For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.
What a Dose of Dizziness Does
For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.
Water
Thursday Thoughts – By the Sea
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
We all needed a break, so we went to the west coast for a day. To walk by the sea. To sit in the fresh breeze. To wash away November mood.
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
― William James
Stay Safely Afloat and Keep Smiling
For Debbie and Six Word Saturday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #95 – All Wet
Tina’s challenge this week is a wet one. See her fantastic bear shots at Travels and Trifles!
My first thought for All Wet, was of Galapagos and its many water living animals. So, two of them are playing in the opener.
These are some of my favorite ”wets” – all from the archives.
A wet forest in Sweden
A hot hot day (42 degrees C) in Bilbao, Spain
A disappearing building in Barcelona
Autumn rain in my garden
I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you’re going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.
And I will end this short, wet story with my favorite dog, my first lagotto romagnolo – the legendary Mille. Why ”legendary”? Well, for eleven summers in a row, he was standing, running or walking in the sea, at our summer house, from early morning until late evening. Chasing bubbles. This was his kingdom. (From the beginning these dogs were water dogs in Romagna, Italy, but the area was drained and the dogs were taught to dig for truffles instead.) Every man and woman in our little village knew him, every tourist, every child patted him and played with him.
We lost Mille in 2014, but people out there still (2019) remember him, and tell their own memories of him. My children planned to make a statue to sit on ”his” beach, so he would forever be watching the sea. But that dream was not realized. I have had many dogs and cats in my life – but nothing and no one compares to him. Also, he was always All Wet.
Thank you for last week’s peeks at Amy’s At home – a challenged I think more than I enjoyed very much. Hope to see you next week again, for Patti’s Challenge #96.
Wordless Wednesday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #89 – A River Runs Through It
I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow. – George Harrison
This is what we must do today – this is not the time for travel. So, from the archives – images from Iceland, New Zealand, Sweden, Scotland, Norway and Georgia. May the rivers keep flowing and the waters never go dry.
A winter message from the river: Never surrender! Life can try to stop you, but somehow find a way to flow!
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The river teaches us many things, but its most important teaching is this: Whatever is happening around you, you keep flowing to your own destination following your own way!
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If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone. – Chen Guangbiao
It is from small streams that big rivers rise.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. – Heraclitus
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. – Mikhail Lermontov
Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.
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Thanks to Amy for this week’s challenge. Click here to see and link to her original post, and remember to use the Lens-Artists tag. Thank you also for all your creative, interesting and heartfelt responses to last week’s CHAOS challenge. In these troubled times, please practice Social Distancing to protect yourselves and others from the continuing spread of COVID-19. Stay safe.
Next week, Tina (Travels and Trifles) will be your host.
Winter Solstice
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Coast
For Frank this week – Coast.
In the header – Spain, north west coast.
Ostia Antica, Italy
Scotland
Off the coast of Ecuador, Galapagos
Sweden
Iceland
Friendly Friday – Blue
Amanda ask us for a portrait of Blue. Blue is not my favorite colour to wear, but in Nature it is Green and Blue for me. And the image had to come from Iceland this summer.
The ‘Friendly Friday Photo Challenge’ is launched every second Friday here at:
Something to Ponder About, and every other Friday at: The Snow Melts Somewhere.
Thursday Thoughts – Vatasafn/Library of Water
Vatasafn, Stykkishólmur, Snaefellsnes peninsula. This Library of Water, by Roni Horn, opened in 2007 – a constellation of 24 glass columns containing water from some of the major glaciers around Iceland.
In fact, the first attempts to methodically record meteorological conditions in Iceland started exactly here in the mid – 19th century.
The glass columns refract and reflect the light onto a rubber floor with words in Icelandic and English which relate to the weather. ”You are the weather”, Horn says .
The New York born artist has visited Iceland many times since the mid – 70s, and knows that weather is the prime force in Iceland. Weather often changes mood and personality – good or tough for the residents – but also an important thing to be well prepared for when you visit.
This installation is housed in a pavilion on top of a hill, with spellbinding views of the harbour as well as the surrounding landscape and seascape. I found the Library offers a serene and silent space for private reflection. I easily stayed for more than an hour, alone, but would have loved to come here often.
Weather is a metaphor for the atmosphere of the world; weather is a metaphor for the atmosphere of ones life; weather is a metaphor for the physical, metaphysical, political, social, and moral energy of a person and a place.
– Roni Horn
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