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don't relate to you
I don't relate to you, no
'Cause I'd never treat me this shitty
You made me hate this city
And I don't talk shit about you on the internet
Never told anyone anything bad
'Cause that shit's embarrassing, you were my everything
And all that you did was make me fucking sad
So don't waste the time I don't have
And don't try to make me feel bad
I could talk about every time that you showed up on time
But I'd have an empty line 'cause you never did
Never paid any mind to my mother or friends
So I shut 'em all out for you 'cause I was a kid
Pleasant Valley Conservancy, Dane County, Wisconsin. The compass plant's name relates to its leaves that line up north to south to collect a maximum amount of sunlight.
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As I was standing in line waiting to be let into the House of Blues this performer saw me and came over to say hi. As we were talking about her performing as the Magic Carpet in a different show she was relating how important the hand and arm gestures are because in a two thousand seat theater not everyone can see her facial expressions. It brought home just how skillful and how much stage craft goes into each performance.
So the "It's The Small Details" refers to her hand gesture of placing her finger in her mouth to emphasize her desire for the individual she is looking at.
Also this is pretty much straight out of the camera except for a little (a lot) of noise reduction. I was shooting at ISO 3200 which is four times where I like to be.
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: of, relating to, or suitable for the country : RURAL
rustic rolling farmland
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: made of the rough limbs of trees
rustic furniture
b
: finished by rusticating
a rustic joint in masonry
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: characteristic of or resembling country people
b
: lacking in social graces or polish
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: appropriate to the country (as in plainness or sturdiness)
heavy rustic boots
Wow...how I relate to this passage:
Through spiritual exchanges with Tibetan Buddhists during his retreat in Darjeeling, near the majestic mountain of Kanchenjunga, Merton saw that there was “another side of the mountain.” 103 For him, the mountain was a symbol of that which he had sought on his pilgrimage to Asia. He realized that “God speaks, and God is to be heard, not only on Sinai, not only in my own heart, but in the voice of the stranger” on the other side of the mountain.
-Thomas Merton’s encounter with Buddhism and beyond: his interreligious dialogue, inter-monastic exchanges, and their legacy / Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB.
“The full beauty of the mountain is not seen until you too consent to the impossible paradox: it is and is not. When nothing more needs to be said, the smoke of ideas clears, the mountain is SEEN.”
-Thomas Merton, AJ, 156–157 (Asian Journal)
🌵Violetility in collaboration with Violation, the Cactus Chair is a relatable mood (Go Sit on a Cactus) accented with neon. Includes solo and duo Bento animations, static photography poses, and a neon color change HUD to change the cactus neon.
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Vincent of Beauvais relates that at this time there was a young cleric at Lyons who had a dream in which he beheld a mountain with a beautiful city standing on the top of it. This city attracted him mightily so that he longed to get there. But between him and the mountain was a river, and in the river he saw twelve men washing their garments. With them was another, different from them, in a shining white robe who was helping them in their task. The cleric asked the stranger who they all were, and He replied that He was Jesus Christ and that those were men doing penance with His aid, and as soon as their robes were clean, they would be able to go on to the city which they all desired, that is, to heaven. Some time later the cleric told his dream to the Bishop of Châlons, who advised him on the strength of it to enter Cîteaux. He accordingly made his way to the woods where the monks were dwelling, and finally found the enclosure of the little monastery. The gate was made of wattles, and there was an iron hammer hanging there for a knocker. When the porter responded to his summons, what was the astonishment of the cleric to recognize him as one of the men in his dream. He also recognized all the other members of the community too, and he was not long in becoming one of them.
-Thomas Merton, OCSO In the Valley of Wormwood Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age CISTERCIAN STUDIES SERIES: NUMBER TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE, (Saint Alberic, Second Abbot of Cîteaux, France)
Astronomical spring relates to the position of the earth in relation to the sun, while meteorological spring relates to the warming temperatures from March through May. For meteorologists and climatologists, spring begins March 1.
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Kinetic Photograph made with one single long exposure shot, printed straight out of camera.
If you’d like to read more details about how the shot is made see below. And for more of my kinetic photographs here’s my set, "Drawing with Light"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/albums/72157652166665058
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Kinetic: Relating to, caused by, or producing motion.
These are called “Kinetic” photographs because there is motion, energy, and movement involved, specifically my and the camera’s movements.
I choose a light source and/or subject, set my camera for a long exposure (typically around 4 seconds), focus on my subject and push the shutter button. When the shutter opens I move the camera around with my hands...large, sweeping, dramatic movements. And then I will literally throw the camera several feet up into the air, most times imparting a spinning or whirling motion to it as I hurl it upward. I may throw the camera several times and also utilize hand-held motion several times in one photo. None of these are Photoshopped, layered, or a composite photo...what you see occurs in one shot, one take.
Aren’t I afraid that I will drop and break my camera? For regular followers of my photostream and this series you will know that I have already done so. This little camera has been dropped many times, and broken once when dropped on concrete outside. It still functions...not so well for regular photographs, but superbly for more kinetic work.
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The title relates to the previous photo. The event from which this picture comes, was the first one organized by Pomeranian Railfans Society with the old Ganz-MÁVAG's SN61-183. The journey took one day and covered some used and unused railway lines in North-Western Poland. Here, the diesel motor car in Złocieniec, before depart to Grotniki Drawskie. October 28, 2000.
Złocieniec is a knot point station built in 1877 and originally named Falkenburg, with the suffix (Pommern) added later. It used to have a steam locomotive depot for three locomotives to serve the two railway lines 210 (Chojnice - Runowo Pomorskie) and 410 (Grotniki Drawskie - Choszczno), which meet here, with the latter originally running from Grzmiąca, 61 kilometers further.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
Tytuł nawiązuje do poprzedniego zdjęcia. To natomiast pochodzi z pierwszej imprezy zorganizowanej przez Pomorskie Towarzystwo Miłośników Kolei Żelaznych z udziałem szczecińskiego SN61-183 (ex-189). Jako że to była pierwsza impreza, potrwała "tylko" jeden dzień i obejmowała linie w woj. zachodniopomorskim. Na fotce "ganz" w Złocieńcu, przed odjazdem do Grotnik Drawskich. 29 października 2000 r.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
I cannot relate the story behind this little scene, all I can do is to relate the circumstance.
I was enjoying my early morning walk to fetch the morning newspapers when this odd picture leapt into my vision. It was much too early for the site workers to have started their days work though.
It relates to 18th Century. As of the time of transfer to the museum, the house was the oldest in the village and belonged to Oros family. The house has two premises: house and mudroom. It is one of the most ancient types of house planning in Zakarpattia. Walls of the house are constructed with wide oak cut blocks. Its high four-sloping roof is covered with straw.
This house is the oldest Zakarpattia house in our museum. It displays specific features of national building in valley of Tereblia-river and the middle reaches of Tysa River. The house’s area is 35.4 square meters.
Look at the exterior of the hut:
Характерною ознакою житла лемків (етнографічної групи українського народу), як і бойків, були білий та синій кольори.
Хата із с. Теребля, Тячівського району Закарпатської області
Датується XVIII ст. На час перенесення до музею хата була найстарішою в селі і належала родині Оросів. Хата дводільна: хата, сіни – є одним із давніх варіантів планування житла на Закарпатті. Стіни хати складені з широких дубових колених брусів. Високий чотирисхилий дах вкритий соломою.
Це найстаріша хата Закарпаття в експозиції нашого музею. Вона розкриває особливості народного будівництва у долині ріки Теребля та середньої течії річки Тиси. Площа хати — 35, 4 кв.м.
Орос Ярослав (родина з Тячівського району) - журналіст, відомий у літературі як ідеолог українського арійства:
“Ментально і культурно українці належать до західної цивілізації. Сучасний конфлікт із Росією — насправді цивілізаційний конфлікт. Війна на Донбасі — це війна між західною цивілізацією та азійською, виразником якої є сучасна Росія. Захоплюючись мужністю у відстоюванні європейських цінностей під час Революції гідності, сучасний французький філософ Бернар-Анрі Леві сказав: «Я французький громадянин, я — європейський федераліст, але сьогодні на Майдані, який нагадав Європі про її першочергові покликання, я також українець».
Фактично Леві у такий спосіб потрактував ідею Освальда Шпенґлера про старіння європейської культури («Присмерк Європи»). Україна, Литва, Польща — надія старої Європи, її свіжа енергія. У питанні європейських цінностей і свободи ми готові воювати і покласти за це життя, а Західна Європа до цього вже не готова.
Вона занадто розбещена комфортом і достатком. Ідея арійства допоможе нам бути сильнішими, сміливішими, енергійнішими — компенсувати покірність, століттями нав’язувану російським православ’ям. Арійство не заперечує християнську любов чи мораль, а повертає до першо¬джерел. Сучасне українське суспільство хоче бути цивілізованим, культурно й економічно конкурентним. І арійство — та духовна сила, що допоможе нам такими стати.”
/Урядовий кур’єр, 9 листопада 2024./
I think we can all relate to the feeling of being lost when visiting a new place and/or not quite agreeing on where to go next? I think the situation for these people. Image is a fragment of the cool Dokk1 building by the waterfront in Aarhus central. The lines, structures and contrasts made for an interesting image. Dokk1, or 'Dokken', houses the Aarhus Main Library, the municipal public services department, theater scenes, businesses and a large automated underground parking facility. An impressive facility built and designed with a focus on a low energy consumption and sustainability. Dokk1 is part of an effort to re-purpose former industrial areas of the Port of Aarhus into residential and commercial areas. Good work by the council and the planners involved.
Of or relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life
GhostWorks Texture Competition #42
Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess
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Kinetic Photograph made with one single long exposure shot, printed straight out of camera.
If you’d like to read more details about how the shot is made see below. And for more of my kinetic photographs here’s my set, "Drawing with Light"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/albums/72157652166665058
Copyright © by John Russell – All Rights Reserved
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kinetic: Relating to, caused by, or producing motion.
These are called “Kinetic” photographs because there is motion, energy, and movement involved, specifically my and the camera’s movements.
I choose a light source and/or subject, set my camera for a long exposure (typically around 4 seconds), focus on my subject and push the shutter button. When the shutter opens I move the camera around with my hands...large, sweeping, dramatic movements. And then I will literally throw the camera several feet up into the air, most times imparting a spinning or whirling motion to it as I hurl it upward. I may throw the camera several times and also utilize hand-held motion several times in one photo. None of these are Photoshopped, layered, or a composite photo...what you see occurs in one shot, one take.
Aren’t I afraid that I will drop and break my camera? For regular followers of my photostream and this series you will know that I have already done so. This little camera has been dropped many times, and broken once when dropped on concrete outside. It still functions...not so well for regular photographs, but superbly for more kinetic work.
Greymouth, NOVA ZELANDA 2023
History House Museum is a collection of photographic and archival records and historical objects relating to Grey District on the West Coast of New Zealand. The museum opened in the former Grey County Council Chambers in 1996, but the building was deemed unsafe in the event of an earthquake and forced to close in 2017. A new home for the collection is being sought
History House Museum was housed in the former Grey County Council Chambers at 27 Gresson Street, Greymouth. The Grey County Council was formed in 1877, and built the Grey County Council Chambers in 1924. In 1989 the building was vacated when the County Council amalgamated with the boroughs of Greymouth and Runanga and the Greymouth Harbour Board to form the Grey District Council.
The project to turn the empty building into a history museum was instigated by former deputy mayor Kevin Brown, Mayor of Grey Ron Hibbs, and Kevin Beams of Grey District Council. Kevin Brown recruited volunteers from the Lions, family, and local community to fit out the building and assemble a collection. The museum opened in 1996, with Brown as manager. When Brown was elected Mayor in 1998, volunteer Bob Naisbitt took over the running of the museum, along with assistant historian Margaret Mort. By 2013 Margaret Mort and Karen Prendergast were running the History House.
Volunteers Jack Flood and George Gardner apply a paint job to the Standard Austin-Western Grader outside History House Museum. The Grey County Council purchased the grader in 1920 for £225.
In February 2017 a seismic assessment of the Grey County Council Chambers found it was at only 10 per cent of the new building standard (NBS), well below the 34 per cent required for a public building; the standards had been revised following the 2010–2011 Christchurch earthquakes. The cost to strengthen the building would be $142,000, and it is in a flood zone. The museum was closed and the archives moved to the Grey District Library. Several options were pursued: eventually incorporating the museum into a "Discovery Centre", disbanding the collection, or moving to another space – the former Dick Smith premises at 130 Mackay Street at a cost of $50,000/year – in conjunction with an iSite visitor centre.
The location of the museum (at the other end of town from the railway station where most tourists arrived) and the lack of signage were blamed for the low visitor numbers: about 6–8 people a day.[3][8] The Greymouth iSite manager Phil Barnett claimed tourists were simply not interested in its collections.
In any event the Protected Objects Act and Public Records Act required the collection to be catalogued before moving, at a cost of over $100,000. One consultant suggested the bulk of the collection was not "of sufficient merit" to be archived. The archives at the museum also needed to be properly stored; the Council Chambers are unsuitable and in a flood zone. There is no regional archive on the West Coast, although Shantytown near Greymouth had offered to host one.
James Tunnicliffe cleaning the gold-mining Kershaw Pump outside History House Museum
After a stocktake of the collection, items relevant to other West Coast districts were sent to the Hokitika Museum and Coaltown Museum. The museum operated from a pop-up space in the former Dick Smith premises, operating Wednesday to Sunday afternoons from 20 December 2017. The space had to close in July 2018 but had 1200 visitors in the first month and 9000 visitors in total, compared to the 1200 visitors a year at its former home.
In September 2018, the Council budgeted $140,000 to strengthen the Gresson Street building, but resolved to move the museum to a new discovery centre combining a library and museum some time in the future. The cost to reopen History House was estimated at $455,000, and just to make the building safe would be $170,000: even strengthened the former Council building would still have problems with climate control, fire safety, and storage. The former manager Kevin Brown took back his extensive photograph collection in protest at the lack of progress in strengthening the building. In 2020 the building was emptied and the collection moved into two climate-controlled shipping containers at a cost of $90,000.
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Authentic religion? How do you find it? Nagai relates how he and his little community found religious hope in the nuclear wilderness. On the last page of his book, music from the cathedral bell floods the valley of ashes, and he kneels with his children to say the Angelus. Despite their poverty and loss, they know that God is love, that suffering and the effort to keep on loving are worthwhile. “The people without a vision perish.” Nagai has come to see it is prayer that gives the vision.
-PAUL GLYNN A Song for Nagasaki The Story of Takashi Nagai Scientist, Convert and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb
قآل تعآلى : ( قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَدًا ) صدق آلله العظيم
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"Getting up close to a particular shadow element is every bit as important as witnessing it and relating to it. This is often quite an emotionally rocky ride, especially given that we may find ourselves without our usual adult skills, at least for a time, because the wounded child in us has surfaced to such a degree that we are looking through those eyes and feeling those feelings. The key is to get as close as possible to that part of ourselves without getting lost in that old worldview, staying emotionally raw even as we name and illuminate what is occuring." -Robert Masters
The ocean moves in to cover what it left empty hours ago as a storm makes its final stand. A lone cloud hovers above the ocean poised and balanced for what will next arise.
Said starway isn't what I was standing on while taking the picture, it rather relates to the current state of the locomotive presented on the picture. The ET42-025 shown here running alone through Kraków Mydlniki in the direction of Zabierzów is no more in service (presumably hasn't been for a couple of months now), and the railway station has undergone a massive modernisation, leading to a classically standardised look without the footbridge or any romanticism ;), as you can see by yourself over here.
In general the whole ET42 class of engines is coming to an inevitable end, as more and more Dragon locomotives are delivered from Newag to PKP Cargo. At the time of writing this description (12.01.2024) there are only 17 locomotives in service, from what used to be a series of 50 engines produced between 1978-1982 in НЭВЗ (Новочеркасск, Russia). They were innitially mostly deployed on the railway line connecting Silesia with the northern harbours in Gdynia and Gdańsk, but in recent years also spread to majority of the country, even becoming relatively common in Warsaw since around 2018, which was unthinkable beforehand.
From what I heard, the ET42 locomotives were generally a pretty successful series, thanks to being based on ВЛ10 engines, which had already been after years of service in the harshest conditions of the Soviet Union. Extremely reliable, easy to repair, but not without their downsides, the worst of which is that the locomotives could get extremely hot in summer, forcing drivers to provide different ways of cooling by themselves.
A little curiosity on all of the engines is their paint scheme, which differed from the standardised PKP livery. All ET42 locos had a big V-shape at the very front, presumably as a tribute to the ВЛ10 forefathers. The colour of the stripe making up the V differed across the years, together with the general paint schemes of PKP, but never really disappeared until the corporate scheme of PKP Cargo was introduced. Initially yellow on minty green background, then it turned to orange with the introduction of the 'yellow fronts' in 1989 and finally settled on red after the grassy-green livery was made the new standard. Despite generally liking the yellow fronts, I find that the red stripe on grassy green fits these Soviet monsters best.
The nicknames, which the railfans came up with included Czapajew and Rusek, generally very generic names which could theoretically be attributed to any locomotive of Soviet origin, just as Gagarin become a common way to call ST44.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
A feeling likely every single one of us can relate to right now! I am definitely feeling a bit antsy, particularly wanting to get back out and head out for multiple days exploring and photographing our wonderful natural world. However, looks like I need to content myself with the digital form only for now (together with some walks around the neighborhood). This was from a visit to Boardman Tree Farm in Oregon a few years ago. It was a popular stop for photographers in the fall to shoot the rows of aspen, but sadly it was sold and the last trees harvested and converted to farmland.
This particular crop was from a much larger pano I took (9 or 10 frames wide I think). I was just experimenting, and when I got it on the computer some of the most interesting symmetries got lost in the wider angle but cropping it down made it more pleasing and also made the "bars" at the end of this row visible. I thought that was an interesting little detail.
It has in fact been a delight for me to spend time with my family in recent weeks, and I feel in some ways like it's made up for at least a little bit of the time I missed traveling for the job when the girls were younger. I am realizing just how disruptive the constant business travel was, not just to me but to our whole family. We have a practice now of stating what we appreciate and are grateful for at dinner each night which I think has been helpful. I am extremely grateful for such a loving and wonderful family. They have kept a fantastic sense of humor and a warm and cooperative spirit in a time when it's easy to let anxiety consume one's emotions. I hope everyone is able to find some light and color in their lives right now.
Stay safe!
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I am sure all of you can relate to the feeling of waiting for a moment or a photo opportunity for months and years and then feeling giddy with joy (and quite overwhelmed) when it actually arrives. For me that was Kenya. I am sure you guys have deduced that by now, based on my endless rambling, but moving on!
Not only have a dreamt of taking photos of the great African wilderness for years but in my little head I have dreamt about that ‘moment’ when all the elements come together and I KNOW I have taken a good shot. There is no greater joy than that moment is there? My trip was filled with several such moments including the one above. Would you believe that this herd is right outside our lodge - Ol Tukai, less than 200 m away? Look at them marching without a care in world. And look at that adorable baby, with its trunk, totally out of control! It is the very definition of surreal. I have said it a million times and I will say it again, Amboseli, your place in my heart cannot be taken by any other!
Explored : 5th January 2015
I can relate. While on vacation getting in some 25-30 thousand steps in a day, it can be a challenge sometimes to be cordial.
The Tour métallique de Fourvière ("Metallic tower of Fourvière"), a landmark of Lyon, France, is a steel framework tower which bears a striking resemblance to the Eiffel Tower, which predates it by three years. With a height of 101 m (331 ft), previously 85.9 m (282 ft) before installation of the TV broadcasting antenna, and weighing 210 tons, the "metallic tower" was built between 1892 and 1894.
I chose this name as the definition relates to regions beyond our earth/celestial and heavenly and it also happens to be the soundtrack that was used in the video I created (music by Stelladrone) see here on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MKCZJYChmE
Captured using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of beta testing for QHYCCD.
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Some of the objects visible include NGC4438-NGC4435 are known as The Eyes Galaxies and are among the most prominently featured Galaxies in this image lying at a distance of around 52 Million Light Years from us. 3 galaxies from the messier catalogue M87, M86 and M84, 52 galaxies from the NGC-IC catalogues, but you have to zoom in to see the over 600 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.
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Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/m3s2ui/
Captured bin 2x2 over 2 nights in April 2021 for a total acquisition time of 14 hours.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture April 3rd and 8th 2021
LUM 216 min 108 x 120 sec
RED 210 min 105 x 120 sec
GREEN 218 min 109 x 120 sec
BLUE 198 min 99 x 120 sec
Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix
Image Scale: 2x2 = 2.38 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing in Pixinsight and Post Processing in Photoshop CC
A Artistically; in a way that relates to art; in a way that relates to the ability to enjoy or create art; in a skillful and attractive way.
RELATES TO LEEDS TOTW: STAIRS (John Fotohouse Jan 2009)
Alas, she will never resemble my dear departed friend.
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Though she looked quite interesting with these lights and shadows!
Explore Dec 16, 2015 #66
In 1943 Dutch artist M. C. Escher created a reptile lithograph that depicts a desk on which there is a drawing of a pattern of reptiles. The reptiles come to life and crawl around the desk, over the objects on it and eventually re-enter the drawing.
Escher would love the colors and patterns here! The Common Agama, Red-headed Rock Agama, or Rainbow Agama (Agama agama) is a species of lizard from the Agamidae family, found in most of Subsaharan Africa.
It can often be seen in the heat of the day. In the breeding season, the males develop dramatically colorful markings, the head and neck and tail turning bright orange, and the body dark blue. Outside of the breeding season, the male is a plain brown. The females and juveniles are always more cryptically marked. This lizard can be found climbing rocks and walls. Its primary source of food is insects.
The males are territorial, claiming small to medium patches of land which they defend against other mature males. Juveniles and females reside within the territories unchallenged. The mature males become agitated when confronting each other; nodding vigorously, arching, skipping sideways, and clashing tails. The loser is chased out of the territory.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
A long exposure here relates to the tired weather beaten lighthouse situated at the end of Neist Point on the extreme Western tip of the Isle of Skye.
This iconic landmark is quite dishevelled when you get up close to it. I spent some time exploring this location on a recent trip to the island. This was the best of several attempts at a long exposure shot from the top of the cliffs. The wind was gusting and despite my best efforts to try and keep the tripod and camera steady the wind was winning!
You can make out the Island of Uist in the Outer Hebrides on the far horizon.
There is a theory about stripes relating to sex workers and street entertainers. As you may also know, stripes have always been somewhat transgressive and associated with prisoners.
Additionally, it has been said that the 13th-century Carmelites who arrived in Paris from Palestine in two-tone cloaks so offended decorum that Pope Boniface VIII banned all religious orders from slipping into anything stripy.
But as you examine this very sexy YoU By GeMyles Arabella Robe, Bra & Panties Set, you will find yourself thinking about how stripes beautifully enhance the contours of a woman’s body - concluding in your mind that there is also something to these speculations about their sensual yet naughty vibe.
I paired this Arabella Set with YoU By GeMyles' Carlyne Boots which Color Hud works flawlessly with color-matching that of the Arabella Set.
Fits: Belleza genX Classic (+ curvy), Maitreya Lara (+ Petite + Mounds), Inithium Kupra, Legacy (+ Perky + Nerido), and Inithium Kupra mesh bodies.
Both the Arabella Set and the Carlyne Boots are exclusively available at the SWANK Fall into Autumn Event for November.
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Tales of history relate that Dinajpur derived its name from Raja Dinaj or Dinaraj, founder of the Dinajpur Rajbari. But others say that after usurping the Ilyas Shahi rule, the famous Raja Ganesh of the early 15th century was the real founder of this house for a brief period. At the end of the 17th century Srimanta Dutta Chaudhury became the zamindar of Dinajpur and after him, his sister's son Sukhdeva Ghosh inherited the property as Srimanta's son had a premature death. Sukhdeva's son Prannath Ray became famous and powerful and began the construction of the famous Kantanagar Nava-Ratna Temple, now known as the Kantajir Mandir, one of the most precious heritage structures.
It is difficult to conceive what the main palace block looked like when it was young and bold. Wild leaves and veins have wrapped the building like octopus tendrils while the skeleton and naked brick structures give a horrid look as the ageing plaster is almost worn out of the walls. In different parts of the building, structural girders are exposed while there is no roof above. Still from his historical study and the remaining ruins, Dr Nazimuddin Ahmed gave a vivid description of the structures in one of his publications published in 1986.
"The imposing façade of the two-storey palace, facing east has a broad frontage of about 150 feet. The central part carrying a 10 feet wide verandah above is projected prominently. The front projection has a series of elegant Ionic columns in pairs with round shafts on the upper floor.
"The parapet is plain except for a curved plaque-wall in the centre, bearing in relief, two elephants standing face to face and holding a crown. Above and below it are some indistinct English letters. On either side of the balcony a broad spiral masonry staircase leads up to the upper storey. The roof of the 15 feet wide balcony collapsed.
"Immediately behind the balcony a large hall (50"X20") originally flagged with white marble stone and flanked by two 10" wide verandahs on the east and west is roofed over with massive iron girders. The lofty 25 feet high roof is in a highly disintegrating condition. On its north there is another smaller (30"X 20") hall and on the south a broad corridor leads to the inner quadrangle of residential quarters."
If the bricks could paint or write the tales of the Rajbari and its inhabitants, what a book could have been written! But with the silent walls, the palace has now grown old and inexpressive. It has faced not only the cruelty of time but also the ravages of nature like the 1897 earthquake that had left it badly damaged. Although the palace was largely rebuilt by Maharaja Sir Girijanath Ray Bahadur, time has not spared it from its claws. It is up to us now whether we would at least let the ruins remain and let our future generations see them and let their imagination flow back to the past and touch our heritage.
other pictures from the set Dinajpur Rajbari .... Discovering the hidden glory
Excerpt from www.rbg.ca/events/we-follow-our-families-2/:
“We Follow Our Families” by artist Kyle Joedicke, links this experience to the Haudenosaunee clan system and how it relates to family structures and their corresponding animals. The Haudenosaunee are a matrilineal family and governance system where lineage, identity and clan membership are passed down through the mother.
Haudenosaunee clans are divided into three groups: Land (Bear, Wolf and Deer), Water (Turtle, Eel, and Beaver) and Air (Snipe, Hawk and Heron). Kyle has brought these clan animals to life in his signature vivid style as large artworks placed throughout the Rock Garden landscape. Additionally, Kyle has created a new 8’ x 16’ mural, Toward the Creator, on view in the lower bowl of the garden.
His Golden Touch
One day, as Ovid relates in Metamorphoses XI, Dionysus found that his old schoolmaster and foster father, the satyr Silenus, was missing. The old satyr had been drinking wine and wandered away drunk, to be found by some Phrygian peasants who carried him to their king, Midas (alternatively, Silenus passed out in Midas' rose garden). Midas recognized him and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with politeness, while Silenus delighted Midas and his friends with stories and songs. On the eleventh day, he brought Silenus back to Dionysus in Lydia. Dionysus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he wished for. Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold.
Midas rejoiced in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched an oak twig and a stone; both turned to gold. Overjoyed, as soon as he got home, he touched every rose in the rose garden, and all became gold. He ordered the servants to set a feast on the table. Upon discovering how even the food and drink turned into gold in his hands, he regretted his wish and cursed it. Claudian states in his In Rufinem: "So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer."
Await and Awaken©
Relate within the same letter of life's law
As easy as a first breath of cherishment galore
Howsoever the day may have begun,
It's course in your hands may still be spun
That door remains open till the day is done
To welcome with opportune resolve life's home run
Call it emotional topiary, your garden, your space
No overnight fantasticism can over-emphasise apace
The quality of being the mirror before sightseeing seen,
Sets the beautified scene so miraculously serene
Renewable, inexhaustible, when finally found it's never lost
That is the feeling of being warmed at the touch of a Sun thawing frost
Two worlds away unite within the same second
As much as the first owes the last over which it is reckoned
Birthdays split the differences as we all move through time at the same pace
Every range of clock face imaginable and none a disgrace
It tells of antiquity within the presence of valour
And speaks a charmed silence which awaits and awakens within flowing candour.
by anglia24
10h45: 24/01/2009
©2009 anglia24
Sea Princess Scenic Nature, Seals & Fjord Cruise tour out of Northeast Harbor Maine is a great way to see Nature and spectacular views of Mount Desert Island.
Santa Elena Augusta
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta
Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady on Thorns (Aranzazu)
Municipality of San Mateo
Province of Rizal
Philippines
SantaCruzang Bayan 2008
May 25, 2008
About SAINT HELENA
Venerated in:
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy
Lutheran
Anglicanism
Canonized:
Her canonization precedes the practice of formal Canonization by the Pope or the relevant Orthodox and Lutheran churches.
Feast:
Roman Catholic: August 18
Lutheran: May 21
Orthodox: May 19
Coptic Orthodox: 9 Pashons
**Finding of the True Cross: May 03
Symbol: Cross
Derivatives: St. Helena of Constantinople, St. Helen, St. Eleanor
Patronage: archeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, empresses
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, also known as Saint Helena, Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople (ca. 250 – ca. 330) was consort of Constantius Chlorus, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I. She is traditionally credited with finding the relics of the True Cross.
Family Life: Helena's birthplace is not known with certainty. The sixth-century historian Procopius is the earliest authority for the statement that Helena was a native of Drepanum, in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor. Her son Constantine renamed the city "Helenopolis" after her death in 328, giving rise to the belief that the city was her birthplace. Although he might have done so in honor of her birthplace, Constantine probably had other reasons for doing so. The Byzantinist Cyril Mango has argued that Helenopolis was refounded to strengthen the communication network around his new capital in Constantinople, and was renamed to honor Helena, not to mark her birthplace. There is another Helenopolis, in Palestine, but its exact location is unknown. This city, and the province of Helenopontus in the Diocese of Pontus, were probably both named after Constantine's mother.
The bishop and historian Eusebius of Caesarea states that she was about 80 on her return from Palestine. Since that journey has been dated to 326–28, Helena was probably born in 248 or 250. Little is known of her early life. Fourth-century sources, following Eutropius' Breviarium, record that she came from a low background. Ambrose was the first to call her a stabularia, a term translated as "stable-maid" or "inn-keeper". He makes this fact a virtue, calling Helena a bona stabularia, a "good stable-maid". Other sources, especially those written after Constantine's proclamation as emperor, gloss over or ignore her background.
It is unknown where she first met her future partner Constantius. The historian Timothy Barnes has suggested that Constantius, while serving under Emperor Aurelian, could have met her while stationed in Asia Minor for the campaign against Zenobia. Barnes calls attention to an epitaph at Nicomedia of one of Aurelian's protectors, which could indicate the emperor's presence in the Bithynian region soon after 270. The precise legal nature of the relationship between Helena and Constantius is unknown: the sources are equivocal on the point, sometimes calling Helena Constantius' "wife", and sometimes calling her his "concubine". Jerome, perhaps confused by the vague terminology of his own sources, manages to do both. Some scholars, such as the historian Jan Drijvers, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in a common-law marriage, a cohabitation recognized in fact but not in law. Others, like Timothy Barnes, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in an official marriage, on the grounds that the sources claiming an official marriage are more reliable.
Helena gave birth to Constantine I in 272. In 293, Constantius was ordered by emperor Diocletian to divorce her in order to qualify as Caesar of the Western Roman Empire, and he was married to the step-daughter of Maximian, Theodora. Helena never remarried and lived in obscurity, though close to her only son, who had a deep regard and affection for her.
Constantine was proclaimed Augustus of the Roman Empire in 306 by Constantius' troops after the
latter had died, and following his elevation his mother was brought back to the public life and the imperial court, and received the title of Augusta in 325. Helena died in 330 with her son at her side. Her sarcophagus is on display in the Pio-Clementino Vatican Museum. During her life, she gave many presents to the poor, released prisoners and mingled with the ordinary worshippers in modest attire, exhibiting a true Christian spirit.
Sainthood: She is considered by the Orthodox and Catholic churches as a saint, famed for her piety. Her feast day as a saint of the Orthodox Christian Church is celebrated with her son on May 21, the Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal to the Apostles. Her feast day in the Roman Catholic Church falls on August 18. Her feast day in the Coptic Orthodox Church is on 9 Pashons. Eusebius records the details of her pilgrimage to Palestine and other eastern provinces (though not her discovery of the True Cross). She is the patron saint of archaeologists. The names "Saint Eleanor" and "Saint Eleanora" are usually synonymous for Saint Helen.
Relic Discoveries: In 325, Helena was in charge of a journey to Jerusalem to gather Christian relics, by her son Emperor Constantine I, who had recently declared Rome as a Christian city. Jerusalem was still rebuilding from the destruction of Hadrian, a previous emperor, who had built a temple to Venus over the site of Jesus's tomb, near Calvary.
According to legend, Helena entered the temple with Bishop Macarius, ordered the temple torn down and chose a site to begin excavating, which led to the recovery of three different crosses. Refused to be swayed by anything but solid proof, a woman from Jerusalem, who was already at the point of death from a certain disease, was brought; when the woman touched a cross suddenly recovered and Helena declared the cross with which the woman had been touched to be the True Cross. On the site of discovery, she built the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, while she continued building churches on every Holy site.
She also found the nails of the crucifixion. To use their miraculous power to aid her son, Helena allegedly had one placed in Constantine's helmet, and another in the bridle of his horse. Helena left Jerusalem and the eastern provinces in 327 to return to Rome, bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics, which were then stored in her palace's private chapel, where they can be still seen today. Her palace was later converted into the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.
The reliquary of Jerusalem was committed to the care of Saint Macarius and kept with singular care and respect in the magnificent church which Saint Helen and her son built there. Saint Paulinus relates that, though chips were almost daily cut off from it and given to devout persons, yet the sacred wood suffered thereby no diminution. It is affirmed by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, twenty-five years after the discovery, that pieces of the cross were spread all over the earth; he compares this wonder to the miraculous feeding of five thousand men, as recorded in the Gospel. The discovery of the cross would have happened in the spring, after navigation began on the Mediterranean Sea, for Saint Helen went the same year to Constantinople and from there to Rome, where she died in the arms of her son on the 18th of August of the same year, 326.
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It is truly difficult to effectively relate how graceful and ethereal Manta Rays are as they perform their nightly ballet in the warm waters near Kona Hawaii. This image perhaps does the work of hundreds of adjectives in relating the emotion you feel as these massive creatures glide inches from your face.
If you would like to read more about swimming with Mantas and see more photos of this adventure, check-out my blog article: www.firefallphotography.com/swimming-manta-rays-tips-phot...
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Jeff
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