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“Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?” – Vernon Howard This is my offering for THE ROAD TAKEN (weekly photo challenge).
Some wear their age spots on the inside ….. An excerpt from the lyrics of the attached song: Le le lee I mono wayso jambo pe janga poje Onte myo sobo jo maame jauo peijosau Kokonipi jao sobo jambo, jambo pomi peso Can somebody help me identify the language used in this song? It is a mystery to me and would be…
To be honest, on a regular day I don’t go around with my camera, not even with my phone snapping pics the moment I wake up, but on my holidays it happens sometimes. This is what I found on my first early morning during my exploration of Corsica: an intimate beach lined with messy trees, bunkers, scarce houses, but I loved the ever changing…
Regina is a Ferruginous Buzzard that found its home on the hamlet of Vezio overhanging Varenna on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. She spends most of her time caged in, and that’s where I found her on a late Summer afternoon screaming her lungs out and begging to be let go…. **About Thursday’s Special: It is a new ‘non-challenge’ challenge that…
Not long ago I posted this same photo in B&W. Many of you thought it was a rose, but the object I photographed is rosette-shaped selenite gypsum that can be found in the deserts of Morocco and Algeria. Owing to its appearance, it is popularly called a desert rose. It is born in a process of moisture condensation when selenite huddles together…
Common fig also known as just fig or scientifically Ficus Carica is a species of flowering plant belonging to the mulberry family of fruits along with mulberries, breadfruit, and osage orange. Now, what I wonder about is what makes the common fig so common? Is it the fact that it is the oldest cultivated fruit on Earth; (scientists have recently discovered that figs…
For my birthday a few days ago I made one wish only: to be wiser, and not necessarily older. The photo bellow is a step in that direction. The owl picture is a royalty free photo found on the Internet, and the merged face is mine. I give you Powla 😉
For this week’s Word a Week Photo Challenge – Round I’ve decided to post a photo of the most famous amphitheatre in the Roman world Colosseum, which though not round, but oval in shape, is the best known example of Roman architecture. The word amphitheatre is derived from Latin amphitheatrum, i.e. Gk. amphitheatron, neut. of amphitheatros “with spectators all around,” from amphi– “on both sides”…
When I first saw this week’s photo challenge theme I was resolved not to participate, but then I changed my mind :D. Here are some snaps of the street demonstrations in Rome which I witnessed in late November last year. This group of young people were resolved to change their government and they managed to do so. I wish my nation was this resolved….
Ages ago a city vanished under the raging lava to be uncovered 17 centuries later and shown to the world. The dead city with so many traces of life remains as a reminder of once advanced civilisation. In the middle of the yard of an anonymous house surrounded by ancient columns stands a tree, the subject of my take on the Sunday post challenge….
Almost 2,000 years ago the ancient seaside city of Pompeii, nestled at the bottom of the deadly Vesuvius got buried beneath a mountain of volcanic ash following a fierce volcano eruption. Nearly three thousand people lost their lives, and the city remained hidden for 1,700 years. Today one of the largest and best preserved archaeological sites in the world, Pompeii will take you back…
Lost in Translation 