WISHING YOU A TRILLING TIME
THIS HALLOWEEN!!!

Weeds are flowers too,

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

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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)

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~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

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yOU ALL

have a

whimsical

sunday!!!