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A QUIET MOMENT.!! My brother Bob and his wife owned this beautiful Andalusian stallion, it was a good age, but was having so many problems with its legs and feet, that eventually the Vet said it would be kinder to say goodbye, upsetting even now.
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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship, am looking back on some of my images before turning to birds.
Keep safe and well, God bless ................Tomx
Still attached to the tree. I fought wind and sun glare to get this shot, trying to keep the copy paper background from flapping while the cherries were doing their own quintet choreography.
There are several chokecherry trees around the Tunxis campus entrance and this time of year, they're choked with cherries, as seen in my photo Cherry Red.
Uh, poor attempt at camouflage.
Couldn't resist, hehe.
The brass ring is a grommet in the canvas covering of my trailer.
HangingRock, NC
May 26, 2008
D3
Nikkor 24-70/f2.8
Agra Fort / Uttar Pradesh / India
Album of India: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/sets/7215762599872...
Here is a not very good photo of the Five-Storied Pagoda of Sensoji Temple (showing four stories only), one of the most famous in Japan.
In 942, Taira-no-Kinmasa built the Five-storied Pagoda and the Main Hall of Senso-ji Temple. The pagoda met with destruction and fire several times during its history and burned to the ground in World War II. It was rebuilt in 1973 with a steel frame and reinforced concrete and is now 48m high (53m from the ground up). Relics of the Buddha received from Sri Lanka in 1966 are enshrined on the top floor.
Senso-ji:
Early in the morning on March 18, 628, when the capital of Japan was in Asuka, in what is now a part of Nara Prefecture, Hinokuma Hamanari and his brother Takenari were fishing in the Sumida River. Bringing in their net, they were surprised to see that it held one statue . When Haji no Nakatomo, village headman of what is now Asakusa, realized what they had was a statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva (Sho Kanzeon Bosatsu),Kannon called usually.he devoted himself to Buddhism. He remade his house into a temple soon and devoted the rest of his life to worship and holding memorial services for this Kannon.
In 645, a Buddhist priest named Shokai came to this region and built a hall for the Kannon. Following a revelation he received in a dream, Shokai decided to hide the statue from view. Since that time, it has remained never unveiled.
Asakusa at the time was a small fishing village located in an estuary of Tokyo Bay in the vast wilderness of the area known as Musashino. It grew and flourished as people arrived in increasing numbers to worship. When Ennin (794-864), head priest of Enryaku-ji (the main temple of the Tendai School of Buddhism) visited Senso-ji in the mid-ninth century, he created a statue identical to the main image (absolutely Hibutsu) so that it could be shown rarely to the public.
During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), the Shoguns demonstrated great devotion to Senso-ji. Gradually, other prominent figures, including military leaders and literati, followed their example, and the temple’s importance increased. In 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa Shogun, designated Senso-ji as the temple where prayers of the shogunate would be offered. After that the successive Tokugawa Shoguns had often visited Senso-ji and the belief in Kannnon of the Senso-ji had spread among common people during the Edo Period(1603-1867).
As from the end of the 18th century through the 19th century Edo city developed into the largest population city in the world , the culture specific to Edo flowered and Asakusa had become the cultural center in Edo.
In the modern times Asakusa has been the popular culture center such as theater,movie,music and vaudeville.
Senso-ji is the oldest temple in Tokyo and also called Asakusa Kannon because it houses the Kannon, It is known throughout Japan. This important center of worship draws 30 million visitors every year.
Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo
In the area known as Kyle and Lochalsh you can find stunning scenery like this. The water is Loch Torridon.
Like this photo? Come see some more in my albums here: www.flickr.com/photos/bmdphotography-scotland/albums
Montserrat is located less than an hours train ride from Barcelona and is the home of a Benedictine monastery. The quickest route to the monastery is via the cable car (Aeri de Montserrat) offering great mountain views which lasts around five minutes.
Some kind of loading bay (presumably) in the Five Sisters complex in Aarhus.
For a photo story from Jutland (and Copenhagen):
Exactly five years ago today, I returned from one of the most powerful and moving retreats I had ever attended. The graces given to me from this experience were immense and I couldn't help but feel such joy and elation as I returned from the retreat center in Michigan to my (then new) home in NW Ohio.
With little daylight left on a Sunday afternoon, I decided to head out trackside along the CSX Pemberville Sub to see what I could find. I found my way to this signal bridge just north of the line's namesake, where I got two southbounds in the evening light, the second one being this train, R394: manifest traffic from Detroit, MI to Cumberland, MD.
So much of this photo is gone: the signal, the train symbol; even the chances at seeing a lashup like this. While I don't know what prompted me to go out trackside this evening after such a powerful retreat experience, I'm thankful I did.
Five Hole Arch, aka Colonnade Arch, is just left of center, with three windows or holes visible from this perspective. Two other holes open upwards, lighting the alcove.
A storm threatens from the northwest, but it slid to the northeast, barely skirting this area.
Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness, Utah.
Solanum mammosum is commonly known as nipplefruit, titty fruit, cow's udder, or, ambiguously, "Apple of Sodom". It is an annual or tender perennial plant in the Solanaceae family, part of the Solanum or nightshade genus, and a relative of the tomato and potato. This poisonous fruit is native to South America, but has been naturalized in the Greater Antilles, Central America and Caribbean. In Chinese culture it is known as five fingered eggplant. In Japan it is known as Fox Face. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_mammosum
The plant is commonly used for festival floral arrangements especially for celebrating Chinese New Year. It has been considered as symbol of wealth due to the golden color and long lasting shape, and symbol of ‘five generations living together’, which to many Chinese, is symbol of traditional family value, happiness and prosperity .
Today happens is Chinese New Year, so I have one in my living room on my orange color table! In the first day of Chinese New Year, I Wish you all a Happy, Healthy and Wealthy New Year !!