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A lock of hair from my firstborn child.
My first entry for Macro Mondays! Theme Behind Glass
Shot taken with the EF-M 18-150mm and 47mm extension tubes
I thought I would use the strong sunlight coming through trees outside the window to create a menacing shadow, but as you can see it looks more like a cheerful pig! This is Tom who lost his adversary Jerry many years ago. They came as a pair - a gift for my firstborn. I gave Tom a bath before taking his portrait but was unable to remove all the "patina".
#14 Cartoon character for 122 pictures in 2022.
had a chance to photograph an old roomates firstborn yesterday. He's 13 days old and slept through everything we did to the poor little guy. Gorgeous and perfect. Jeff/Kirsten, I hope you aren't peeking!
"All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors".
- Haunted Houses, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
It's that time of the year where we demand your firstborn Zoobie baby....
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- Enchanted Woods v2 – Studio Skye
- Enchanted Tree Tunnel – Studio Skye
- The Witch Cabin RARE (gacha item) – Black Tulip @ Wayward Halloween
- Blood Magic Evil Skull & Black Magic Evil Skull – Kalopsia @ SaNaRae Event
Luke 2:7 “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”
And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve the Lord as you have said. Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.” And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” So the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing. And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves...
(Exodus 12:29-15:27)
...taken on the Long Walk...
Windsor, United Kingdom...
He's Peter's older brother and maybe the firstborn. He's small. Both were born from the same litter 7 years ago.
I love them both more than I love myself.
"But as the ages drew on to the hour appointed by Ilúvatar for the coming of the Firstborn, Middle-earth lay in twilight beneath the stars that Varda had wrought in the ages forgotten of her labours in Eä."
-J.R.R.Tolkien
Ortygia is a small island which is the historical centre of the city of Syracuse, Sicily. The island, also known as the Città Vecchia (Old City), contains many historical landmarks. The name originates from the ancient Greek ortyx (ὄρτυξ), which means "Quail".
The Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo has it that the goddess Leto stopped at Ortygia to give birth to Artemis, the firstborn of her twins. Artemis then helped Leto across the sea to the island of Delos, where Leto gave birth to Apollo. Other ancient sources state that the twins were born in the same place – which was either Delos or Ortygia – but Ortygia, according to Strabo was an old name of Delos. Further, there were perhaps a half-dozen other places called Ortygia, so that the identification is uncertain.
It was also said that Asteria, the sister of Leto, metamorphosed into a quail, threw herself into the sea, and was metamorphosed into the island of Ortygia. Another myth suggested that it was Delos, rather than Ortygia.
Ortygia was the mythological home of Arethusa, a chaste nymph who, while fleeing a river god, was transformed by Artemis into a spring, traversed underground and appeared here, thus providing water for the city. Arethusa and her pursuer, the river god Alpheus, came from Arcadia in Greece.
Ortygia, being an island just off the coast, was easily transformed into a natural fortress with harbors and was big enough that it could hold a significant population in ancient times. Therefore, the history of Ortygia is synonymous with the early history of Syracuse.
The youngest baby American Oystercatcher tests its wings. I hate to break it to him, but he's not taking off -- not yet at least.
Those were the day's my friend. We thought they'd never end...
I look at this picture and laugh out loud. It does convey that special delight of holding your baby. I remember it so well...
My son sent this photo to me. I enhanced it very slightly and cropped it a bit.
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Bebu #1. My first born son. I know we may not talk that much or hang out that often but I want you to know that I'm always here for you.
Through whatever chaos the world may throw at you, at the end of the day you can always come to mom for comfort. I promise we will make up for the lost moments between us. I love you always and I'm thankful to have you as my son. I gotchu always. <3
I never met my grandfather, Roland Davis, who died when my own father was 6 years old. In fact, my family tree had a spooky history of firstborn sons whose father's died when their oldest son was 6. My own Dad breathed a sign of relief on my 7th birthday.
Grandpa Roland lived for me as a photograph of a handsome man in a golden frame. There were the medals he earned in France from the First World War. Not only American medals, but medals from the French as well. And a German dagger he'd confiscated from a German he'd captured. These mementos have a place of honor in my folks' home.
I have a brick wall in my own home, hung with the photos of friends and family that have passed on. Just like my "in memorium" photo set on flickr, I believe that the stories of our history help us to know ourselves. I want my children to remember their ancestors, and to understand where they came from, and the struggles and victories these people endured. And I believe, that though they may be gone, they continue to live--not only in the photos and in the stories they tell, but in the faces of the current crop of youngsters growing up all around me. I'm always pleased when I hear someone point to a photo on the wall and say--'oh, so-and-so looks just like ol' what's-his-name, doesn't he?"
"And so it was, that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."
* Luke 2 : 6-7
"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly Merry Christmas"
** by Peg Braken
*** This picture is taken in the Bethlehem Church.
Originally I intended this to be a drawing based on a fanfic I'm trying to write, but he just doesn't fit in there. So I just made him Vostroyan.
Aconteció en aquellos días, que se promulgó un edicto de parte de Augusto César, que todo el mundo fuese empadronado.
Este primer censo se hizo siendo Cirenio gobernador de Siria.
E iban todos para ser empadronados, cada uno a su ciudad.
Y José subió de Galilea, de la ciudad de Nazaret, a Judea, a la ciudad de David, que se llama Belén, por cuanto era de la casa y familia de David;
para ser empadronado con María su mujer, desposada con él, la cual estaba encinta.
Y aconteció que estando ellos allí, se cumplieron los días de su alumbramiento.
Y dio a luz a su hijo primogénito, y lo envolvió en pañales, y lo acostó en un pesebre, porque no había lugar para ellos en el mesón.
Il est arrivé dans les jours qu'un décret de César Auguste a été promulguée, que tout le monde doit être enregistré.
Ce premier recensement eut lieu pendant que Quirinius était gouverneur de Syrie.
Et tout allait être imposé, chacun dans sa propre ville.
Joseph aussi monta de Galilée, de la ville de Nazareth, en Judée, à la ville de David, appelée Bethléhem, parce qu'il était de la maison et de la famille de David;
Pour être avec Marie, sa fiancée, qui était enceinte.
Et pendant qu'ils étaient là, le temps est venu pour elle de donner naissance.
Et elle enfanta son fils premier-né, et l'emmaillota, et le coucha dans une crèche, parce qu'il n'y avait pas de place pour eux dans l'hôtellerie
It happened in those days, that an edict was promulgated by Augustus Caesar, that the whole world would be registered.
This first census was made being Cyrenius governor of Syria.
And all went to be registered, every one to his city.
And Joseph went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
To be registered with Mary his wife, espoused to him, who was with child.
And it came to pass, as they were there, that the days of his birth were fulfilled.
And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Such a sweet experience to be a part of. This was the first birthday of a good friend's firstborn. Photo from a few years ago, I was cleaning up photos from an old, crummier phone and thought that the moment may be worth sharing. The genuine joy on Mom's face still makes my heart so happy.
Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival, is an important 3-days religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) to sacrifice his young firstborn son Ismā'īl (Ishmael)a as an act of submission to God, and his son's acceptance of the sacrifice before God intervened to provide Abraham with a ram to sacrifice instead.
"The firstborn. The Primordial of Flames. He who commands the domain of FIRE."
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Many thanks to BetaNotus (if he's ever active in Flickr) and ComradeFobo for the much needed parts to improve and perfect the build.
I used Finn's quilt pattern from Chickpea Sewing Studio to make a baby quilt for a dear friend's firstborn. 41"x46" July 2009.
Quilted by Jackee Thaysen of Jackee's Quiltworks. I used fabric from Flights of Fancy by Paula Prass in the Ocean colourway.
In 1272 AD, in Sachsen, Germany (then part of the Holy Roman Empire), the firstborn son of the noble Wüstenritter family adopted a coat of arms.
His grandfather, a soldier in Henry VI's Crusade of 1197, earned Christian knighthood through recognized battlefield success and great wealth from plundered treasures. His comrades called him Wüstenritter, desert knight, following the disyllabic naming convention of Old Germany.
This series of figures of this fictional family's bloodline will follow the red-and-green diamond pattern ("fusilly in gules and vert" or "rot und grün Geweckt").
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This knight wears a Templar's Helm, a style of Great Helm or heaume. Under this is a hauberk, a mail tunic which, in Adelger's day, often extended over the head (or onto a metal skullcap worn beneath the great helm) and hands and hung down to the knee. His legs were protected by chausses, mail leggings, and leather thigh padding which was the ancestor of cuisse armor. Over all of this was a surcoat (green) with belt and scabbard. He carries an arming sword, a single-handed versatile sword of Viking origin, and a classic heater shield.
There is no way that boots or shoes would have been worn over the chausses, as historical representations and common sense tell us, yet I liked the look of black boots too much. I don't imagine that that tiny flaw keeps this from being a period piece ;D
Enjoy! I have another picture, sans surcoat, for later. I'm really excited to get moving with this series of minifigures into time periods with more interesting armor!
Greywacke, New Kingdom
1490-1436 b.C.
Karnak Temple
This magnificent statue representing Thutmosis III is one of the finest statues ever carved in Ancient Egypt. Thutmosis III appears eternally youthful and confident of his divine majesty and power. He is shown wearing the nemes headdress with the protective uraeus, false beard and an ornate kilt with a buckle inscribed with a cartouche.
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Thutmose III was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost 54 years and his reign is usually dated from 24 April 1479 BC to 11 March 1425 BC, from the age of two and until his death at age fifty-six; however, during the first 22 years of his reign, he was coregent with his stepmother and aunt, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh. While he was shown first on surviving monuments, both were assigned the usual royal names and insignia and neither is given any obvious seniority over the other. Thutmose served as the head of Hatshepsut's armies. During the final two years of his reign, he appointed his son and successor, Amenhotep II, as his junior co-regent. His firstborn son and heir to the throne, Amenemhat, predeceased Thutmose III.
Becoming the sole ruling pharaoh of the kingdom after the deaths of Thutmose II and Hatshepsut, he created the largest empire Egypt had ever seen; no fewer than 17 campaigns were conducted and he conquered lands from the Niya Kingdom in northern Syria to the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Nubia.
When Thutmose III died, he was buried in the Valley of the Kings, as were the rest of the kings from this period in Egypt.
Pedra da Gávea is a mountain in Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Composed of granite and gneiss, its elevation is 844 metres (2,769 ft), making it one of the highest mountains in the world that ends directly in the ocean. Trails on the mountain were opened up by the local farming population in the early 1800s; today, the site is under the administration of the Tijuca National Park.
The mountain's name translates as Rock of the Topsail, and was given to it during the expedition of Captain Gaspar de Lemos, begun in 1501, and in which the Rio de Janeiro bay (today Guanabara Bay, but after which the city was named) also received its name. The mountain, the first in Brazil to be named in Portuguese, was named by the expedition's sailors, who compared its silhouette to that of the shape of a topsail of a carrack upon sighting it on January 1, 1502. That name in turn came to be given to the Gávea area of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Differential weathering on one side of the rock has created what is described as a stylized human face. Markings on another face of the rock have been described as an inscription. Some scholars, including Brazilian archaeologist Bernardo de Azevedo da Silva Ramos, have advanced the position that the inscription is of Phoenician origin and possibly proof of pre-Columbian contact from Old World cultures. Alternative theories proposed include that the rock was the site of a Viking colony or that it is connected with suspected UFO activity.
here is an purported inscription carved into the rockface, which some claim to be in Phoenician, a Semitic language known to modern scholars only from inscriptions. According to Paul Herrmann in his book Conquests by Man, the inscription on the mountain had been known for quite some time, but had merely been attributed to "some unknown prehistoric American people". Closer examination, however, led some researchers to believe it was of Phoenician origin. The transliterated inscription, according to Brazilian Bernardo de Azevedo da Silva Ramos, is as follows: "LAABHTEJBARRIZDABNAISINEOFRUZT".
Taking into account that Phoenician is written from right-to-left, this inscription is said to read "TZUR FOENISIAN BADZIR RAB JETHBAAL", which is translated roughly as "Tyre, Phoenicia, Badezir, Firstborn of Jethbaal". This is alleged to correspond to a ruler of Phoenicia named Badezir who ruled Tyre in the mid-ninth century, c. 850 BC. Some people believe that the mountain is actually some form of statue; it has been described as "Sphinx-like, with what looks like a vast human face sculpted at one end." The "face" of the rock is alleged to have been carved around the same time in the likeness of Badezir. Others claim that the mountain contains a Phoenician tomb.
History
Reportedly, Christian missionaries were the first group of people to notice the strange markings. They noted their findings to John VI, the King of Portugal at the time; his son, Pedro I of Brazil later took an interest in these theories. In 1839, Januário da Cunha Barbosa and Araújo Porto-Alegre, on behalf of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB), undertook the first official study of the structure. They later published an article called, "Relatório Sobre a Inscrição da Gávea", in the which they examined the markings more closely. In the 1930s, Ramos studied the mountain, hoping that it could provide evidence for his beliefs that "there existed a pre-Columbian civilization on the American Continent contemporary with the apogee of Phoenician and Greek expansion in the Mediterranean." He later claimed to have "succeeded in deciphering the inscriptions" that were described by the IHGB; he subsequently published a two-volume book entitled Tradiçoes da America Pré-Histórica, Especialmente do Brasil, that attempted to document all evidence of supposed Phoenician inscriptions in Brazil.
Various other people and organizations have attempted to rationalize and verify the inscription. At least one study was undertaken by a Latter Day Saint Elder named Irineu Petri to find "the possible relation between the inscription … and the Book of Mormon." Argentinian archaeologist Jacques de Mahieu argued that the inscription was not Phoenician, but rather Nordic runes, which read: "Next to this rock, numerous oak planks for ship are deposited on the beaches of sand."Furthermore, he argued that Vikings would have revered the site, as the mountain would have appeared to them as their god Odin. Other people believed that the caves that formed the eyes were "connected to other civilizations" or connected "to the underground city of Shambala." Still others held to the idea that Pedra da Gávea was part of an alleged UFO route. In 1982, the discovery of what were believed to be Phoenician amphorae in Guanabara Bay by Robert F. Marx was used as evidence by supports that the Phoenicians were at least in the area. Marx, however, later claimed that they were Roman in origin, dating from the third century AD, and that they were probably from a ship that had crashed on the Brazilian coast after being blown across the ocean during a storm.
Scientific analysis
Because Barbosa and Porto-Alegre's research was carried out during the early years of the reign of Brazilian Emperor Pedro II; Lucia Maria Pascoal Guimarães and Birgitte Holten later postulated that the focus placed on Pedra da Gávea was an attempt by the Brazilian Empire to nation-build and "establish the 'roots' of [an] ethno-cultural" state rooted in the concept of the Old World. In fact, the site later earned the title "Head of the Emperor", supposedly due to its resemblance to the face of Pedro II.Ramos's work in particular was criticized by scientists and scholars. A.R. Nykl wrote that Ramos "adopted wrong principles and consequently arrived at wrong conclusions." Furthermore, Nykl wrote that "to look for Phoenecian and Greek equivalents in the mysterious petroglyphs … is pure imagination devoid of any solid basis." In an article for LiveScience, Kim Ann Zimmermann argued that the belief in the inscriptions and "face" at Pedra da Gávea are example of pareidolia, or the psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus being perceived as significant. (Wikipedia)
Foto: Pedra da Gávea vista da Pedra Bonita - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
Video: Mistérios da Pedra da Gavea
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Welcome to the world, Tom. (Kitty and Marc's firstborn. Born on the 22nd of June, 2008 and six days old here)
With what shall I come before the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
[Micah 6:6-8 NIV]
5 MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
Its all happening on site now! My firstborn passed planning and is now, eventually rising up from a big hole in the ground. They have been piling this week for the foundations. Im not saying this is what I ever hoped it would look like, but your first baby is always the apple of your eye.
Saddly I have little control over what happens to it at teh moment. Someone else in the office is dealing with it now, and it is a Design-build contract. At least I managed to set in stone some of the more important design features at planning approval stage.