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I discovered gin with a slice of orange this summer (rather than the traditional lemon or lime); delicious and refreshing. Some might say I've become a bit carried away with the combination...
For Smile on Saturday's #frutaria theme
My gin, tonic and lemon from my own tree. A refreshing drink indeed.
This week's theme 'Yellow' was chosen by Andrew www.flickr.com/photos/ajhaysom
Me and my hubby went Strawberry picking at a local farm on Sunday and of course, fresh cream and scones and strawberry flavoured Gin with tonic played a big part, Happy Summer everyone ~ KissThePixel2019
Nothing like 'ice and slice' to #refresh the palate | Lemon slices | FlickrFriday weekly entry on #refresh theme
Stories of exploration make for fascinating reading and they impress on the mind that exploration is a joint venture even though often the name of a single person is attached to a given account. Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913), the great English naturalist and traveller, has a sharp eye for others than himself in his exploits. A good example is a wonderful sentence from his "The Malay Archipelago" (1869):
'It was on the 13th of June, 1856, after a twenty days' passage from Singapore in the "Kembang Djepon" (Rose of Japan), a schooner belonging to a Chinese merchant, manned by a Javanese crew, and commanded by an English captain, that we cast anchor in the dangerous roadstead of Bileling on the north side of the island of Bali.'
In the book, Wallace gives a marvellous description of the geography, the natural world and the great variety of human culture of the Malaysian and Indonesian islands. But he is not only a describer; he also theorises about what he sees. On the basis of his observations he put forward the theory of the Wallace Line. This is an imaginary boundary running through the Lombok Strait (between the islands of Bali and Lombok) which separates the zoogeographical areas of Asia from Australia. Although the Strait is rather narrow - only about 22 miles across - it is extremely deep and was a barrier that in theory kept the flora and fauna of Asia divided from those of the Australian region.
This idea has today basically been abandoned. But the fact of the difference between the various species of plants and animals of those continental areas helped Charles Darwin conceptualise his theory of the origin of species.
This photo shows a plantation of palm trees, a thatched beach hut, and the Blue Waters leading to the Lombok Strait. My back is to magnificent Mount Rinjani, and from this spot in clear weather you can see to the East the outlines of Bali's Mount Agung.
'Leaving Bileling,' writes Russell a few pages on, 'a pleasant sail of two days brought us to ... the island of Lombock...' And he continues: 'We enjoyed superb views of the twin volcanoes of Bali and Lombock, each about eight thousand feet high, which form magnificent objects at sunrise and sunset, when they rise out of the mists and clouds that surround their bases, glowing with the rich and changing tints of these the most charming moments in a tropical day'.
With this book on my knee, a gin-and-tonic at hand, and this view: what more could one wish to enjoy!
This year, the FFF+ monthly challenge of FOTF has changed from 'five images on the fifth' to 'freestyle on the fifth', where each month a member of the group chooses a theme and the image can be a single image, a collage or anything you like as long as it relates to the theme and is uploaded on the fifth of each month.
This month the theme of 'floating' was chosen by Andrew.
I had several ideas in mind for this months theme, none of which came to fruition but on the last night of our recent beach holiday, I was relaxing by the open fire with G&T in hand, and upon looking down at my drink I said to Ray 'Lemon! My lemon is floating!' and that's how this months image came to be!
Gin and tonic on the Bay at sunset. Fair Harbor, Bayside. Fire Island, New York.
Vacation week in Fair Harbor, Fire Island, New York, and various points along the Fire Island National Seashore.
Made Explore for August 22. Thanks Flickr! Always an honor! #Explore #FlickrExplore #explored
Holmes Mill, Clitheroe
It’s become law in our household that you can’t go to Clitheroe and not call in at Holmes Mill, either for a drink or to take some pictures. Having lost my cable-release somewhere in Skye earlier in the year I wanted to test the replacement. I never knew you could auto-focus in live view via the release so armed with beanbag and camera...
Had so much fun with my new found knowledge and sticking the camera where tripods cannot reach, I totally forgot about the background - a rare inclusion of Mrs R!
My favourite guilty pleasure, a cheeky little Gin and Tonic, but only with ice and lime.... it has to be Gordon's Gin and Schweppes Tonic obviously!
Enjoyed the subject or at least the contents...hic.
Or should I say 'Upstairs, Downstairs'
A Gin & Tonic, a hair colour and a hair removal kit, lets hope I get it the right way round...
Just a little fun and naughty humour on what's been a hard day for me and for everyone in the whole wide world, stay safe, stay sane, drink gin, colour your roots and don't rock the 1970s down below...... ;)
KissThePixel2020
Debbie x
Saying farewell to the Southern Summer while breaking the 'stream up with some colour...
Gin and Tonic of course to accompany a few pages of "The Good People" by Tasmanian author Hannah Kent.
M240 M-P, Contax Zeiss 45/2 (Frankenzeiss)1/4000th sec at f/2, ISO 800
"It is a curious fact, and one to which no-one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand variations on this phonetic theme."
--Douglas Adams
Gin and tonic on the Bay at sunset. Fair Harbor, Bayside. Fire Island, New York.
Vacation week in Fair Harbor, Fire Island, New York, and various points along the Fire Island National Seashore.
You've probably noticed that if you have a glass of real (that is if it has quinine in it) tonic water or a good gin-and-tonic there's a light blue glow to it. That bluish color is caused by quinine molecules which absorb invisible ultraviolet light and then transmit some of it in the form of blue light visible to the human eye. Quinine, of course, is an excellent anti-malarial drug. The Dutch acquired almost the entire world production of quinine around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. That history is a veritable novel of passionate adventure... Suffice it here to say that the bark of Cinchona trees harvested in the Dutch colony of Java was shipped to The Netherlands; here quinine was extracted from that bark and purified into medicine. The foremost quinine factory was the NV Amsterdamsche Chininefabriek founded by Johann Sieger (1856-1942). Later that company became part of a larger medicinal conglomerate called Brocacef which in turn was subsumed under DSM. the present-day pharmaceutical giant.
Now, I learned only recently that on the outskirts of Amsterdam (New-West) there's a small but lovely nature reserve named for Sieger's son Johann Gerhard Wilhelm Sieger (1886-1958), who took over that company from his Dad. In the 1920s he - a nature enthusiast who was also an avid apiarian - bought about 15 acres of land for the protection of plants, trees, insects, in short: nature in general. In 1936 this area was opened as a park. Around 1950 Sieger ceded the park to the city and to the University, which used it as an experimental extension of the Hortus Botanicus that I like to visit. Later highway development and the construction of a new suburb reduced the park to about half its original size. After 1990 it came into the hands of the municipality! Let us for once praise a municipality: the park retained its function as a nature reserve! Today it also displays some sculptures under the auspices of the Stedelijk Museum. It's a quiet, very pleasant out-of-the-way place.
Lots of wild plants and flowers to salivate over. Here then is Myosotis ramosissima, Early Forget-me-not. The flowers are really very small: ca. 2-3 mm. Their bright Blue brought to my memory Quinine and the history of the Siegers.
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