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A quiet, thoughtful expression on this beautiful creature....
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Megan Wise from Matchmaker Band...
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Einstein 640 boomed up from Megan in 64" PLM with sock
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A re-post of a photo I deleted by mistake using the Flickr app on my phone. The app makes deleting images far too easy for stupid or clumsy people. Not sure why but the huge delete button is the biggest thing on the whole page. I touched it by accident with my big ole thumb. Then when I wanted to clear it I hit OK instead of CANCEL because I guess I didn't have enough coffee yet. So happy fence Friday, deleted owl hat edition.
But afterwards, finding her words were true, they wondered at her knowledge and deemed her to be the wisest of birds. Hence it is that when she appears they look to her as knowing all things, while she no longer gives them advice, but in solitude laments their past folly.
From Aesop's Fables: The Owl and the Birds
Translated by George Fyler Townsend
This picture is about finding peace and freedom when you finally reach wisdom.
And it's a shot of my cute grandma though!
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The Lion-tailed Macaque (Macaca silenus) is an Old World monkey that lives only in the Western Ghats of South India.
Only approximately 2,500 of these animals live scattered over several areas in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The Lion-tailed Macaque ranks among the rarest and most threatened primates. Their range has become increasingly isolated and fragmented by the spread of agriculture and tea, coffee, teak and cinchona, construction of water reservoirs for irrigation and power generation, and human settlements to support such activities. They don't live, feed or travel through plantations. Destruction of their habitat and the fact that they avoid human proximity, has led to the drastic decrease of their population.
Captured @ Blijdorp Zoo, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Explore Highest #11 on Dec 04, 2008.
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See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil! The three wise squirrels of Hanningfield Reservoir Nature Reserve!
Macro Mondays 19/03/18 theme Once Upon A Time
For this theme I choose a Tibetan story from a book of Tibetan Folk Tales, by A.L. Shelton, [1925]
www.sacred-texts.com/asia/tft/tft04.htm
If you are a parable unto yourself--there exists no evil.
Tibetan Proverb.
The Wise Bat
A LONG time ago, a very long time ago, when men and animals spoke to each other and understood the languages of one another, there lived a very powerful king. He lived far off in a corner of the world and alone ruled all the animals and men in his jurisdiction. Around his grounds and palace were great forests and in these forests many birds and animals lived. Every one seemed happy, except the king's wife, and she said that so many birds singing at the same time made such frightful discord that it worried her. One day she asked the king to call them all in and cut off their bills so they couldn't sing any more.
"All right," the king said. "We will do that in a few days."
Now, hanging under the eaves of the palace, close to the queen's room, was a little bat, and though he seemed to be asleep, he heard and understood everything the queen had said. He said to himself, "This is very bad indeed. I wonder what I can do to help all the birds."
The next day the king sent letters by runners into every corner of the kingdom, telling all the birds that by the third day at noon--and it mustn't be forgotten, so put this word down in the center of their hearts--that all of them were to assemble at the palace.
The bat heard the order, but because he was very wise and understood everything he sat very still thinking and thinking about what the queen had said and didn't go to the king's audience on the third day, but waited until the fourth. When he entered, the king said angrily:
"What do you mean by coming on the fourth day when I ordered every one to be here on the third day!" Oh, he was very angry indeed.
The bat replied, "All these birds have no business and can come whenever the king calls, but I have many affairs to look after. My father worked and I too must work. My duty is to keep the death rate from ever exceeding what it should be, in order to govern the sex question, by keeping the men and women of equal numbers."
The king, much surprised, said, "I never heard of all this business before. How does it come that you can do this?"
The bat answered, "I have to keep the day and night equal as well."
The king, more surprised, asked, "How do you do that? You must be a very busy and powerful subject to attend to all these matters. Please explain how you do it."
"Well," the bat replied, "when the nights are short I take a little off the morning, and when the nights are long I take a little off the evening and so keep the day and night equal. Besides, the people don't die fast enough. I have to make the lame and the blind to die at the proper time in order to keep the birth and death rate in proportion. Then sometimes there are more men than women, and some of these men say, 'Yes, yes,' to everything a woman asks them to do and think they must do everything a woman says. These men I just turn into women and so keep the sexes even."
The king understood very well what the bat meant, but didn't allow him to know it. He was very angry with himself because he had agreed to do so quickly what the queen had asked, and thought perhaps the bat might change him into a woman.
"I am not a good king," he thought, "when I listen to a woman's words and yield so easily, and I am terribly ashamed to have given this order. I'll just not do what my wife asks, but send these birds all back home and not cut off their bills."
So he called the birds all to him and said, "Heretofore, men haven't known how to mete out punishment and laws for you, but now I am going to make the Cuckoo your king, and what I called you up to-day for is this: I wanted to ask your King and the prime minister, the Hoopoe, to rule wisely, judge justly, and not oppress the people. If big or little come to you in a law-suit you must judge rightly between them and not favor either rich or poor. Now, you may all return to your homes."
But the king in his heart was still angry at the bat because he hadn't obeyed him and came the fourth day instead of the third, and to show him he was the ruler and to be instantly obeyed he gave him a light spanking for his disobedience and then turned him loose.
Photography emerged for the video of the musical theme "Wise Hands" completely created by me, you can listen to it at the following link:
A Monkey, or better... a Barbar Macaque, is looking at his surroundings. Tons of people have gathered again alongside the walls that border his grounds. A couple of young boys are out and about, yelling and screaming like they just dont care. The monkey sees them, takes a bite from his apple and just keeps sitting there. One of the boys yelles at him, saying things like "Hey, stupid monkey, jump for me!"
But the Monkey wont budge. He just keeps calm and stares at them. The boys are starting to jump in anger and trow twigs and pebbles in his general direction. Non of them hit their mark.
"That damned monekey doesnt do anything!" They yell with red cheecks and mean looking eyes.
After a while, the boys leave with anger and frustration in their hearts... But the Monkey... well... He made them jump without even uttering one, single, word... and takes another bite from his apple with bliss in his heart.
So... who's the stupid monkey now?
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Wise Bros along Interstate 70 in Callaway County Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Sony ILCE-7RM2 camera with a Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/40 second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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If you look closely you can just make out the sign. In the South it is not wise to stand too long near kudzu. You may never be seen again!
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Wise Bros along Interstate 70 in Callaway County Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon TS-E24mm f/3.5L II lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 30 second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
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