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from The Isle of Arran

Monday, October 19th, 2009

from The Isle of Arran Originally uploaded by alexandrasilber Autumn Fires In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, The gray smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all! Flowers in the summer, Fires in the fall! by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,000

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Originally uploaded by krispy13 Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. --Wu Men

The Greatest Gift…

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

The Greatest Gift... Originally uploaded by julsatmidnight Light up the Fire I gaze into the heart, lowly it may be, Thought the words be higher still. For the heart is all the substance, The speech an accident. How many phrases will you speak, Too many for me. How much burning, burning will you feel, Be friendly with the fire, enough ...

Standing in the sun

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Standing in the sun Originally uploaded by Adelaide_e Echoing Light When I was beginning to read I imagined that bridges had something to do with birds and with what seemed to be cages but I knew that they were not cages it must have been autumn with the dusty light flashing from the ...

Southwestern Sun

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Southwestern Sun Originally uploaded by Elva Undine Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, the uneaten fruits crumbling damply in the shadows, unmattering back from the particular island of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere except underfoot, moldering in that black subterranean castle of unobservable mysteries - - -roots and sealed seeds and the wanderings ...

Now I see the landscape behind me

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

watercolor, acrylic and graphite on paper. 5" x 7". 2006. Painted by Son Dao (equusignis on flickr). Original posting on flickr can be found here. This is posted with his permission. Please do not reproduce it, copy it or post it elsewhere without his permission. This Is Not an Elegy by ...

The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_53" align="aligncenter" width="386" caption="A play about a redhead wronged who gets violent"][/caption] The play "The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead" was written by Australian playwright Robert Hewett. Here is what the play is about, according to Australian plays dot org: An adulterous husband, a meddlesome neighbour and a dropped ice-cream ...


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