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A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard...
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?
Whenever I see owls, I think of this fun quote. This owl was difficult to spot he was so quiet and still hiding behind the branches of the tree. I had to give it my best effort. Hope you like my peek-a-boo shot.
This is the Harbor Freight Tools hardware store located at 129 Ridgeview Road located in the Ridgeview Shopping Center in Wise, VA. It opened in part of the former Kmart in fall 2016; interestingly, in order to open this store, the old garden shop structure was taken down.
The heads of the impressive group of fifteen moai, located at Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island.
You can see more pics (from 2000 and 2013) in my Easter Island set.
This is the bulletin cover from our " Open Up and Say Ah" series at Four Corners Church.
It is our quest each time we create artwork for a new series to do something we haven't before and this is a perfect example. This cover is truly the advantage of having creative collaboration. We had come up with and shot a series of photos for the cover (see an example HERE) but Wiseacre had this idea swimming in his head. We had talked about it in brainstorming but dismissed it as too gruesome.
He did this image as an experiment but as the staff and I looked at it more, it embodied exactly what we wanted to say. We were about to move into a series on the book of James and the dangers of the mouth...capable of great good and evil. On this week we are looking what wisdom is...when do we hold our tongue...when do we speak.
Yes...this is grotesque. Yes...it is dark. But I can't take my eyes off of it and I hope you can't either. I think literary critic Gilbert Muller on Flannery O'Connor explains the rationale behind this cover best :
"...the grotesque does not function gratuitously, but in order to reveal underlying and essentially theological concepts."
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
-George Bernard Shaw
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The Victorious Festival in Southsea has a Park & Ride shuttle bus service from Lakeside, provided by Xelabus, and a campsite shuttle bus service from nearby Farlington, provided by Stagecoach.
On Sunday 30th August 2026, we popped down to see what was operating from Farlington and were pleasantly surprised to see a mixture of buses and liveries. Portsmouth, Aldershot, Andover and Winchester depots had supplied deckers which were supplemented by a batch of former Aldershot-based Golds still in route 1 (Aldershot-Camberley) livery.
Livery wise it was a mix of beachball, local and very dark blue with Aldershot's poppy bus adding a splash of colour.
Happy new year to all my Flickr friends, 2024 is a great year for me to remember for a lot different reasons family wise and political reasons in the world! I just wish everyone be happy healthy life ahead of coming 2025! Peace ✌️!
The four monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. Sometimes there is a fourth monkey depicted with the three others; the last one, Shizaru, symbolizes the principle of "do no evil". He has shown crossing his arms.
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I liked the way the light caught this horse's face as he turned his head away. Cropped down drastically from a much wider shot, I'm quite pleased with the way it's turned out. Did a colour version too, but really like it in monochrome.
Biography: Ozeline Pearson Wise was the first Black woman to be employed in the banking department of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She grew up in Michigan and Massachusetts, graduating from high school in Cambridge, Mass. With the death of her father before she began college, she sought employment in the postal service. Despite a high score on the civil service examination, she was not hired and began to work at various clerical jobs. During World War II, she worked for the U.S. Navy in both ship fittings and personnel. She was then employed for 20 years by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1963, after the death of her husband, John Wise, she went to live in Cambridge with her sister, Satyra Bennett. Very active in St. Paul A.M.E. Church, which her father, the Rev. William B. Pearson, had pastored, she was trustee, Sunday School teacher, and chair of the building fund. Cofounder with her sister, and a charter member of the Citizens' Charitable Health Association, she also worked with Mrs. Bennett in other community organizations. Her contributions to her church were recognized in 1969 and again in 1978.
Description: The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981. With support from the Schlesinger Library, the project recorded a cross section of women who had made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century. Photograph taken by Judith Sedwick
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Black Women Oral History Project
Research Guide: guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
Our final day in the lakes and a more modest and flatter walk (less that 2500ft total ascent). This is Wise Een Tarn near Sawrey and Windermere.
(EXPLORE) Back to the Parrot Refuge in Coombs, B.C. for today's post......this older fellow was one of the first to greet me and had loads of personality. You can see he's looking a little worn around the edges but you barely noticed that with his sunny disposition.
I hope the response from Black Day Sunday opened some eyes and ears at flickr.....I think many of the old & wise members voiced their concerns very well. This site should not cater to just the new and young "followers", this is a community for all ages.
I have been checking an owl nest lately to see if the babies would show themselves. I finally saw them tonight but couldn't get any good shots - so I thought I would post a picture of the male.
[...] Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something [...]
-- Quote by Plato
Nikon D200, Samyang 8mm, f/3.5 fisheye, 8mm - f/3.5 - 1/20s
Vatican City (October, 2019)
Having grown up in the South (southern United States), it took a southern writer like Flannery O'Connor to peel the scales from my eyes. She showed me a different vision of spirituality and American belief. Although there are stand alone versions of Wise Blood, the one I read was in this edition, 3 By Flannery O'Connor.