I just stumbled across a fasciating website: Rachel Papo: Serial Number 3817131

Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio but was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. These ( Read more... )

You know the rules: post a comment here and I will ask you about seven of your interests. You answer in your own LJ and include these instructions.

laotzuribbon asked me about ( Adult fairytales, Inanna, Swedenborg, Peace with Justice, Sacred Prostitutes, Arianrhod, Colliding Galaxies )

Months ago, I promised photographs of The New Place.
Here they are!

( As a friend said -- Regal, Yet Comfortable )

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Okay, I know I still owe some substantive responses to some of the comments on the "Old Time Religion" thread (especially amqu's!) -- and I owe the answers to the movie quiz (has no one both seen and remembered American Dreamer? -- Athenian_abroad?!).

BUT. . . .

( I have a new staff from Whidbey Island and a new sword!! And they are beautiful!! )

( Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth 1, before battle. )

( For those who wanted to see a photo of my new ring. . . )

This photo from Astronomy Picture of the Day is utterly spectacular.

( If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. The analemma pictured was built up by Sun photographs taken from 1998 August through 1999 August from Ukraine. The foreground picture from the same location was taken during the early evening in 1999 July. )

1) Comment and ask to be tagged!
2) I will pick THREE of your interests and/or user pics I find odd or nifty!
3) You post, explaining in detail about the three I chose!
4) People comment on your post!

professor_mom asked about these three interests and icons.

Colliding Galaxies: At some point in my early teens, I needed to figure out why a pure thought energy ( Read more... )