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Cure for Gravity the Serious version. (Dave Walcott, Joe Markert and Chris Gamper) in the early morning at Warm Water Cove in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.
Lighting: 3 Paul C Buff Einsteins with grids camera right. 1 on each subject. Fired with Cybersyncs.
Well, I knew that title would get your attention! This is Guaiacum officinale, or Lignum-vitae. Very hard and very dense (the source of ironwood), it was also thought in the 16th and 17th centuries to provide a cure for syphilis (as an infectious diseases doc, always a fascinating disease during my career). Maybe it could be used to club the treponemes to death, but it was found not to be medicinally useful. This specimen is in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California. I have added links below to Wikipedia pages for your reading pleasure. I actually have a deskplate made of lignum vitae, made for me by a Cuban refugee when I was stationed in Guantanamo Bay in my early Navy career in the 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaiacum_officinale
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_vitae
La basilique Notre-Dame du Valentin (1832-1835) à Lausanne, en Suisse, est la première église catholique érigée dans le chef-lieu vaudois depuis l’introduction de la Réforme en 1536. Elle a été promue au rang de basilique en 1992 et classée monument historique en 2003 (Canton de Vaud - Suisse) (Wikipédia)
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The Afflicted seeking cures at the Shrine of St William. They are anointing themselves with "holy fragrant oil" that was kept in a tank in contact with the saint's coffin and dripped from spigots built into the shrine.
One of the ninety-five panels in the window showing the life and posthumous miracles of the city's patron Archbishop-Saint in York Minster (workshop of John Thornton, 1415).
#StainedGlass #York
One more for the weekend....I think this one is kind of like how The Cure really is. You know, not just as an image but musically...a bit dark, a bit isolated...sort of an essence of separation from everything else. I think some probably see this band as strange but we're all a little abnormal, really.
Here's a picture of a lonesome imaginary boy. I'm sure if you love The Cure, you'll know just what I mean.
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My dining corner: here, nothing has changed. I might buy a new table one day, a little bit more narrow, but this is not on the top of my priority list for the moment.
There is a farm in Connecticut called "The Garlic Farm", they grow German Hard neck Garlic and it has to be the best garlic anywhere. Part of the process is to hand the garlic in their barn to cure it, and dry it out a bit. This shot is straight up in order to capture all of the great colors in the barn. Check out some of my other photos of the Garlic Farm.
This bottle is embossed with the words -
Atkinson's Blackcurrant Cough Elixir .
In Queen Victoria's reign thousands of incredible remedies were available , bearing such flamboyant titles as " Dr . Adolf Hommel's Haematogen " , "Radam's Microbe Killer " , " Dr . Cassell's Flesh Forming And Strengthening Tablets " , " Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and "Dr . Kilmer's Swamp Root Kidney , Liver and Bladder Cure " . Nine times out of ten these universal panaceas were little more than a mixture of water and alcohol ; sometimes they contained opium or chloroform . The contents usually deadened your senses and gave you the impression you were feeling better .
This one might actually have worked since it didn't make any outrageous claims .