Wednesday; famous...

Chester E. Macduffee,  his newly patented, 250 kilo diving suit, 1911.

It must have been scary to dive in this monster suit.

Attorney at law, Mohandas Gandhi, 1893.

In September 1888, at age 18, Gandhi left India, without his wife and newborn son, in order to study to become a barrister (lawyer) in London. Attempting to fit into English society, Gandhi spent his first three months in London attempting to make himself into an English gentleman by buying new suits, fine-tuning his English accent, learning French, and taking violin and dance lessons. After three months of these expensive endeavours, Gandhi decided they were a waste of time and money. He then cancelled all of these classes and spent the remainder of his three-year stay in London being a serious student and living a very simple lifestyle.

This  earnest  looking young man would one day be the  famous Charlie Chaplin

 The last Tasmanian Tiger, 1933.

The TasmanianTiger, unfortunately hunted to extinction. One more "glorious deed" of the human race.

This girl working in a factory in 1944,  was later the famous  Marilyn  Monroe.

Hope you enjoyed this "famous" trip back.

Courtesy ; excerpts from  Gandhi's Biography and 

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Monday; memories;

My stylish mother; spring 1930

But who shall so forecast the years

And find in loss a gain to match?

Or reach a hand thro' time to catch

The far-off interest of tears?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sepia Saturday 186;

Helvetia 

is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation.

Helvetia on the right with Geneva; National monument in Geneva Switzerland.

The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing gown, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair, commonly with a wreath as a symbol of confederation. The name is a derivation of the ethnonym Helvetii, the name of the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the Swiss Plateau prior to the Roman conquest.

Old stamp;

Swiss money;

The Swiss Confederation continues to use the name in its Latin form.  The  name Helvetia appears on postage stamps, coins and other uses; the full name, Confœderatio Helvetica, is abbreviated for uses such as on vehicle registration codes,  CH.

 Switzerland = CH

A modern Helvetia!

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Friday; gladness;

Iceberg roses in my garden;

In the morning I drink my coffee and  look out into the garden, my heart sings when I see it green and fresh from the nightly rain…

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Thursday; comfort;

Time for ease and comfort; Ts

Home is our comfort zone; Ts

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. 

Hippocrates

Simple things make life comfortable, a smile, kindness, a helping hand…Ts

As older  I get as more comfortable becomes the past. Ts

Every child needs a family's comfort.

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Tuesday; sun play;

SUN

Found a keyhole at 6:50 AM

Here she comes, golden, tiny,  forcing her light  through the branches and leaves...6:51 AM

Here she is gilding everything around her...6:53 AM

Sunlight playing beautifully in the mighty Eucalyptus tree.  6:54 AM

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Friday; thinkers;

Plato

Philosopher

Born: 427 BC, Athens, Greece

Died: 347 BC, Athens, Greece

Plato
a philosopher in Classical Greece, was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues. Founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.

Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics.

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Jacek Yerka

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Fabi; I want to know more...

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Tuesday; Morning;

A new day is approaching...

Photo taken without flash;

It is  Tuesday, 6:13 AM. Through the window I can just make out the silhouettes of the nearest Paperbark tree. It looks very beautiful and very still. With my camera I try  and want to keep this moment, as daylight quickly seeps in from all directions.
   Blustering cackles of the Kookaburras and  the plain  cawing of some crows  keep pace with the approaching light.

Daylight;

Good Morning, have a nice day.

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Monday; fantasy;

My granddaughter loves fantasy, another little note I found in one of my cookbooks.

The faculty or activity of imagining things that are impossible or improbable.

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot.

Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. 

In popular culture, the fantasy genre is predominantly of the medievalist form, especially since the worldwide success of The Lord of the Rings and related books by J. R. R. Tolkien.

 In its broadest sense, however, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, film makers, and musicians, from ancient myths and legends to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today.

My garden and its little fantasy ;  every garden needs a little bit of fantasy;

 Fantasy has the inclusion of fantastic elements in a setting,  inspiration from mythology and folklore.  The fantastical element may be hidden, or  may leak into the real world setting. It may draw the characters into a world with such elements, or it may occur entirely in a fantasy world setting. Fantasy follows rules of its own,  allowing magic and other fantastic devices to be used.

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Sunday; free;

My garden;

Every religion has a lot to answer for! Give me a religion who has not done evil in its own name.  Ts

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Friday; love;

Aunty and niece;

Love

Happiness

Laughter

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Thursday; food glorious food;

Pawpaw or Papaya ready to eat.

The black ripe seed is edible as well, they taste peppery. I keep those to sow as soon as possible to grow the next generation  Pawpaw trees. Take the seed from well grown and sweet fruit.

 Pawpaw trees can succumb to wet or cold .They need a protected place away from strong winds or waterlogged soil. 

The scientific name is Asimina triloba. The pawpaw belongs to the Annonaceae, the Custard Apple family, a large family of trees, shrubs and lianas that are widespread throughout the World tropics.

Paw Paw (or papaya) is a fruit that grows in tropical areas throughout the world and is easily available throughout Australia. 

It is not only delicious but it has many health benefits.

These are just some of the major vitamins and minerals found in large quantities in paw paw:   dietary fiber, folate, vitamin A, C and E. It also contains small amount of calcium, iron, riboflavin, thiamine and niacine. It is also very rich in antioxidant nutrients flavonoids and carotenes, very high in vitamin C plus A, and low in calories and sodium.

…and it can be  easily grown in your own backyard as long as you live in a tropical or subtropical climate!

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Tuesday; fun;

The history of English in 10 minutes;

Sunday; chaos;

Chaos at the heart of Orion

By NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI

NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light-years away in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula.

 This striking infrared and visible-light composite indicates that four monstrously massive stars at the center of the cloud may be the main culprits in the familiar Orion constellation. The stars are collectively called the ""Trapezium."" Their community can be identified as the yellow smudge near the center of the image. Swirls of green in Hubble's ultraviolet and visible-light view reveal hydrogen and sulfur gas that have been heated and ionized by intense ultraviolet radiation from the Trapezium's stars.

 Meanwhile, Spitzer's infrared view exposes carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the cloud. These organic molecules have been illuminated by the Trapezium's stars, and are shown in the composite as wisps of red and orange.

 On Earth, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are found on burnt toast and in automobile exhaust. Together, the telescopes expose the stars in Orion as a rainbow of dots sprinkled throughout the image. Orange-yellow dots revealed by Spitzer are actually infant stars deeply embedded in a cocoon of dust and gas.

 Hubble showed less embedded stars as specks of green, and foreground stars as blue spots. Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout the cloud etched all of the well-defined ridges and cavities in Orion. The large cavity near the right of the image was most likely carved by winds from the Trapezium's stars.

 Located 1,500 light-years away from Earth, the Orion nebula is the brightest spot in the sword of the Orion, or the ""Hunter"" constellation. The cosmic cloud is also our closest massive star-formation factory, and astronomers believe it contains more than 1,000 young stars. The Orion constellation is a familiar sight in the fall and winter night sky in the northern hemisphere. The nebula is invisible to the unaided eye, but can be resolved with binoculars or small telescopes. This image is a false-color composite where light detected at wavelengths of 0.43, 0.50, and 0.53 microns is blue. Light at wavelengths of 0.6, 0.65, and 0.91 microns is green. Light at 3.6 microns is orange, and 8.0 microns is red.

Astronomy is marvellous;

Sepia saturday 182; girls and horses;

This time I left the photos in their original state. I thought the faded, old photos looked quite nice and in a way suit Sepia Saturday. I hope you agree.

ML and David, a well trained and clever little stock horse. He helped to round up the cattle.

Chichi was ML's horse. Strong and wilful, both of them!

Grooming and caring for the horses was a favourite task for the girls.

Friends;

J. prefered the small motor bike.

Down to the river for a quick dip;

This used to be the milk house, we did not have dairy cows. It was not used for a long time. The dairy herd of this farm had the reputation of producing the best cream.

L. was the girl to look after animals and birds in need  of TLC.

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Tuesday; fads;

I don’t like decoration fads which involve living fish. It is cruel to keep goldfish in small bowls or as under table decorations or as a bathroom sink decoration. Gold fish are living beings they need room to swim, sun and rain. Gold fish belong in an outside pond not inside. People are very thoughtless, cruel  and stupid when it comes to animals, fish or birds. 

Who had these brain dead ideas of using gold fish as decorations?

I have a pond with gold fish, watching them how they enjoy the sun in the morning, how they play when it is raining, they nibble on algae and find a lot of other foodstuff which they enjoy. They play with each other,  they come to the surface to look around, they are living, breathing beings, not playthings for stupid people who want to impress who knows who!

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Monday; monday....

Keep it in your mind

Every day is the best day for you.

You are lucky,

because it belongs to you, whatever you make of it.

It can sparkle with pleasure or  fret with anguish it is up to you and  to you only.  Titania

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Photos from my garden.