Throwback Thursday 2016-01-07

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Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There’s a bit of time travel involved” Sundar Pichai

Throwback Thursday 2016-01-07

Each Thursday we walk down memory lane and dig deeply into the archives of Rantings Of A Third Kind. For these posts, I have chosen some of my personal favourites. Some of them may tickle the funny bone, some even provoke thoughts and some of them will give you a view of the world in photographs taken by yours truly.

Here are a few featured today for your enjoyment today:

My Glasses (Repost for TBT)

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When it Rains it Pours (Repost for TBT)

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Through the Looking Glass  (Repost for TBT)

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Let the Rantings continue!!!
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Through the Looking Glass (Repost for TBT)

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“Curiouser and curiouser” Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass

Through the looking glass
Life will quickly pass
Surfaces reflecting light
What a visual display in sight
A glimpse of an image
Transparent as the line of scrimmage
Moving fast and fading away
Only within imagination to stay

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Snow (Daily Photo 2016-01-06) Part Three

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Poetry & Photography

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“Cement doesn’t give as much as snow” Shaun White

Snow, Part Three

Close to night fall
The sun about to set
The moon coming out
Time for a nap
Before the next day
Begins

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Snow (Daily Photo 2016-01-06) Part Two

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“Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair” Steven Brust

Snow, Part Two

Last remnants of summer
Forgot it’s time for slumber
It’s way past September
Look it up in the calendar
It says: January

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Snow (Daily Photo 2016-01-06) Part One

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“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery” Bill Watterson

Snow, Part One

A fresh coat of snow
With a wintry glow
Life getting more slow
Just follow the flow
Even if you really
Don’t like snow

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote (2016-01-06); SCENERY

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Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“Travellers never think that they are the foreigners” Mason Cooley

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A stroll around down town
A Lidl and a few shoeshops found
Time for a scenic break
Before to the road we take

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Down to the busy harbour
Checking both port and starboard
Both filled with tourists a flocking
Guess it wasn’t shocking
After all, a pleasent place
A seashore the perfect interface

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote (2016-01-06); RESORT

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“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs” Susan Sontag

Resort

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The skies the colour of blue
Clouds fluffy, but far and few
Sun shining ever so brightly
The pool beckoning and inviting

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The dwellings painted in white
This definitely is our “campsite”
Home away from home for a week
What else could one want or seek

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote (2016-01-06); INTRO

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Photo credits Gun Roswell and Google

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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber

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This week’s World Wide Wednesday presents you the Island in the Atlantic Ocean, Lanzarote:

Arid Lanzarote, one of the Canary islands off the coast of West Africa, is known for its year-round warm weather, beaches and volcanic landscape. East-coast resort Puerto del Carmen has whitewashed villas, a harbor and dive centers. Caletón Blanco is a string of northern coves with calm, clear water for snorkeling, and Famara beach has cliffs for hang gliding and surf schools.

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Our little journey on the island was set in the small village of Puerto Del Carmen. Some fifteen minutes’ drive from the Arrecife Airport, also known as the Lanzarote Airport. The narrow, but good roads along the coast, were easy to navigate. Never mind google maps on your mobile phone, just follow the street signs and you are there! The island itself was not a big one, everything a short distance away. A week’s worth of relaxation and sightseeing dead ahead!

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World Wide Wednesday 2016-01-06

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A glimpse into the archives of photography from around the world from Rantings Of A Third Kind on Wednesdays.

 

“It is better to travel well than to arrive” Buddha

World Wide Wednesday, Around the World in Black and White and Colour

This weeks posts:

Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote (2016-01-06); INTRO

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote (2016-01-06); RESORT

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote (2016-01-06); SCENERY

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Circles of Life (The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge), Sun

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The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Circle

“With 2016 officially here, we face forward to take on what’s next. It’s a time of endings and beginnings, so I wanted a broad theme that could be simple, fun, and festive, but also complex and introspective. And so, circle it is.”

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“Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be” Anna Freud

Sun

During the early morning hours
Or for the late evening flowers
The big ball of light
Showing its might
Can’t live without it
It lifts up your spirits
To your power we freely submit
Oh sun, sun, sun
No, this is not a pun

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