Monochrome Monday on Wednesday

The second shot gives you a close-up of the carving and the quotation.
Flushing Cemetery, Queens, NY

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Ruby Tuesday

Hi everyone! It's Ruby Tuesday again!

Have you ever seen such beautiful RED flowers? They were at my arts and crafts store. I took a whole bunch of pix and then created this collage.

Here's my big black boot spruced up a bit with poppies from the store. They raise my spirits a bit...




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Mellow Yellow Monday

Drowsy Monkey at Mellow Yellow Monday is the hostess for Mellow Yellow Monday. Go on over to see other participants.

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Manic Monday - bird

Mo has suggested BIRD this week for Manic Monday.

Take a look at the CHICKEN LITTLE RAP.

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Shadow Shot Sunday #45

Alligator Shadows

These wonderful creatures basking in the sun are the alligators of Everglades National Park in Florida.

Go over to Hey Harriet to see other participants and the Hey Harriet gallery of shadow photographs.

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Kay's Seven Deadly Sins #4 Envy

~ DON'T MISS ALL THE COLOR IN MY POST ON LA BOCA, BUENOS AIRES BELOW~

Today We are to discuss ENVY or "invidiousness." for Kay's Seven Daily Sins meme.

Oh, Oh wait, this isn't what Kay meant! She meant us to post about ENVY, one of the Seven Deadly Sins. I got carried away, I got hung up on technology...duh!

All right now, the sin of ENVY!

From the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Envy is a complex and puzzling emotion. It is, notoriously, one of the seven deadly sins. It is very commonly charged with being (either typically or universally) unreasonable, irrational, imprudent, vicious, or wrong to feel.

With very few exceptions, the ample philosophical literature defending the rationality and evaluative importance of emotions explicitly excludes envy and a few other nasty emotions as irredeemable.

Indeed, some authors who are prepared to defend even jealousy insist that envy is beyond the pale. Yet there is considerable controversy over what precisely envy is, and the cogency of various specific criticisms of envy depends on what view of that subject is adopted.

In addition to its centrality to discussions in the philosophy of emotions, envy has sparked controversies in political philosophy. Perhaps best known among these is the claim that egalitarian views of justice are motivated by envy.

It also receives substantial treatment from John Rawls, who takes pains to argue that envy does not pose a threat to his theory of justice.

Aren't you curious about that statement above about egalitarianism and envy?

Freud, for instance, held that concern with justice is the product of childhood envy of other children leading to concern for equal treatment, and thereby to ‘group spirit’: “If one cannot be the favorite oneself, at all events nobody else shall be the favorite.”

Defense of the charge that egalitarianism is occurrently motivated by envy hinges both on the commitments of egalitarianism and on the nature of envy. The common motif is that egalitarians wish to do away with the advantages of the better off, and that they wish to do this because they are bothered by the very fact that the better off are better off. This is supposed to show that egalitarians are motivated by envy. Whether this is a fair characterization of any prominent egalitarian position is certainly open to question.

Da__ right it's open to question! It's not true AT ALL! Egalitarians of which I consider myself one are not motivated by envy or jealousy. That's utterly ridiculous! Egalitarians want justice for ALL people particularly people who suffer inequality because of unchosen circumstances such as economic factors, class, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.

And how do we solve the problem of inequality, particularly economic inequality, here in the U.S.? The government taxes people. Yeah, that's righ, those who HAVE pay taxes for the HAVE NOTS. I'm not afraid to say it. That's why we're a community, a society. We help our own.

I pay school taxes and willingly even though I have no children in school. The rule isn't each of us pays for the services we use. The rule is we who can pay, pay for the services EVERYBODY uses! You don't like it? Tough! That's the way societies function!

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La Boca District

~Introducing La Boca, Buenos Aires~

La Boca is a neighborhood, or barrio of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It retains a strong European flavour, with many of its early settlers being from the Italian city of Genoa. In fact the name has a strong assonance with the genoese neighborhood of Boccadasse (or Bocadaze in genoese dialect), and some people believe that the Buenos Aires' barrio was indeed named after it. The conventional explanation is that the neighborhood sits at the mouth ("boca" in Spanish) of the Riachuelo.



Hope you enjoyed the colors of La Boca. My new header is a photo of La Boca as
well.

theteach

~When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.~
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Looking at the Sky on Friday

Do you see a couple of faces over there on the left? No, then why did I take this picture anyway?

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Das Boot

The "SM" mean small. Need I say more?

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PEEPS!

I saw Peeps in the supermarket yesterday. I went up close to look at them. I haven't seen them in a year. I thought they only came out at Easter time. At least here in the Northeast. Yet the Peeps web site says there are Peeps for Valentine's Day, Halloween, and Christmas!

Here are the Valentine's Day Peeps!

Here are the Halloween Peeps!



But my favorite are the Easter, Springtime Peeps in those incredibly bright colors



Here are a load of links to Peeps web sites. You won't believe how many sites there are:

Peeps Web sites

And here's some history about these sugary rabbit and chicken shapes:

The History of Everybody's Favorite Candy

During the Easter season, Americans will enjoy an estimated 700 million Peeps, that sweet marshmallow candy shaped like a chick or bunny. With those kinds of numbers, it's no wonder Peeps are billed as America's favorite candy.

Are you a Peeps fan? Have you ever been curious about Peeps history? Where they came from and how they developed into the ultimate Easter treat? Just read on!

Nearly a century ago, a young Russian-born man named Sam Born was living in France, where he learned the fine art of chocolate making. Sam immigrated to the United States in 1910. Seven years later, he opened a small candy shop in New York City, where he not only sold sweets, but made them, too.

As Born's operations outgrew his store, he moved his company, by then coined Just Born, out of New York City to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

In the mid 1950s, Just Born acquired another company that had invented a three-dimensional marshmallow mold that turned out Easter chicks and bunnies, called Peeps. With some fine-tuning of their assembly line and clever marketing, Born had an Easter hit on his hands.

But why was the chick and rabbit so appealing? How did those particular animals-albeit sugary ones-so quickly become adopted as the symbols for Easter?

Interestingly, Just Born was based in Pennsylvania, which was also home to America's largest community of German immigrants who are largely credited with popularizing the Easter Bunny tradition in America.

In the 19th century, German children would eagerly await the arrival of the Oschter Haws, a rabbit who delighted children on Easter morning by laying colored eggs in nests. The Germans expanded this tradition into the Easter egg basket, delivered by a hopping bunny.

While the symbolism of the Easter bunny might be rather obvious, the chick question requires one to dig a little deeper. And to ask the perennial question: Which came first? The chicken? Or the egg?

Historians have long speculated that the egg was actually a Pagan symbol of fertility and rebirth, first associated with ancient equinox festivals, whose traditions were later folded into the Christian Easter. It stands to reason, then, that the chick would be a natural byproduct of this egg-y fertility

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My strongest memory about Peeps was how full and bloated you'd feel when you ate 4 or 5 of those sugary little candies. And how much you worried about getting cavities in your teeth. Ah! Those were the days!

theteach

~Well, my dear friends, I did fracture my ankle. I had a Xray this afternoon. Will probably see an orthopedist tomorrow sometime...@$#%%^$!~

~My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.~
- Rita Rudner

Monochrome Monday on Wednesday

The Young Rembrandt by Wim van Doorn

JFK, Terminal 4

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~There must be more to life than having everything.~
- Maurice Sendak

Ruby Tuesday

Here are two beautiful ladies dressed in RED for Ruby Tuesday!

Cheret, Jules
Palais de Glace, 1893

(Ice Palace)

34 x 96 inches (86 x 244 cm)

Lithograph | Backed on linen

Inventory #FRL09490

The lady in red is ice skating.





Title: Arlette Dorgere, 1904 (poster)
Artist:Jules Cheret
Heigth= 48
Width= 18

Arlette Dorgère
Paris, France

Although information on Arlette Dorgère's early life is somewhat sketchy, she landed on the international stage by the young age of 19. Among Arlette Dorgère's earliest appearances in Paris was at the Théâtre des Variétés, 1903, in Claude Terrasse's operetta, Le Sire de Vergy.

Mlle Dorgère was not only a great beauty but she was also well-versed in song and dance. She appears in Rio, 1906, as a Greek dancer with the Brazillian dancer, Antonio Lopes de Amorim Diniz, known as Duque, and then, again, 1909 in a musical comedietta called "At Home", by Max Rogers in London. In 190[5?], Mllle Dorgère at the Bouffes Parisienes and appeared there again in 1912 as Colette in "La bonne veille Coutume" Later that year, she featured among the cast at "La Cigale" in the revue Arrête, Arrêtez, Chauffeur.

Arlette's love life must have made good copy. She was one of Paris' great beauties and many men fell victim to her charms. How many time she was offered marriage proposals or if she ever did marry is still unknown to us.

After retiring from the stage, we would like to believe Arlette Dorgère retired in fashion with her beauty still intact and lived in grand style throughout the rest of her life.

Today, postcards and other vintage media, of Arlette Dorgère are some of the most popular, expensive and most likely more collectible than in her own day.

Thank you for joining us today for Ruby Tuesday!

And remember Spring is upon us -- Happy Day! If you find RED buds or flowers blooming any where around you why don't you post them for our meme?

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SHIZ: word of the day

I found this word today at the web site of Photo jojo. Right there at the head of their site is this sentence:

We find the best photo shiz anywhere.

SHIZ

I thought it was a very interesting word and looked it up. The dictionary didn't have a definition but the Reference said it had something to do with the Book of Mormon. No, no that's not what I wanted. I wanted it to mean "STUFF." Or maybe "Sh___" I think you could see these meaning fitting very well. Then I went to the Urban Dictionary and found 3 definitions that were more likely as far as I was concerned:

1.	shiz	325 up, 62 down
	another word for sh__. shiz, man i got grounded for a whole year. by Phil Kong Dec 3, 2007 share this
2.	Shiz	422 up, 288 down
	something great or wonderful That movie was the shiz! It was the best movie ive seen in 2 years! by Patrick Martin Sep 7, 2003 share this
3.	shiz	unacceptable definition for printing here

The second definition is the one I like and want to use along with an additional definition like "Great stuff."

Also in searching around the internet I found this:

Shiz University is a fictional university in Gregory Maguire's revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Shiz also appears in Stephen Schwartz's Wicked, the hit Broadway musical based on the book. In the book, the university is located in the city of Shiz in Gillikin, the northern province of the Land of Oz.

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