tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46310406179002084732024-03-13T14:46:35.810+02:00Dr Awsom - CorfuAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-50494858787479493702010-12-29T14:30:00.000+02:002017-11-19T13:42:25.428+02:00A late christmas story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whereupon Joseph turned from his cornflakes saying "Get outa here - haven't you got a miracle at 9.30?" Muttering into his beard, Joseph said "<i>Jesus!</i> Precocious brat! Thinks he knows when he was born already"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Leave him alone whispered Mary, he is a smart lad and is going places - no thanks unto you may I add.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-38211063867862173362010-12-26T08:48:00.002+02:002012-11-30T14:03:02.288+02:00Be Happy Friends<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Never mind bad pennies - some old bloggers are liable to turn up when you least expect them too. You have been travelling - some to exotic bits of America, some to Greece. Some of you have been invaded by family, others not. Some of you have been wondering what the hell it's all about, some not (who's perfect?). Some of you have come out and started using your real name. Oh yes, I have been watching from the sunny shadows of the Corfu Hovel, but next year they promise me 4 times the bandwidth, or whatever it's called, and so I'm sure to be back interfering generally and being polite to the wealthy ones among you - just in case. Some of you have been throwing clutter out of your lives. </span><br />
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I<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">n October 10 days in Brighton,England were generously spent immortalising my daughters and grand-daughter. I can see Biba getting herself No2 clipper jobs when she is old enough to take matters into her own hands. How we suffer for art. In my case it was having to develop film in nasty wet chemicals for exactly the right time at the exact temperature. And as for black&white printing - you (probably) have no idea of the anguish involved. I'm not kidding - very very few photographers could print properly, even for the inflated prices we charged. Ask me about it.</span><br />
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Yesterday a nice Greek lady from the village braved the elements, and the old floorboards of the Hovel, to bring me a serving of Turkey with prune sauce, and trad. Greek sweets. Wonderful, I forgot to buy anything to eat when I went to the supermarket on Christmas eve. If milk, Weetabix, instant coffee for cold shakes, bread (or flour), and Greek semi-hard cheese, are in stock I am content. Of course that's not all I eat, and last month was the first time for about 14 years when 40cm. (waist) trousers were required to accommodate my expansion.<br />
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<div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"While the poorest will be hardest hit by austerity, today's announcement on child benefit shows no-one is immune from the government's unwarranted rush to cut," said (U.K.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="clear: left; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"This is a big blow to the principle that has served Britain well for decades that welfare should be available to all, not just the poorest."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">From <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11464300"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">BBC news,</span></a> this little quote shows you how well trained by the wealthy Mr Barber actually is. It has NOT served 'Britain' well Mr Barber, it has served the better off well, who have been pleased enough to take benefit they did not need from those who did, particularly the disabled, old, and otherwise unemployable.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="quote-credit" style="clear: both; display: block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">I watched several videos of this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOyQBSMeIhM"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">cheese-rolling</span></a> madness and was upset to see young people apparently injured, whether they chose to take the risk or not. This event, however, is not a sport - it was not enlightening to watch - no athletes were being created, just a few young people crippled perhaps.</span></span><span class="quote-credit" style="clear: both; display: block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
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</b></span></span></h2><div class="date-posts" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-indent: 10px;"><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> Life? No mystery</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">A simple slate like lapis lazuli can gleam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">And in this river find deceitful stones<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">That hide their sparkle from a duller glance,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">But make the eyes of others shine with lust<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Of riches for the one who hones<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">This glassy rock to its refractive best.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">But I digressed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">The wonder of a diamond stems<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">From qualities discovered at the hand of man;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">While nature had, so many eons past<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Pressed humble carbon into service as a jewel-to-be, </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">it took a jeweler to add the essential polish <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The question that I really want to ask</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">is do you feel the need to ascribe nature’s hardest creation to a supernatural power? Nobody has ever told you to believe that beautiful pebbles in a stream or on the beach prove intelligent design, have they?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And does the simple worm that moves only to eat and procreate speak of a ‘maker’ just because it is more complex than a stone? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Where is the design here? Molecules exist because atoms can combine according to strict rules – and do so whenever they meet </span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">because they must.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Even under conditions of heat and pressure where life cannot exist, complex molecules can replicate, and do so </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">because they must. </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">These replicating molecules can organize themselves into ‘simple’ forms that can move and take stuff from their environment – which they do, </span></span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">because they are able.</span></span></span></i></b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">But the mechanisms within continue to operate because they must.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Fishes skipped on the mud and gills slowly changed to lungs – a whole new world rose from the water’s edge to be explored and exploited. Wonderful changes took place because they could. Forms changed slowly as small errors crept into the processes of replication. Particles <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">from space bombard us still and can make changes to the elementary atoms involved in DNA – the instructions for replication. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">To a very simple creature a simple change meant success or failure in the competition for resources, in the ability to recreate. The changed forms flourished because they were better, and nothing could stop them. For a while anyway.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> As creatures became very complex tiny changes had tiny effects, but over millions of years the complexities grew, and not for one second in the time it took dumb animals to evolve into even dumber humans (humorous episode) </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">was there a need</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> for an outside ‘designer’ to make something from nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
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</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">My mother was a devout believer, and I respect the human need to fill in the gaps of understanding, and to praise </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">something </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">for the wonder of life (when it is wonderful) and beauty of nature (when it is beautiful). </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;">Carol said...<br />
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I want to thank you for the compliment about being faithful to God. And there can be a God for all, maybe we call Him by different names but he is all and for us believers it means that we love and trust. Even sometimes when we do not agree, because God created us and all and gave us differnt thoughts. Some good and some bad, that's up to us. By the way love the poem.May 27, 2010 6:01 AM</span></span></span></span><br />
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Thank you for responding Carol, there is, it seems to me, great humility in believing god gave us our thoughts, but then you say what we think is up to us! Can both be true?<br />
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I think what unites us both is the desire to know the answers. For me, nature created the terrible diseases that infect children (for example) because nature is not given choices. You could say physical laws are god - but this god has no choices either!<br />
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Your god seems to be different - it/he/she created diseases that blind and maim children from choice, and can even cure them if they pray correctly. Am I wrong Carol? His 'mysterious ways' are not an answer for me. If I believed in god I would hate him for doing this. Are not little babies innocent?<br />
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I believe many things Carol, but take pleasure in being proved wrong, if this is a step towards a better truth. My beliefs are in my head - nature and truth are outside my head, living independently (lucky things!) Go well, and be happy, BobMay 31, 2010 1:40 AM </span></span></span></span></div><div class="post-outer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Jen said...<br />
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Wow Bob, I am so tempted to argue with you (respectfully) but will refrain (mostly) because I do not have the time to do so in a quality way, so I would lose. :-)<br />
Will just content myself with saying a few things ...<br />
-You have only described HOW molecules exist, not WHY. The fact that atoms have these attractions and repulsions is a quality of theirs, not what caused them. It is an important detail of how the physical universe operates, not the reason for the physical universe. It seems to me that in the sciences, we are often told we will receive an explanation, when all we really get is a description.<br />
-The Christian explanation for the universe is a complex one. The Bible teaches that we live in a world that was created completely good, but is now fallen, ruined, and so contains much pain. It's tempting to say, "But if God exists, that means He created either evil beings, or beings capable of becoming evil, so isn't that exactly the same as if He'd created sickness and pain Himself?" The answer is, No. It's complex. It all goes back to the mystery of free will. God is somehow able to create beings outside of Himself, who can take real actions that have real consequences, which left to Himself He would not have chosen, DESPITE that He knew what they were going to do beforehand. No, I don't understand that. It's reality. It's too complex to understand.<br />
-About the form. I like the parts that scan and rhyme. The transition from poetry to prose was smooth (I thought). It's also appropriate that the poem leads you to contemplate beauty, but the prose sticks to the argument. However, it seems to me you have a lot more prose than poetry. If you want the form to be perfect, shouldn't it move back and forth more?July 14, 2010 8:03 PM </span></span></span></span></div><div class="post-outer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;">Jinksy sai</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;">d...<br />
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Wish I'd come in at the start of this arguement... LOL :)August 28, 2010 11:13 AM </span></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-22987420667120546312010-09-21T01:37:00.002+03:002010-09-21T01:44:47.147+03:00Porgy and Bessie's page.<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">A few pictures for </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2122157796"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;">Caren</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;"><a href="http://opcatchat.blogspot.com/2010/09/be-change-adopt-less-adoptable-pet-week.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"> at Cat Chat</span></a>, some may have appeared before,</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">but to save scrolling -</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TJdd3aP2yDI/AAAAAAAABSU/ANoYPdmfYQI/s1600/Bess+biting+her+tail++1109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="460" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TJdd3aP2yDI/AAAAAAAABSU/ANoYPdmfYQI/s640/Bess+biting+her+tail++1109.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Bess in a box</span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">Porgy (Piggy) and Bess were sisters, and Socrates is Piggy's daughter. Socs is a survivor. She fell from her mother's jaws about 12 feet onto a wooden floor when a mere handful, and suffered possible brain-damage. She was rejected by her tiny sister and Mum for a while and was given to walking in circles. She got better, started to feed again, but from then she never wanted to be touched or picked up, almost never purrs or makes eye contact, but follows me up and down the stairs whenever she is around. A year later she lost her tail under the wheels of a car - well, it was damaged, it went black, got maggoty despite all the creams, and one day it disappeared except for the little black tuft at the end, which I found on the door step. The tail didn't fall off.</span></span><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">I'm so very tired</span></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Technical note. Taken on an Olympus, at least 5 years old, these shots were actually in need of very little editing, and by chance little cropping. Every digital image from cameras of this vintage need sharpening, but more importantly, the ISO setting should be 400 or 800, standard, if the camera will allow, and the shutter speed should be 1000th sec. minimum if you like sharp pictures. (especially using maximum zoom).</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Older and simpler cameras cannot deal with high lighting contrasts, especially in close-ups. In the shot 'Gotcher' all detail is lost in the background, but it did not matter because lighting on the subjects was soft. A camera on auto exposure would have been dazzled by the background, and Porgy&Bess would have come out as silhouettes - editing 'levels' (brightness) later would not have worked very well.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">I heard the legal reasons given by an honest man why THAT new centre of the Muslim faith could be allowed to occupy a plot so near Ground Zero. The Law is worse than an ass, but it has some powerful friends.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">In fact my feelings go much deeper. If Law can grind the insult of religion, disguised as Culture, in the face of thinking people, it does the work of the bombers for them. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The rich man's puppet is thankfully gone, but when will poor Americans get the strong leader it needs to throw all religious 'leaders' out of office and back into church where they belong? And when they set up 'office' in their churches and mosques; use their 'charisma' and money to manipulate their followers to a political agenda, why cannot the elected government just shut them up! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Controlling these perverted sociopaths, these priests and imams, is not suppressing religious belief, it is controlling dictatorship by 'faith'. It is not suppressing freedom of speech; they have no freedom to break the law, and speech which can incite 'believers' to violence is against the law. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Some people need their faith and their gods, and can have special houses to worship them in. Why not, they do no harm and most of them want peace for their families and give respect to their leaders. It is the big leaders of warring religions who want to fight each other to the death (not THEIR death of course), and have learnt over centuries how to co-operate with dictators looking to acquire land and power' Don't believe me, just read history.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">EARTH has not anything to show more fair:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Dull would he be of soul who could pass by<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">A sight so touching in its majesty:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">This City now doth, like a garment, wear<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Open unto the fields, and to the sky;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">All bright and glittering in the smokeless air,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">For taxies have a century to appear.</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Never did sun more beautifully steep<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The river glideth at his own sweet will:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">And all that mighty heart is lying still!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Over the years I have read couplets with the regularity of clockwork in their rhymes, but with all rhythm lost in the effort to ‘fit in’ the rhyme. Perhaps this is the saddest of all amateur errors, and so often too, the chosen word sticks out like a sore thumb – it’s there because it rhymes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">The journey through long decades and grim doubts</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">has brought the love-torn poet to this door.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">And at the bell a trembling finger waits</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">and wonders. Will obedience to her call</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">reap the reward of <a href="http://willowmanor.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">welcome to this house</span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">of symmetry and light?</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-52755131228985726652010-08-26T01:20:00.002+03:002010-08-26T16:42:50.888+03:00Αγιοσ(Head in a bag) Σπυριδον, Corfu 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/THWDNdd6YFI/AAAAAAAABN0/KfAKoJktw9E/s1600/Walking+through+old+market+810.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/THWDNdd6YFI/AAAAAAAABN0/KfAKoJktw9E/s1600/Walking+through+old+market+810.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Every August the Orthodox church organises a parade, the centrepiece of which is the head of Saint Spiridon - discretely shielded from the hot sun and admiring gaze of the faithful inside a bag. I know I should research this properly, but meanwhile a few pictures will have to do.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">We are there. A Greek lady is introducing herself to Marik and Aimel, and going on about the time-wasters - the bands and their music which has nothing to do with heads in bags. "Bring on the priests" she is shouting (in the next picture)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">The Euphonium player was resting. I want to say that the standard of playing was really good, I was enjoying this, but having to be a bit strict with people who come at the last minute and stand right in front of you. Well, they try - I did not go to photographic college just to learn about f stops and hyperfocal distances and such......</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">See the people behind? The priests are coming with the thing we have all been waiting for - Saint Spiridon's head in a bag! Will I be up to the challenge of depicting this holy relic with appropriate reverence and so on?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">ALT! oo goes there then? Well, we left the square, and we are on the way to find a cafe for a nice iced coffee. Did you like that? I am coming again next year - I don't ged out much you know. On the mainland we tended to get a bit spoiled when it came to traditional parades and 'festivals' (Panayeria) which are not tarted up for tourists. Even if the country towns and villages don't get the best relics, they have the best atmosphere. If I live long enough I shall revisit, and then you'll see some pictures. Oh! did I forget? Don't seem to have got a picture of the head in a bag, now how did that happen? I know you are disappointed and I have asked Marik to send me one if she can. Come again soon.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-26451325489224568602010-08-06T18:56:00.003+03:002010-08-26T01:31:45.420+03:00Our Minds are Many<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TFwwx4H6ZOI/AAAAAAAABLw/IbsqDzavYvc/s1600/Corfu+sky+portrait++109.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TFwwx4H6ZOI/AAAAAAAABLw/IbsqDzavYvc/s400/Corfu+sky+portrait++109.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Our minds are many</span></span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and they live and die</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">like clouds that chase</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">their shadows in the sky.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Or like a hive</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">of loyal bees that weave</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">their pathways</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">through a cold grey dawn;</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">return and dance</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">a royal turn to sign</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">their findings at the throne</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">with sure but innocent design.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Our minds are many</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">not a single vault</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">of vintage wines</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">maturing by default.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">More like a cave</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">with one eye to the light</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and creatures happy</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">to be out of sight.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Our minds are many,</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">like a driven storm</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">of swallows,</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">free within their given form.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Our minds are many,</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and we are not wise</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">to heed alone</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">the one behind our eyes.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span></a></span></div></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-34383859655449895852010-08-03T20:25:00.001+03:002010-08-03T20:51:48.227+03:00The Brighton Belles<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TFhRMfQZEjI/AAAAAAAABKw/d-nzMSD_MWE/s1600/Biba,+Aunt+Penny,+and+---.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TFhRMfQZEjI/AAAAAAAABKw/d-nzMSD_MWE/s400/Biba,+Aunt+Penny,+and+---.JPG" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TFhRMfQZEjI/AAAAAAAABKw/d-nzMSD_MWE/s1600/Biba,+Aunt+Penny,+and+---.JPG"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Now, shall I file this in 'Calloutcats' or 'portraits' Not that I took the picture of course. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">And not that I am in the mood to post, having lost one of the senior cats - probably to poison. Porgy and Bess were inseperable, and now Bess is no more. She had all the injections and a glucose drip, and it was a peaceful passing, but the hole will be felt for years to come by me. When she was ill but still sitting up, Piggy saw her from across the room, stared for half a minute and ran away. Socs, also family, came across her outside - spat and also ran away. She was no longer Aunt Bess. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">They feel, but they do not know. Our relationship with these loving creatures is distorted by 'knowing' things. I trust my emotions, and let them be what they are,even if they are criticized for being 'too strong'. Perhaps love expands to fill a vacuum. I have been fussing around the remaining six of the cat family, and will have to confine them to house and small garden, building perches and hideaways as required. To be continued </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;">One evening a month or so ago, just as twilight was greeting the Corfu night, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;">and my spitit was suskeptical to magic and mystery, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;">I ventured out to count the kitties. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;"> It had rained a little in the morning, but the day had been dry. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;"> Can you imagine my excitement on noticing marks in the dirt </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;">that formed an almost perfect circle.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was not the creation of a human agency</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">not even a tourist agency, because my yard is not mentioned</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in any guides to the island.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hurried in for my camera - 800 iso I said to myself, quick.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A professional photographer must be gifted with nerves of steel - </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the light was fading, the marks were drying out, within minutes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had selected 800iso, composed the image, being careful to position the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">histogram to ensure an appropriately exposed image </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that would speak of dusk and mystery, without having to fake the effect</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in Photoshop later.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I did not notice the little witness to my nervous fumblings at that moment -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">well, would you have done? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was going to make a competition for the title of this story - that's why I put 'The........ at the top. But a. I am fresh out of decent prizes, b. I didn't want the losers to feel like...you know, and c. some of you would say I claimed the best entry for myself. So I am going to give you a clue. The title is "The Cr...p Circle" What you have to do is insert a vowel. Good luck.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-22470916453152403502010-07-20T13:34:00.002+03:002010-07-20T13:56:21.841+03:00It's beyond belief<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Just a link to a great post from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><a href="http://thistimethisspace.com/2010/07/19/creativit-in-the-flow/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">timethief</span> </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> My comment lacks the erudition and research of the wonderful TED lecture, but it's sincere at least.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-70742590181413905542010-07-17T12:55:00.001+03:002010-07-17T13:06:27.160+03:00Any questions?<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TEF-FlR9BtI/AAAAAAAABJs/bhy04RCbEaQ/s1600/December+rainbow+1208.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TEF-FlR9BtI/AAAAAAAABJs/bhy04RCbEaQ/s400/December+rainbow+1208.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">This post is the answer. The picture has nothing to do with anything. Unless you think so. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Space</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">as in deep and shallow,</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">can be thought of</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">as what exists between matter,</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">and the two together</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">comprise all that there is.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Except of course for energy,</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">and this moves matter through space.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">That's all. It's just too easy of course</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">even for scientists. And they are clever</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Oh! how I hear the questions</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">scrambling around in your brains</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">like rats in a barrel.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Ideas, love, art, me? above all me. </span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Why am I here? who made me?</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">What happens when I die?</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Scamper,scamper,scratch,scratch.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Ideas then, what about ideas?</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">they're not bits moving about!</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Sorry - that's exactly what they are;</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">when they start you know something,</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">you feel something, you believe something.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">When they stop you forgot something,</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">you stop feeling something.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">If you hear the Cavatina from</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Beethoven's Op.130 quartet</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">for the first time, bits called electrons</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">will either start moving and never ever stop, </span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">or they will not. Try it.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Let nature provide the answers</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">and then ask the questions, if you must.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">My family,friends,music,cats</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">are the answers.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Do they </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">need</span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> questions?</span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-75186276897058194152010-07-15T17:09:00.008+03:002010-07-19T00:10:38.097+03:00Badly gilded rose<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TD8WohlPleI/AAAAAAAABI4/iDqLOfGakC4/s1600/Wild+Roses+(who+wouldn%27t+be)+509.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TD8WohlPleI/AAAAAAAABI4/iDqLOfGakC4/s400/Wild+Roses+(who+wouldn%27t+be)+509.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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Do you still seek</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a bright repose</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that your young heart missed, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/personal-growth-and-life-balance.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">Sweet English Rose</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">And did they paint</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">your petals false</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">to guild your nature</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">from their own designs?</span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-71181055861307845582010-07-14T12:19:00.003+03:002010-07-14T19:59:05.049+03:00<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TD2BDPjG0TI/AAAAAAAABIA/_gnN3lFj0xc/s1600/pink+weeds.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TD2BDPjG0TI/AAAAAAAABIA/_gnN3lFj0xc/s400/pink+weeds.jpg" /></a> </div><br />
<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TD2BDsuz5xI/AAAAAAAABII/0mf_dmouGc0/s1600/Bebe%27s+Rose+in+the+water.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TD2BDsuz5xI/AAAAAAAABII/0mf_dmouGc0/s400/Bebe%27s+Rose+in+the+water.jpg" /></a> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">I found these beautiful images from </span></span><a href="http://un-oceano-entre-vos-y-yo.blogspot.com/2010/06/by-bebitolindo-at-2010-05-20-mi-bebi.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Bebi</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">, and want you to go see the originals. Something happened to the rose in the water, but I liked the effect so much here it is. It is green/blue challenged but rivets my eye to the monitor anyway. Happy days to all my loyal friends from a Corfu almost devoid of visitors. It must try harder.</span></span><br />
<div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-91267616734180870892010-07-13T11:20:00.000+03:002010-07-13T11:20:28.471+03:00<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDwhyz00Y5I/AAAAAAAABHk/QhXL5KhoFwM/s1600/Ipsos+Front+pan+710.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDwhyz00Y5I/AAAAAAAABHk/QhXL5KhoFwM/s400/Ipsos+Front+pan+710.jpg" /></a> </div><br />July evening outside Jossy's Fish'n chip bar. You may notice a tourist or two if you look hard. Numbers down, business for Jossy almost non-existant - time for new menus and promotions, poorer visitors are shopping at the supermarket, eating on the beach or at the hotel. The Hovel is perched on the side of the hill about 6 inches to the left - the silence makes my ears ring. Anybody coming? Dr Awsom can get you a good deal for sure.<div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-54742310546336756862010-07-07T06:20:00.000+03:002010-07-07T06:21:14.341+03:00Corfu sweetness<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDPypBnIXkI/AAAAAAAABHM/mhmm-2wkkf4/s1600/Gotcha++610.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDPypBnIXkI/AAAAAAAABHM/mhmm-2wkkf4/s400/Gotcha++610.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDPypR0p_zI/AAAAAAAABHU/nbUynCETSlU/s1600/Roses+after+storm+610.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDPypR0p_zI/AAAAAAAABHU/nbUynCETSlU/s400/Roses+after+storm+610.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDPyqGTF_MI/AAAAAAAABHc/8m--QnRNrNc/s1600/Saves+on+tissues+-+eh+610+copy.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TDPyqGTF_MI/AAAAAAAABHc/8m--QnRNrNc/s400/Saves+on+tissues+-+eh+610+copy.jpg" /></a> </div><br />I knew bess was going to jump up on the sink, and the clout was no surprise either. Started a new file called 'calloutcats'. Hey, I could go really soft in the head and get the flowers talking to each other as well! So tell me what Mama Rose is saying and I'll fix it - posting with a link to your blog. So you'll get famous - that's all right, I know you'ld do the same for me<div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-6494760507701826432010-06-24T03:21:00.001+03:002010-06-24T03:25:23.713+03:00calloutcats<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TCKlN2757BI/AAAAAAAABGE/bX-gNi3UrRw/s1600/Gimme+a+lick+610.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TCKlN2757BI/AAAAAAAABGE/bX-gNi3UrRw/s400/Gimme+a+lick+610.jpg" /></a> </div><br />
<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TCKlOpIJ79I/AAAAAAAABGM/NXh_4-91BOM/s1600/%CE%A5%CE%B9%CE%B1+%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B3%CE%BF,+%27%CF%81%CE%B5+%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%82+copy+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/TCKlOpIJ79I/AAAAAAAABGM/NXh_4-91BOM/s400/%CE%A5%CE%B9%CE%B1+%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B3%CE%BF,+%27%CF%81%CE%B5+%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%82+copy+copy.jpg" /></a> </div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All my friends post regularly, I am sure they don't have more spare time than me - I must be just a baaad person. Mind you my cats have been acting silly, particularly Molly above. She was sleeping most days in the Castor tree but it has lost most of its leaves with rust and now gives no shelter. I am going to get a proper tree.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Porgy and Bess continue to be an example to us all - friends (sisters) for life, totally adoring, that's why I put horrid words in their mouths whenever possible. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Several weeks off line, me - but I guess America is still America, and the English tories are set to give the poorest and laziest of their supporters a good kicking. Dohh.....</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Not as well-balanced as Dr.A Eh? LOL. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Molly was about to be abandoned by neighbours returning home 5 years ago, so I asked where I could find the red kitten. Up the tree probably they said. New tree, new servant, new life, Molly is content.</span></span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=drawso-20&o=1&p=29&l=ur1&category=gift_certificates&banner=14RFZN99KWC9ZBXB4382&f=ifr" width="120" height="600" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397160420406462291noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631040617900208473.post-67801387325394738112010-05-26T15:23:00.001+03:002010-05-26T15:27:46.202+03:00May blooms, Corfu.<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/S_0TIrwY-II/AAAAAAAABEs/l6r4qiC4LUo/s1600/Prickly+Pears+in+flower+3+510.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/S_0TIrwY-II/AAAAAAAABEs/l6r4qiC4LUo/s400/Prickly+Pears+in+flower+3+510.jpg" /></a> </div><br />
<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/S_0TI4PgLbI/AAAAAAAABE0/-cVvrh8EYPQ/s1600/Prickly+Pears+in+flower+2++db+071++510.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/S_0TI4PgLbI/AAAAAAAABE0/-cVvrh8EYPQ/s400/Prickly+Pears+in+flower+2++db+071++510.jpg" /></a> </div><br />
<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/S_0TJKe_GbI/AAAAAAAABE8/1WJcSwzCzd8/s1600/Passion+flower+5++as+510.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1I78qJP-41s/S_0TJKe_GbI/AAAAAAAABE8/1WJcSwzCzd8/s400/Passion+flower+5++as+510.jpg" /></a> </div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">Yesterday's stroll for flowers to capture and interfere with produced some easy results 'Prickly Pear in flower' and 'Passion Flower 5'. The latter one needs a little work, but the colours are not tampered with. These are dedicated to friend Abraham. Do drop in.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">This one's for </span></span><a href="http://therealtopten.blogspot.com/2010/05/label-me-silly.html?showComment=1274871763398_AIe9_BG4_5QqaWQwcjD3qaEL_G41O99rvjCxJU_TP3LwhbBA1oqbcnO1XS9DUPjztPaU32LO392N2zG5h2iTtc-ZFpuzczTGZSuhTYIUlJwHwfxY0sVgSaTDZsxGXd7hnuZSN7jzZ-QxXyoFCO9ma5QmcX_ICeaU67lcine_32SPWKJq4AqTS-o669qM_Wn7ieRN01KD8ejijDDq6Z"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;">Rachel</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> who deserves reward for her hard work. Who likes being labelled? But its a fact of life and you can either ignore the labellers or make a hobby of editing the labels as much as possible. If, that is, you can afford the luxury of doing anything about yourself or your circumstances.</span></span><br />
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