Friday, May 06, 2022
Letter "R" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 08 / Reflections and-or Street Captures
The "R" Week's prompts: Starts with "R"; A Favorite; and "R"oof.
Lagniappe # 1:
Reflections and/or Street Captures: These are my finding at the Ends of the Rainbow!!
Lagniappe # 2: The Countries I've visited that start with the Letter "M", I left off at "L" in February, through "R" (I've been to at least 76 countries):
Starts with "R": "Rainbow" starts with "R". This display was for St. Patrick's Day, March 18, on our trans-Atlantic cruise. Mrs. Jim came down with the COVID-19 on the 17th, I was Positive on the 22nd.
That 17th, the 6th day ruined the rest of our 16 Day cruise. Mrs. Jim was "isolated" in the 'isolation ward' for the rest of the time, plus another day at the Holiday Inn Express in Portsmouth in the U.K. I had to spend the entire week there (so we both stayed, but Mrs. Jim could walk around outside).
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Rainbows, the sign of the covenant between God and the earth (the Bible, Gensis 9:14-17 [link])
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A Favorite: The Real Thing, a Real Rainbow. Our back yard from 1999 until 2015, the Green for Hole # 11 on the Weiskopf. I could see that it had dropped down into a sand trap on #15.
(Copyright 2007, first posted here)(Other Rainbow posts here)
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"Roof", Tom's word choice: The Red Roofed houses and buildings of Dubrovnik, Croatia. (More Croatia and Dubrovnik Here)
Lagniappe # 1:This one's our daughter Karen's Race Car, it's
a 1982 or so Pine Wood Derby Racer, we still have it
.Karen did most of the work, Mrs. Jim and I were consultants for her.
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She won first place. Of course technology has improved since then so it probably couldn't keep up with the modern cars. Dad (me) was the chief speed advisor, he drives fast too (160mph on the German Autobahn,) for her project. Mrs. Jim did the fashion painting advice. Karen did [most of] the work.
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Please enlarge the picture by clicking on it so you can see the driver pretty good. The driver is a piece of lead fishing weight, carved to precision weight with the car weighing 1 ounce less than the maximum.
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The paint is acrylic blue with a red, green, and blue butterfly on the hood. There's a rainbow at the rear, and some green growth with a flower on the deck lid. If we were smart, we could have sensed a tree-hugger growing up here with us.
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Weight distribution is 63% in the rear wheels, 37% up front. The uplift in the back functioned better than a spoiler in keeping the car hugging the track surface. Many cars tipped and fell off or tumbled, hers went straight down the slotted hill track.
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Also compare it with Cliff's grandson's car (link for enlargement, link for Tuesday, April 24, blog post with the picture and write up). His car did good too!
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It would be interesting to race these two cars now, '82 model vs. '07. Twenty-five years difference!
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Where First Times
Maldives 2020
Mauritius 2020
Mexico 1956
Monaco 2007
Mozambique 2020
Netherlands—Aruba(yes), Curaçao(yes), the Netherlands and Saint Maarten(yes)—are constituent countries , we've not been to "The Kingdom of The Netherlands"(no) Island Country itself.
New Zealand 2014
Norway 2009
Oman 2020
Panama 2003
Peru 2015
Poland 2003
Portugal 2005
Romania 2013
Russia. 2006
- Click Here for all countries I've visited.
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The Fine print stuff:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Croatia, First Times, Friday's Weekend Roundup 08, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, Rainbow, Reflections
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
A little culture — St. Jean Baptiste (Rodin) — MidWeek Blues
Did you know that all the Houston ISD High School soccer games today were cancelled? We did not get any snow (could be on Friday) but it sure got cold.
If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
I should have known there would be some work of Rodin in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. I happily visited with Tim and Mrs. Jim mainly to see the large collection of impressionist masterpieces by popular painters such as Monet, Cézanne, and Renoir. (Link)
This is one of the six casts of Rodin's St. Jean Baptiste in the world. I have seen three now, this in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, another at the Rodin Museum in Paris, and the third at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
I'll have to scan my prints from the Rodin Museum some time. His work is scattered all over there, inside the building and outside in the pretty garden.
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If you like art then go to Europe. We found this Cézanne original in the Lautrec Museum in Albi, France. It is by Paul Cézanne (1839 to 1906) and yes, he was pretty quirky. (Cézanne Wikipedia link)
For more of our trek to the Albi click here.
Click here to register your guess for my Dog Bone in the Jar guessing contest. You can take a peek at the other guesses while you are there.
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[large picture] [super sized] If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE or BLUE THOUGHT, you don't have to write.
Labels: Art, France, Midweek-Blues, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday
Friday, October 16, 2009
France -- Paris -- Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday
My Paris
Party all the night
Art museums all day
Rive Droite* for shopping
Île-de-France** for herShe's Paris Hilton
Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved
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Bottom (night) Eiffel Tower:[large picture] [super sized]
Notes:
*Rive Droite's (The Right Bank) most famous street is undeniably the Champs-Élysées, but there are others of prominence, such as Rue de la Paix, Rue de Rivoli and Avenue Montaigne. (Wikipedia)
**Île-de-France is one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area. Its name literally means "Island of France", maybe from ancient Frankish Liddle Franke, "little France". (Wikipedia)
Copied from my other blog, Jim's Little Photo and Poem Place (today's post, October 16, 2009)*Rive Droite's (The Right Bank) most famous street is undeniably the Champs-Élysées, but there are others of prominence, such as Rue de la Paix, Rue de Rivoli and Avenue Montaigne. (Wikipedia)
**Île-de-France is one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area. Its name literally means "Island of France", maybe from ancient Frankish Liddle Franke, "little France". (Wikipedia)
Labels: Acrostic, France, Life, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, People, Poem
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Potty Stop -- MidWeek Blues -- on the road water
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This lady said,
"Let's see now, he said tie the white rope aft?
And aft is ... ?"
"I do hope the place is open ...
after all this!"
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And these people are grumbling,
"We wouldn't be stopping here if Lucky had stayed home.
Or if he had learned to USE the toilet
instead of drinking from it."
These pictures were some of other boats that we saw while on our boat ride
on the Midi du Canal in Southern France this spring. (link)
It was part of one day's activities on our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday. (link)
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo here. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
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Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.
Labels: France, Humor(?), Midi du Canal, Midweek Blues, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, Travel
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Be Happy -- MidWeek Blues -- Windows scenes along Barcelona streets
Please scroll down for Tuesday's Ruby (Red) Tuesday post.
I have answered the quiz in a post just below the original.
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Some of these are blue, I used that for criteria unless I really liked the picture and I thought you might like it also even if it's not blue.
Our son, Tim, was with us. Can you spot him?
He is sitting in the chair at the outdoor restaurant.
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And now for some street scenes.
I have answered the quiz in a post just below the original.
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Some of these are blue, I used that for criteria unless I really liked the picture and I thought you might like it also even if it's not blue.
Our son, Tim, was with us. Can you spot him?
He is sitting in the chair at the outdoor restaurant.
Click on any picture for large size.
And now for some street scenes.
center table (Click on the picture)
And back to our hotel.
We were staying at the Hotel Continental (right) (link)
but would visit it's sister, the Palace Hotel on the left.
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We were staying at the Hotel Continental (right) (link)
but would visit it's sister, the Palace Hotel on the left.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo here. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
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Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.
Labels: Barcelona, Midweek Blues, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, Spain, Store Windows, Travel
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The French like Blue -- MidWeek Blues -- Blue shutters
It doesn't seem to make the French feel blue. Well, maybe this is different for the artists, some get real moody or worse.
We found this original in the Lautrec Museum in Albi, France. It is by Paul Cézanne (1839 to 1906) and yes, he was pretty quirky. (Cézanne Wikipedia link)
In just a lot of his pictures you can see Mont Sainte-Victoire as in this one. It is a mountain in Provence, France. Cézanne can see the whole view of the mountain from his house near Aix-en-Provence. He drew a series of oil paintings about or using his favorite mountain of his.
The blue colour on his mountains is supposed to be an impression of air. I'm not at all knowing what that signifies. Do you?
Even the sky is blue in France, bluer than most of the U.S. except perhaps the Texas skies. Pictured is son, Tim. Tim went with Mrs. Jim and I to Spain, France, Andorra, and Belgium on our Spring 2009 European Holiday. (link to posts so far)
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There aren't any blue shutters in this last picture but Mrs. Jim really likes these Citroën 2cv cars. She likes blue ones too and would drive one around here if I would get her one.
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I have a blue Citroën in much better shape than this one. I am saving it in case I want to do mischief with it. Have to plan my escape route carefully, their top speed is 40 mph. Mine is a 1:18 scale diecast from Solido (link for a grey one). I bought it in France back in 1992.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo below. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.
Labels: France, Midweek Blues, Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday, Travel
