Tuesday; seed;

The beauty of herbs; Dill from the herb garden.

It is not important to think,  I am right, it is more important  to do right. Ts

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Monday; beauty;

The beauty of a Palm leaf;

 41 Mondays since January 2013.
They come and go, no haste no slowing down, the Metronome is  beating time.
Have a nice week.


©Photo my garden/Text/ Ts Titania-Everyday.

Monday; fantasy;

Fabrizia, I love her fantasy and her wit. Here, sometime in September, simple games with stones, she made up for us to play.

Children who can grow up with lots of love, a carefree, happy childhood, I don't mean spoilt and pampered, can and will contribute so much later in adulthood. 

One more of her fantasies, made into a booklet,  I found tucked in a cookbook; It reads;

 Dear reader, you have steped into a magical word of creatures.

and magic

you will see a vision of diffrent things. Over the past years this book was my life. And you will never see the world the same ever again.

©Photos Titania-Everyday

Saturday; praise;

It seems to be rather  unpoetical and unimportant to sing the praise of onions. Not at all are they ordinary, when they grow in tidy rows of purple and white with fresh  tubular green leaves, sweet and waiting to grace any salad to give it zest, taste and health.

The truth is I love onions in my cooking. Not the old, self peeling, bitter monsters laying in untidy heaps at the green grocer's, which make your eyes burn and  cry bitter tears over them...
 To prove this tale and song of the fresh garden onion...look at these beautiful, . purple, spanish  onions, fresh and appetizing. Ah, such a pleasure to go up into the kitchen garden and get one, fresher is not possible.

 here the purple..

..here the white ones..

...and here. Aren't they worth a bit of poetry?

What are onions good for?

The total polyphenol content of onions is much higher than many people expect. (Polyphenols are one of the largest categories of phytonutrients in food. This category includes all flavonoids as well as tannins.) The total polyphenol content of onion is not only higher than its fellow allium vegetables, garlic and leeks, but also higher than tomatoes, carrots, and  red capsicums.

Within the polyphenol category, onions are also surprisingly high in flavonoids. For example, onions rank in the top 10 of commonly eaten vegetables in their quercetin content. The flavonoid content of onions can vary widely, depending on the exact variety, growing conditions and freshness. 

When we get quercetin by eating an onion-rather than consuming the quercetin in purified, supplement form-we may end up getting better protection from oxidative stress.  In studies, the best protection came from the onion version of this flavonoid, rather than the supplement form.

With their unique combination of flavonoids and sulfur-containing nutrients, the allium vegetables—such as onions—belong in your diet on a regular basis. There's research evidence for including at least one serving of an allium vegetable—such as onions—in your meal plan every day.

Text/Photos my garden; Ts

Friday; Viva;

La Prima Donna;

 Fantastic, colourful Mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartoli

Viva Vivaldi;

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning." - Plato

Wednesday; Wonderful Leonard;

The best of man

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.

Greetings from Noosa;

Lunch on the terrace;

©Photos/Ts

Tuesday; the little prince;

Rose, you are the most beautiful. You are not  empty, as the little Prince said, your scent is alluring, warm and lingering, always more then you  want to give.  You welcome sunshine and rain  on your dark red silk,  raindrops like tears attracting all the smiles you can get. Are you boasting or complaining, no I think the little Prince is sometimes a little superficial in his judgement, because he thinks he owns you. No one owns You,  You  are so quiet, your beauty taken as it  fades.

©Photo/Changed Text/ Ts Titania Everyday

Photo/Rose my garden.

The Little Prince

Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince, first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 

Monday, bookshelf;

The Bookman's Tale, a book to keep, to read again.

The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession: Charlie Lovett ...

Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalising mysteries. 

I enjoyed  to read this book.

Sunday; trust;

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Barack Obama

Very true, Mister Obama, is this a satire, or are you the best actor in the white house? Ts

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

Robert Mugabe

Bad, Mister Robert Mugabe, you must talk from experience, but then you are a black man and your history tells, you can't be trusted either.  That makes two! Ts

I trust no one, not even myself.

Joseph Stalin

Bad, Mister Joseph Stalin, glad you have expired, you were one of the worst not to be trusted.

Unfortunately, I must say, there are still plenty of people like you around, as bad as you were, but with time they will expire too and will be history like you. Not remembered with gratitude but with disgust. Ts 

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Horace

Horace, you were the leading Roman lyric poet during Augustu’s time.  You were born 65 BC

an awful long time ago. You know the world has changed a lot but not the people, they are still the same.

So,  I accept, carpe diem and do not trust tomorrow, you knew exactly why you said it. Ts

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron,  you were a romantic, a fine poet. You  travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere you as a national hero. You died young at age 36.

You were the  most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics,  actually 

you were selfish and a spoilt brat, no more to say. Ts

©Photo/Text/ Ts/Titania Everyday

Sepia Saturday 194, flags;

The Australian Aboriginal Flag is a flag that represents Indigenous Australians. 

It is one of the official "Flags of Australia", and holds special legal and political status, but it is not the "Australian National Flag". It was designed in 1971 by Aboriginal artist Harold Thomas, who is descended from the Luritja people of Central Australia and holds intellectual property rights in the flag's design. The flag was originally designed for the land rights movement, and it became a symbol of the Aboriginal people of Australia.

The symbolic meaning of the flag colours

Black: Represents the Aboriginal people of Australia

Red: Represents the red earth, the red ochre and a spiritual relation to the land

Yellow: Represents the Sun, the giver of life and protector

The flag was first flown on National Aborigines' Day in Victoria Square in Adelaide on 12 July .

The decision in 1995 by Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags should be given the status of national flags was opposed by the Liberal Opposition at the time, Opposition Leader John Howard stating that "any attempt to give the flags official status under the Flags Act would rightly be seen by many in the community not as an act of reconciliation but as a divisive gesture".

Nonetheless, since Howard became Prime Minister in 1996 and under subsequent Labor governments, these flags have remained national flags.

The National Indigenous Advisory Committee campaigned for the Aboriginal flag to be flown at Stadium Australia during the 2000 Summer Olympics.

 SOCOG announced that the Aboriginal flag would be flown at Olympic venues. The flag was flown over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the march for reconciliation of 2000, and many other events.

On the 30th anniversary of the flag in 2001, thousands of people were involved in a ceremony where the flag was carried from the Parliament of South Australia to Victoria Square. 

Since 8 July 2002, after recommendations of the Council's Reconciliation Committee, the Aboriginal Flag has been permanently flown in Victoria Square and the front of the Town Hall.

 I would like to see this flag flying for all Australians.

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Friday; this is spring;

Dendrobium Orchid

Wisteria

Heartsease (Viola tricolor) springs up everywhere from seed.

© Photos Ts My Garden.

Tuesday; found;

Walking down to the mailbox I found this tiny odd coloured Nasturtium bloom,  smaller than the usual flowers of the Nasturtium plant. Intriguingly it was flowering and growing  lonesome in  a tangle of  rough
grass.  A small freak of nature's bounty, quite cute its tiny different coloured petals.

©Photo/Text Ts

Sunday; beautiful weeds;

Do not tell me this is not absolutely beautiful!

A weed is a plant a flower... seed

In my wild garden Ageratum makes a blue carpet, food for many insects.

I can not say they are unloved.

I do not mind weeding; on the knees one gets very close to the soil. It feels a bit like being part of it.

A tiny bug with big feelers scuttles quickly out of the way, I hear myself talking to it;  I wonder what Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis would be...seriously!

©Photos my garden/Text Ts

Sepia Saturday 192; Jazz;

The prompt his week is Jazz; my all time favourite, Louis Armstrong. He is unforgettable!

La vie en rose;

Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Born: August 4, 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Died: July 6, 1971, Corona, New York City, New York, United States

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Monday; amazing;

Abandoned House in the Woods Taken Over by Wild Animals

Finnish photographer Kai Fagerström presents unique photo series, where he captures wild animals making themselves comfortable in abandoned houses in the woods of Finland. Titled The House in the Woods, the photo series is set in cottages near Kai’s summer house, which were abandoned by their tenants after the owner of the place died in a fire. Award-winning photographer noticed how the place was slowly being reclaimed by the nature, and what started as a few snapshots, ended up being a book, published in Finnish, German, and English.

Just delightful!

http://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-house-animals-kai-fagerstrom/

Thursday; glam for the kitchen;

I had this antique chandelier  for more then 50 years. It has been packed up in a box for many years. The electrical cables  had all deteriorated and had to be replaced. I cleaned all the crystal prisms, which have a slight lavender tinge. It is quite beautiful in its simplicity. Along the cooking area I have strong led lights on the ceiling.

My kitchen is very simple, no gleaming cupboards and the latest self opening drawers and shelves! I like my kitchen it is compact, contains everything I need and easy to keep clean. I like it a lot because I love...

cooking...using vegetables in brilliant colours from my garden, picking fresh herbs  and enjoying for a moment  the sight and scents of the herb garden.

I opted for open shelves, as I like the look of it. In my mothers kitchen was a big open shelf, which contained her crockery and always a bunch of flowers.

Memories of the farm animals;

In my view the kitchen is the most important place in the home. Good food is essential  in our life. In the home kitchen, culinary cooking traditions continue,  health and contentment of the family has its roots.

©Photos/Text Ts

Monday; vintage;

The correct usage of the word vintage must be used with a year.

So in common use, the undated term describes something that is old enough to be in fashion again.

These hand embroidered small towels are vintage between 1940 and 1950.

They are all in very good  condition. On a couple are tiny blemishes from age. To me this does not matter it adds to their charm.

 I love the idea that someone has taken the time to produce small every day items of beauty. I use them as placemats, randomly never the same colours together. They add old world chic to a table setting.

Beautifully hand embroidered, appliqué technic and crochet border.

White and yellow embroidered and crochet.

A French armoire with home linens arranged in a traditional manner, 

with embroidered dust covers over the shelves.

The first known household linens were made from thin yarn spun from flax fibres to make linen cloth. 

Ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Phoenicia all cultivated flax crops. The earliest surviving fragments of linen cloth have been found in Egyptian tombs and date to 4000 BCE. Flax fibres have been found in cloth fragments in Europe that date to the Neolithic prehistoric age.

Cotton is another popular fiber for making  household linens. Its use in cloth-making  dates back to prehistoric times, in India, China, Peru and Egypt.

 India was  well known for high quality cotton cloth as early as 1500 BC. Linen was an especially popular cloth during the Middle Ages in Europe, and the tradition of calling household fabric goods "linens" dates from this period.

 According to Medieval tradition, which survived up until the modern era, a bride would often be given a gift of linens made by the women in her family as a wedding present, to help her set up her new married home.

 In France this was called a trousseau, and was often presented to the bride in a wooden hope chest.

The Industrial Revolution brought changes to cloth manufacturing. The rise of European colonialism at the same time helped support the rapid growth of cloth production by creating many cheap sources of raw materials. 

British cloth manufacturers would import raw cotton from America and the British West Indies to Ireland, where it would be spun into yarn. The yarn would be imported into England, where mechanized factories employed thousands of workers, who would weave cloth on industrial looms. In 1781, a cloth producer from Manchester testified about his business to a committee of the House of Commons in the British Parliament. He stated that he employed 6000 workers, who would print and stamp 60,000 yards of cotton and linen fabric a year. Other European countries manufactured and traded their own types of household linens as well, and mass manufacturing techniques and trade competition gradually made affordable household linens common.

©Photos/Text Ts

Some excerpts courtesy Wikipedia