Tag: bohemia
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July 31, 2006 07:05 PM EDT --
St Jan
Tetin was the ancestral home of the Czech ruling family and the seat of St Ludmilla and St Wenceslas. Also closely related to Tetin is the myth of St Jan under the Cliff who is often represented . . .
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August 01, 2006 06:13 AM EDT --
ducks at jinonice reservoir
ducky song for the occassion
beggars in stromovka park
Ducky Picture by Janine Russell
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oh to be a duck
and swim . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:55 AM EDT --
OK, let's get past "I'll have a Corona" and graduate to the major leagues. Yup, many places all over the USA now offer other Latin beers. What's your experience?
Have you enjoyed . . .
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August 26, 2006 01:30 AM EDT --
clouded yellow
Luna moth whirls against the evening sky,
fluttering shadow of pale moonlight
echo of thought and flicker of breath,
voiceless a spirit that is dancing toward death. . . .
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August 26, 2006 06:15 PM EDT --
get on board little children
get on board
everyone loves a steam engine
so come on let's go
huff-huff, puff-puff
through the Bohemian woods on the Pacific Line to Cercany and back
and . . .
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July 27, 2006 11:29 AM EDT --
Srbsko is a scant 6 kilometers west of Karlstejn, but the tourists haven't found it yet. For anyone coming from the American West, Srbsko is like a patch of home ground with the sheer cliffs . . .
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August 14, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
It's the end of the Srbsko Bug Season as I discovered yesterday. The local authorities have been busy in the last two weeks whacking down the prine butterfly breeding grounds so that nary . . .
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August 15, 2006 07:05 AM EDT --
The winter birds are already under the pine tree in the yard, looking for the missing birdhouse which came apart on Sunday. Obviously with the rain splattering the window, it's the end of the . . .
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August 20, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
I promise you that the end of Srbsko Bug Season is coming, but I am already a week behind in the photo files, so this series actually precedes the preceeding series. Got that? . . .
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August 23, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
From Srbsko to Tetin
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Tetin sits on the ridge overlooking the Beroun River nearly 5km east of Beroun. It lies midway between Beroun and Karlstejn . . .
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May 23, 2006 04:38 PM EDT --
Karlstehn Bridge
King Charles . . .
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May 26, 2006 01:02 AM EDT --
Karlstejn is approximately 30km south of Prague, perched on a sheer ridge that acts as a natural barricade for the river, Berounka.
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July 16, 2006 07:54 AM EDT --
I went out yesterday for a walk with camera in hand because the day before I missed a photo-op with a Saker falcon which reminded me to always go to the hypermarket with apparatus in hand.
I was . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:49 PM EDT --
Flutterbies dance
dandelion tufts on wind
blown apart descend again
Butterflies have not years and months, but minutes
and yet transcend eternity's limits
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March 17, 2007 10:52 PM EDT --
My mother was lucky enough to grow up with her grandmother. Grandma Antonia, known as Grandma Teddie, was a strong-willed Bohemian woman. She came over on the boat, married, and had 5 *charming* . . .
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June 13, 2006 03:14 PM EDT --
In 1599, the Benatky Palace was bought by Rudolf II who although being Catholic, had great interest in things arcane and boasted a court of artisans, alchemists and astronomers, some with overlapping . . .
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June 20, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
They say that Venice to the north is fair,
fairer than the golden strands of steaming hair
that encircles Apollo's crown.
The streets were vacant when I came;
deserted when I left.
Through cool . . .
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August 21, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
Gather crashed and took with it‚ the article and the images in progess down. Nothing new under the sun, saith the prophet. Surely he was a prophet in the truest sense of the word.
I've . . .
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August 04, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
The Petrified Fool
In early 1990, I lost my position as a teacher of English as a foreign language in an Oxford Street language school where I'd spent almost two years, the concluding two of a decade . . .
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May 23, 2006 04:10 PM EDT --
Karlstejn is approximately 30km south of Prague, perched on a sheer ridge that acts as a natural barricade for the river, Berounka. Karlstejn was constructed under the mandate of Charles IV . . .
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