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Images & Words: styles ‘n miles
Posted on May 10, 2009 by riihele
Bray Cliff Walk – Ireland
Posted on November 4, 2008 by riihele
Picture Perfect: CURVES
Posted on June 7, 2008 by riihele
PICTURE PERFECT: WATER
Posted on February 7, 2008 by riihele
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink…”
It’s from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – when the Ancient Mariner is stuck in the middle of the sea.
Planet Earth has a total surface area of close to 197 million square miles. Most of this surface is covered by water. Most of [...]
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Incidents & Such Like: NUTS
Posted on November 23, 2007 by riihele
Incident time again as I am reminded of these incidents that have happened to me or around me and of which I do have a vast collection.
The flights to Helsinki from Dublin used be an all-day affair because at that time there were no direct flights so we either went from Dublin via London or [...]
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PICTURE PERFECT: REPETITION
Posted on November 19, 2007 by riihele
This beautiful manor, Lövstabruk, in Upper Uppland in Sweden was built from the 1600´s to the 1800´s in the likeness to Versailles in Paris. It lies just over 100 km north of Stockholm and 45 km north of Uppsala. Lövstabruk Manor House was plundered and burned in 1719 but was rebuilt building by building during [...]
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PICTURE PERFECT: ANTICIPATION
Posted on October 7, 2007 by riihele
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing,
or considering something beforehand,
or before the proper time in natural order.
”But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing,
if we think of the time we spend waiting for
the big things of [...]
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Belfast, Belfast…
Posted on September 30, 2007 by riihele
Photo of Belfast is off the Wikipedia site.
“Belfast from the Irish Béal Feirste meaning “The sandy ford at the river mouth” is the capital of Northern Ireland. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and the province of Ulster, and the second-largest city on the island of Ireland (after Dublin). In the 2001 census [...]
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Favourite Photos: BOUQUETS of ROSES
Posted on August 25, 2007 by riihele
The large white SIGN states:
RUUSU (Finnish) = ROSE
PUNTTI (colloquial Finnish) = Bouquet
The deal is 8€ for 20 roses – rather a great deal, I must say!
Here is the Currency Calculator to see how much that is in your money.The yellow SIGN behind the Campanula isophylla ‘Mayi’- “Star of Bethlehem”- gives [...]
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