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A different point of view!!
The marigold - a pretty, all-purpose plant with a wide range of medicinal effects. All of them made possible by the essential oils and resins trapped in the bright yellow flowers.
The friendly flower's willingness to bloom is undeniable. Because its blossom shone in vibrant yellow and gold every month from June to October, the Romans called it calendula, referring to the first day of the month.
The main medicinal applications of marigold are skin conditions of all kinds, including contusions, bruises and varicose veins. Minor skin injuries and inflammation can also be successfully treated. Marigold ointment promotes wound healing for eczema and sunburns. The fresh flowers must be preserved in olive oil and then stored in a cool and dark place. After three weeks, the filtered oil can be mixed with wax to make the ointment. Decanted into a jar, the ointment can set and will now last several months.
( courtesy: www.britannica.com/video/180200/Overview-marigolds)
Of course Sethi looks great from every angle but at the moment this is really is best side as on the other side he still has his eye infection. The symptoms of his cold have subsided in the meantime but the eye infection hasn't really responded to the treatment and we had to change to another eye ointment. Tomorrow he'll see the vet again ...
Tofu had to join his cousin Sethi for a vet visit today as he has been vomiting quite a lot lately. It's a well known issue at this time of year because he is shedding his winter coat and consequently swallowing a lot of hair which then gets stuck in his gastrointestinal tract. He now gets an antiemetic and a laxative. Luckily he is a better patient than Sethi.
Sethi's eye infection is getting better but we will have to continue the treatment with the eye ointment for a while. And he now has a diarrhea because of the antibiotics which needs to be treated too. They are keeping me busy ... :)
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Often your eyes instead of springing green
Are so cold and strange
In sick conversations eyes look elsewhere
They look only where to hide
Your shoulders not crumbling dough
Do not smell of mint ointment
I in your arms irrelevant dissonance
Rain of happiness shot over the precipice
I'll whisper in your ear that
That I I'm renouncing it
Those mornings like a fever at your windows like a beggar
I have sat behind a tree more than once
Those stars falling drunkenly into a pile
At night when I die
I will whisper in your ear
That I renounce it
And when I meet you on death's bends
I'll say it again only to you
And when I meet you on death's bends
I'll say it again just for you
No one has ever said so beautifully that they are afraid of love
No one so beautifully said he was afraid of love
Like you
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These guys are deep fried alive, the oil later is used as ointment
(for rheumatism, so it is claimed). And, they don't become snacks, but they are brewed in hot water and the water is drank as some kind of tonic. So, when we are finally over with the corona virus don't be too happy, there are many more to come.
This photo of Sethi was taken a few days ago when the weather was nicer and life was good. In the meantime it's not only cold and windy again but Sethi has also developed an eye infection (again) and a bad cold. I had to take him to the vet yesterday and he now receives an eye ointment and antibiotics twice a day. What fun !
Disa is getting old. She has so much white fur on her snout. But she's still a very good guard dog. When I took these shots, she had an ear infection and I was treating her with ointment against mycosis. Her ear infections come and go all the time. At the moment it is only the left ear, which was always worse. We're having good results with Oridermyl, but we have to be patient too.
Next comes "duck and cover".
We are still rambling around the southwest checking out the least populated and remote places we can get to. The only fly in the ointment is resupply of essentials. We managed to stock up on enough food to last another week before we need to look again. Our nearest settlement has a population of 300 on a busy day; the next big town has about 1800. Hopefully we can restock there.
Eventually we do have to return to ground zero; until then we are remote and isolated.
My spouse and I were in awe of the "rainbow bird," a Painted Bunting, male during our first birding excursion at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, National Audubon Society, Naples, Florida, USA. We also photographed the female of this species and many other birds and animals that we'd never encountered in the wild. Despite having plenty of bug spray and appropriate attire, the deer flies were relentless, and we ended up with bites all over us. We had to go to our dermatologist for some special ointment and still, it took two weeks to clear them all up. Our experience there was nevertheless worth every itchy bite!
The Diary Keepers Cottage.
Old bottles dried up and left abandoned on a window ledge for many years at a quaint tumbledown house.
Some days are better than others on the railroad. More often than not the plans of well intended managers to save money or a crew start often cost the railroad more money in delays than the intended savings ever would have realised in profits. Case in point is “The Hill” in Vicksburg, Mississippi, along the CPKC railroads Vicksburg subdivision. Vicksburg hill is an aberration in the landscape along the railroad’s Meridian Speedway. The speedway is known for its high capacity, easy access for west-east coast intermodal and auto products, and high speed, mostly flat, running. The climb out of Vicksburg is the fly in the ointment for trains headed eastbound towards the In this image CPKC Railroad’s “JV” (Jackson-Vicksburg) local turn is seen crawling up the aforementioned hill at their maximum tonnage rating behind four Electro Motive Diesel GP series motors.
“The Hill” is left over from the former Alabama and Vicksburg railroad’s ramp track that ferried cars from the Mississippi River landing in Vicksburg up towards the mainline to Jackson, Ms, and beyond. The original alignment of the ramp had grades in excess of 4% as the railroad assaulted the nearly impenetrable cliffs along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. Only slightly improved, the current alignment officially lists at 1.85% on more modern track charts, but unofficially is around 2.9% directly starting up from the river.
Eastbound trains attacking this steep grade have their work cut out for them. After a 60mph sprint across miles and miles of flat Mississippi Delta lands through eastern Louisiana, you are faced with a ten mile per hour permanent slow order, for the length of your train, over the nearly two mile long Mississippi River crossing. A slight downgrade off of the bridge only further exacerbates this issue causing most trains to brake to keep their oftentimes 10,000 foot long trains at the ten mph maximum speed limit. By the time eastbound trains reach CP West Vicksburg they are often just barely beginning to accelerate out of the permanent speed restriction over the river bridge. When trains reach the toughest section of uphill running it is a slow notch out until you are in full run 8 to make it up and out of Vicksburg. Multiple reverse curves and a tunnel keep track speed to a maximum of 20mph on the steepest portion of the grade, which is rarely realized by uphill trains. The nasty grade levels out somewhat as trains pass through the Vicksburg National Battlefield and approach the long siding at Newmans. Eventually the grade completely levels out by the time trains reach Edwards siding east of the Black River crossing in Bovina.
For the new managers of CPKC this hill has caused the railroad more trouble than not. Most trains are run severely underpowered, or with poorly performing trip optimizer, on this section of the Meridian Speedway. Trip optimizer is a computer system that is supposed to optimize fuel efficiency and power usage on road trains across the network (LOL). This spotless December morning this section of track would prove smarter than its managers once again, and cause a cataclysmic backup of trains that would trigger 4 recrewed hotshots and 3 delayed departures for trains in the area. The JV turn, moving west, would scurry into town and begin switching the water level CPKC yard next to the main. Shortly after an eastbound train of grain loads would get signals to head east to Jackson with 90 grain loads behind a 1x1 consist. A 1x1 consist indicates the train has one head end motor and another distributed in the middle of the train. The underpowered train made it about halfway upgrade before they stalled out with no chance of restarting. Shortly after calling the PTC “help” desk they were asked if weather conditions on a perfectly sunny day were affecting their ability to make it uphill. After the litany of following questions about train handling they were instructed to stay put for a following movement to shove them out of town. A little over an hour and a half later inbound Sanchez, NL, Mexico, to Jackson, MS, high priority manifest train M275 arrived, cut their lead engines off, and nosed up to the rear of the grain load. At this point the engineer of the stalled grain load notified the dispatcher that he was only an hour out from dying on hours of service. With only 40 minutes to spare the grain train got the shove they needed to make it out to Newmans siding east of town before the crew expired. For the next hour trains began to stack up on the Louisiana side of the river. First out was eastbound Los Angeles to Atlanta blue streak intermodal I968 with 13,500 feet of double stack containers for the east coast. Behind 968 was an eastbound Dallas to Atlanta hotshot I168, and finally, the subject of this photograph, the running from the law JV turn. Westbound, and holding at Edwards, was manifest M267 with a short consist for Shreveport, LA.
Around an hour later the light motors of M275 returned to grab their 8900 feet of train at the bottom of the hill in town. Another half hour passed and the crew of the local alerted the dispatcher they were ready to leave town with only an hour and a half of time on their timecards for the day. As M275 was crawling uphill at 15mph on the main, the JV job shoved out with their maximum tonnage train, and waited for a light. Fifteen minutes passed and the light they needed finally came. Eleven hours after going on duty in Jackson the outbound JV turn crawled uphill out of town ahead of all other traffic. A yard crew would meet the train at Monument siding, on the west end of Jackson, to relieve them with mere minutes to spare. Later on in the afternoon as we left to follow the KCS 1 west towards Monroe we would again hear another inbound train, this time the high-priority intermodal/manifest I166 stall on the hill again with another 1x1 consist. Nothing else was around to assist this 166, and we never heard what happened to them as they attempted to make their way east to the Norfolk Southern interchange, across the state, in Meridian.
This is one example of many teething problems the CPKC was having along the Meridian Speedway as the new managers use real time trial and error in an attempt to squeeze maximum operating efficiencies out of their busiest east-west corridor system wide.
These small bottles were used in the second worldwar by the German military. They contained ointment against chemical attacks.
These items are displayed at “the Forum" in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands.
A sweet and gentle wayside flower. Primula vulgaris. But nothing vulgar about these gems of woodland floors.
You can eat the flowers in salads raw or cooked in custards or baked in tarts. The leaves are best raw in salads. They have a slight anise flavor.
Boil flowers in lard to make an ointment for cuts and skin conditions. Make a tisane with the flowers for rheumatism and to ease the mind.
All from this charming flower. You can even just look at them 😄
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In the next few days will be a horse market. There will be stalls all over the city. A wide range of products. Ointments, work clothes, hats, kitchen utensils, ladders, vacuum cleaner accessories, etc.
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Dans les prochains jours, il y aura un marché aux chevaux. Il y aura des stands dans toute la ville. Une large gamme de produits. Onguents, vêtements de travail, chapeaux, ustensiles de cuisine, échelles, accessoires d’aspirateur, spiritueux, etc.
A fly in the ointment: A spoiler.
Ecclesiastes 10:1 relates that dead flies impart a bad odour to perfume; early versions translate the word "perfume" as "ointment".
Gomera, Canary Islands
The canary drago, part of the Canarian cultural identity, and is considered along with the canary island palm, the canary pine and other plants of the islands, as one of the symbols of the Canary Islands.
Aboriginal, represented the earthly manifestation of a protector god and worshiped the dragos as places of special power and significance, using the sap as a healing substance.It is the only plant in the world whose sap is red (its original white color, turns red when it comes into contact with the air).
A sap, known as "dragon's blood" attributed to him, since time immemorial, magical properties. Powders, ointments, cosmetics and even varnish to paint Stradivarius violins have been some of their most common uses.
Its growth is very slow and in good condition grows one meter every 10 years. Centenarian ages and reaches its first flowering occurs at age 15.
Unlike trees, if we want to know your age we can find not counting the growth rings because they do not have. Age is determined by counting the number of branches having its branches. The drago branches after flowering and this happens every 15 years, so you see one of these specimens in bloom is all a very unique show.
What's your first thought of a new day?
awakening,
from the journey
of dreams, and concealed reams...
of the memory at play
riding the best Summer's ever
beside one's favourite people
icons of life, relived in sleep
unto the day of particular light;
they reawaken in floating reflections
like ointment over past hurts
nature is her own prequel
possessing the prepotency
we may only dream of,
again and again and again,
now,
I reawaken
with the weightless, timeless light
wrapped in it's tender trust.
by anglia24
10h25: 16/09/2007
© 2007anglia24
☀
"And ever since then we've been mending all those scars
But the bandages and ointments ain't done it"
Coffe, Methadone and Cigarettes by John Butler
(Gaultheria procumbens)
Black bears, white-tailed deer, grouse like to eat this plant.
It was used by natives for medicinal purposes as it contains methyl salicylate--used for head aches as the salicylate component is the active ingredient in aspirin. Wintergreen oil can be extracted from the leaves and used as an ointment. Also it makes a herbal tea. The berries flavor is what is used in some toothpastes and the berries are edible, though, mealy in consistency.
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Without wanting to blow my own trumpet too much my Photopills planning actually went very well for once, having told me I needed to stand in the middle of a mosquito-fest in Stanpit Marsh to achieve a shot of the Buck Moon rising over the posh beach huts.
I achieved it but am still applying ointment!
I nearly forgot this one at Ham House. This was long before the days of antibiotics.
Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale, who was the lady of the house at the time, took personal responsibility for the development of herbal remedies. She would have worked with her maids and members of her family in the dedicated Still House – between this garden and the house - to make medicinal teas, syrups, ointments and salves from the plants in the garden as well as perfumes and soaps. We are very lucky at Ham to have the original Still House almost complete and when you visit it you will be able to see where all the preparation took place.
This was taken in the same small art gallery/museum as the "Embrace the shadows" image I put up a few days ago was. The silhouetted figure (which looks like a woman golfer carrying her clubs to me!) was in fact a small sculpture that was sitting on a window ledge. The sky was quite magnificent, which I've made the most of here as you can see. The only fly in the ointment so to speak was the state of the window which was, to put it mildly, not terribly clean. I was not going to spend an inordinate amount of time in PS trying to clone all the dirt spots out of it so I present it here streaks, smudges, and all. Therefore I would kindly ask that when looking at this shot you get out of your chair and view it from around 4 or 5 paces away. It looks much better that way.
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Focus stack (50 images) Shot with two off-camera strobes (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II L trigger). Flash A bare bulb, mounted to overhead boom. bounced off 32 inch white umbrella. Flash B round head, camera right, 45 degrees, 45 degrees above table, modified with grid and fully extended snoot.
Shot for Smile on Saturday - "OBSERVE THE O...
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Certain researchers have speculated that the stereotypical image of the witch "flying" astride the broomstick of a besom may derive from traditions concerning the use of broomsticks or other staves by women to apply psychotropic ointments to their vaginal or anal mucosa.
A wild radish flower sparkles in the late afternoon sunlight near Rockaway Beach in Pacifica. These delicate little flowers are found in abundance along the California coast where they thrive in the moist climate. The only fly in the ointment is that you'd need to have a gazillion of them to make a decent bouquet. Guess, I'm still buying roses for those special occasions.
Pacifica CA
Heading home one last look until hey this weekend hahahaha time does fly after all. However a slight fly in the ointment is minus 30 with minus 40 plus windchills and heavy snow mmmmm what to do.
This idyllic scene is a visual ointment to the eyes. Capped off by fall colors, swans swimming silently by, and a small shed designed by someone familiar with old barns, there is a mute signal of change often overlooked by a casual observer.
Though it is not a large, attention-grabbing exhibit, I took note of the dock someone has removed in anticipation of winter.
Dock removal at the end of the fall in Minnesota is an annual tradition. Though the methods may vary, the goal for folks who have a lake home or cabin, is the same—get the dock out before it gets frozen into the ice that can form any time after July 31st to December. (Well, July might be a little early, but in Minnesota you can’t be too prepared.)
Our little family lived just over a mile away from my elderly mom and dad, who had a home for years on Serpent Lake near Deerwood, Minnesota. If I were real fortunate, my father would get impatient after Labor Day and grab a couple of my brothers or brother-in-laws to help him move the dock out while I was away on a business trip. I can’t remember those circumstances happening as a regular occurrence.
Taking his long, multiple section, ultra-heavy dock out of the lake involved several men and a boy to do it. Dad lived his adult life thinking that every item he owned was better only if it was heavy enough to cause a hernia when moving it. He scoffed when I suggested getting a new dock with wheels.
For a few years after retirement, he would don hip boots and actually help us boys in the water, reaching under the icy water with a crescent wrench to undo bolts and struggle with the heavy dock sections.
One year he didn’t say anything, but limped down in his bib overalls and scruffy boots to the section of dock closest to land and proceeded to give step by step directions to a couple of us adult boys shivering in the water. We looked at each other and rolled our eyes. This wasn’t our first rodeo, but out of respect for him, acted as though we needed his advice on every step of the removal. His role as an overseer continued each year until he was moved into a rest home.
I was too busy with life at that point to realize my dad was emitting a signal, a quiet one that I missed. Like the dock itself, his physical role in our lives had changed, and the winter of his life was about to set in.
(Photographed near Braham, MN)
Excerpt of a letter sent from Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to the Spanish King, Charles V, in 1520:
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. There is one square twice as large as that of the city of Salamanca, surrounded by porticoes, where are daily assembled more than sixty thousand souls, engaged in buying and selling; and where are found all kinds of merchandise that the world affords, embracing the necessaries of life, as for instance articles of food, as well as jewels of gold and silver, lead, brass, copper, tin, precious stones, bones, shells, snails, and feathers. There are also exposed for sale wrought and unwrought stone, bricks burnt and unburnt, timber hewn and unhewn, of different sorts. There is a street for game, where every variety of birds in the country are sold, as fowls, partridges, quails, wild ducks, fly-catchers, widgeons, turtledoves, pigeons, reed-birds, parrots, sparrows, eagles, hawks, owls, and kestrels; they sell likewise the skins of some birds of prey, with their feathers, head, beak, and claws. There are also sold rabbits, hares, deer, and little dogs [i.e., the chihuahua], which are raised for eating. There is also an herb street, where may be obtained all sorts of roots and medicinal herbs that the country affords. There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. There is also a class of men like those called in Castile porters, for carrying burdens. Wood and coal are seen in abundance, and braziers of earthenware for burning coals; mats of various kinds for beds, others of a lighter sort for seats, and for halls and bedrooms.
There are all kinds of green vegetables, especially onions, leeks, garlic, watercresses, nasturtium, borage, sorrel, artichokes, and golden thistle; fruits also of numerous descriptions, amongst which are cherries and plums, similar to those in Spain; honey and wax from bees, and from the stalks of maize, which are as sweet as the sugar-cane; honey is also extracted from the plant called maguey, which is superior to sweet or new wine; from the same plant they extract sugar and wine, which they also sell. Different kinds of cotton thread of all colors in skeins are exposed for sale in one quarter of the market, which has the appearance of the silk-market at Granada, although the former is supplied more abundantly. Painters' colors, as numerous as can be found in Spain, and as fine shades; deerskins dressed and undressed, dyed different colors; earthen-ware of a large size and excellent quality; large and small jars, jugs, pots, bricks, and endless variety of vessels, all made of fine clay, and all or most of them glazed and painted; maize or Indian corn, in the grain and in the form of bread, preferred in the grain for its flavor to that of the other islands and terra-firma; patés of birds and fish; great quantities of fish---fresh, salt, cooked and uncooked; the eggs of hens, geese, and of all the other birds I have mentioned, in great abundance, and cakes made of eggs; finally, everything that can be found throughout the whole country is sold in the markets, comprising articles so numerous that to avoid prolixity, and because their names are not retained in my memory, or are unknown to me, I shall not attempt to enumerate them …
This great city contains a large number of temples, or houses, for their idols, very handsome edifices, which are situated in the different districts and the suburbs; in the principal ones religious persons of each particular sect are constantly residing, for whose use, besides the houses containing the idols, there are other convenient habitations. All these persons dress in black, and never cut or comb their hair from the time they enter the priesthood until they leave it; and all the sons of the principal inhabitants, both nobles and respectable citizens, are placed in the temples and wear the same dress from the age of seven or eight years until they are taken out to be married; which occurs more frequently with the first-born who inherit estates than with the others. The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. They also abstain from eating certain kinds of food, more at some seasons of the year than others.
I don't think I've posted a picture of Ziva before. She boarded with us for the first time in the early summer and did so well that her mom decided it was safe to take another vacation so brought her back on Friday to board with us again for another week. She is only six years old but was born with a congenital heart defect. She is on lots of medications and will no doubt die young and probably very suddenly but she is a darling, sweet kitty who is adored by her family who is determined to make sure that every day she lives is the happiest one possible.
I was folding towels yesterday at work when someone mentioned that Ziva had gotten all of her oral meds that morning but not her eye ointment so I got her out of her cage to apply her eye ointment. She sat so nicely on the treatment table that I grabbed my phone to take her picture and she pointed her cute nose at me.
Das Liliengewächs Bulbine frutescens ist auch unter Katzenschwanzpflanze bekannt. Sie hat den witzigen Beinamen „Brenngeleepflanze“, da aus Ihren Blättern beim durchschneiden ein geleeartiger Saft austritt, der als Heilsalbe verwendet werden kann..Das antibakterielle Gel kann ähnlich wie Aloe verwendet werden, also bei Sonnenbrand, Wunden, Hautausschlägen und Insektenstichen. Im Sommer ruht die Pflanze überwiegend, im Frühjahr blüht sie und im Herbst erneut, allerdings etwas schwächer.
The lily plant Bulbine frutescens is also known as wild kopieva. It has the funny nickname "stinging jelly plant" because when you cut its leaves, a jelly-like juice comes out, which can be used as a healing ointment. The antibacterial gel can be used in a similar way to aloe, i.e. for sunburn, wounds, rashes and insect bites. The plant is mostly dormant in summer, blooming in the spring, and then again in autumn although somewhat less.
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Our guide in Toraja asked this woman if she had an ointment as Sofie had been stung on the hand while on the motorbikes. She had some kind of oil that could help with soothing it. She looked quite photogenic, but spent most of her time inside the house, but managed to get this shot quickly
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this is one of the species originating from the mediterreanean basin it has some benefits and properties against fungal infections when used as ointment
From next week we will mostly be living in Jersey!
We have been given a stunning house in Ann Port to stay as long as we want as the owner, my sister-in-laws sister travels the world. So excited!
With all the house paper work, selling and buying our new home wrapped up, the only thing that may put a fly in the ointment is if my Consultant secures an early PET scan and Lumber Puncture. If not we will be back for Easter to spend some time with the girls.
Cup on ostrich egg (c. 1400) - Treasure Room - Residence, Munich
Il corpo della coppa, proveniente dall'ex monastero benedettino di St Veit a Herrieden presso Ansbach in Franconia, è costituito da un uovo di struzzo.
Le uova di struzzo erano molto apprezzate come rarità esotiche sia nel mondo secolare della Kunstkammer e dei gabinetti delle curiosità che in contesti ecclesiastici.
La montatura gotica dell'attuale coppa, con cappuccio a spirale, catena e angeli adoranti, fa pensare che fosse usata come reliquiario o come contenitore per liquidi sacri, come l'acqua del fiume Giordano o unguenti sacri.
Portauovo di struzzo (uovo di struzzo, argento dorato, smalto; altezza 29 cm ); probabilmente francese o tedesco meridionale, intorno al 1400
The body of the cup, from the former Benedictine monastery of St Veit in Herrieden near Ansbach in Franconia, is made of an ostrich egg.
Ostrich eggs were highly prized as exotic rarities both in the secular world of the Kunstkammer and cabinets of curiosities and in ecclesiastical settings.
The Gothic mount of the present cup, with spiral cap, chain and adoring angels, suggests that it was used as a reliquary or as a container for sacred liquids, such as water from the Jordan River or sacred ointments.
Ostrich egg holder (ostrich egg, gilded silver, enamel; height 29 cm ); probably French or southern German, c. 1400s
The Ochre Pits is a popular tourist destination in Tjoritja/West MacDonnell National Park, approximately 100 km west of Alice Springs along the Larapinta Trail. The pits consist of several layers of multi-coloured, layered rock that was traditionally used by Indigenous Australians in ceremonies and played an important role in the continent's economy, being traded with neighbouring clans and "countries", in every direction on the continent.
Ochre occurs in a range of earthy colours ranging from white through to yellow, orange, red and browns. Ochre has always been an important part of Aboriginal culture and a vital part of everyday life. For medicinal purposes red ochre can be mixed with grease and applied as an ointment and to relieve congestion when mixed with eucalyptus leaves. White ochre was used as a magical charm, when mixed with water and blown from the mouth it is believed to abate the heat of the sun or the force of the wind. Weapons were painted with ochre to increase the success of hunting. It also protected the wooden weapons from termites.
In 1920, an 80-foot-long blue whale drifted into Bragar Bay. It was never claimed and the corpse began to rot, and the town was overwhelmed by the stench. With no one coming to retrieve the whale, the villagers rolled up their sleeves and dealt with it themselves. The blubber was used for oil, disinfectant, ointment, tar, and medicine. It was harvested by tapping into the whale’s body and filling bottles and barrels with the gloopy fat.
The local postmaster thought the jawbone might make a nice addition to his gate. So with horses and a lot of village men, he hauled the jawbone up to his workshop. He claimed the harpoon as well, and while being cleaned it finally detonated. It tore a splintered hole in the wall of his garage, but luckily the postmaster himself was unharmed. Soon after, the jawbone was raised as an arch in front of his home. It still stands there today, 25 feet tall and 4 tons heavy, with the harpoon at its apex.
This image is included in a gallery "PANORAMI E LUOGHI- LANDSCAPE AND SITE" curated by maurosnaier.
The Ochre Pits is a popular tourist destination in Tjoritja/West MacDonnell National Park, approximately 100 km west of Alice Springs along the Larapinta Trail. The pits consist of several layers of multi-coloured, layered rock that was traditionally used by Indigenous Australians in ceremonies and played an important role in the continent's economy, being traded with neighbouring clans and "countries", in every direction on the continent.
Ochre occurs in a range of earthy colours ranging from white through to yellow, orange, red and browns. Ochre has always been an important part of Aboriginal culture and a vital part of everyday life. For medicinal purposes red ochre can be mixed with grease and applied as an ointment and to relieve congestion when mixed with eucalyptus leaves. White ochre was used as a magical charm, when mixed with water and blown from the mouth it is believed to abate the heat of the sun or the force of the wind. Weapons were painted with ochre to increase the success of hunting. It also protected the wooden weapons from termites.
Saturday Self Challenge: Tin/s
Finding this old tin in a shed bought back memories of "the Rawleigh man". As a child, a travelling Rawleigh salesman would call at our farm with a case of their products. Rawleigh's Salve and the Pleasant Relief antacid liquid were two of the items our family always used. Their products are still available for purchase either online or sometimes at country shows. The colours and design of the tin are still the same, but the wording ""For man and beast" is no longer used.
The website describes the ointment thus:
Rawleigh's Salve aids the healing of skin and promotes conditions that encourage healing from the inside out.
Rawleigh’s Salve can be used to soothe minor skin ailments such as boils, eczema, blisters, bruises, minor cuts and chapped, chafed and irritated skin .
"Behind, perhaps, let the sea blow.
Let some word blow outside every destination of slime, rust.
Perhaps ointments from Avicenna, forests of embraces, crops, swarms, humid implications.
Or, perhaps, the same.
It sits up.
It gets dressed.
It goes.
The grass stands up again.
At his step everything seems to find inside itself a certain form of calm.
It can't be a great distance
- he thought."
Behind, perhaps, let the sea blow… by Carlos Barbarito
This is the River Arun in Sussex, taken from the West Bank.
Texture with thanks to Lenabem