Month: July 2018
Lens-Artist-Photo-Challenge-Soft
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Week 4
Many years ago Simon and Garfunkel sang of
a vision softly creeping…
and it was certainly a vision which
softly crept up on us the morning
many of us saw falling snow for the first time.
and if we had tarried too long, we would…
certainly have been covered by that
freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
Columbia Icefield/Athabasca Glacier
straddles the
Alberta-British Columbia border
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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Patti: Soft
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Leya: Soft
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Amy: Soft
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Tina: Soft
SUNDAY-STILLS-PC-Summer-Drink
Earlier this year we had a
Wedding Anniversary dinner
aboard The Q Train.
The Q Train is a refurbished Queensland Train
which operates for lunch and dinner on a
short two-hour length of rail, near Geelong,
making the experience a four-hour return journey .
These are but three of the matching drinks
which were provided with each course.
For me/us, summer or winter,
any drink which does not…
~~~~contain alcohol is the drink of the day.
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTOS: Summer-Drink
Fandango’s-OWC-Unknown
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Off into the wild blue yonder…
to destinations unknown.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Unknown
Book Review-Hammer-of-God-Greig-Beck
Hammer of God
(Alex Hunter #5.5)
by
Greig Beck
Hammer of God commences with a nuclear explosion somewhere in Iraq. Naturally this upset the status quo a coalition peace keeping force was trying to bring to the region. To exacerbate the situation the last images from the area do not show and sign of an airborne device being used. The only thing out-of-place is a huge man/person carrying a rather large package on its back right into ground zero.
Major Jack Hammerson and Alex hunter (The Arcadian), join forces with an old ally and Mossad spy Adira Senesh. They are soon enmeshed in a story of ancient prophecies which appear to be true.
Again Greig Beck has written about the ancients and prophecies of evil and shaped it into a plausible storyline. However it was not one of his best books I my opinion. That may be entirely due to the subject of his story which are these giants walking around with nuclear devices strapped to their backs. It was not until the first explosion that I remembered reading/listening to it about four years ago and I felt I was going through the motions of reading ‘because I had started the book’. A book needs to be really bad (in my opinion) before I will discard before completing it. Hammer of God was good enough to listen to a second time, but I find I am liking books which do not have monsters lurking…somewhere these days. A sign of age? Maybe.
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I think
Hammer of God
is a
read.
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In 2018,
Goodreads readers have rated
Hammer of God
an average of 4.09 stars from
346 ratings and 28 reviews.
I am also surprised that so few have bothered
to rate and review this novel.
Hammer of God
can be purchased on-line at
Fishpond, Booktopia, and Amazon
Booktopia does not have Hammer of God.
Fandango’s-OWC-Moment
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Although not the best photograph,
flash photography not allowed…. 
We all spent more than a moment admiring
Michelangelo’s Pieta (Jesus & Mary)
in St. Peter’s Basilica,
Vatican City, Rome.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Moment
A-Photo-a-Week-Challenge-Neglected
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Weather boards displaying years of neglect.
A brick building…also neglected.
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Neglected
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Floral Friday18-July27
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Floral Friday Challenge.
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Butchart Gardens…1
Foliage and blooms…
from Butchart Gardens…
Victoria, British Columbia.
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Floral Friday
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Fandango’s-OWC-Arrangement
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An arrangemant of colour and interesting foliage…
provides year round interest in any garden.
This is London’s, St James Park.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Arrangement
Cee-BW-Challenge-Benches
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Cee’s
Black and White Challenge.
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A definition of bench is a seat upon which
two or more people may sit.
So two out-door benches…
which meet that definition.
This photo is of a very different ‘bench’…
and this, a view from that bench.
The 2016 census put the population of Steiglitz at 53.
In the 1860s-1890s the gold rush population
was over 1,000 and was probably the reason
for the construction of the Court House.
Finally, a work bench I made a few weeks ago.
It was made to take the pressure off my back and knees.
And I think it fits my definition…
two or more people could sit upon it. 🙂
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Cees-Black-White-Photo-Challenge: Benches
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