Dear friends
It has been a fantastic few weeks, mostly in old haunts. The photos I have uploaded so far don’t really reflect how I spent my time, but they will show you some places I visited and really enjoyed. There are captions on some of them. ~ ~ ~ Not shown in the photos … my time made me reflect very much on illness, death and how fragile life is for some people. Three of those I was with are ailing, and I have known them all or most of my life. I do feel well rested though, and have had a very “human” holiday. Now back to feeding this beast, I suppose, but nah! I will not let it rule me! Or at the very least I will cut back on blogs that don’t really “speak” to me, or those with which/whom I feel little connection.
If we don’t set some limits it all just becomes a mush, eh? Jude
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A sampling of photographers and artists I follow in Flickr — click through to see more of their work
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Cloggo, standing before these scenes, would ponder their workings and fill in the details from the past; whereas I marvel at how time and nature have claimed them since they were abandoned. There is no RIGHT way of looking at them, of course, although his is certainly more informative.
The above are abandoned machinery at the Cocking Limeworks in England while below is one from a set of 117 impressions of a hospital complex in Berlin.
Beelitz-Heilstatten was built in 1898 and used during both world wars.
Polanski filmed parts of his movie The Pianist there.
All photos by Howzey, in Flickr
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Thursday a week ago, my friend Cat and I had a Red Panda Day.
They were absolutely beautiful and little gentlemen the way they took the food. If a piece of pear was too big for their mouths they’d take a bit and hold the rest in a paw upturned to keep it off the ground — I don’t think I’ve ever seen cleaner and healthier-looking animals. We went to the adjoining enclosure after that and had some one on one with their son, Sir Ed (named after my hero Sir Edmund Hillary, since they are from Nepal). After that we went and fed a giraffe, watched the sun bears cavorting, met a one-legged kiwi (victim of an animal trap), oohed and ahhed at various other creatures, and completed the day with drinks with old workmates and dinner at a restaurant famous for its seafood dishes and Belgian beer. Being on holiday is such a bitch — only a couple more weeks to go, thank goodness.
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Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland and the aurora
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orvaratli/
Excuse me for going nuts on this photographer — Orvar Atli Thorgeirsson.
His main subjects are that volcano that stopped flights in Europe, the aurora
and other nightscapes in Iceland These are in Flickr but you can also see them at Photobase
Excuse me for going nuts on this photographer — Orvar Atli Thorgeirsson.
His main subjects are that volcano that stopped flights in Europe, the aurora
and other nightscapes in Iceland These are in Flickr but you can also see them at Photobase
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