debbie) giving a treat to a friend’s bear. That person was concerned that people might see it and think they can do the same thing and then get hurt. Debbie's secret is that, a few years later, she was indeed bitten by a grizzly. Here is the proof.
TRIGGER WARNING:
Monkey see, monkey do. Do not engage with grizzly bears. They are wild and few of them are truly tame. Of course, the same thing may be said of your dog or cat at home. Family pets can and have bitten their owners, their owner's kids and neighborhood kids.
Now back to the reality of this sweet little bear. It was an abandoned baby bear that was taken in by the folks that bred the tigers for the Siegfried and Roy show in Las Vegas. The folks who owned that business were friends. The bear lived in a baby playpen inside their home. It was bottle-fed. Like many babies, they put anything they can get into their mouth, including Debbie’s chin. I would have said “poor Debbie” but she was so taken by it and loved that little bear. The "bite" did not even leave a mark.
Their home and the estate where they bred exotic animals was off of a lake. I cannot find it to post but somewhere I have a later picture of that same bear now in the 500 pound range sitting at the back of a small rowboat just off the shoreline. Sitting toward the bow, raised way up out of the water, was our friend’s 7-9 year old granddaughter doing her best to row the boat around, giving the bear a boat ride.
Way back in the evolutionary chain, dogs and bears are related. They can form strong and protective bonds with their human friends. Gee whiz, would I hate to be the person who tried a snatch-and-grab kidnapping of that sweet little girl. I suspect a 500 pound bear would have a very quick solution to deal with some mean person who dared lay a finger on his darling little girl.
Humans are animals who have formed allegiances with other animals throughout history in all cultures. They understand more than we think. For instance, there is a tribe in Africa still today who have formed a bond with the neighborhood hyenas. Some generations ago, somehow the tribe formed a deal that they would feed the hyenas each evening the guts, entrails, bones, and sinew of their hunting kill. In return, the hyenas have never attacked anyone in the village. One of the village elders, a man much braver than I, hand-feeds them. But yet the same generational pack of hyenas go out and fight with lions over an animal either they or the lions killed. Go figure.
Of course, it doesn’t always work out. And, yes, those old enough to remember may still see the news video of one of the onstage tigers dragging Roy off the stage. On the other hand, several times while flying into Las Vegas, I flew over Siegfried and Roy’s home (a ways out of town of course) and saw them cavorting with about a dozen lions and tigers in their extremely large home pool. I attended one of their shows. My seat abutted the runway out into the audience right where he stopped with the animals. I was with my daughter. We had steaks partially eaten on the table. The lion took notice. I told the lion in a stern voice, “No! Knock it off.” And he would turn his head away temporarily. He was probably pretty well fed. My daughter (her 21st birthday) did reach up and pet him on the leg. Both my daughter and the lion seemed to like it.
Petting a stage lion is not recommended. Those fellows had a great relationship with their animals and had them well under control. That is, of course, until that one time they didn’t.
I’m just an old man who treasures the opportunities I’ve had and been able to share with my family.
A T Burke
Please see my inspiration for this image below in comments. I found this image a while ago in a local newspaper for an art show that was taking place. I think is is a great image and i wish the article mentioned that artist who did the piece....so if anyone can find info or has see this before, let me know!
It seems that things have calmed down in the mother department. My Dad had my back like he always does.
Thank you ALL again for the comments, advice....and just an ear for listening. Happy Friday!
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FLOWER CROWN IMPERIAL: -
Flowers have lost their status as "queen of gardens" due to the fads and the volatility of what is called fancy, one that occasionally still finds refuge in a vessel is called solidarity lily-blood-salmon (Scadoxus multiflorus) , which also bears the names of popular star of Christmas and the imperial crown. One of the probable causes of their decline is its toxicity, the flower produces a potent alkaloid that is poisonous, so that in some corners of Africa's native salmon-lily-bloods it is used as poison and panacea for poorly healed wounds.
The lily-blood-born salmon a bulb that gives rise to light-green leaves with small waves and lanceloadas edges. In the center of the leaves grows a fake stem succulent consistency flourishes where a spectacular collection of fine flower cones that form the semi-circle a red-orange. The diameter can reach 25 cm and its height about 90 cm.
Thanks to its light and beautiful flowers, the lily-bloods salmon lends itself well to growing in pots and in massive, rows and borders - if there are many children and pets on the site, planting in backyards and gardens is not recommended by its abovementioned toxicity. The lily-blood-salmon blooms typically between late summer and late autumn flowers and has good durability (two to three weeks on average). The soil needs to be light, fluffy even for the perfect growth of roots, rich in organic matter and good drainage. She loves water but not waterlogging. It is a flower half-shadow and mild weather, not frost tolerant. Multiplies by seeds and shoots and the bulb goes into dormancy in winter.
The interesting thing about this flower here in Brazil is that its flowering occurs at the end of October, close to All Souls' Day, and dies soon after this day (November 2)!
FLOR COROA IMPERIAL:-
Das flores que perderam o status de “rainha dos jardins” graças aos modismos e à volatilidade do que é chamada de chique, uma das que vez por outra ainda encontra refúgio em algum vaso solidário é o chamado lírio-sangu-salmão (Scadoxus multiflorus), que também ostenta os nomes populares de estrela-de-Natal e coroa-imperial. Uma das prováveis causas do seu ocaso é a sua toxicidade; a flor produz um potente alcaloide que é venenoso, tanto que em alguns rincões da África natal do lírio-sangu-salmão ele é usado como veneno e panaceia para feridas mal curadas.
O lírio-sangu-salmão nasce de um bulbo que dá origem a folhas verde-claras e lanceloadas com pequenas ondas nas bordas. No centro das folhas cresce um falso caule de consistência suculenta onde floresce um espetacular conjunto de finos cones que formam a flor um semi-círculo vermelho-alaranjado. O diâmetro pode chegar a 25 centímetros e sua altura, cerca de 90 centímetros.
Graças às suas flores leves e lindas, o lírio-sangu salmão presta-se tanto para cultivo em vasos quanto em maciços, renques e bordaduras – se houver muitas crianças e animais domésticos no local, o plantio em quintais e jardins é desaconselhável por sua supracitada toxidez. O lírio-sangu-salmão floresce tradicionalmente entre o final do Verão e o final do Outono e as flores tem boa durabilidade (duas a três semanas em média). O solo precisa ser leve, fofo até, para o perfeito crescimento das raízes, rico em matéria orgânica e de boa drenagem. Gosta muito de água mas não de encharcamento. É uma flor de meia-sombra e de clima ameno, não tolerante a geadas. Multiplica-se por sementes e brotos e o bulbo entra em período de dormência no Inverno.
O interessante desta flor aqui no Brasil é que sua floração acontece no final do mês de outubro, próximo do Dia de Finados, e morre logo após este dia (02 de novembro)!
From:- jardinagemepaisagismo.com/o-lirio-sangu-salmao-ou-estrela...
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I bought this dress back in 2017 and have loved it ever since I first tried it on. Quite modest and subdued, nothing too flashy, but I feel it suits me really well.
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September's LFF weekend was a bit different from usual. The evening was tinged with sadness and loss as we had a memorial for Janie Marie Swann, the amazing organiser of LFF who sadly passed away in July.
But it wa also a hugely social night meeting loads of people, friends old and new.
And I did a thing - I made my karaoke debut! It was nerve-wracking but I loved it! After a bit of a shaky start I loved every second!
Hotel selfies.
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Ganhei essa joaninha de pelúcia ontem, e eu estou APAIXONADA por ela! Ainda mais apaixonante é a pessoa que a me deu, obrigada ♥
Hoje é sexta, e eu realmente quero ficar em casa pensando na vida, e nas coisas que vem acontecendo comigo! hahaha
Beijos, e bom fim de semana! (:
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I won this ladybug of plush yesterday, and I'm IN LOVE with it! Still more captivating is the person who gave it to me, thank you ♥
Today is Friday, and I really wanna stay in home thinking about the life, and about the things that have happening with me! hahaha
Kisses, and good weekend! (:
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A slightly melancholy weekend, this one. Leeds Pride is always the pinnacle of my year but of course with the pandemic this year it has been cancelled. However, Jen still had her hotel booked for the weekend, so I decided to drive across there and spend the afternoon in Leeds.
We actually had a really good time despite the cancelled celebrations. And we even ended up in a 'sports bar' playing pool - not very girly at all, ha ha! But great fun, and we'll be doing that again. We're both reasonably good at pool.
Temporarily not socially distancing - it was difficult to get video footage when we were keeping a distance.
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Found this at an estate sale.
The owners had passed away. It's always so interesting to see people's belongings.
I think the woman who owned this beauty suitcase was such an interesting person :)
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to everyone who celebrates this special day today!
What a mess Flickr was last night! I had difficulty adding titles to my uploaded images, comments didn't save and, after I had added a description to each of the 20 photos, the descriptions all disappeared. When I opened Flickr this morning, there was still no sign of them. Then, suddenly, they re-appeared.
My photos taken at the National Butterfly Centre, Mission, South Texas, have now come to an end, so you can sigh a huge sigh of relief : ) After that, I have just a few photos taken at another place that we called in at later in the afternoon. Unfortunately, we only had an hour there before closing time, but how glad we were that we found this place. The highlight there was watching 25 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons coming in to roost for the night in the trees, right where we were standing! What a great sight this was, and we were lucky enough to have a good, close view of these gorgeous birds. We also saw some Purple Martins and their circular, hanging nest "gourds".
On Day 6 of our birding holiday in South Texas, 24 March 2019, we left our hotel in Kingsville, South Texas, and started our drive to Mission, where we would be staying at La Quinta Inn & Suites for three nights. On the first stretch of our drive, we were lucky enough to see several bird species, including a Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Hooded Oriole, Red-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara, Harris's Hawk, Pyrrhuloxia male (looks similar to a Cardinal) and a spectacular Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I'm not sure if this stretch is called Hawk Alley.
We had a long drive further south towards Mission, with only a couple of drive-by photos taken en route (of a strangely shaped building that turned out to be a deserted seed storage building). Eventually, we reached our next planned stop, the National Butterfly Centre. This was a great place, my favourite part of it being the bird feeding station, where we saw all sorts of species and reasonably close. Despite the name of the place, we only saw a few butterflies while we were there. May have been the weather or, more likely, the fact that I was having so much fun at the bird feeding station. We also got to see Spike, a giant African Spurred Tortoise. All the nature/wildlife parks that we visited in South Texas had beautiful visitor centres and usually bird feeding stations. And there are so many of these parks - so impressive!
nationalbutterflycenter.org/nbc-multi-media/in-the-news/1...
"Ten years ago, the North American Butterfly Association broke ground for what has now become the largest native plant botanical garden in the United States. This 100-acre preserve is home to Spike (who thinks he is a butterfly) and the greatest volume and variety of wild, free-flying butterflies in the nation. In fact, USA Today calls the National Butterfly Center, in Mission, Texas, 'the butterfly capitol of the USA'." From the Butterfly Centre's website.
The Centre is facing huge challenges, as a result of the "Border Wall". The following information is from the Centre's website.
www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/about-nbc/maps-directions...
"No permission was requested to enter the property or begin cutting down trees. The center was not notified of any roadwork, nor given the opportunity to review, negotiate or deny the workplan. Same goes for the core sampling of soils on the property, and the surveying and staking of a “clear zone” that will bulldoze 200,000 square feet of habitat for protected species like the Texas Tortoise and Texas Indigo, not to mention about 400 species of birds. The federal government had decided it will do as it pleases with our property, swiftly and secretly, in spite of our property rights and right to due process under the law."
"What the Border Wall will do here:
1) Eradicate an enormous amount of native habitat, including host plants for butterflies, breeding and feeding areas for wildlife, and lands set aside for conservation of endangered and threatened species-- including avian species that migrate N/S through this area or over-winter, here, in the tip of the Central US Flyway.
2) Create devastating flooding to all property up to 2 miles behind the wall, on the banks of the mighty Rio Grande River, here.
3) Reduce viable range land for wildlife foraging and mating. This will result in greater competition for resources and a smaller gene pool for healthy species reproduction. Genetic "bottlenecks" can exacerbate blight and disease.
IN ADDITION:
4) Not all birds can fly over the wall, nor will all butterfly species. For example, the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, found on the southern border from Texas to Arizona, only flies about 6 ft in the air. It cannot overcome a 30 ft vertical wall of concrete and steel.
5) Nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife, which rely on sunset and sunrise cues to regulate vital activity, will be negatively affected by night time flood lighting of the "control zone" the DHS CBP will establish along the wall and new secondary drag roads. The expansion of these areas to vehicular traffic will increase wildlife roadkill.
6) Animals trapped north of the wall will face similar competition for resources, cut off from native habitat in the conservation corridor and from water in the Rio Grande River and adjacent resacas. HUMANS, here, will also be cut off from our only source of fresh water, in this irrigated desert.
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A bit of a smorgasbord of photos to finish the April collection off.
First up, me in a bathrobe. I'm quite comfortable these days with how I look most of the time. Nowadays, however I am presenting, I really only see me in the mirror any more, which is a wonderful mental place to be.
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I had a fantastic day out around Hull with the lovely Sarah. A privilege to share in days like this. Sarah is a new girl emerging into the world and this is one of her first ever trips out. We had a great time, some nice interaction, Sarah got a nice compliment too when we were in Wetherspoons having lunch. She looked great and really enjoyed the experience. Initial nerves evaporated away in no time! 😊💖 xx
Just about to head out.
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Blimey, it seems I went a bit camera-mad on this particular evening! And old favourite but a goody, this French Connection bandage dress was one I used to wear almost as often as my signature pink dress!
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