Tag: sepia
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Day Two Hundred Nine, August 19, 2011
Seeing the state of our planet today, one cannot not be happy to see a power generating windmill! And Germany is filled with them. It is one of the first countries with a firm plan to close all nuclear power plants by the year 2022 after the Japanese disaster and survive totally from sustainable energy!…
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Day Two Hunderd Three, August 13, 2011
Flamenco, bull fighting, music, food and of course drink have become staples of the Feria De Agosto in Malaga, Andalusia. A historic festival that has started back in 1491 commemorating the taking of the city by the Catholic monarchs Isabella the first of Castile and Ferdinand the second of Aragon in 1487, it continues till…
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Day One Hundred Ninety Seven, August 7, 2011
Every once in a while you meet a child who is so attracted and attractive to the little people of the planet that they are seen constantly surrounded by little critters. Lexi is such a child. He loves to observe and be around anything that crawls, flies, swims, slithers… anything that is moving really. He…
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Day One Hundred Ninety Three, August 3, 2011
Small things draw out our softer side. We see babies and we change our behavior immediately, we smile, we speak softly, we ‘ooo’ and we ‘aaaa’ at them. Babies and little creatures are simply so cute and we are programmed to want to care for them and protect them, most of us at least. And…
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Day One Hundred Eighty Four, July 25, 2011
Childhood, the times of dreams, of eyes wide open, of minds thirsty for new knowledge, of pure innocence, of great trust, of extreme sweetness… This is the time of wind in your hair blowing all your worries away!
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Day One Hundred Seventy Four, July 15, 2011
This year Shanghai reached the highest level of pollution ever recorded in its history… On days like this, the city looks surreal, almost like a futuristic movie, the kind that forecasts a not so bright future, where people have to move around with masks (as is actually the case here) and where the sky looks…
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Day One Hundred Sixty Nine, July 10, 2011
One day she woke up and her hair was curly! ~ true story I come from a family of 5 children and I am the only one who was born with hair that curls. I have often questioned my straight haired parents, probed and wondered where this phenomenon came from only to settle to the…
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Day One Hundred Fifty Seven, June 28, 2011
You see them every day, at all times of the day, weekdays, weekends, working, toiling, sweating, carrying loads, in construction sites, cleaning streets, selling goods, resting on sides of roads, falling asleep in the shade to catch their breath. They are very important elements in the canvas that is Shanghai, a city rushing towards the…
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Day One Hundred Fifty, June 21, 2011
They appear as if from nothing, the expand at an impossible speed and they disappear almost just as fast. Most mushrooms behave this way. They are one of the mysteries that have always fascinated me. When things appear and disappear in a short time compared to all else around them, like Native American sand paintings,…
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Day One Hundred Seven, May 9, 2011
We are born into this life with a huge credit, a grace period, a fuel of high energy to kick start our young life. In our young days, we are full of energy, full of enthusiasm, of a feeling of power, feeling almost immortal. We are also given free choice of what to do with…