The best peace sign in the world

The joy of a Kite

More - Venice is sinking!

The “City of Water” is located in northeast Italy, spanning 118 islands in the Venetian Lagoon. Buildings in Venice were constructed on

wood piles driven into the mud, sand and clay layers under the lagoon. Many of the buildings in Venice still sit on these piles driven more than a thousand years ago.

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I didn't say Canadians always had the best ideas!

Omm or maybe just blissed out

Turtle nosh

Just pure fun.

............... for those who may not know ... Fran looooves soccer.

So, Fran got her teeth cleaned yesterday.

Can you hear me now, Gramps?

Oh I like this, but I'm not sure why.

Now back to silliness - Seahorses!!

I am I Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha

It is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Gandhi

This stamp was issued by India in the year 2000, showing Gandhi’s flowing cape taking on the shape of India. Gandhi, a firm believer in self-reliance as well as non-violence, would have spun that cape himself.

Eerie

Well you'd have to be a Potter fan.

I just listened to the whole series on audio tape.

I don't know how many hours I listened but in days it was over a month.

It never occurred to me to compare / contrast these two epics but my goodness

the similarities are fascinating.

Jeff loves Janet ... yeah we get it.

Lovestruck fireman wows fiancee with massive 100ft birthday message carved in the sand

Venice is sinking

dangerous bird on the planet.

The Southern Cassowary may not be as much of a household name as its cousins the Ostritch and the Emu, but it is classified as "only" the third largest bird on the planet and is endangered.

I'd never heard of it.

Many female birds do not share the same brightly colored plumage as the male of the species. The female Cassowary, on the other hand, does and is stronger and bigger than the male. During the mating ceremony it is the male who takes the passive role and the female can take up to three different mates contiguously. The final partner she attracts will be the one to rear the young. That's correct, after a month or so of courtship the female lays the clutch of eggs and removes herself from the scene. The hapless male is left to incubate the eggs and look after the young. He may never be able to request a DNA paternity test but nevertheless it is unlikely that all of the brood will be his.

Not only this, during the fifty days and nights it takes to incubate the eggs the male will most often lose up to about a third of his body weight as he cannot wander far to forage for food. They are, however, omnivorous although their preferred food is fruit. They will eat small vertebrates and invertebrates. When surprised this inhibited and diffident bird will choose to run - and boy can they run. They can run at speeds up to fifty kilometers and hour through dense rainforest. However, when they are cornered they can maim or kill people and have (rarely) done so. The Guinness World Record Book puts them at the top of the list of birds dangerous to man.

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What did Fran do to the fence?

Lace anyone ??

The Globe: Scotland

Hundreds of magnificent karsts formations are scattered the world over.

Karsts topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite.

The Globe is part of the Knockan Crag, a line of cliffs in Assynt, Scotland. The name means "crag of the small hill".

To give you perpective this is a pic I found that shows it's relative size. Of course behind him there are "miles and miles of nothing"

Earworm

“Go out on a limb - that's where the fruit is”

“In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; At noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; And at night, it crushes us flat to the ground”

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

Another perspective on : Bite Me!