We are not quite there …
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2 0 0 9!
Posted on January 4, 2009 by riihele
PICTURE PERFECT: CONTRAST
Posted on January 17, 2008 by riihele
This week’s theme on
PICTURE PERFECT
is
CONTRAST
I call this picture:
FIRE & ICE!
The FLAMING HOT FIRE of the orange rising sun in the photo looks like a fireball had burst on the scene, and the contrasting extreme cold and frost on the branches and on the ground look so chill-into-your-bones ICY C-O-L-D. Brrr….
It was an extremely cold [...]
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PICTURE PERFECT: A Song Title
Posted on January 10, 2008 by riihele
The theme this week on
PICTURE PERFECT
is
A SONG TITLE
This RHAPSODY in BLUE is my contribution. The photo was taken during the holidays in December in the Finnish countryside. This title came to me while looking at the photo; for to me, everything is dancing: the falling snowflakes, the lights on the [...]
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GALLERIA: On a cold & frosty…
Posted on January 5, 2008 by riihele
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush,
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
On a cold and frosty morning— AHEM — Afternoon…
Tis for now. Rii
© Photos: Riihele. All rights reserved
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CHILD MATTERS or Slavery in Modern Times
Posted on November 20, 2007 by riihele
“Twice a year in Carrickmacross and surrounding towns a fair was held where men and girls rented their labour to well-to-do farmers for six months. It was Ireland’s version of the slave market.”
(Patrick Kavanagh ‘The Hired Boy’)
As you know by my blogs, that I do have varied interests in life and the living all [...]
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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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One Afternoon by a Lake…
Posted on October 26, 2007 by riihele
October is the month of moody clouds,
low sunlight, and
the last colourful autumnal leaves,
barely visible on the trees.
Tis for now, Rii xx
© Photos: By Riihele. All rights reserved.
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EVERY CLOUD…
Posted on October 24, 2007 by riihele
EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING -
“John Milton’s masque (dramatic entertainment) ‘Comus’ (1634)
gave rise to the current proverb with the lines,
‘Was I deceiv’d, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth her silver lining on the night?’ Charles Dickens, in his novel ‘Bleak House’ (1852), recalled the lines with ‘I turn my silver lining [...]
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Writers’ Block Challenge #20
Posted on October 14, 2007 by riihele
LIFE’S UPS & DOWNS
Sometimes
life feels like
one is in a constant
Ferris wheel:
Up, up!!
Down, down..
Up down
Down up…
Slowly turning up skywards.
Slowly turning down earthwards.
Round and round it goes,
Its merry way
Without end.
Time to enjoy the scenery – if so inclined
Taking in all the colours, the views, the beauty.
Time to endure the ride.
Wishing it was all over [...]
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