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B&W version. I'm so lucky to have this beautiful women in my life after 9 years. she is my true soul mate......
Seriously. I leaned on the railing while I was talking to him, down in the yard. And he wasn't listening to me. So I watched where his eyes were going. That's when I started laughing and held out the camera to snap a shot. The wind was crazy and blowing my hair all around.
I couldn't get him in the arm's length shot, so I had him move closer... which is where the next photo comes into play.
He is EVERYWHERE!!!
He is the King !
He likes Yellow !
Thailand peoples love him very much !
And i`m sure he got a lot of Gold on his bank account !
Photos of Finnish love metal band HIM performing on the Rock Allegiance Tour in Abbotsford on September 8th.
Paid him £25 for it as the engine was using a lot of oil. All sorted after getting a recon engine fitted in it. Resprayed it as well. Done many a mile in it. Worse thing I did.
Ya know, George Canyon might sound like he grew up on a farm in Texas. But make no mistake, he's a Canadian cowboy, from Nova Scotia. His parents made him a child-size guitar when he was 5 years old and by the time he was 10, he was playing school talent shows. Years later, on a whim as a pre-med student he auditioned for a production of "Camelot."nGeorge got to play the lead and his life took a big turn. A country band heard George sing. They offered him a gig and soon enough, he started touring with them. Eventually, the band split up, but George kept at it. He worked odd jobs to make ends meet, everything from shipping and receiving, to slaughterhouse beef inspector, to law enforcement officer. Along the way, he put out a couple of albums before auditioning for the country music reality show - 'Nashville Star.' George came in second, but his career took off. His major label debut, 'One Good Friend,' went gold in Canada. Since then, he's released a bunch of albums, and won a bunch of awards. He's even been made an Honorary Colonel by Defense Minister Peter McKay. His latest album is called 'What I Do'.
Check out the interview here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=933203340
Ya know, George Canyon might sound like he grew up on a farm in Texas. But make no mistake, he's a Canadian cowboy, from Nova Scotia. His parents made him a child-size guitar when he was 5 years old and by the time he was 10, he was playing school talent shows. Years later, on a whim as a pre-med student he auditioned for a production of "Camelot."nGeorge got to play the lead and his life took a big turn. A country band heard George sing. They offered him a gig and soon enough, he started touring with them. Eventually, the band split up, but George kept at it. He worked odd jobs to make ends meet, everything from shipping and receiving, to slaughterhouse beef inspector, to law enforcement officer. Along the way, he put out a couple of albums before auditioning for the country music reality show - 'Nashville Star.' George came in second, but his career took off. His major label debut, 'One Good Friend,' went gold in Canada. Since then, he's released a bunch of albums, and won a bunch of awards. He's even been made an Honorary Colonel by Defense Minister Peter McKay. His latest album is called 'What I Do'.
Check out the interview here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=933203340
Ya know, George Canyon might sound like he grew up on a farm in Texas. But make no mistake, he's a Canadian cowboy, from Nova Scotia. His parents made him a child-size guitar when he was 5 years old and by the time he was 10, he was playing school talent shows. Years later, on a whim as a pre-med student he auditioned for a production of "Camelot."nGeorge got to play the lead and his life took a big turn. A country band heard George sing. They offered him a gig and soon enough, he started touring with them. Eventually, the band split up, but George kept at it. He worked odd jobs to make ends meet, everything from shipping and receiving, to slaughterhouse beef inspector, to law enforcement officer. Along the way, he put out a couple of albums before auditioning for the country music reality show - 'Nashville Star.' George came in second, but his career took off. His major label debut, 'One Good Friend,' went gold in Canada. Since then, he's released a bunch of albums, and won a bunch of awards. He's even been made an Honorary Colonel by Defense Minister Peter McKay. His latest album is called 'What I Do'.
Check out the interview here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=933203340
Ya know, George Canyon might sound like he grew up on a farm in Texas. But make no mistake, he's a Canadian cowboy, from Nova Scotia. His parents made him a child-size guitar when he was 5 years old and by the time he was 10, he was playing school talent shows. Years later, on a whim as a pre-med student he auditioned for a production of "Camelot."nGeorge got to play the lead and his life took a big turn. A country band heard George sing. They offered him a gig and soon enough, he started touring with them. Eventually, the band split up, but George kept at it. He worked odd jobs to make ends meet, everything from shipping and receiving, to slaughterhouse beef inspector, to law enforcement officer. Along the way, he put out a couple of albums before auditioning for the country music reality show - 'Nashville Star.' George came in second, but his career took off. His major label debut, 'One Good Friend,' went gold in Canada. Since then, he's released a bunch of albums, and won a bunch of awards. He's even been made an Honorary Colonel by Defense Minister Peter McKay. His latest album is called 'What I Do'.
Check out the interview here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=933203340
Ya know, George Canyon might sound like he grew up on a farm in Texas. But make no mistake, he's a Canadian cowboy, from Nova Scotia. His parents made him a child-size guitar when he was 5 years old and by the time he was 10, he was playing school talent shows. Years later, on a whim as a pre-med student he auditioned for a production of "Camelot."nGeorge got to play the lead and his life took a big turn. A country band heard George sing. They offered him a gig and soon enough, he started touring with them. Eventually, the band split up, but George kept at it. He worked odd jobs to make ends meet, everything from shipping and receiving, to slaughterhouse beef inspector, to law enforcement officer. Along the way, he put out a couple of albums before auditioning for the country music reality show - 'Nashville Star.' George came in second, but his career took off. His major label debut, 'One Good Friend,' went gold in Canada. Since then, he's released a bunch of albums, and won a bunch of awards. He's even been made an Honorary Colonel by Defense Minister Peter McKay. His latest album is called 'What I Do'.
Check out the interview here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=933203340
Ya know, George Canyon might sound like he grew up on a farm in Texas. But make no mistake, he's a Canadian cowboy, from Nova Scotia. His parents made him a child-size guitar when he was 5 years old and by the time he was 10, he was playing school talent shows. Years later, on a whim as a pre-med student he auditioned for a production of "Camelot."nGeorge got to play the lead and his life took a big turn. A country band heard George sing. They offered him a gig and soon enough, he started touring with them. Eventually, the band split up, but George kept at it. He worked odd jobs to make ends meet, everything from shipping and receiving, to slaughterhouse beef inspector, to law enforcement officer. Along the way, he put out a couple of albums before auditioning for the country music reality show - 'Nashville Star.' George came in second, but his career took off. His major label debut, 'One Good Friend,' went gold in Canada. Since then, he's released a bunch of albums, and won a bunch of awards. He's even been made an Honorary Colonel by Defense Minister Peter McKay. His latest album is called 'What I Do'.
Check out the interview here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=933203340
I must have sent him some of my many Star Trek-related drawings, as well, because he thanks me for them in this response. I was always drawing the Enterprise, or the phasers and communicators, or the cast, or anything else having to do with the show. I must have also told him how I convinced my teacher to allow me and my fellow 1st graders to write letters to the local channel that ran the syndicated episodes (circa 1973) . The channel had announced they were moving the nightly airing from 6 PM to 9PM, which was past my bedtime. Our letters did the trick, and I'll never forget the promos which aired sometime after, announcing how the show would continue to air at 6PM.
My cousin Gandalf is always getting into trouble and coming to ask me to rescue him.
The Legend of Ronzig (Chapter 1)
Very long ago, long before the age of science, long before the Ice Age even, there was an age which humans have pushed from their memory. This was the age of magic, when sorcerers and wizards fought great battles in search of an outcome to the conflict between good and evil. Sorcerers sought to arm themselves with the powers of evil in order to gain control of the world and wizards sought to use the powers of good to defeat these sorcerers and keep the world free.
As the world explored the great secrets of science, foolish people decided that magic could not exist in this world because it was not scientific. Only a few of the great wizards of the past understood how very wrong this line of thinking was, for magic, more than any other discipline was a precise, scientific branch of learning. The problem was amplified by the fact that it took hundreds of years of dedicated study for a novice to even begin to master this craft. Only the brightest students reached the level of learning necessary to overcome death and complete their studies. The reason that the Gods designed the science of magic to be so difficult to master is quite simple really. If more than a few were allowed to master the powers of magic, the conflict between the two branches would threaten to rip apart the very fabric of time and space. There was another limiting factor involved, for each master magician could only take his first born son as an apprentice and there was no other way to learn the secrets of magic except by apprenticeship to a master.
Now Ronzig was the first born son of Ronik, the most powerful wizard of that time and as first born, it was his destiny to become Ronik’s apprentice. However, thirteen minutes after Ronzig was born, he was followed into this world by his twin brother Ronzak. As the twins reached the age of apprenticeship, Ronzig began his studies with his father and Ronzak was left to seek other, less challenging disciplines.
As is often the case with siblings, the younger brother was more intelligent than his older brother, but was lacking in the elder brother’s wisdom. Ronzak could not tolerate being second to his less intelligent brother and he left the family home to roam the world.
Ronik’s arch rival, Sonod the Sorcerer was quick to recognize an opportunity to gain the upper hand over Ronik. Sonod had no sons, so he was free to take any apprentice he chose, and he chose Ronzak who already carried the magic gene in his body. This set into motion, the events which led to the fiercest battle of magic which the world has ever known, The Battle of the Twins.
By the time the twin brothers had reached the age of 313, they had far surpassed the knowledge and skills of their mentors. They were the two most powerful magicians ever to walk the face of the Earth.
Ronzig the Wizard and Ronzak the Sorcerer were destined to clash, for one had embraced the powers of the Gods and the other had embraced the powers of the demons.
The legend of this battle is another story for another time. It is enough for the purpose of this tale to relate the fact that the conflagration lasted over 500 years and so disrupted the balance of the universe that it triggered an ice age on the planet Earth.
Ronzig was near defeat as the tide of battle had swung to favour Ronzak, but in his wisdom, he conjured up a box with the last of his powers. This was no ordinary box, for it was set to capture all dark magic. Its workings followed the principles of a black hole. The more Ronzak used his powers to fight the containing box, the stronger the box became, until it had drained Ronzak of all of his magic.
Unwilling to destroy his twin brother, Ronzig chose to lock Ronzak’s magic into the box. Ronzak laughs and says he will pick the lock and retrieve his magic. Ronzig knows that his brother can pick any lock, so he conjures up a combination lock, into which he secures the magic. Ronzak laughs and says he will have no trouble devising the combination. Once he has his magic restored, he will meet Ronzig in a final conflict. As Ronzig walks away, he calls to his brother, telling him that the lock is no ordinary one. It has been designed to set its own combination to the number of characters determined by Ronzig. The final genius of the container is that the number of characters in the combination is set to infinity. The lock will never finish generating its combination and cannot be opened unless the complete combination is entered.
And this was the final outcome of a millennium long battle between the two branches of magic. The power of dark magic was defeated and locked away for all eternity, but without the force of dark magic to counter; there was no longer any need for Ronzig’s great magic. Since people no longer were witness to the powers of magic being practiced, they soon forgot that magic was very real and very powerful and they began to believe that the legends of sorcerers and wizards were only myths.
Although Ronzag no longer has his magic powers he is still a very strong force in the world. He has changed his name to BILL and he guards the GATES of Hell.
Ronzig, the last of the great wizards, uses his magic in less dramatic ways than he did in the old days. Now Ronzig the Wizard conjures up amazing digital photoArt creations with his magic mouse.
Ronzig
If you have an event to record or need other photography services or would like to purchase a print of one of my works please contact me. Prints are available in 11" x 14" or 13" x 19" sizes.
ronzig@rogers.com
View my Portfolio, References and Upcoming Shows
View my activism website where I explore the issues of homelessness, poverty, addiction and other social diseases which may all be traced back to one problem.
Down, But Not Out
View the ongoing saga of Ronzig The Wizard
rronzigthewizard.blogspot.com/
All rights reserved.
Today i finally shoot this Mercedes CLK 63 AMG Cabrio.
Not the best Location but i still love it.
I hope you like that Shot, let me know it in a Comment!
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HIM - Tears On Tour Latin America 2014 @ Teatro Flores - Buenos Aires, Argentina #HIM #Heartagram #VilleValo #MigeAmour #GasLipstick #EmersonBurton #LindeLazer #LilyLazer #MikkoLindström
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When we first got Spike from the Humane Society he didn't notice cats when we took him walking. He didn't seem interested. About a month or so after he came to live with us our neighbor's cat came in through our open patio door and was laying on our sofa.
Spike went up to it to see what it was, he was friendly and non-threatening. The cat attacked him and scratched him badly on the nose. The cat took off and Spike followed it out the door and over the fence.
We have raised the fence. Spike now knows where every cat in the neighborhood lives and goes nuts when he sees one. The one you see here seems to enjoy tormenting him. It will sit there or even closer while Spike whines and paces around.
I had just finished having a conversation about romantic movies, or "chick flicks" with my guy friend who expressed frustration about how they all seem too contrived and fake. I agreed with him to some degree...but, I said....I think the idea is just to give people the hope of love, even if it may be riddled with levels of ridiculous that you'd be hard pressed to find in real life, but that are there and fuel your dreams. I'm no fan of the rom/com. I think largely because they go so overboard. I was apparently the only woman on earth who had never seen the Notebook. I held on for four years before curiosity got the better of me and I regretted with all my heart, the decision to watch that dribble. It was awful...just awful. However, as my friend and I went on in conversation, and we started comparing notes about other awful rom/coms, I took a moment to say, well....you were saying these things never happen in real life...but...
I had been talking to this guy online that went to my university for a little under a year, and we finally decided to meet at my best friends mothers house at her big bash birthday party. The first meeting was really sort of awkward because there were so many people around and I was helping play host so I couldn't really stop and talk, so we went out to his car for some "alone time," when the party was underway, lol, and he presented me with a huge smile and a now melted white chocolate chip bar which he'd forgotten to take from his car to give to me. He said he thought he remembered that I said I liked white chocolate in this one conversation like 3 months ago. I was like, seriously, you remembered that?! It was just really sweet. So outside we hugged and decided on another date...one where 100 other people weren't there in our faces.
Cut to we got really busy. Our class schedules and work schedules were crazy and we could only really talk on line for like 2 more months, but I found out his birthday was coming up, so I said, why don't I cook you an amazing meal and we can picnic at H-park which is like our Central Park. He was really excited. I mean with a capital E with the prospect of someone cooking for him.
Of course the day of, I cooked my heart out. This wasn't sandwiches and potato salad, no, this was herb roasted chicken, herb penne pasta salad, roasted vegetables, and a white chocolate mouse with strawberries. I'd recently gotten one of those fancy picnic sets that comes with actual plates and flatware and wine glasses, and salt and pepper and cheese cutting board, so I packed everything in, and wouldn't you know, it starts pouring rain. Like pouring rain! It was insane. The morning had been so clear, but that was it. I thought for sure, this would be cancelled, but he called me and said that he had really been looking forward to this, and I certainly wanted him to eat his birthday lunch, so we agreed to meet under this giant open air, but covered theater in the park. So noon rolls around and almost at the same time we both come running in the rain to this theater and we end up under the covering soaking wet and laughing at the misfortune of having a picnic on the day Noah had apparently decided to gather up two of every animal.
We sat and started talking. He was like overly impressed with the meal. I think, like a lot of people would, he was just expecting a sandwich and some chips, but he marveled at the fact that I had real plates and he really needed a knife and fork to eat the meal with. I couldn't tell at first if he really liked the food or was just making a huge fuss because I made it, but when he went back on his own accord for seconds of the chicken and mousse, I figured, he really did like the meal. I mean, one doesn't want to toot ones own horn, but you never know cooking for someone else the first time what they will really like.
So we're sitting there under the theater, the rain is softly falling, its just us, it was genuinely really and truly romantic. So, I told him, I didn't want to just bring you lunch on account of it being your birthday, so I got you a gift. The two of us had been discussing this novelist online in our conversations and he mentioned that he hadn't yet read one of his books and neither had I, so I pulled out my gift, which was the book we were just talking about the other day, and he opens it and laughs. I'm like, what's so funny? He tells me, after our conversation, he'd already read the book, but, on his birthday mind you, he'd gotten a gift for me...it was the same book!!!! No pun intended, you could not have written this!!! We had a good long laugh about that one and enjoyed the rest of our evening together. :o)
So as much as I'd like to say that rom/coms are stupid and that never happens to people, dates like that sometimes do happen. Something foils the day, but it ends up being perfect and you laugh and have a good time, and it restores your faith in love. I think if all of us thought long and hard enough about our relationships or our lives, we could find cases where our lives were just for a second, just as cheesy, and lovely and wonderful as the stupid movie with the dog who makes the two people who don't get along, fall in love.
What happened to the guy...well, I'm sure we would have been married with that dog by now, yup, almost sure of it, [grins mischievously] but unfortunately, unlike a rom com where everything always works out in the end, he, a Spanish major, took to teaching abroad, which was only supposed to be a 6 month gig, but he fell in love with the place and the kids he was teaching, and ended up moving there permanently. We kept in touch for a long while, but after some time, we just faded apart as his world changed and mine did too.
Sigh.........
My cousin Gandalf is always getting into trouble and coming to ask me to rescue him.
The Legend of Ronzig (Chapter 1)
Very long ago, long before the age of science, long before the Ice Age even, there was an age which humans have pushed from their memory. This was the age of magic, when sorcerers and wizards fought great battles in search of an outcome to the conflict between good and evil. Sorcerers sought to arm themselves with the powers of evil in order to gain control of the world and wizards sought to use the powers of good to defeat these sorcerers and keep the world free.
As the world explored the great secrets of science, foolish people decided that magic could not exist in this world because it was not scientific. Only a few of the great wizards of the past understood how very wrong this line of thinking was, for magic, more than any other discipline was a precise, scientific branch of learning. The problem was amplified by the fact that it took hundreds of years of dedicated study for a novice to even begin to master this craft. Only the brightest students reached the level of learning necessary to overcome death and complete their studies. The reason that the Gods designed the science of magic to be so difficult to master is quite simple really. If more than a few were allowed to master the powers of magic, the conflict between the two branches would threaten to rip apart the very fabric of time and space. There was another limiting factor involved, for each master magician could only take his first born son as an apprentice and there was no other way to learn the secrets of magic except by apprenticeship to a master.
Now Ronzig was the first born son of Ronik, the most powerful wizard of that time and as first born, it was his destiny to become Ronik’s apprentice. However, thirteen minutes after Ronzig was born, he was followed into this world by his twin brother Ronzak. As the twins reached the age of apprenticeship, Ronzig began his studies with his father and Ronzak was left to seek other, less challenging disciplines.
As is often the case with siblings, the younger brother was more intelligent than his older brother, but was lacking in the elder brother’s wisdom. Ronzak could not tolerate being second to his less intelligent brother and he left the family home to roam the world.
Ronik’s arch rival, Sonod the Sorcerer was quick to recognize an opportunity to gain the upper hand over Ronik. Sonod had no sons, so he was free to take any apprentice he chose, and he chose Ronzak who already carried the magic gene in his body. This set into motion, the events which led to the fiercest battle of magic which the world has ever known, The Battle of the Twins.
By the time the twin brothers had reached the age of 313, they had far surpassed the knowledge and skills of their mentors. They were the two most powerful magicians ever to walk the face of the Earth.
Ronzig the Wizard and Ronzak the Sorcerer were destined to clash, for one had embraced the powers of the Gods and the other had embraced the powers of the demons.
The legend of this battle is another story for another time. It is enough for the purpose of this tale to relate the fact that the conflagration lasted over 500 years and so disrupted the balance of the universe that it triggered an ice age on the planet Earth.
Ronzig was near defeat as the tide of battle had swung to favour Ronzak, but in his wisdom, he conjured up a box with the last of his powers. This was no ordinary box, for it was set to capture all dark magic. Its workings followed the principles of a black hole. The more Ronzak used his powers to fight the containing box, the stronger the box became, until it had drained Ronzak of all of his magic.
Unwilling to destroy his twin brother, Ronzig chose to lock Ronzak’s magic into the box. Ronzak laughs and says he will pick the lock and retrieve his magic. Ronzig knows that his brother can pick any lock, so he conjures up a combination lock, into which he secures the magic. Ronzak laughs and says he will have no trouble devising the combination. Once he has his magic restored, he will meet Ronzig in a final conflict. As Ronzig walks away, he calls to his brother, telling him that the lock is no ordinary one. It has been designed to set its own combination to the number of characters determined by Ronzig. The final genius of the container is that the number of characters in the combination is set to infinity. The lock will never finish generating its combination and cannot be opened unless the complete combination is entered.
And this was the final outcome of a millennium long battle between the two branches of magic. The power of dark magic was defeated and locked away for all eternity, but without the force of dark magic to counter; there was no longer any need for Ronzig’s great magic. Since people no longer were witness to the powers of magic being practiced, they soon forgot that magic was very real and very powerful and they began to believe that the legends of sorcerers and wizards were only myths.
Although Ronzag no longer has his magic powers he is still a very strong force in the world. He has changed his name to BILL and he guards the GATES of Hell.
Ronzig, the last of the great wizards, uses his magic in less dramatic ways than he did in the old days. Now Ronzig the Wizard conjures up amazing digital photoArt creations with his magic mouse.
Ronzig
If you have an event to record or need other photography services or would like to purchase a print of one of my works please contact me. Prints are available in 11" x 14" or 13" x 19" sizes.
ronzig@rogers.com
View my Portfolio, References and Upcoming Shows
View my activism website where I explore the issues of homelessness, poverty, addiction and other social diseases which may all be traced back to one problem.
Down, But Not Out
View the ongoing saga of Ronzig The Wizard
rronzigthewizard.blogspot.com/
All rights reserved.
"And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star" or moon
At least for him this was home, he was seen sleeping with his cat on those stairs, it was cool enough to sleep at, we tiptoed past him as we didnt want to wake him up.
I call this love coz what else will drive a man to lay a bed of papers for his furry friend while he slept on a cold staircase?
We explored Bukit Bintang around Tengkat Tong Shin, Jalan Ceylon and found some really interesting stuff.
As they say the best way to discover a city is by walking through its lanes.
Righteous Brothers and Jack Benny Unpublished? Photo from Bobby Hatfield's Personal 1966 Custom Photo Album Given to Him by Harrah’s of Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Righteous Brothers Bobby Hatfield’s Personal 1966 Custom Photo Album Given to Him by Harrah’s of Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
This custom leather bound photo album is about 7.5 inches by 7.5 inches by 2.0 inches in size. The photo album contains twenty private photographs approximately 7 by 5 inches in size. The photographs appear to chronicle the Righteous Brothers’ singing engagement headlining with comedian Jack Benny in The Southshore Room at Harrah’s Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada from April 7 through April 27th of 1966.
The front of the custom made leather photo album is embossed in gold with the Harrah’s logo in the center of the photo album. The name “Righteous Brothers” and the dates of their entertainment engagement at Harrah’s Casino are both embossed in gold at the bottom right of the front of the photo album.
Most of the photos are shots of the Righteous Brothers on stage at Harrah's in 1966.
I saw him hard at work washing the window of a sandwich shop in my neighbourhood. I had just photographed my Stranger #281 ten minutes earlier down the street. I couldn’t see his face but was interested in the portable window-washing rig he had and the splash of his bright red sweatshirt. I stopped and asked him if he was having a busy day and he replied “Yes, fairly busy.” I asked if he goes from business to business to get his jobs and he told me “I’ve got my regulars and do their windows every week.” Meet Jim.
I was interested to learn that he works two neighbourhoods and commutes between them on his bicycle. He told me that window-washing is actually a rather competitive business but that there is an honour system with each person respecting each others' arrangement with their customers. “No one would ever try to steal a customer.” I thought that was encouraging to hear. He told me that on days he is not washing windows he does minor renovations and handyman jobs. He seemed a very friendly and enterprising fellow.
Jim was happy to join my 100 Strangers project the minute I asked and in looking for a decent spot for the photo I noticed a laneway with graffiti just a couple of stores away and we went there. This photo was taken against the wall and the pose reminded me of Grant Woods’ painting “American Gothic” but with a squeegee instead of a pitchfork. (See: www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565.) I was about to try the famous 100 Strangers converging lines in a laneway photo and just then a pedestrian appeared and walked into the frame. Neither I nor Jim had time to wait for her to clear the scene so I made the best of things by stepping forward quickly to get her to disappear briefly behind him. It worked but robbed me of most of the converging lines. Oh well, another time. I think this photo conveys a hint of the vulnerability I sensed in Jim during our brief conversation and the photographing.
Thank you Jim for participating in 100 Strangers. You are now Stranger #282 in Round 3 of my project.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
To browse Round 1 of my 100 Strangers project click here: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157633145986224/
To browse Round 2 of my 100 Strangers project click here:www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157634422850489/
Owen is hilarious when we sit him up in his crib. He wants to grab every single thing we put in there all at once. He can actually keep himself busy for a while, which is nice for us to get stuff done.
"It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven."
WERNHER VON BRAUN
Sunday, 5 April 2015: Easter Sunday: Mu Gompa (3700 m) to Chhokang Paro (3030 m)
After our night of snow we woke to blue skies and a magical snowy view out over the Tsum Valley and the mountains of the Ganesh Himal (गणेश हिमाल). Crisp and clear. Val decided on a change of plan - rather than spending another day and night at Mu, we'd start our journey back down the Tsum today to rendezvous with Anthony and Namgyal in Chhokang Paro.
After breakfast in the terraced rooms, and checking to see if the snowfall had caused any damage, there was time for Val, Tsering and me to continue a short way further along the ancient trade route to Tibet, turning back at a fresh landslide and fast melting snow. Fabulous. I wish I could have spent longer here right up at the top of Upper Tsum, exploring the higher level trails that wind their way around the mountains.
Back at the gompa, we visited the main prayer hall before starting our descent. A morning of strong sun at high altitude meant that most of the slopes we had to negotiate on our way down were clear from snow. Phew.
Lunch at Chhule (छुले 3350m) back at our Ani campsite, a quick visit to the village elders, then on to Chhokang Paro taking the west bank of the Sardi Khola / Syar Khola / Tsum Chu river this time. A long day.
Great to see Anthony and Namgyal again in the evening and a Cham festival - with traditional dancing and fertility playlets - in the village gompa. A real treat. Lots of other tourists there - quite a surprise as we'd not seen many other westerners on the route. Dinner at Namgyal’s family home, complete with cake.
Map from Günter Seyfferth’s Die Berge des Himalaya (The mountains of Himalaya). Here are his annotated photos from Mu Gompa: Chhule, Churke Himal and Ganesh II and Phuchun Khola valley, Pashuwo, Langpo Kangri, Ganesh I (Yangra Kangri), Churke Himal.
Read more about my Tsum Valley trek with Val Pitkethly.
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