~Mermaid?

The floating gigantic sculpture “The Bather” 
is a 4 meters high by 30 meters long
(approx. 13 x 98 feet) lady sculpture
in Hamburg. It was made from steel and Styrofoam.
It can be seen at Alster Lake, as you notice her head and Knees floating on a lake. Looks like she enjoying bathing in the lake.

The Sculpture is a creation of Oliver Voss,
head of the advertising academy Miami Ad School.
It was made to show a woman enjoying
herself bathing in the lake.

Since the project was sponsored by a local soap
company which uses a mermaid as their branding image,
some people claim the sculpture is a blatant advertisement,
even though no logo or product description is shown.

“The Bather” will be hoisted out of the water
on August 12 by a crane.
And the company says they’ll have a giant towel
at the ready to dry her off.
Good thing, too: we expect she’ll be a bit
pruny after her 10-day soak.

Oliver Voss, hoofd van de Miami Ad School,
heeft een drijvend kunstwerk in het meer geplaatst.
Tien dagen lang zal de badende reuzenvrouw
in het meer blijven.

Van 3 tot en met 10 augustus 2011 is de
sculptuur ‘Die badende’ van kunstenaar
Oliver Voss te zien in het Hamburgse Binnenalstermeer.

  
THE BEST WISHING FOR YOU ALL,
THIS CHRISTMAS!!!

.
Alice at the mad tea-party
by W.H. Walker

.

I had a lovely party,

with lots of tea and cupcakes,

wonderful presents,

handshakes and lots of kisses!

I was really spoiled

with friendship

and

best wishes for my 

Birthday..

so Thank you All!!!

.

~My Birthday!!!

IT´s MY  BIRTHDAY TOMORROW!!!
…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME…

Update:
I mean it’s my own Birthday,
not my doggies!!!
SORRY!

~Have an Enchanting Weekend!

  

KEEP WHISPERING

YOUR HEARTDREAMS,  

YOU NEVER KNOW

WHEN YOUR ANGEL

IS LISTENING.

~AWARD;o)

Thanks Carrie ..
for this very lovely and special Award.
You can find her Blog
HERE!!!

Flowers are for YOU!!!

OMG WHAT A CUTE FACE xxx
DON’T YOU JUST LOVE IT TOO?

~Old Book Illustrations

 

Wishing you all a Wonderful Weekend
XXX ANNA XXX

~One of my favorites!!!….

  

  If you see me smile
It’s not because I forgot you
It’s because I got tired of crying over you.

If you see me living again
It’s not because I’ve moved on
It’s because I hate the fact that you can live without me

So if I fall in love with someone else..
It’s not because I wanted to
It’s because you weren’t there to love me

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND, YOU ALL!!!

WISHING YOU A TRILLING TIME
THIS HALLOWEEN!!!

Weeds are flowers too,

once you get to know them.
by A.A. Milne

300 Followers already
WOW …
thank you all for your friendship and interest.
XXX

Enchanting Picture, don’t you think?
The sun is her Halo

~It’s Weekend…

Autumn wild pears 
Photographer Lois Slokoski


HAVE A NICE SUNNY

WEEKEND!

~Still Raining Here!!!

Have a Wonderful Weekend!
and take a rest ones in awhile ;o)

XXX

~Dierendag!

  
Veel dierenliefhebbers zetten op 4 oktober
hun huisdier in het zonnetje.
Geven hem of haar een extra bot, lange wandeling
of bijvoorbeeld dierensnoepje.
Omdat het dierendag is.
In Nederland wordt dierendag sinds 1930 gevierd.
Deze dag is niet lukraak gekozen.
Tijdens een internationaal Dierenbeschermingscongres
in 1929 in Wenen werd besloten de sterfdag van de
heilige Franciscus van Assisi tot
Werelddierendag uit te roepen.

Franciscus van Assisi (1181-1226) stichtte in zijn
tijd de kloosterorde van de Franciscanen of Minderbroeders.
Volgens de legendes predikte Van Assisi niet alleen
onder mensen maar ook onder dieren en voerde hij
vele gesprekken met de leden van het dierenrijk.
In verschillende landen in de wereld kunnen gelovigen
op 4 oktober met hun dieren in de kerk terecht
om hen te laten zegenen. Tegenwoordig is
Dierendag al lang niet meer alleen
een christelijk feest.

World Animal Day is celebrated each year on October 4.
It started in Florence, Italy in 1930 at a convention of
ecologists.On this day, animal life in all its forms
is celebrated, and special events are planned on
locations all over the globe. 4 October was originally
chosen for World Animal Day because it is the feast
day of Francis of Assisi, a nature lover and patron saint
of animals and the environment.
Numerous churches throughout the world observe
the Sunday closest to 4 October with a
Blessing for the Animals.
 

Art by Arthur Rackham

The rainbow inspires metaphor and simile.
Virginia Woolf in To the Lighthouse highlights the
transience of life and Man's mortality through
Mrs Ramsey's thought,

"it was all as ephemeral as a rainbow"

Wordsworth's 1802 poem "My Heart Leaps Up" begins:

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!...

The Newtonian deconstruction of the rainbow
is said to have provoked John Keats to lament
in his 1820 poem "Lamia":

Do not all charms fly

At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:

We know her woof, her texture; she is given

In the dull catalogue of common things.

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,

Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,

Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine –

Unweave a rainbow

READ MORE ABOUT RAINBOWS HERE!!!

yOU ALL

have a

whimsical

sunday!!!

May all of our hearts beat so wild and free...
if only for the day.  

Credits:
All photos are the work of Irene Suchocki
WEBSITE HERE!
 

~Stealing it’s Lunch….

A young Rattus Norvegicus
(better known as the brown rat)
  helps himself to the lunch of a 12-year-old
African leopard named Sheena
at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in
Hertfordshire, England.

Sheena gives the little dinner thief a sniff
and goes back about her leopard business.

Read Full story HERE!

Look at his ears when he gets tickled
So Adorable
don’t you think?

~Old Illustration

A Bracket Fungus (Polyporus varius) -
groups of fruiting bodies with one sectioned.
Watercolour by G. Harding, 1900
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~Mermaids

A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature
with a female human head, arms, and torso and the
tail of a fish. A male version of a mermaid is known
as a "merman" and in general both males and females
are known as "merfolk".
Mermaids are represented in the folklore,
literature and popular culture of
many countries worldwide.

Art by Josephine Wall

The first known mermaid stories appeared
in Assyria, ca. 1000 BC. The goddess Atargatis,
mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, loved a mortal
shepherd and unintentionally killed him. Ashamed,
she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish,
but the waters would not conceal her divine beauty.
Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid—human
above the waist, fish below—though the earliest
representations of Atargatis showed her as a fish
with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea.
The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo.
Prior to 546 BC, the Milesian philosopher Anaximander
proposed that mankind had sprung from an aquatic
species of animal. He thought that humans, with their
extended infancy, could not have survived otherwise.
READ MORE HERE!!!

art by John William Waterhouse

~This is a true story

of Mother’s Sacrifice during the
China Earthquake.

After the Earthquake had subsided, when the
rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house,
they saw her dead body through the cracks.
But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on
her knees like a person was worshiping; her body
was leaning forward, and her two hands were
supporting by an object.
The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.
With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer
team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall
to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this
woman could be still alive. However,
the cold and stiff body told him that
she had passed away for sure.

 
He and the rest of the team left this house and
were going to search the next collapsed building.
For some reasons, the team leader was driven by
a compelling force to go back to the ruin house
of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used
his had through the narrow cracks to search the little
space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed
the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman.
There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a
flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body.
Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice
for saving her son. When her house was falling,
she used her body to make a cover to protect her son.
The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when
the team leader picked him up.


The medical doctor came quickly to exam the
little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone
inside the blanket. There was a text message on the
screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember
that I love you.” This cell phone was passing
around from one hand to another.
Every body that read the message wept.
” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.”
Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

LINK

..I like to walk in the woods
and
visit this enchanting little cottage..
Will you go with me?
xxx

~The Maiden and the Unicorn

Read the Story HERE!!!

 

 

Longest day, shortest night, longest light, shortest dark...
The world within echoes the world without,
lush foliage, leaves unfurled, soft springy grass dotted
with brightly colored flowers peeping through,
the earth is green and bright with warm sunny days...
clear velvety blue skies, gentle cool breezes,
Nature in glory, our hopes blossom, creativity flowers
with the season, the seeds of the fruit our desires will bear,
can be seen on the stems of our dreams...

(Summer Solstice Poems - Poetry 2011)

~Old Book Illustration

From: Selecta fungorum carpologia ea
documenta et icones potissimum exhibens 

Author: Geney-Gros.; Imperiali Typographeo.;
Tulasne, Charles,; Tulasne,
Louis ReneVolume: v. 3 (1861)

~Music Time

Because of you
The tears dead in my eyes
They freeze until I'm blind
The eyes a gift from you

Because of you
The scratches on my face
Will never be erased
By someone else's warmth

Because of you
The winter feeds my heart
While summer blows and burns
My disappearing youth
My love is gone
Never feel again

Because of love
I feel nothing
Because of you
I'll never feel again
The agony of pain
Will never bruise or start

Because of you
Our passion tends to lead
With all my lover's fate
With pieces from my heart

My love is done
Never feel again
Because of love
I feel nothing

Did you ever see a bigger fungi?

 

SOURCE

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!!
XXX

~Mushroom manifesto

We are cacophonous,
euphonious. 
A symphony.

We’ll bring you high,
from our low. Watch the
symptoms.

We are a riot,
delightful.
A speciality.


SOURCE

~Old book illustrations

trumpet of death (Craterellus cornucopioides)
Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde
(The mushroom lover’s guidebook) vol. 1,
by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.
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 Hawk’s Wing (hydnum imbricatum)
Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde\
(The mushroom lover’s guidebook) vol. 1,
by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.
.
 Boletus edulis var. bulbosus.
Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde
(The mushroom lover’s guidebook) vol. 1,
by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.
.