Capture: Roamin' Holiday
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JacksonP, in reply to
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
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My mum tells me it's pretty chilly in Wellington, and my pictures so far have been wintry and Chinese. Here's something a little more summer holiday-like. My wife trying to shoot me, Army Museum, Waiouru, February 2010.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Touche!
On the subject of stars, I thought Stardust was pretty horrorshow (on tele last night).
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JacksonP, in reply to
On the subject of stars, I thought Stardust was pretty horrorshow (on tele last night).
Yes, I've seen it before, and it required more suspension of disbelief than I was capable of.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Helloooo. That's because it's a movie for kids. Please. You people and your inability to suspend disbelief.
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Lilith __, in reply to
You mean it isn’t true?!
I loved Robert de Niro’s poofter pirate and the chorus of murdered princes. As with a lot of Gaiman’s work I think the whole was less than the sum of the parts. But some of those parts were quite wonderful!
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A much warmer dawn, June last year, looking out from our village in Yanqing County.
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I couldn't find this one on my computer, so I downloaded it from Weibo, and now it's dated January 11, 2012. Nope, this is also our village last time I had a summer holiday.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Those pointy hills are quite amazing. High altitude where you are?
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JacksonP, in reply to
You people and your inability to suspend disbelief.
Heh! I'm generally an expert belief suspender. I shall have no trouble with Tomb Raider tonight for example, and this has nothing to do with a certain dancing star. Honest.
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Lilith __, in reply to
this has nothing to do with a certain dancing star
or her suspenders.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Am I the only person in the universe who can't stand her?
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
High altitude where you are?
Not really. Those photos were taken on the northwestern edge of Beijing. I'm not really sure how high, but hidden behind those hills is what Baidu Baike says is Beijing's second highest mountain, Haituoshan, at 2241m. Yanqing County has an average altitude of 500m. Our village is, as you can see, at the base of the mountains, and on clear days in the winter we look down on the rooftops of the county town about 10km away, but it's hardly at a Tibetan sort of altitude.
But where I am is Chaoyang District in downtown Beijing. I remember my boss telling me a few years ago that Beijing is only 50m above sea level. I imagine it's a bit less than that now, considering the entire North China Plain is sinking thanks to the groundwater being overpumped.
Incidentally, one of those pointy hills to the left of the picture is haunted. Quite a few people died up there during the war, and ever since that hill has been quite good at dropping people who dare climb it.
And the courtyard with its solar water heater pointing west instead of the usual south is where my parents in law live. That perhaps explains why I have so many pictures of or taken from that edge of the village.
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I find Tomb Raider a bit dull. Each has their tastes, but as for I, I shall be watching Hellboy. :-)
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
And I am going to bed with my book - Tricking of Freya, by Christina Sunley. Lovely book.
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JacksonP, in reply to
It didn't last. Think I'll find another book too, having just finished Murakami's belief suspender, 1Q84. The belief that I'd get through all 924 pages that is. Don't ask me what I think, as I don't really know.
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Summer harvest, Bowentown 9 January 2011
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And I <facepalm> am packing . Not watching DVDs, not reading, not playing on teh internet. Procrastinating, much.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Summer harvest
Wow! But what will you do with your milkstack??
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Another Bowentown beach scene, 10 Jan 2011 (polysterene, not shells)
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One more
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Looks like it was quite a nice place before the shipwreck (assuming, of course, that that is shipwreck detritus you've been harvesting).
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Detritus 'fer sure. From the stranded MV Rena on the Astrolobe Reef (40kms offshore in the Bay of Plenty); a ship which finally broke in two in the weekend storm.
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Islander, in reply to
Bless you volunteers-
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
I'm surprised the Rena lasted as long as she did, she's been battered by quite a few storms over the last few months on that reef.
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