Tuesday; Gondwana;

...sleeping .. Photo/Ts Rotary park Stanthorpe Queensland

Gondwana included most of the landmasses in today's Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctica, South America, Africa, Madagascar and the Australian continent, as well as the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, which have now moved entirely into the Northern Hemisphere.

The adjective Gondwanan is in common use in biogeography when referring to patterns of distribution of living organisms, typically when the organisms are restricted to two or more of the now-discontinuous regions that were once part of Gondwana, including the Antarctic flora. For example, the Proteaceae, a family of plants known only from southern South America, South Africa and Australia, are considered to have a "Gondwanan distribution". This pattern is often considered to indicate an archaic, or relict, lineage.

During the late Paleozoic, Gondwana extended from a point at or near the south pole to near the equator. Across much of Gondwana, the climate was mild. During the Mesozoic, the world was on average considerably warmer than today.

Gondwana was then host to a huge variety of flora and fauna for many millions of years. The laurel forest of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand have a number of other related species of the laurissilva de Valdivia, through the connection of the Antarctic flora as gymnosperms and deciduous angiosperm Nothofagus.

The sempervirens tree niaouli, it grows in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. New Caledonia and New Zealand ecoregion are separated by continental drift from Australia 85 million years ago.

The islands still retain plants and animals that originated in Gondwana and spread to the southern hemisphere continents later. But there is strong evidence of glaciation during Carboniferous to Permian time.

Photo Ts/ Mount Warning Northern New South Wales

The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (formerly known as the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves) include the most extensive areas of subtropical rainforest in the world, large areas of warm temperate rainforest and nearly all of the Antarctic beech cool temperate rainforest. Few places on earth contain so many plants and animals which remain relatively unchanged from their ancestors in the fossil record.
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986 (extended in 1994).
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia were one of 15 World Heritage places included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007.

Global warming band aids?  A money spinner for some? 
The planet is fine, the people are fracked!  
The planet has always been in evolution, still is, who do we think we are? Are we better then any other living thing, because we have  developed a bigger brain? 
The planet will still  be here when all of us are gone. Evidence is still here.


Link   http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/gondwana/index.html

Link  http://www.apstas.com/gondwanatimeline.htm

Monday; third day of spring;

Frühling  ♥  Primavera  ♥  Printemps;

...at home;

country site in the granite belt;

Cherry blossoms in a park in Warwick, Qld;


Spring has sprung 
with a tune of its own;
the bells are ringing
to let it known
it's a new beginning...


© Photos/Text Ts


Link Lavender & Vanilla;

Sunday; while away...

...in the granite belt...

goblins have been here and replaced the old fence with a new one... 

and  orchids are getting ready to flower.

Good to take a break but nice to be home!

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Link  Poetic Take away's' a trivial word of words;

Monday; enjoy...

Have a nice week;

I promise I won't hop into the veggie patch anymore...promise;

©Ts

Sunday; the world;

The world  © by Titania

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty." Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Russian writer 

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Changes in laws to the benefit of the few ride in on  a white horse  with the war cry of emergency and terrorism.  Titania

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." -  Plato -

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My questions; have there been at any time politicians with a clean conscience?

Where are they?

 Politics must be a profession where the ruthless, the nasties, the liers, the cheats and the hypocrites soar and thrive.

Perhaps politics is not and has never been  the place for honesty and justice. Anyone who enters politics and has an inclination to truthfulness, justice and kindness will be morally finished by the gutter press in no time, there is no chance for a honest person. Because there is no honest press  the few that exist belong all to the same stable of lies and hypocrisy.

Globalization is the worst which could befall  all countries. Because profits are the gods of globalization  not  a decent standard of living for all.

©Photo/Text Ts

Sepia Saturday 140; Weddings;

My mother and my father; wedding 1933

My mother was 23 and my father 30 years old.  My mother wore a black dress and a white embroidered veil.  I remember the veil and also the headband with the flowers.

They were tucked away in box tied with a pretty ribbon. I also remember,  the art deco brooch she was wearing with quite a long pearl necklace.

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My mother's sister Helen and Thomas married in 1936

This is a true sepia photo. Helen does not wear a veil. She is wearing a silk dress, but also not white. the dress is embellished with lace at the front. 

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Anna and Simon were married  1939;

Simon was my mother's younger brother.

Simon was conscripted into the German army and died in Russia in 1944. He was a driver in the war.

Anna wears a white wedding dress and also a veil. All the brides carry white roses. 

Anna never married again and had no children.

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Friday; Not by bread alone;

©Photo/Text Ts

I harvested the first Roma tomatoes. I roasted them with Olive oil and lots of Thyme in the oven at 180 C until they were soft and juicy. Mixed them with  the spaghetti and Basil leaves and dinner was ready in no time; it was delicious...you can ask ML who came by at lunch time and ate the leftovers. No Parmesan cheese was needed it would have interfered with the fine taste of the roasted tomatoes

"Not by Bread alone" written by  Vladimir Dimitrievich;  (the meaning, individual man can not just live on bread, he needs more in his life then food) 

I read this book in the early sixties.


Vladimir Dimitrievich; July 29, 1918 - July 23, 1998) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer who gained fame for his 1956 novel, Not by Bread Alone, published at the time of the Khrushchev Thaw.
Dudintsev, the son of a member of the gentry, attended law school in Moscow and fought during the second world war. After the war, he became a reporter and writer.
Inspired by Soviet apparatchiks refusing to credit a report of a deposit of nickel because Soviet dogma said it was impossible, Dudintsev wrote Not by Bread Alone, the tale of an engineer who is frustrated by bureaucrats when he attempts to bring forth his invention. The novel sparked wild enthusiasm among the Soviet population. Official reaction soon turned against the book, and Dudintsev suffered years of poverty, and was only able to publish occasional works. As the USSR tottered, in 1987, Dudintsev published a novel, The White Robes, for which he was awarded a State Prize the following year. He died in 1998.

More about this  Author  here

 Vladimir Dimitrievich  

Born 29/07/1918

Died 23/07 1998