Paixão Fogo e Brava

Get ready for an ardorized weekend with Gardenia Benros.

 

Tagine cooking in Morocco

This is a video of a restaurant in Sidi Bibi, a small town in Morocco, that is known for its tagine. Tagine is both a dish, essentially a type of hunter's stew, and the earthen wear it is cooked in. The meal is generally cooked in a plate, which doubles as a serving dish, atop of that is placed a cone-shaped top that traps the steam during cooking. It looks pretty tasty.   

 

Veterans Day

Soldier at Home by Joseph Christian Leyendecker 

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
- George Canning -

Cans of various types

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On my last vacation I did a post Our friend the tin can, so I'll return to that theme for this vacation as well. All sort of cans: drink cans, paint cans, watering cans, oil cans and even garbage cans. Enjoy.

Cinnamon Girl

Get ready for a barky weekend with Rich Evro Reid,

Jamie Putnam, Paul McCrudden, and John Gardonyi.

 

Who is so safe as we?

An accident waiting to happen

Safety - Rupert Brooke

Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest
He who has found our hid security,
Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest,
And heard our word, ‘Who is so safe as we?’
We have found safety with all things undying,
The winds, and morning, tears of men and mirth,
The deep night, and birds singing, and clouds flying,
And sleep, and freedom, and the autumnal earth.
We have built a house that is not for Time’s throwing.
We have gained a peace unshaken by pain for ever.
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
Secretly armed against all death’s endeavour;
Safe though all safety’s lost; safe where men fall;
And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

 

Gone fishing

Thar she blows

I'm off on another vacation/fishing trip. This time I plan on bagging one of them oceanic blubber beasts. Hopefully, one that is white and of great size. Wish me luck, I don't want to share the fate of one of my role models -- Captain Ahab. 

I have posts lined up to be automatically published. Have a good one all.

  

Bathrooms in art

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For reasons of propriety, the bathroom is often overlooked in art and literature, but the humble bathroom is a fixture in our life. So here are some paintings of the room.