In the mist

Lago di Olginate, Italy

Famous quotes

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."

Charlotte Brönte (1816 - 1855)

Famous quotes

"Sometimes I wonder if Love is worth fighting for.

Then I think of you, and I am ready for war"

Unknown

Roses and their meaning

White roses signify purity, innocence, unity, loyalty, reverence, humility. Sometimes called the "flower of light," the white rose also means spiritual love and anticipation of happiness.

Red roses signify romance, beauty, respect, and passionate love. Red roses in full bloom say, "I still love you."

The British War of Roses (1455- 1487) was between the house of Lancaster (red roses), and the house of York (white roses).
Pink roses signify elegance, style, poetic romance, sweet thoughts, thank you,  joy and grace.

Orange roses signify excitement, exotic passion, desire, and enthusiasm.

Yellow roses signify friendship, joy, gladness, the Sun, delight, happiness, a new beginning, power, wisdom, jealousy, dying love.

Purple roses signify enchantment, mystery, opulence, glory, majesty, dreams, magic, and royalty.

Blue roses are the Holy Grail of roses. They signify mystery, enigmatic, unobtainable, impossible love.

This is what happens when you think about the daily world

Believe it or not

This is a dog named Enzo !! It belongs to an italian sheepdog breed called Bergamasco.

Photo and caption by Lisa Vanderhoop.

Lu Alone - Not The Right Day

Music is where you least expect it

The Bells Voices from Salzburg, Austria

Praying Mantis, Panama

Enigma - Return To Innocence

The first song I downloaded !!

The Bells

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

Edgar Allan Poe

The Borobudur Buddhist temple in Java , Indonesia.

Träumerei

Schumann: "Träumerei" from Kinderszenen Op.15.
Picture: Young Woman Reading by a Window by Delphin Enjolras

Happy Easter 2011

Floating in the Air

Badab Sourt Spring, Iran

Spiders and Co.

Spiders have been the focus of fears, stories and mythologies of various cultures for centuries. They have symbolized patience due to their hunting technique of setting webs and waiting for prey, as well as mischief and malice for the painful death their venom causes.

Web-spinning also caused the association of the spider with creation myths as they seem to have the ability to produce their own worlds. The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped nature. They placed emphasis on animals and often depicted spiders in their art.

Arachnophobia is a specific phobia, an abnormal fear of spiders or anything reminiscent of spiders, such as webs or spider-like shapes. It is one of the most common specific phobias, and some statistics show that 50 percent of women and 10 percent of men show symptoms.

It may be an exaggerated form of an instinctive response that helped early humans to survive, or perhaps a cultural phenomenon that is most common in predominantly European societies.

The biggest fossil spider yet

found.

Key Risk Factor for Bullying Identified ?

Bullying is a pervasive public health problem requiring comprehensive solutions. Multiple studies have documented the association between substance use, poor academic achievement, mental health problems and bullying.  A small but growing body of research shows associations between violent family encounters and being bullied, bullying, and being a bully-victim (both victim and perpetrator of bullying).

Other facts:

·         The percentage of victims is  greater than the percentage of bullies and bully-victims;

·         Boys were more apt than girls to be bullies, and girls were more likely than boys to be victims of bullying;

·         Bully-victims were also more than 3 times as likely to report seriously considering suicide, and intentionally injuring themselves.

 In Brooks M, Key Risk Factor for Bullying Identified



Famous quotes

"Well: what we gain by Science is, after all, sadness."

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

English novelist. He showed,  in his writing, some degree of fascination with supernatural forces, ghosts and spirits.



Arrival of the Birds

Happy Earth Day !!!

Return of the Jedi

    Papua New Guinea's tube nosed fruit bat             x                    Master Yoda

Lara Fabian - Broken Vow

Famous quotes

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned

By those who are not entirely beautiful.

William Butler Yeats

Oedipus

The story begins with a son born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. The oracle at Delphi told them that their child would grow up to murder Laius and marry Jocasta. Horrified, the king fastened the infant's feet together with a large pin and left him on a mountainside.

However, shepherds found the baby and took him to the city of Corinth. Oedipus the infant eventually came to the house of Polybus, king of Corinth and his queen, Merope, who adopted him as they were without children of their own. Little Oedipus/Oidipous was named after the swelling from the injuries to his feet and ankles. The word oedema (British English) or edema (American English) is from this same Greek word for swelling. When Oedipus was grown, however, someone told him that he was not the son of Polybus. Oedipus went to Delphi to ask the oracle about his parentage. The answer he received was, "You are the man fated to murder his father and marry his mother."

Believing that the oracle had said he was fated to kill Polybus and marry Merope, Oedipus vowed never to return to Corinth. Instead, he headed toward Thebes.

Along the way, Oedipus came to a narrow road between cliffs. There he met a disguised King Laius, in a chariot coming the other way. The two quarreled over who should give way, and Oedipus killed his true father, unknowingly, and went on to Thebes. He learned that a monster called the Sphinx was terrorizing the Thebans by devouring them when they failed to answer its riddle "What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?" Oedipus gave the correct answer: "A human being, who crawls as an infant, walks erect in maturity, and leans on a staff in old age." With this answer, Oedipus not only defeated the Sphinx, which killed itself in rage, but won the throne of the dead king and the hand in marriage of the king's widow, Jocasta.

So, Oedipus fulfilled is dreadful destiny.

Oldest Known Heart Disease



Known as Ahmose Meryet Amon, the princess lived some 3,500 years ago and died in her 40s.

She is the earliest known sufferer of coronary atherosclerosis. Although the mummy's actual heart had been removed before entombment, the CT scans uncovered calcium deposits elsewhere in the body that are indicative of artery damage.

The Ancient Egyptians lacked a lot of the risk factors that we consider to be important in the development of atherosclerosis in modern populations—namely smoking, high rates of diabetes and obesity, and foods rich in fats.

But, since she belonged to the elite, the princess presumably led a more pampered lifestyle, was more sedentary, and also—maybe importantly—had access to foods which were dense in calories, particularly meats

The princess's mummified body is among those now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Adapted from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110415-ancient-egypt-mummies-princess-heart-disease-health-science/

Life

Life, believe, is not a dream

So dark as sages say;

Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall ?

Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily,
Enjoy them as they fly !

What though Death at times steps in
And calls our Best away?
What though sorrow seems to win,
O'er hope, a heavy sway ?
Yet hope again elastic springs,
Unconquered, though she fell;
Still buoyant are her golden wings,
Still strong to bear us well.
Manfully, fearlessly,
The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair !

Charlotte Brontë

What's a name ? That which we call a rose

"What's a name ? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet."

Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2), William Shakespeare

Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless convention, and that she loves the person who is called "Montague", not the Montague name and not the Montague family.

The first picture of Earth from space

They went to the Moon, but ended up discovering Earth.

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives !"

Celtic Woman - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring