Weekend Reflections, Netherlands

 

Three weeks ago my friend and I were taking a walk in an area that had been flooded by the river not long ago, which is natural for this region. There were still some pools left. And they were frozen over. The reflections in the frozen water I showed last week!Here's another icy reflection. We had to go down these stairs and try to find a dry piece of land. The way was very slippery and big chunks of mud stuck on our shoes, but the weather was great on this first day of February 2011.

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Sky Watch,The Netherlands.

 

Sunrise in January!

A day beginning like this may surprise us in the evening with even better colours! Soon the days will be longer and brighter. I am looking forward to spring.

 
 

Sunset in February!

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that's My World, ABC Wednesday, E for Electricity

Seventy years ago there were no electrical utensils like we have now.

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Every day I realise that we depend on electricity in almost everything we do. We even cannot use the central heating without it! There will be no washing machine without electricity, no fridge, no TV nor radio, no digital camera,no computer, no mobile phone,no telephone at all, no electric cooker,no cash desks or checkouts in shops, no self-closing doors in buildings or on ships,no elevators, no moving staircases, no trains,no planes...no modern kitchen utensils. But how did we do this all a hundred years or even 60 years ago?

We will be lost if we had to miss all the blessings of electricity, but... the environment will be better off.

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Valentine!!

 

HAPPY VALENTINE TO ALL BLOGGERS.

Psalms Challenge, Psalm 7

 

Hellish plane.



8 The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous- you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

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Last night I saw a movie about Dresden, February 1945. I was really very sad about the destruction by this bombardment and how the evil powers in the city continued to kill their own people while the bombing was going on, because they were deserters or spies.War is hell.


The verses from Psalm 7 are contributed to Robert's new PsalmsChallenge meme at Daily Athens. To read more psalms click on Robert

Weekend Reflections, Some Icy Reflections

 
 
 
 

Two weeks ago my friend and I were taking a walk in an area that had been flooded by the river not long ago, which is natural for this region. There were still some pools left. And they were frozen over. The reflections in the frozen water are strange, I think!

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ABC Wednesday, D for David Attenborough.

Sometime ago I got this video by e-mail. It's called the "Amazing Lyrebird".And amazing it is. This bird can imitate any sound it hears, even an opera singer! David Attenborough introduces this interesting bird in the way we are used to see and hear from him with a lot of humor. I am not sure if the bird in the end,really imitated David's voice saying exactly the same David said. I have the feeling that this is a joke.

The lyrebird is found in Australia, I hope to see it one day.

 

From Wikipedia: "Attenborough, born in May 1926, grew up in College House on the campus of University of Leicester, where his father, Frederick, was principal. He is the middle of three sons (his elder brother, Richard, became an actor/film director and his younger brother, John Michael Attenborough, an executive at Alfa Romeo). During World War II his parents also adopted two Jewish refugee girls from Europe.

Attenborough spent his childhood collecting fossils, stones and other natural specimens. He received encouragement in this pursuit at age seven, when a young Jacquetta Hawkes admired his "museum". A few years later, one of his adoptive sisters gave him a piece of amber filled with prehistoric creatures; some 50 years later, it would be the focus of his programme The Amber Time Machine.

Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and then won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge in 1945, where he studied geology and zoology and obtained a degree in Natural Sciences. In 1947, he was called up for National Service in the Royal Navy and spent two years stationed in North Wales and the Firth of Forth.

In 1950, Attenborough married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel; the marriage lasted until her death in 1997. The couple had two children, Robert and Susan.

His son, Dr Robert Attenborough, is a senior lecturer in Bioanthropology for the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra".

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Psalms Challenge, Psalm 6

 

MONUMENT IN MEMORIAM OF THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THE JAPANESE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND OUTSIDE.


Turn, LORD, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
AMONG THE DEAD NO ONE PROCLAIMS YOUR NAME.
WHO PRAISES YOU FROM THE GRAVE?

Keer weder, HEERE, red mijn ziel;
verlos mij, om Uwer goedertierenheid wil.
WANT DODEN NOEMEN UW NAAM NIET MEER!
WIE IN HET DODENRIJK KAN U NOG LOVEN?

The verses from Psalm 6 are contributed to Robert's new PsalmsChallenge meme at Daily Athens. To read more psalms click on Robert

Sky Watch, Australia,

Queensland is again the target of a natural disaster. I was worried very much for my daughter and her family, who live in North Queensland, in Cooktown, so I rang her last night. She assured me that they were fine. Hardly any wind, no rain either. On TV. I saw the damage done by Yasi in other parts of Queensland. Poor people whose houses are destroyed. Fortunately there are no casualties. Let's hope that this will be the last cyclone this season. Five years ago cyclone Larry destroyed a large part of Queensland. The traces of Larry were still visible when I was in Queensland in August. Yasi is even worse than Larry.

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ABC Wednesday, C of Cockatoo and Cape York

Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York by Roy McIvor.
Magabala Books.
My daughter in Australia wrote this book together with a friend of hers. They went several times a week to Roy McIver, who is an uncle of my daughter's first husband, and recorded his stories on an audio cassette. Back at home she put these stories on the computer and printed them. It took her and her friend two years to finish the book in Roy McIver's own words. The cockatoos are the tribal animals of two tribes in Cape York. They are also symbolic for the reconcilliation of the white Australian people and the Aborigines.

The exile of the Indigenous population of Hope Valley — in the coastal region of Cape York in far north Queensland — during World War II is a shameful yet seldom-told chapter in Indigenous Australian history. Roy McIvor was just 10 when he, his family and his community were rounded up by the military and shipped 1500 km south to Woorabinda because of allegations that his people were collaborating with the Japanese under the guidance of German Lutheran Missionary George Heinrich Schwarz. Roy’s community was deserted by the authorities and more than a third of them perished during their seven-year exile. They were decimated by disease amid rumours of deaths by lethal injections and medical experimentation. Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York is an inspirational story of how Roy and his people triumphed over the hardships to which they were subjected, and their eventual return to their country now known as Hope Vale. Throughout his life, art has been a guiding light. Today Roy is recognised as one of Cape York’s leading Indigenous artists and Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York features full-colour reproductions of his work.

Vicki Lane wrote about this book last year some months ago now.

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