Ecclesiastes 3:3,8: To everything there is a season … a time to kill and a time to heal … a time for war and a time for peace.
Weekly photo challenge: Changing Seasons
366 unusual things: days 334 – 338
29th Nov – In a post office I was waiting for quite some time in front of this poster. It left me wondering about the water source.
30th Nov – Started learning Spanish online. Now I understand why a printed j sounds like h. Like San Jose.
1st Dec – Out of 30 people at a literacy lecture, two were men; one was wiry, white-haired, long-retired, the other was young, robust and black. The rest of us were middle-aged white women.
2nd Dec – At a ‘hipster’ market, some old half-life-size statues of Jesus and angels were for sale to ‘hip’ home decorators. They looked like church plunder.
3rd Dec – Listened to a radio program about flies; apparently they will provide us with new antibiotics in about ten years.
Ailsa's travel photo challenge: Hot
Ailsa wants to warm up by looking at photos of hot things: http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/11/30/travel-theme-hot/
Here in Canberra the temperatures have been in the high 30s lately, but rather than shooting this summery city for the photo challenge, I’ll draw on my father’s pictorial resources from Egypt.
A photo of a kind of swimming competition in the river – it looks a bit painful, and I’m not sure how you win:
And a drawing of soldiers under the blazing desert sun, probably up to no good:
