Jun 13 2009
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Jun 13 2009
Posted by David under Blog, Flowers, Landscapes
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Here are some photos I took recently in Maymont Park here in Richmond, Virginia.
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| Maymont Park Spring 2009 |
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May 28 2009
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Artists, Well-known Quotations
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. ~Mabel Louise Robinson
Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ~David Starr Jordan
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May 19 2009
Achelous and Hercules battled over the beautiful Dejanira.
The river god Achelous said ” . . .this man who boasts himself the son of Jove, it is either a false pretense, or disgraceful of him if true, for it cannot be true except by his mother’s shame. ”
As he said this Hercules scowled and with difficulty restrained his rage. “My hand will answer better than my tongue. I yield you the victory in words but trust my cause to the strife of deeds.”
At first Achelous took the form of a serpent but Hercules said “It was the labor of my infancy to conquer snakes”. So he assumed the form of a bull and Hercules threw him down and tore off one of his horns. The Naiades took it, consecrated it and filled it with fragrant flowers. Plenty adopted it and it was called Cornucopia.
Thomas Menton’s work also touched on the most compelling events of the late 1940’s. America’s agricultural bounty was airlifted to Europe following WW2 through the Marshall plan.
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