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Deuteronomy 4:40 “Keep His statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”
Leviticus 26:18 “And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins.”
The morning sun just reaches this vintage suspension walking bridge in the Richfield County Park, part of the Genesee County Parks. This little gem of a bridge was built in 1938 via the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal economic recovery program. It continues to be a magnet for senior high school pictures and weddings.
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There's this new thing: longevity. And ice bathing is one of the hottest trends in that respect. It is supposed to boost our resilience, strength, clarity of mind, and more. Ice bathing does it all. Or does it really? I'm not sure, because I've never tried it. But this little guy has, a few times since last night, and look how happy it has made him. Maybe, just maybe, he has taken things a little too far, but he keeps assuring me that he feels gorgeous. "Put me back into the freezer, it's much too warm in your place!" So I did.
Well, there are century-old traditions like the Finnish sauna or other bathing traditions that combine hot and cold treatments, so there probably is something to ice bathing. Maybe I will dig deeper into the issue once Mr. Bones is defrosted so he can tell me all about it. Maybe I will also defrost him in warm water to give him the full experience, because before I put him in the ice bath and froze him, he never complained about it "being too warm" in my place. We'll see.
I seriously had no idea what to put into water to freeze. Actually, I could have put anything into the ice cube mould, and then simply taken a decent photo of it, but, as usual, this freedom of choice blocked me out. Until I found Mr. Bones while searching for the skull mould I had already used for another ice theme. The ice cube mould was just a little too small for this mini Lego figure, so I put him in an egg holder that also made a nice round ice cube shape.
I did focus stacking (in camera, 15 images, combined in Helicon Focus, method A, R8, S4). For the green light, I placed the green bottle in front of one of the LED lamps and put a silvery "reflector" (cardboard) on the opposite side of that lamp. To make the ice glow, I used two LED flashlights, set on spot, one placed behind the ice cube, and the other placed in front of it. The fourth light source was my natural light photo lamp from above.
HMM, Everyone!
There is now 10 cm's of fresh snow here at Keefer Lake. The temperatures are predicted to hover around zero in the coming week and only getting colder thereafter ... so ... it is official ... winter has arrived. I love all of our seasons (including winter) however, winter is the longest season by far (the ice forms on the lake in November and isn't gone until May). Thank goodness for Portugal! :)
- Keefer Lake forest trail, Ontario, Canada -
The Mountain Ash trees in the Dandenong Ranges and other trees are often many years old. The sunset and the wind are fleeting but also occur regularly over many thousands of years. Together they provide both the constancy of hope and growth, as well as the fleetingness of change and renewal. The ability to grow through change whilst staying very much the same.
This is a composite of two photos taken one evening drive to a look out at Mount Dandenong.
View of Kunming Lake from Longevity Hill within the Summer Palace, an ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces located in the western outskirts of Beijing. In 1998, the Summer Palace was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The hazy weather is quite typical for Beijing, partly due to air pollution, partly due to the nearby desert.
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3.
Edited with GIMP.
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I found this shot in Canary Wharf in London. Its a shot of two busses looking down towards One Canada Square the tallest building in Canary Wharf.
Near the mountains of north Guangxi is the township of Bama (Panyang River). It is known for the high number of people aged over one hundred years of age.
This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Longevity. There are some Oak Trees in California that live as long as 300-400 years. I'm not sure how old these are, but I think they have been here for a long time. They are dormant for the Winter now. Last night's sunset shows off their silhouettes. HMMM!
Longevity.
Predire miti frantumare alieni rapidi trasferimenti presumere opere disegnare sillabe eccedere tirature eredità bugie pronunciate scetticismo assoluto,
eilimintí míochaine monaí reatha seanchothroime éagothroime cearta dlíthiúla nathanna fianaise íorónta cumhachtaí treallach córais ghairm gníomhaíochta pragmatach,
нууц үгс алга болсон нууцлаг кодуудыг сийлсэн иероглифик элементийн үнэнийг сурч буй шинжлэх ухаан төөрөгдүүлж буй төөрөгдөл ойлгомжтой эрхүүд,
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государственная мудрость прикрывает откровенность враждебные идеи академический метафизик текущие изображения цензура редакторы тщеславные удовольствия,
拷問を押す実質的な頑固な感覚は意見を妥協します好意的な製品スタンピングデザインは反乱に資金を提供しました区画化された泥棒の商業的利益に対する絶え間ない恐怖が、目を輝かせる独特のパラドックスを見る.
Steve.D.Hammond.
It's just a day,
but a very special day
living to tell
a simple way to excell,
your light is proof enough
of life's essential stuff
every glare and beam;
the shadow of the deeper dream
glimmering shades and shapes
of this day that never escapes
attention and importance
for time is life's own heritance
and all we miss so deeply,
may be reached so simply
ordinally, the virtue of patience
respiration and the gift of sentience
offer hope upon time unto each and all
for the taking, simplicity to recall
hail longevity, a timeless talent indeed
redeeming our features in need
we welcome reminders to precede
a tulle touch of the life we wish to lead
instinct being your first feeling of living
and isn't it beautiful, worthy of our thanksgiving
venerate your soul and project yourself
unto every new day with love in itself
sparking the anniversary of every one of us
we all deserve a celebration of hope to profess!
Love your life, love this day, love one another!!
by anglia24
10h55: 06/02/2008
©2008anglia24
This antique piece was brought to me by my friend Mark from Thailand. A beautiful wood carved Buddha. Carving date unknown.
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Mosaic Montage Monday: Longevity
Double exposure in camera
The Bunya Bunya Pine, Araucaria bidwillii, belongs to the Araucariaceae family, which dominated the globe during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, i.e. from 201 to 66 million years ago. Three genera of this family have survived: Araucaria, Agathis and Wollemia. All survivals are in the southern hemisphere, in ancient Gondwanaland. Seven further genera have been identified in the fossil record.
Looking down on the colourful roofs of the wonderfully named halls of Longevity Hill in Beijing’s Summer Palace, from the heights of the Tower of Buddhist Incense. Kunming Lake is busy with Golden Week boat traffic, while the Beijing skyline stretches to the horizon behind.
The Summer Palace is the best place to explore both the finery of China’s Golden Age and its rapid decay in the 19th Century. The Summer Palace isn’t just one palace, but in fact a vast complex covering more than a square mile, containing more than 3,000 buildings, and the famous Seventeen Hole Bridge as iconic a symbol of Beijing as the Palace of Westminster is of London.
Beijing was booming in the 1700s, with the population growing rapidly and along with it much light industry. Around 1749, the Qianlong Emperor decided to build a palace eight miles from the smoky downtown, on a beautiful site overlooking a lake that was being used for stables, to celebrate the 60th birthday of his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing. He had the lake dredged and expanded to create what is now Kunming Lake, and the earth excavated to do so was used to raise the height of what is now Longevity Hill. What would become the Summer Palace was still called the Gardens of Clear Ripples.
Designed in the style of the gardens of South China, and drawing on motifs from Chinese mythology, the hill was soon graced by the Great Temple of Gratitude and Longevity, later renamed the Hall of Dispelling Clouds, which was overlooked by the Tower of Buddhist Incense, and graced by other wonderfully named buildings like Hall of Benevolence and Longevity the Hall for Listening to Orioles.
Encapsulating China’s Qianglong Golden age, it also encapsulates its subsequent disastrous decline. While the Qianlong Emperor lavished support on the arts and expanded China’s borders to their greatest ever extent, years of exhausting campaigns weakened the military, while in the Empire’s prosperous core, decadence set in, with endemic corruption, wastefulness at the court and a stagnating civil society. These problems would accelerate after the Qianlong Emperor died in 1799. In the heyday of intercontinental sailing ships, Chinese had already successfully managed direct trading relations with Europe for several centuries by this point, exporting porcelain to Europe and the Americas at scale. So when some arrogantly uncouth emissaries arrived at court in the 1830s from an upstart country named Britain, they were initially dismissed as a particularly unpleasant of self-deluding barbarians.
But a sign of the rotten state of the Chinese Empire as the 19th Century wore on was the increasingly dilapidated state of the Summer Palace. During the Second Opium War, British and French forces sacked and burned the Summer Palace as part of an invasion of Northern China which forced the Qing government to sign a trade treaty on unwelcome terms. The Place was further damaged in 1900, by an alliance of Western and Japanese troops who were putting down the Boxer Rebellion. Yet the Chinese Imperial system which stretched unbroken back to Qin ended in 1912, when Puyi, the last Emperor abdicated. Two years later, the Summer Palace was turned into a public park, and so it has remained ever since, barring a few years after the Communist takeover of 1949, when it briefly housed the Central Party School.
Restoration work has taken place at some pace since the 1980s, and continues to the present day.
This magnificent site can be very crowded, especially if you visit, as I did, on the second day of China’s weeklong early October holiday. More than ten million visitors come here every year, averaging nearly 30,000 per day. You can see why. Despite the crowds, this is one of the world’s great historic sights.
The Summer Palace is a half-hour ride on a new subway line from the city centre. The surrounding are suburbs are wealthy, and house Xi Jinping and most of the party bigwigs – but they don’t take the subway!
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
... at the Yiheyuan (颐和园, ie. the Garden for Nourishing Peace/Harmony), the Imperial Summer Palace, in the light of the winter sun.
The building on the right, at the top of the hill, is the Sea of Wisdom. In front of it is the Tower of Buddhist Incense.
The current Imperial Summer Palace, Yiheyuan, was built after the Old Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan, had been looted and burnt by Anglo French forces during the Second Opium War. Many looted items are now said to be in British and other European art collections.
Near Beijing, December 2017,
08 484 runs out of the yard towards the test track whilst 20 314 and 20 096 tick over awaiting departure with 7X09 11.47 Old Dalby to West Ruislip. Collectively these three locomotives have racked up 168 years service.
Longevity bracelet.
The symbol of Longevity represents a long, healthy, prosperous life, which is one of the most admirable and highest goals of humanity.
I took this photograph a few weeks ago with the sole intention of posting this on my father's birthday.
This year he would have been 96.
Oak is often associated with honor and wisdom thanks to its size and longetivity and I thought it a fitting image to describe my father.
Just like the Oak, my father was always there, a strong but quiet presence.
It was 24 years ago now. I remember clearly the day. I was in a meeting in my office in Covent Garden, it was late morning when my sister phoned to tell me the news.
Time marches on but since moving up to Cheshire I often think how lovely it would have been for both my mother and father to have seen my wife and children.
Happy Birthday Dad.
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. It was designed by Bernard Maybeck, who took his inspiration from Roman and Greek architecture. It was the only building from the Exposition not to be demolished, and in the 1960s it was entirely rebuilt to ensure its longevity.
The dome of the Palace of Fine Arts just outside the Exploratorium and the adjacent lagoon have often been used as backdrops for movies, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. One of the more recent sequences takes place in The Rock where FBI agent Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) finally catches up with John Mason (Sean Connery) and So I Married an Axe Murderer where Charlie MacKenzie (Mike Myers) goes on his first date with Harriet (Nancy Travis).
- from Wikipedia
Is it a shot from Chinese traditional painting?of course not.I took it from a huge porcelain vase in my office building,this photo is just one of small part from it.It is not flat and the reflected light is strong.So it is not easy to shoot the right one.
In Chinese culture,the pine simbolizes evergreen,and the red-crowned crane simbolizes longevity.they are both linked to best wishes.
As time goes by.everyone is getting old and even die,But human being's love is everlasting.let's enjoy everyday.
This mountain ash leaflet, already chewed up, and ripped from its tree by sever winds, landed facedown on a small outdoor table. It remained there through several days and nights of rain with only momentary reprieves, gathering a different collection of droplets each day. The table was so saturated that its wood's fibres were raised, undoubtedly helping to hold the leaf in place, when it might have floated off on several occasions. Eventually I peeled the leaflet off the table, but not before taking a photo. There was something so lovely in the sinuous line of its stem, a beauty even in its ragged state.
颐和园 - 万寿山
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This object is probably the most cherished thing I have. It belonged to my Great-grandfather. I loved it since I was a very little girl and I knew it wasn’t a toy. I marveled over it for years after my mom got it. Sometime when I was a teenager my prized possession fell down in the curio cabinet and in his right hand held a staff or walking stick. Consequently the very delicate rod broke off and I don’t know what my mother did with it. In his left hand holds a peach. I was crushed. I don’t know much about except for what I found on the web. Vintage Chinese carved wood sculpture of Shou, one of the three Sanxing and the embodiment of Longevity, modeled as a bearded wise old man holding a peach. Shou is also known as the Old Man of the South Pole, the Taoist deification of Canopus, the brightest star of the constellation Carina, and the symbol of happiness and longevity in Far Eastern culture.
"Longevity:" This barren tree has stood tall over the rim of the Grand Canyon for many years, and I have visited and photographed it many times in various conditions and times of day. I wondered just how long it had been there. It has weathered many storms day in and day out and, despite not having any foliage, it stands tall, albeit slightly leaning, on the precipice of this great abyss. I watched as the last rays of the sun highlighted a distant rock structure in the canyon and the clouds above slowly started to take on beautiful hues.
Colorful houses in the town Icod de Los Vinos on Tenerife :)
Smile on Saturday - theme: "Vivid orange" :)
Icod de los Vinos is a municipality in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands (Spain). It is located on a continuous smooth slope that stretches from the extensive forests of Canary Island Pine down to the sea, and has almost 10 km of shoreline. The city is surrounded by fertile valley, and its streets and corners offer views of the volcanic mountain Teide, as well as dense pine forests which descend from its summit to Icod's higher-altitude districts. Its banana plantations, orchards and vineyards give rise to a lively commerce. In Icod, close to the Church of San Marcos, stands a famous dragon tree, which is reputed to be a thousand years old. While no study seems to have confirmed such longevity for the tree (dracos do not produce annual rings with which to tell their ages; the tree is more likely to have an age in the hundreds of years), it is the long-time symbol of Icod.
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Kolorowe domy na jednej z uliczek w Icod de Los Vinos na Teneryfie :)
Icod de los Vinos – gmina i miasto w prowincji Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Miasto położone jest na łagodnym stoku z lasami piniowymi, który ciągnie się aż do morza i tworzy prawie 10 km linię brzegową. Icod de los Vinos otoczone jest żyzną doliną, w której istotną gałęzią gospodarki jest uprawa bananowców, sadownictwo i uprawa winorośli. Icod de los Vinos zostało założone w 1501 roku. Dawniej tereny te zamieszkane były przez rodowitych mieszkańców Wysp Kanaryjskich, zwanych Guanczami. W Icod de los Vinos w otoczeniu winnic znajduje się znak rozpoznawczy Teneryfy, botaniczny pomnik przyrody, słynna dracena - Drago Milenario.
Appears to be an abandoned shed in the park. I'm sure they use it but I've never seen anybody use it when I'm around. You can tell there is some age to it. Probably not in this photo due to the treatment I've done. I found it to be interesting nonetheless.
Since moving up to Northumberland just over a year ago we have been surprised by the garden that my wife Liz planted up over the summer in a very positive sense.
One such surprise is the longevity of many of the things planted (some of which came up from Bedfordshire and stayed in pots for 9 months plus).
And our rudbeckia have only just keeled over and the lupins still look as if they are enjoying life.
So a shot from yesterday in the garden....