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Jester (24:04:12)
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Image by Ismar Badzic
My mother bought me a red pencil a few years ago, with this little fella sat on top. I've never used this pencil because I prefer the sentimental value over it's real world purpose. I don't want to waste a pencil- I can do that to any pencil. I'm like that. I collect a lot of stuff that way. I find it hard to say goodbye or let go to people and objects alike. It's like the story of the kid who loved his new shoes so much that he never wore them for fear of getting them dirty-and then grew out of them (what film is that from- I reckon Home Alone).

But hey, I finally found a use for the pencil-jester. The subject on the receiving end of a beautiful 55mm macro lens.

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J D Graber with gifts, 1952, Argentina
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Image by Mennonite Church USA Archives
Caption: J.D. Graber is thanking the missionaries for gifts he and his wife received.

Citation: Mennonite Board of Missions. Photographs. Argentina, 1937-1954. IV-10-7.2 Box 1 folder 45, photo #7. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.

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Gifts for Veterans 012
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Image by North Dakota National Guard
Senior Master Sgt. Valerie Buchholz, of the 119th Logistics Readiness Squadron, left and her husband David wrap gifts Dec. 13 at the North Dakota Air National Guard, Fargo, N.D. The gifts were bought with donations by unit members and will be given to veterans at the Lisbon, N.D. Veteran's Home Dec. 19. (DoD photo by Master Sgt. Eric A. Johnson) (Released)

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California - Santa Rosa: Snoopy's Gallery & Gift Shop - For C.B.
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Image by wallyg
In 2005, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Peanuts cartoon, the town of Santa Rosa and Craig Schulz, Charles Schulz' son, presented It's Your Town Charlie Brown, a city-wide arts and community project hosting 55 Charlie Brown statues. For C.B. by artists Ami Victorino, Joel Yau and Jonathan Penaloza was sponsored by Determined Productions, Inc. and placed at 965 Sonoma Avenue. It can currently be found in Snoopy's Gallery & Gift Shop.

Snoopy's Gallery & Gift Shop, located next to the Redwood Empire Ice Arena at 1665 West Steele Lane in Santa Rosa, features 2,400 square feet of a wide range of Peanuts products.


Fractalius Filter Version, Patriotic Waving Tattered Shredding American Flag, Old Glory, The Red White and Blue, Stars & Stripes, That Ragged Old Flag
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Image by Beverly & Pack
Fractalius Filter Version

This Ragged Old Flag picture may be used for any purpose, personal or commerical. We'd all love to see how it is utilized, if you get a chance to leave a message and link to share. Thank you.

"Ragged Old Flag" by Johnny Cash

I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench, an old man was sittin' there.
I said, "Your old court house is kinda run down,
He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town".
I said, "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit,
And that's a ragged old flag you got hangin' on it".
He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down,
"Is this the first time you've been to our little town"
I said, "I think it is"
He said "I don't like to brag, but we're kinda proud of
That Ragged Old Flag

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there,
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
and It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it,
writing "Say Can You See"
It got a rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson
tugging at its seams.
and It almost fell at the Alamo
beside the Texas flag,
But she waved on though.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville,
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee and Beauregard and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on
That Ragged Old Flag

"On Flanders Field in World War I,
She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun,
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp, and low, a time or two,
She was in Korea, Vietnam, She went where she was sent
by her Uncle Sam.
She waved from our ships upon the briny foam
and now they've about quit wavin' back here at home
in her own good land here She's been abused,
She's been burned, dishonored, denied an' refused,
And the government for which she stands
Has been scandalized throughout out the land.
And she's getting thread bare, and she's wearin' thin,
But she's in good shape, for the shape she's in.
Cause she's been through the fire before
and i believe she can take a whole lot more.

"So we raise her up every morning
And we bring her down slow every night,
We don't let her touch the ground,
And we fold her up right.
On second thought
I *do* like to brag
Cause I'm mighty proud of
That Ragged Old Flag"


elephant_03_25_09
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Image by jcbonbon
so cute, but a pain in the butt. Never again!

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Chinese New Year Celebration
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Image by tanakawho
It is Chinese New Year week.  In Yokohama there is one of the largest China Town in Asia and they celebrate this time. I'll upload more photos of the celebration later(^_^;).

A lion coming in a restaurant and looking for a new year gift for him(her?).
Many of the shops & restaurants in China town prepare these gifts for lion(s) because the lions are a symbol of prosperity & strength. If they accept gifts, it'll give the shop/restaurant a good fortune of the year.


Chinese New Year Celebration
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Image by tanakawho
It is Chinese New Year week.  In Yokohama there is one of the largest China Town in Asia and they celebrate this time. I'll upload more photos of the celebration later(^_^;).

A lion has found a gift and is trying to eat it.
Usually this type of lion dance is performed with 2 people. In this picture the person doing the fore legs(^_^;) got up on the shoulder of the person doing the back and stood up. This requires a kind of gymnastics skill.
Many of the shops & restaurants in China town prepare these gifts for lion(s) because the lions are a symbol of prosperity & strength. If they accept gifts, it'll give the shop/restaurant a good fortune of the year.


Market Place, Swan Street, Warwick
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Image by ell brown
Just past the Warwickshire Museum. Still in Market Place. Swan Street up ahead.

Caffe Nero at the end of the square.

On the left is Piccadilly Cards & Gifts at 23 and 25 Market Place. Which is Grade II* listed.

In 1781 in might have been part of the Market Place (the actual Market Hall is nearby in Market Place).

Circa 1634, 3 storeys, altered and restored at various times. Timber framing is exposed on two upper floors and although considerable replacements have been made much of the original work remains particularly to west elevation facing New Street. Second storey is jettied and projecting joists have moulded ends. Four alternating large and small gable heads with chevron and geometrical framing. First storey has alternating bays of chevron and close square framing. First floor is jettied as second floor. Fairly satisfactory plate glass shopfronts and one C19 pair of Gothic windows and door. Remainder of ground floor is stucco. West elevation (to New Street) is similar, but with one large and two small gable heads; a greater proportion of this timber framing is original. On corner of New Street are three crude carved heads of considerable interest. C18 sashes in cased frames throughout on upper floors. Restored roof of old tiles and machine tiles. Interior: plaster overmantel with royal arms of Charles I and date ? 1634.

23 and 25 Market Place, Warwick -British Listed Buildings

To the left of the above is The Tuckery and Fenetres Etcetera.

On Swan Street is a Greggs.

On the right is the Period House Shop.

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party favors
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Image by Kimberly Mahr
for the shower i'm having on Saturday...can't wait!
i promise to share more photos after the guests and mom-of-honor have seen them!



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Image by Pamela Machado
Ontem chegou essa encomenda.
Um filtro, uma linda foto noturna natalina e cds para mim.
Presente de Natal do meu super amigo Edu Ikeda.

Muito obrigada por tudo, Edu.


Autumn Snow Park Bench
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Image by Striking Photography by Bo Insogna
A clam morning first Autumn Snow in the colorful colors of the trees with a park bench landscape. www.jamesinsogna.com/Nature/Autumn-Colorful-Landscape/147...


www.JamesInsogna.com 1-888-682-0122

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SPCR 2nd Annual Birthday swap gifts!
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Image by The Pack
The lavender soap is very strongly scented, and yet that didn't stop Tag from zeroing in on the beef bones...

Thanks Chris, Curly, Fil and Charley for the wonderful SPCR 2nd Annual Birthday swap gifts! The boyz and I are really going to enjoy your thoughtful gifts.

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A Gift of Home
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Image by Tom Lin :3=
From my great friend Jume, when we were traveling in Seoul, Korea.

"Here is a gift from me to you, a token of Korea."
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Giving Gifts on Christmas Eve

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Giving Gifts on Christmas Eve
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Image by IronRodArt - Royce Bair ("Star Shooter")
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Children leaving gifts on the doorstep of a home on Christmas Eve - a 1912 Vintage Greeting Card Illustration. This image was scanned from my personal collection and the color restored (digitally remastered). I also retouched it to remove scratches, cracks, smudges and age spots. This is typically about a 3 hour process.

FREE for Personal Use Downloads: This image is offered through a Creative Commons license. You can also obtain PRINTS or a commercial use license (and even larger downloads) at my SmugMug site. NOTE: Personal use requires attribution (credit ''Royce Bair'') and a link to my Web site: ''The Stock Solution'' -- where you can also find many more free downloads.

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the Blood
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Image by Mike_tn
The gifts at my sister's wedding mass. St Mark the Evangelist Parish in Goodrich, Michigan. Photo dedicated to a dear family friend who was at this mass and died suddenly about two weeks later on Sept 21, 2012 at 74 years old. My family and theirs grew up together, across the street from each other. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.
Mr Ignace knew the Lord.

"Don't die without knowing the Cross" new music by DC Talk written by Prince
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=dbQP_8lFguQ&...


Western Super-Friends as Pure Mind
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Image by timtak
Please see also Japanese Super-Friends as Pure Body.

Transformers started in Japan but has become popular in the US, which also has its own Gundam in Iron Man. There is an Iron Giant based on Ted Hughes story, and Lilo's friend Stitch.

In my opinion, however, the Western imaginary friends that mirror the myriad robots and pokemon in Japan, are the plague of ghosts that have been helping us out recently. The first one I saw was in 1969 on the BBC in the tv series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

The basic pattern of Western 'human plus super-friend' dramas is that a detective is helped by a ghost or ghosts. The ghosts have no body only a message, a will, and the human's job is to let their will be done, so that they can disappear. The genre includes "The Sixth Sense," "The Dead Zone," "Tru Calling," "Ghost Wisperer," "The Medium," "Raines," and "The Listener." "A Gifted Man" though a doctor is along the same lines. "Dead Like Me" is from the point of view of the ghosts.

Their protagnoists have a lot in common with the geniuses that read minds in "Lie to Me," "The Mentalist," "Criminal Minds," and the various "CSI."

All of them, by their extrasensory, or extra sensitive powers of perception are able to read the message, the words, the will, of the super-being that has not been said and act upon it.

The human heros are, contra the Japanese humans, the puppets of their super-natural friends. And yet it is they that are the titular characters. In almost all cases (Dr. Malcolm Crowe from Sixth Sense and Hopkirk as possible exceptions) it is the 'reader' that is the central character, or self with whom the audience identifies. Westerners, perhaps due to the Judeao Christian influence, like to see ourselves as 'readers' who carry out the will of supernatural friends.

In Japan, though the robots are controlled, they are heros, the eponymous/titual characters, the focus of attention. No one buys Amuro Rei dolls, or Nobita Posters. The Japanese robot superheroes are body and self at the same time. Will, such as that of Nobita and Light is fallible, external, and leads people astray.

It is interesting, but probably conicidental that in Japan technology and robots are associated with the West, and that human-ghost interaction is the most famous theme in the traditional drama of Japan. It is as these culturals have found imaginary friends in each other. Again coincidentally, or due to the spread of TV, the super robot genre started, as far as I know, in the late 60's early seventies about the same time as Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

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Thanks to Ɲ for inspiring these observations.


Arigato Bento #122
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Image by shashinjutsu
A snack bento as a "thank you" gift for elm@, who was kind enough to lend me her copy of Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea.

Saturday November 13th, 2010.
Post on Graasland, including recipe for sweet 'n spicy nuts!

Picture of the box all wrapped up.

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