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Soylent Green Is People

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OK so maybe nobody who missed the seventies sci-fi scene (that’s how it was spelled then) will get this reference unless of course you happened to see the equally arcane scyfy movie from 2012 (that’s how they spell it now) Cloud Atlas; But the line kept coming to mind as I walked through Keukenhof Gardens last year.

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It was forty-five degrees and raining. Still people chose to show up with no coats. So Keukenhof staff were handing out these green rain ponchos. The hood of this very economical rain gear came down just below the eye line; So people were walking around half blind trying to look at flowers ,cutting each other off at every turn.

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After three hours of nearly being trampled upon by the men and women in green, my sister and I began warning each other of oncoming danger with the buzz words “Soylent green is people!” We’d laugh hysterically and that made getting stepped on almost all right.

When I came back to the states and downloaded my pictures I thought maybe I should just delete these but they make me laugh every time I see them. I haven’t the heart to let the joke go.

To see other odd ball photos go to:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/13/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-week-7/

Sunday Stills: Witloaf

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This week’s Sunday Stills challenge is all about international cuisine. 

As soon as I saw the theme I knew  the picture I was going to post.100_2163This is witloaf (pronounced Vit-loaf). It’s  chicken wrapped in bacon on a bed of endive and baked in a cheese crust smothered with a special red sauce. YUMMMMY! But what I remember about the meal beyond the great taste was the wonderful company. Thanks to Willem and Mirjam Jackson for the memories!

To discover other international dishes go to:

http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-international-food/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Patterns

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This post was created in response to cees-fun-foto

 

See how some of my fellow-blog-laborers answered this challenge at:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/07/cees-fun-foto-challenge-patterns/

Here are my thoughts

“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

The Water Dandelion, Keukenhof

The Water Dandelion, Keukenhof

 

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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In Our Mist

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This post was written in response to Ailsa’s Travel Cahllenge: MIST

To walk into the mists of other people’s creativity go here:

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/04/04/travel-theme-misty/

Here is what came out of my fog:

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Whitney’s Pond From Ingleside Winchendon MA

“God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we’re walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Eagle Heights, WInchendon MA

Eagle Heights, WInchendon MA

 

“The hill pines were sighing, / O’ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotted the pleasant May.

Robert Bridges

Zaanse Schans, the Netherlands

Zaanse Schans, the Netherlands

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

― Rachel Carson

At The Threshold

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This post was written in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: THRESHOLD

To see what others have come up with for the “threshold” theme go to

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/photo-challenge-threshold/

Here are my thoughts

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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

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“For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within”

William Shakespeare

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 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Rev. 3:20

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Texture

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This post was created for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: TEXTURE

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I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it… I always want to see the third dimension of something… I want to come alive with the object.

Andrew Wyeth

To see other texture posts go to

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/25/cees-fun-foto-challenge-texture/