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A Walk Around Mont Blanc
Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate your response. As I am too ill to tackle mountain walks communicating with people like you is a great pleasure for me.
frankbeswick, on 07/08/2024
Review of Knorr Asian Sides Teriyaki Noodles
It's nice to have more than what is needed than less.
Might you have matched the leftovers to another chicken-wings meal or to something else?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/08/2024
A Walk Around Mont Blanc
I love the Alps too. I live less then one hour of drive south of Julian Alps and I can look at them every day. But I managed only one hike this year so far. And not nearly as attractive as yours. Thank you for you photos and inspiration!
Tolovaj, on 07/08/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Sorry, I am mostly familiar with merpeople in Europe. This subject is so huge I intend to write at least one article about merpeople in next months. I am sure i will know more then.
Tolovaj, on 07/08/2024
Edmund Dulac, Jack of all Trades
He started s caricaturist. He preferred lines at first but later he focused on colors. Even there he started with very limited pallette, mostly blues, and gradually added others. He started seriously use ochres only after ten years of ...
Tolovaj, on 07/08/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Thank you for your comments below in answer to my previous observations and questions.
Please accept my apologies if I ask this question a second time. The computer crashed. I don't know if my question ended extant or extinct -- ;-D -- from ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/08/2024
A Walk Around Mont Blanc
I took the striping to be cloud shadows. Why there is a blue element to it I know not.it could be blue light scattered in the atmosphere..
frankbeswick, on 07/08/2024
A Walk Around Mont Blanc
Thank you for your comments below in answer to my previous observations and questions.
All your son's in-text images are of such high-quality beauty (like those of his Aunt Veronica and of his mother ;-D).
The last image particularly intrigues ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/08/2024
Edmund Dulac, Jack of all Trades
Isn't it interesting that he invoked the same high-quality commitment no matter what form of art interested him?
Might Edmund Dulac have mentioned anywhere whether all art mattered equally to him or whether one form mattered above all ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/08/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Thank you for the tip. I'll check it!
Tolovaj, on 07/07/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Of course, birds and fish live in different world which are so close to use, yet unreachable without some kind of technology.
Tolovaj, on 07/07/2024
A Walk Around Mont Blanc
Not really. But too speedy a descent .can lead to accidents I can recall having to control teenage hikers when they were sliding on loose rock towards a cliff
frankbeswick, on 07/06/2024
10 Famous Mermaids
Ancient Amazon-basin traditions considered merpeople as watermen whose feminine counterparts came about through captured human females. Such human women configured into mermaids constituted water healers even as mermen conducted themselves ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/06/2024
A Walk Around Mont Blanc
Going too fast downward or upward in underwater situations can be disabling or even fatal.
Can such a situation happen with changing altitude quickly downward or upward?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/06/2024
A Walk Around Mont Blanc
I know of no exercises for this purpose.
frankbeswick, on 07/06/2024