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#Roses Yet more fr/our #garden 😃Surprised to see more #buds yesterday! Knowing they’d’ve🥶overnight, my partner snipped & brought them in. Tho a bit worse for greenfly they’re starting to #bloom beautifully. I feel like the girl who cried “Wolf!”😂 #flowers #photography -my partner #Garden4Wildlife 🙏
Closeup of two new pink Queen of Sweden rosebuds, one in the foreground just starting to open, a second behind it still budding, its green sepals having split to reveal its first hint of pink. This photo was taken by my partner yesterday, after she snipped them & brought them in before last night’s sub-zero temperatures set in. Again, these are so late & thus an unexpected treat. The dark green leaves, a bit mottled, are blurred in the background, as she tried to focus on the flowers. -tam💞 Closeup this morning as one of the late-again surprising-Queen of Sweden roses has begun to open up. Even tho a bit spotted by a greenfly we caught on it last night, it’s still lovely. What a treat, to have roses still blooming in such chilly weather, so late in the year. But these would have frozen to death had they been left out on the rose bush overnight: the temperatures here dropped well below zero Celsius & were still that cold this morning. And though we’re due for a slight rise in temps the next few days, we’re so glad we saved these from the freeze. The Queen of Sweden is a David Austin Rose & ours has been going since we planted it almost 2 decades ago, the year we moved into our tiny “terrace” house (that’s the same as a townhouse in the US, though ours is very narrow & just 2 stories). With careful pruning & deadheading, it’s given us hundreds of gorgeous roses over the years, with a wonderful fragrance. The only downsize to this variety is a significant one, though: its petals are so many and so tightly clustered that bees cannot access any pollen or nectar from them. We didn’t realise this when we bought this shrub in an end-of-season sale at the local garden centre. But their beauty, fragrance and continuous blooming has given our small front garden so much, otherwise, we’ve no regrets. And besides, since this rose was planted, we’ve planted a lot of bee & butterfly friendly shrubs, flowers & bulbs, adding to a few that were already just barely growing in our small back garden, but have flourished under my partner’s care. We try as much as we can to Garden For Wildlife. Bees, butterflies, moths, snails, worms, birds & so many forms of Wildlife -every one playing vital roles in any garden’s ecosystem - need all the help you can give them, as habitats disappear and/or change in Global Warming. Even if all you can do is have potted flowers, a dish of water & even a bee hotel (out of direct Sun!) any/all of these things help so much🙏-tam💞
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Life Above the Clouds: For a time We lived in a 30th floor flat far fr/🇬🇧. One morning We all woke to see #clouds had rolled in from the #ArabianGulf cloaking the #city Only tips of bldg cranes, then #towers peeked through. 3 snaps fr/our balconies that morning+one☀️ #seaview #photography ©my partner:
A view from one of two balconies of the 30th floor high rise apartment where We lived for a time. On this morning, clouds had rolled in from the Arabian Gulf, covering the city. In this shot, a golden Sun is rising just above the clouds, painting the sky above in soft tones of almost smoky peach. Below, like a misty, deep blue blanket, clouds obscure all but the tips of the tallest building cranes - vague, peculiar parallel shapes criss-crossing just above the thick fog. What a sight and how strange it felt looking out from our balconies to find ourselves above the clouds… All Photos© taken by tam’s partner. ~💞 In this photo, the clouds are slowly descending, so we can now see some of the large buildings down the street, as well as further away. On the left is a narrow high-rise that appears turquoise in this strange morning light. Just behind that - and taller - with 4 roofed towers at each corner, stands a grand hotel. Low on the left is a smaller building - can’t recall what that was but it may have been low-rise apartments. On the right, further away, is what we knew as this city’s World Trade Centre, tall, white and slim, with a slender antenna tower extending from the top of its roof. By the next photo, you may guess where We all were living…Photos all ©taken by tam’s partner. ~💞 By this point, the mists were truly descending and would soon dissipate. But not before We got this photo of the buildings right across the street from us: known then (perhaps still known) as The Emirates Towers. They’re uniquely shaped (as so many more high rises in the process of being built would be…and dozens built since). But these are truly unique as they are actually a pair of triangular towers. They were such iconic buildings at the time, standing out as they did, unusual & apart. Far below the clouds, these triangular buildings had beautiful gardens we visited. M’s & my introduction to the Middle East and Arabic culture came very quickly and was quite remarkable: a colleague of my partner invited us to her Bridal wedding reception. It was as Muslim wedding receptions were there - separate from the groom’s reception, no men were allowed anywhere (M’s invisible presence proved fortunate😉). Even the male band which played music were screened off from seeing the huge ballroom full of Dubai’s elite women. Alcohol free (a blessing, really, as I was and remain a recovering alcoholic) the reception served up freshly pressed fruit juices, Arabic tea, an incredible array of extraordinary foods (including camel, which I politely declined); the place was scented by rich, perfumed smoke from oud, brought to each of us at the tables…entertainment provided by a troupe of young women with ankle length hair doing beautiful “hair dances.” It was one of the most memorable events of our lives…and happened less than 72 hours after my arrival from the 🇺🇸. Any doubts or ignorant fears I may have had about suddenly living amidst this culture, so different from my own…and mere months after 9/11…were swiftly dispelled. I can honestly say We have never been to any Wedding reception more extraordinary, unique, lavish, beautiful and welcoming in Our lives. It opened our eyes in so many ways. That reception was held in a ballroom of one of these buildings… -tam💞 Photo©my partner Here’s a view of part of the city of Dubai on a☀️day, photo taken fr/one of our two balconies. It shows an expanse of mostly white buildings of varying heights, most a few stories high then. As always, many were in the process of being built. I’ve never lived anywhere like this: each day it seemed another building was starting to be built-sadly all by poor labourers who came to Dubai from other countries, hoping to send their meagre earnings back to their families. They toiled through punishing heat in harsh Summers & were bused to & from labour camps. These are things I only truly understood later, after we’d left Dubai & came to live in my partner’s home country🇬🇧. But here on this sunny day from our balcony we could see, in the distance, near the beautiful turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf, two minarets point upward from the enormous & beautiful Jumeirah Mosque. It was one mosque which opened briefly to the public-I think one day a week. We always wanted to go, but never managed to make it there. Dubai was & remains a strange city of contrasts, super-rich & very poor: the local Emiratis, many expats fr/other Muslim countries; as well as lots of British & Australian expats…& 100s of labourers from poor countries-that part of life there remains shameful & sad. But We do have fond memories of this place: the best food any of us have ever eaten we had here. So much beauty to be seen, with that gorgeous turquoise sea lapping white sand beaches. I met many wonderful Arab women there who were more friendly, welcoming & interesting than most of the British & Aussie expats, who frowned upon any place/event that didn’t involve alcohol & actually turned down their invitations to wedding receptions for that reason. We experienced a 2nd extraordinary Bride’s reception-held on an enormous, old boat that cruised Dubai Creek at night: again, We were so warmly welcomed by strangers. Those who eschewed alcohol free events missed amazing experiences.~tam💞 Photo©my partner.
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Fishermen At Sea -J.M.W. Turner oil on canvas, 1796
#art #MaritimePainting
More about this #painting inc. a fair ALT in Description: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherm...
A stunning example of Turner’s gift for recreating #dramatic light-in this case #Moonlight over a perilous #sea
Ppl in🇬🇧Pls see Reply…
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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#Roses Yes, these are the same 2 snipped/brought in fr/the🥶in our #garden & shown here in beautiful #bloom a few posts down. Like all #flowers they were destined to wilt. #photography by me: its timing seemed poignantly ironic given today’s #haikufeels #poetry #prompt word: #fade
So do we all…~tam💞
Photograph of two Queen of Sweden Roses, now wilted, shrivelling and faded. I took this with my iPad - just as I did the overhead photo of one of these in full, glorious bloom, several posts down our feed. This is what that lovely rose - and its companion - look like now. The bluebell wood, forest-path background is just my lap-tray, on which I placed the small jar that served as a vase for these once beautiful pink blooms. We were lucky to catch them when we did, so late in the year. But we couldn’t expect them to last forever. They seemed the epitome of today’s haikufeels prompt word, which was “fade.” Faded now, indeed…but we’re thankful for that last glimpse of beauty they brought us. -tam💞
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Far Away -Sophie Gengembre Anderson-details unknown
We’ve no information about this engaging #portrait of a young, red-haired woman peering at us with one hand shading her brow. We can only say We find it beautiful. #art #painting About the #Victorian #artist :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_...
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🎵Two #Swans a-Swimming🎵
Cmas ads abound; most of🇬🇧is🥶Wish We were back in Spring/Summer💚A 2nd pic of Swans on the #River Avon at that #garden in 2005. The foreground is💚lawn; far side lush with💚 #plants #trees inc. a Weeping #willow …the pair of #birds so graceful…🦢🦢 #photography -my partner. -tam💞
This photo-taken in 2005 by my partner-shows two beautiful white Swans swimming gracefully along a branch of the River Avon, which runs through the gardens of a private estate. The foreground is clipped green lawn, with some tall-leaved water plants peeking up all along the edges. But across the river it’s all lush-a large plant spreads wide on the right hand side, its leafy branches dipping into the water. Just behind that is a lovely, medium size Weeping Willow, its long strands of green leaves spilling over from its crown like tresses of leafy hair. To the left there’s a small tree that appears to be in bloom, its white flowers look like a bouquet atop a narrow trunk that’s protected by a small wooden fence. Behind that small, flowering one are yet more trees-including a large pine or perhaps yew, we think. That whole area on the left, in back, is like a mountain of dark green, full of trees that seem to blend into one form. Coming back to the river, just beyond the swans, there’s a fence made of wooden beams that bends around, following the river bank, presumably to keep visitors from going into the river. The water is shiny, rippling; it reflects the swans in a glimmering path of white that begins where they are and crosses the width of the river to the side We were standing on, the grassy foreground. It was then such a beautiful & peaceful place. As I said in a previous post, within a couple years, all this would be swept away by a series of terrible storms, which rampaged through here & the Japanese Garden area especially (which is just beyond the righthand side of this scene). The rain-swollen river & powerful winds brought down so many trees & changed this part of the gardens forever. We visited once before that happened. But next time we went it was💔to see how much was destroyed. While we knew they’d do lots of replanting We never returned: prices shot up….& the rich landowners always seemed unwelcoming…It would never be our beloved💚refuge again…💞
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Relayer -Yes #music #progrock #jazzfusion
Just 1 track on this💿 I👂to, tbh. On vinyl it took up all of Side1: The Gates of Delirium-a stunning, chaotic, often tough listen at times-is about War & captures it well. See Songs for a description: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relayer
It’s💔hopeful coda, “Soon”…
Roger Dean’s exquisite cover work for Relayer is best described in the Wikipedia article, under the section “Artwork.” Tbh, although I find his creations among the most gorgeous works of art produced in my lifetime, I’m at a complete loss when it comes to trying to describe them. So please look to that “Artwork” section for what details it does give of this extraordinary album cover - one of so many Dean created for Yes. He may well be my favourite “modern artist” - or illustrator, if you will - ever… -tam💞 The lyrics to “Soon,” Jon Anderson’s tender, beautiful coda to The Gates Of Delirium’s brilliant, tumultuous, heart-rending, violent chaos of War. The preceding music so realistically and gut-wrenchingly captures the sequence, then horrors of War - its latter part reverberating, haunting echoes, as if one is standing high above, seeing the terrible cost below, stretching for miles all around - the fallen strewn across the battlefield…And then, like sunlight piercing through the smoke and horror, here comes this keening, tender song, so beautiful it makes me cry, every time. I find The Gates Of Delirium even more relatable today, for it evokes the chaos engulfing the world now…and when I listen to it, I hear what’s happening Right Now: the madness, the insanity of fascism, greed, war upon war, whole peoples being exterminated ruthlessly…the Hate, the horrors and utter futility of it all…it’s right there in The Gates of Delirium. And so now, when I hear the fragile strains of Jon’s coda, Soon, begin, I find I have been sobbing all thru the whole of it…and wishing with all my heart his plain words - a prayer of Hope - could come true…If only… 🙏🕊-tam💞
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Overhead view of the revived Queen of Sweden #rose
#photography by me-📸against a backdrop of my lap tray. I wish you could catch a whiff of her scent: as gorgeous as the #flower #Nature never fails to amaze: #blooms in November. Even an old #shrub has beauty left, if seen thru kind & caring eyes.🌹🥰💚
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Venus De Milo - #TheLouvre 2005 #art
I did say she’d get her own post & here she stands (w/out Me in the way as seen in post further down). The story of this ancient #mythology #sculpture of #GreekAntiquity is remarkable. ALT w/in this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_d...
#photography our own
Sorry I haven’t written an ALT, but there is a lot of description in the Wikipedia article included in the post. This photo of Venus De Milo - standing high & “proud” on her dark pedestal, with dark, reddish-brown (speckled with white) marble walls in the background- was taken by my partner in 2005 when We were fortunate enough to visit The Louvre. -tam💞
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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There’s Life in The Old Girl Yet - Just when I thought that Queen of Sweden bud #rose was Over, this morning it had revived to open in full #bloom ! Fortunately, my partner noticed & managed to📸it w/her📱quickly (in a nicer setting🤭). #flowers #photography #Nature You never know…😉🙏🌹❣️
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Last #Roses from our #garden 2025
Desperate late #blooms in November-clipped yesterday & brought inside before the🥶sets in. Placed in a small jar to give their last, frail breaths of beauty before they fade forever. #flowers 🌹🥀 #photography -tam w/iPad. (Pls pardon the unsightly caulk).🫢🫣
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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A shout-out to folks up #NorthUK #Wales #Cumbria -everyone affected by #StormClaudia Watching the news my heart breaks for all of you. But I also saw many ppl trying to help others as best they can. Posting lyrics Liverpool fans know well. But its message is timeless & for anyone struggling🫂&❤️‍🩹~💞tam
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Lastly as storm #Claudia leaves ppl in the North&West🇬🇧 #flooded fr/their homes…with #hurricanes & #typhoons devastating many of the🌎🌍s places, here is a #poem Mischa felt compelled to✍️in despair & anger at the effects of #GlobalWarming A quartet of #haiku stanzas, it speaks for us both~💞 #poetry
An original, untitled poem by Mischa, written as a set of 4 haikus…to state the obvious, this is about Global Warming…~💞
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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#Gardens Past Pt2 2006 2 photos of our favourite area w/in the Japanese Garden. #Streams run thru it w/bridges/steps across meandering waters. I’ve not✍️ALTs-both are so complex. Suffice to say each is lush💚shading #trees & river #plants #photography ours: before storms. Most of this was gone after💔😢
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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#Gardens Past: the edge of the Japanese garden on a private estate 2005. A pair of #Swans swim gracefully along the #River Avon-both shorelines lush w/💚 #trees & #plants A red bridge is on the right. In time, storms tore thru all of this, destroying much of it-💔 #GlobalWarming More pics in Reply.
A green lawn in the foreground is lined with a froth of water plants at the River Avon’s edge. This part of the river is more like a stream running thru the estate. But it was deep & welcoming enough for a pair of swans to make it their home. Here they’re seen swimming gracefully past, the river sparkles in sunlight with gentle ripples. On the other side are lush river plants and some small trees on the left. The right hand side is dominated by a beautiful Weeping Willow tree, which hangs over the water and is very near a red bridge that is part of the Japanese Garden area of this estate-which had many different, separate “gardens”. But it was by this river & in the Japanese Garden that we most liked to spend time when we visited. Unseen is much of it, which is off beyond the bridge and includes a proper Tea House which straddles a branch of the river. Sadly, a series of unusually violent storms, with powerful winds and an enormous amount of rain, came tearing through all of this and the Japanese Garden itself, ripping it apart to the extent that when we next visited, it was unrecognisable-we wept. The gardeners had pulled down trees & plants that were fatally weakened by the storm, leaving the area looking utterly bereft of its lush, peaceful atmosphere. The swans were gone, of course. The gardeners were in the process of trying to replant much of the entire area, but we knew it would be years before it would ever look “recovered.” We were so distraught by the emptiness, the savage destruction, that we stopped visiting this place & have not returned for many years. (It didn’t help that they’ve raised the price of entry a great deal, too). I’ve credited this photo to my partner but I may have taken it myself, tbh. Those beautiful swans & that lush garden were part of a place where we had often found peaceful refuge. To see it devastated was heartbreaking. We knew those rare storms were so extraordinarily strong they were signs of Global Warming.😢💔💚~tam💞
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The Painter’s Honeymoon - Frederic Leighton, oil on canvas 1864 #art #painting #Romantic
A bit about this beautiful & tender work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pai...
Leighton’s beautifully romantic scene shows a young couple, sat close together, as “The Painter” of the title is sketching on a large drawing pad with his right hand, his left hand holding that of his red-haired bride. She is wearing a voluminous dress that is almost a bronze coloured satin, the fabric pooling down to the floor as she leans in close to her new husband. Her long red hair is bound up in a soft curl that’s almost like a halo around her head. Her dashing young husband has long, wavy brown hair, parted in the centre and sports a full beard and moustache. He is dressed in a dark brown top/jacket and short, knickerbocker-style trousers, with his exposed (or light stockinged) lower legs crossed in the shadow of the drawing platform/pad upon which he’s sketching. He wears dark shoes. The faces of the newlyweds are tenderly pressed cheek to cheek: whilst he is clearly concentrating on his art, his new bride, nestling close, appears affectionately fascinated, as she watches him drawing. On the right, above and behind them, there appears to be a wooden shelf with a plant of some sort. The Wikipedia article says this was meant to be an orange tree, but its “fruits” seem metallic. Apart from a path of light which must be coming from a source we cannot see-perhaps a window or candlelight, which casts its glow across her satiny dress, as well as softly lighting her rose-cheeked face- the whole scene is in tones of browns, deep bronzes and soft gold, with deep shadows -and the couple’s closeness - creating a sense of intimacy. The painter may be on honeymoon, but that has not stopped him from working on his art. And his adoring wife, beside him, clearly supports his endeavour, seemingly enrapt by what he is working on. It’s a very Romantic scene, so tender and, we think, so very beautiful. ~💞
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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To quote The Foo Fighters (or Sesame Street):
🎵”One of these things is not like the other.”🎵
#art #sculpture #GreekAntiquities #mythology
Here is the #VenusDeMilo w/an astonished visitor at #TheLouvre Venus will have her own separate post in a few days‘ time. #photography by my partner in 2005
2005 -The world-famous, ancient Greek sculpture/statue known as the “Venus de Milo”…with a much younger me in the foreground, looking up in amazement that I was actually seeing something I’d only ever read about or seen in books. But then the whole day We spent at The Louvre was full of moments like this. And all we “stole” were a few photographs 😉 (which no one is supposed to take but everyone did/does & most of ours turned out too dark anyway…) And even though we walked ourselves into exhaustion, we’d scarcely seen the tip of the iceberg that is The Louvre’s massive collection. Had we more time (& not been levelled so sore I could hardly move the next day after so much walking) We’d love to have returned and seen more. But we feel fortunate to have seen the many stunning works of art - paintings, sculptures & antiquities - we did see that day. I will do a separate post with a decent snap my partner got of this iconic Venus…but not today. -tam💞
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Today is #ArmisticeDay which marks the end of #WW1
Again we remember all those lost with a 2 minute silence,
“at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month…”
#RememberThem The world has regressed in so many ways. We must never let evil win. 🙏 #Resist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armisti...
Free image-not our photo- showing a closeup of several red Poppies growing amidst thick, green grass. The wearing/display of red Poppies has come to represent honouring those who died in WW1. Since that time, they’ve come to include many wars since, a symbol of remembrance honouring all those who have served and fallen. But particularly on Armistice Day - November 11th, at the precise day, time and hour all hostilities of WW1 were officially meant to have ended - we honour those who died in that war with a 2 minute silence. Today, in the UK, Katherine, Princess of Wales, will be laying a wreath in their memory at the National Arboretum. 💜
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The Last Watch of Hero - Frederic Leighton, oil on canvas 1880
A poignant, gorgeous #painting depicting Hero awaiting the arrival of her secret lover, Leander. #art #LoveStory #Tragedy Inspired by #GreekMythology About their tragic story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_an...
Lord Leighton depicts the young woman, Hero, standing in what seems a shadowy window/archway, her left arm holding back a long, dark brown drape/curtain. The other curtain, on the left side, drapes down like a dark, flowing shadow and it’s to that side she’s leaning, her forehead pressed against her raised right arm, her expression one of sadness and worry for her secret lover Leander. She is dressed in a fitted yet draping, deep orange dress, which clings to her curvaceous figure. The entire painting is in shades of deep orange (reminiscent of Leighton’s masterpiece Flaming June, though darker) and shadowed browns of nighttime. But it’s the strikingly pitiful expression of worry in her beautiful, dark-eyes that is hauntingly sad. If you read the story of Hero and Leander in the link We’ve provided, you’ll realise she had good reason to be concerned... ~💞
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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#RemembranceSunday #WeWillRememberThem
Tho today is primarily a day of remembrance in the UK & the Commonwealth countries, as an American living in🇬🇧 I remember my Father, who served in the Pacific in WW2. Though he survived, he carried unseen wounds ever after.💔💜
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembr...
Plague inscribed with the most quoted lines from the poem “For The Fallen,” written on this clifftop spot - overlooking the rocky Cornwall coast and turquoise sea - by Laurence Binyon and first published in 1914, as WW1 was just beginning. Already the terrible loss of lives was horrific…and over ensuing years so many others would die. Binyon could not have known how terrible the cost would be when he wrote these words, but he must have known how great a sacrifice was being made already. On the grey stone plaque is this, best known, part of his poem: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them…” - Laurence Binyon We must also remember All those who have served in wars since, those who have died, but also those still paying the price of their service in ways obviously seen, but also so many in ways we may not see. To all of them we owe a debt we cannot hope to repay, except by not only cherishing & fighting to preserve those Freedoms we still have, but helping surviving veterans of war however it is possible to do so… 💜 (This is a Free image, not our photo).
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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On this #RemembranceSunday #WeWillRememberThem
Please read ALT (Free image, not our own photo) #Poppy #Veterans #WW1 #WW2 #80thAnniversary
(Free image, not our photo) A field of red Poppies stretching far to the horizon, where a lone tree is seen, all in the glow of the setting/or rising Sun. Poppies have long symbolised those who fell in WWI…then WW2. Around the time of Remembrance Day, which is 11th November in the UK and across its Commonwealth countries, many people will be seen wearing paper (or other type pins) poppies on their lapels or some other form, as a sign of Remembrance and to honour all those who served in those wars, as well as the many wars since: for the millions who died, for those who survived - so many forever wounded in ways visible and unseen. On Remembrance Sunday ceremonies are held across the UK and Commonwealth, with a primary parade of remaining veterans and serving soldiers passing by The Cenotaph- the great memorial in London. The King, representatives of each of the Armed Forces and the UK’s Commonwealth countries, as well as politicians will each lay wreaths of poppies at the base of The Cenotaph. Today and on November 11th…We Remember Them…We are forever in debt to every one who served, for their sacrifice. In “The Great Wars” particularly WW2, they fought to save the world from Fascism. Today we face the same ugly foe, rearing its hideous head in the least expected of countries-once revered as The Land of the Free-as well as other countries. Who will stand now, who will be as brave as those who defeated Fascism 80 years ago? Do not let the sacrifice of millions be for nought: Freedom, once taken for granted, is doomed to be lost forever. We rail against injustice, we🙏 but we must also be willing to Stand Up and Resist Fascism, wherever it is…We must be as brave as those who came before us. As we honour them, we must also pick up the Standard and Fight for those hard-won Freedoms we now seem to take for granted. Resist Fascists. Now, as then, the future of the World depends upon it. 💜
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Pandora - John William Waterhouse oil on canvas 1896
#art #mythology #regret #painting
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora...
Apologies for not ✍️ALT. Broken 😔
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Something You Don’t See Everyday-depending on where you live😊: A pair of Egyptian #Geese on the #waterfront by a marina on the #River Thames #photography by my partner.
2 Links with more info about these beautiful #birds :
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Behind a thick white railing, on the concrete edge of a pavement above the River Thames, stand a pair of Egyptian Geese, one gently grooming its mate’s neck feathers. To be honest, the RSPB & Wiki links probably describe these better than we can here, so please🙏 forgive us not ✍️ the best description, though we’ll try. They are large, extraordinarily beautiful birds, their plumage in varying shades of light to reddish brown, with black or brown ring stripes at the base of their long necks and dark brown, “bandit-like-masks” around their golden eyes. Their beaks are kind of pinkish, with black “trim” as it were, along their tips, edges and base. One of these birds -on the left -has red, webbed feet, while its mate has dark-grey/black webbed feet. Their breast plumage is an intricate design of tiny white and dark brown feathers, which almost resembles a “tweed” effect. ~💞 A pair of Egyptian Geese standing behind a white pipe railing, on the concrete pavement above the River Thames. Please see photo one for our attempt to describe them, though we expect the RSPB and Wiki links can give you far more and better information about these extraordinary birds. Both photos were taken by my partner.~tam💞
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
tamisar.bsky.social
The November #FullMoon -the #BeaverMoon -marks the time when beavers retreat to their lodges with enough food stored for winter. Tonight’s will also be a #SuperMoon the brightest this year! We don’t usually do up images w/ #poetry but tonight’s Moon is unusual so here’s a #haiku #poem M✍️ 4Nov’25~💞
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
tamisar.bsky.social
#Landscape 2002 To reach Goodrich Castle’s ruins we had to follow a long, dirt path wending past this beautiful view of #grasses pink #reeds 2 nearby #trees and a #field which stretched towards a #forest covered hill on the horizon. I thought it beautiful enough to #photograph Missing💚now…🥺-tam💞
The view from an earthen path my partner & I had to take to reach a castle ruin. Seeing this landscape and thinking it beautiful, we stopped to capture it on film. Behind a square-patterned wire fence are rich green grasses; a thick row of what we think were pink reeds (beside a streamlet or ditch we could not see). Beyond that were more deep green grasses in a row leading to one of two nearby trees, their branches’ green leaves echoing the colours beneath them. Beyond all this a golden field stretched off into the distance, ending at the base of an expansive, forest-covered hill, which dominates the horizon. Above is a pale blue sky speckled with a smattering of white clouds. As I recall, I took this photo with a simple, disposable camera* during our first holiday in my partner’s homeland, England-tam💞 *disposable cameras were all the rage back then: clearly a time when no one was yet thinking much of recycling.🫢
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM