Posted in Favourite Photos (Weekly Serial)
Photography, Travel
Part Five
Black and white window view from the archipelago of Helsinki and Söderskär lighthouse.
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Favourite Photos: Part Four
Posted in Favourite Photos (Weekly Serial)
Photography, Travel
Part Four
Blue and white from Greece: Poolside and off the wall.
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Favourite Photos: Part Three
Posted in Favourite Photos (Weekly Serial)
Photography, Travel
Part Three
Espoo Haukilahti Pavilion and marina in summer before the sunset.
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Favourite Photos: Part Two
Posted in Favourite Photos (Weekly Serial)
Photography, Travel
Part Two
Espoo springtime flora in the bloom; colours with red, white and green.
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Favourite Photos: Part One
Posted in Favourite Photos (Weekly Serial)
Photography, Travel
Part One
Espoo springtime flora in the bloom and something a little abstract on the side; natures and man made pile-ups of sorts.
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Addicted To Overdoing It
Hear! Hear! and Amen too!!!
I’m still overdoing it. Lately, I have felt stretched to thin. It is totally of my own making however. Although, my intent this year was to simplify life and remove stuff (For example my big clean up.) I have found that when I made any room in my life, I felt an intense, almost subconscious, need to fill it. The universe hates a void and apparently so do I.
I started finally saying “no” to somethings and freeing up time. But have found I have replaced this with new things I have said “yes” to. It is good in a way, I have started down a path towards new adventures and new pursues. I dictate how I spend my time now instead of it being controlled by self-imposed obligations. I am doing what I want but I’m still doing too much of it.
We live in a world where busy is rewarded…
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Garfield’s Best Quotes (Caturday)
In honour of Caturday and all cats everywhere:
An homage to the lasagne loving cartoon cat: Garfield
Image credits Google/Jim Davis
“I never met a lasagna I didn’t like.” Garfield the Cat
Garfield’s Best Quotes (Caturday)
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An homage to the Lasagne Loving Cartoon Cat: Garfield (Caturday)
In honour of Caturday and all cats everywhere:
An homage to the lasagne loving cartoon cat: Garfield
Image credits Google/Jim Davis
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”—George Carlin (comedian)
An homage to the Lasagne Loving Cartoon Cat: Garfield (Caturday)
Everyday, eat lasagne
That can be most fun ‘ya
The cutest fat cat
Who really likes to chat
The orange tabby
With words of stabby
A fun loving creature
In a cartoon feature
Love ‘im, hate ‘im
You still can’t help to grin
“Never trust a smiling cat” Garfield
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Mini Cooper (Daily Photo)
Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography
“You Don’t Need A Big One To Be Happy!”
Mini Cooper (Daily Photo)
Baby I can drive my car?
Guess I will be going far?
I’m not going to be a star
But I like playing a guitar
Oh and driving my car,
My Mini Cooper car!
Beep, beep, beep – Yeah!
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Shrove Tuesday (Daily Photo)
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Poetry & Photography
“I started a Shrove Tuesday and then by Ash Wednesday something had happened and I had a bottle of beer” Mick McCarthy
Shrove Tuesday (Daily Photo)
Shrove Tuesday (known in some countries as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day) is a day in February or March preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes. In others, especially those where it is called Mardi Gras or some translation thereof, this is a carnival day, and also the last day of “fat eating” or “gorging” before the fasting period of Lent.
In Finland, Shrovetide took on a new meaning after the Reformation started by the German Martin Luther (1483-1546) from ca 1520 on. In the rural calendar, it marked the date by which many springtime tasks and duties, like spinning etc, should be brought to conclusion.
Nowadays Shrovetide is more of a secular festival season, a time for winter sport enthusiasts as well as for feasts of fatty foods, although the Lenten fasting ritual is not practiced among the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church.
On Shrove Tuesday, children in many kindergartens and schools are taken to spend the day tobogganing, ice skating or cross-country or downhill skiing.
Popular Finnish Shrovetide desserts are Shrove buns, almond paste and whipped cream-filled sweet buns, which you will find sold in every bakery and store at Shrovetide, and Finnish oven-baked pancake served with jam. In Finland, the habit of eating Shrove buns can be dated back to the 17th century, but this tradition is even older in Sweden, where it originally came from.
