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Biokovo mountain:

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Why would you willingly visit snow?!?

Vilcabamba, Loja Province

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Is that cuy habitat? Puma for sure.

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Too low for Cuys - that's only 1200 m of elevation. Cuy start appearing at about 1800 m and go up from there. You're bang on about the Puma habitat, though. The colour variant in Loja is sort of a lilac blue; they're very attractive cats.

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You see Beth, if you came from Europe, you would have known. It is rumored, that the retreating Roman army hid an incredible treasure somewhere in the Biokovo mountain pass, while defending their last villages from the invasions of Croats. They chose the only place that Southern Croats feared the most: snowy and icy mountain tip. And so each generation of Makarians goes to the mountains at least once in their lives to celebrate the conquering of this country and searching for the Roman treasure.

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There's a similar region in Ecuador, the Llanganates, where the retreating Incan general Ruminahui is said to have dumped the entire contents of the city of El Dorado (present-day Cuenca), some 15+ tonnes of gold. Still doesn't really want to make me visit the snow.

And I'm not kidding.

Jack, if you'd ever moved from close to the Arctic Circle to the heart of the tropics, you'd understand what I'm talking about.

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Just vist Hawaii and you'll know. It is as close to paradise as you can get.

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I'd beg to differ - there's a whole belt of paradise-type places around latitude 0.

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Hmm, I ll have to do something about that latitude problem:ha::ha::ha:
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If I ever moved to the tropics, it would no longer be me.
For millenia Europeans have lived here, even though there were other, maybe more acceptable places with warmer and more humid climate. This climate of ours, the way of life in temperate and colder climates is so different... we have to adapt, work harder to survive - something that Inca, Mayans and other cultures of tropical regions all over the world didn't have to do. ;) That's why they belong to the past.

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Maybe this can help??



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Who says the Inca are in the past? The Quichua-speaking peoples are the same culture; the word "Inca" simply means "ruler." They've adapted, just not to a new climate - to new religion, a new language, and new rulers. (And in most cases, they've actually forced those things to adapt to them.)

I'm originally Canadian, Jack, from close to the Arctic circle, so I know all about adapting to the climate. Genetically, I'm of Scots/Viking ancestry. Moving hasn't changed who I am, it's just made my feet warmer in December and made it easier for me to grow bananas.

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Yeah, but Ante, I can make that here. I still don't see any need to willingly expose myself to sub-zero temperatures.

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Hm, Ante might have been there to kill 91% of know bacteria. ;) Gotta, can't do that in tropical climate. :P

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this is part of my famous Amarican Icons painting sireas doing this one more to come

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Guláš, Goulash? ;)

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Yes it is Gulaš in black pot and Kiseli kupus (Soured cabbage with dryed pork) in the plate:ha:
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I knew I recognized the food, guláš remains guláš in any country. :)

It's always nice to see such piece of history.
Whether you go 3 hours to the left or 3 hours to the right, you'll always end up in V.Brdo. These crossroad tables and arrows are interesting yet quite popular phenomenon here too.
Once I saw a table that wanted to send you in all four directions to the same place. :ha:

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ninaly heres the Golden Gate Painting 95% conpleat i forgot to take a picture of it conpleated befor i sent it to the framers so all take one of it all framed and repost here later but you can get the idea this is a big pating for a water colore its 29.5" X 42.5"

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i forgot to post the piture that im going to paint nexst its of lake taho NV side of the big bay i think its caled Emrald bay but i cant rember

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Raja puri new leaf

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Sorry, it's not an image, but still, I wanted to share it with you. My favourite is the second one - the bird. Watch and enjoy!

YouTube - Funny Animals' Videos

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OK, this is Teddy bear, rroooooarrrr......

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Heh, Ante, I see we have the same ladder. :D We had to buy one high enough to let me walk on the roof the other day. :ha:

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Here is a spectacular view along the Pacific cost highway just north of Monterey Ca. and just hapens to be the subject of my nexst painting all post if it turns out good amost done with the taho picture all post that tomarow mabe or later today

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OK heres the Tahoe picture I'm not quite sure its done I'm considering a light wash of deep red over the hole picture to bring a more twilight feeling to it as its at sun set

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Wow, that's some impressive problem solving by those animals! WAY above their average intelligent levels! These are the Mensa members of the animal kingdom!

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Tony- what happened to your pics? they're gone!

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Well that bird was amazing. All the other animals could have been trained, but the bird was just so clever. He knew how to use what he found. That just ruined my preconceptions about some types of birds. :)

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I started to get rid of non plant related pic's.

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Well, thats bad news.

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That sucks and it's not necessary. If Jarred had a problem with it he would have said something and that my friend is all that matters.

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my friend i dont think you need to do this i belive this problim has ben publicly sorted out put them back but you will have to edit you old post to put the picture back in

Pleas every one i love this thread! the pictures are spectaculer and to me are litil windows in to were you all live and traval it brings a grater leveal of intamace to are conections and i value that i cant see how this hurts any one and if Jerred needs us to clear the decks so to speek he will tell us of his own acord

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Paulo, I thought about you when I opened this month's Bark magazine and found an article about the Norman Rockwell exhibit called "Behind the Camera" There are several images containing dogs that he painted that they show in the magazine that are really cool. I'm trying to find them online but in the meantime here is a look at the exhibit.

Norman Rockwell Museum|Archive|Behind the Camera

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yes im vary familure with his work as a kidd my Grandmother use to have a supscription to the Saterday Evening Post i would look at the covers endlasly
i was perticulerly intraseted in Rockwells ues of cute and oftin iconic ideams of amrican culture of the 40 50 and 60 i was vary influenst but not as much as with Tomes Hart Benten he lived not far from were i grew up and my high school had a rather larg colection of Bentons as he was a big supporter of my school and donated the colection i was vary fotunat to have meet many famous artist in my chiald hood as Kansas City not a well known fact that many lived there in the 40 threw 60 becaus of the Mission Hills district (not to be confused with Mission Hills Ca)

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I LOVE THIS ONE!! I love rocks and boulders, mountains and water! I love the north west. I miss the Rogue River.

We have a great big picture in our living room of Mt. Shasta that is painted on cardboard back in the 40's or 50's by a friend of my husband's grandfather. I worry about it being on cardboard!

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sounds like its vary dear to you hart

I would worry about it being painted on card board too as this typ of paper is not desinde to be uesed for exstended time its laced with acids that were uesed to brake the wood pulp down in to smale threds caled fibrils ones this is don they will tangal more easaly forming the craft paper that is tipicly uesed in card board if the painting is valubal to you i would cunsalt a art conservator that spealises in paper restoration there are some things they can do to stabalise the paper its worth it if the painting is valubal how they do this depends on its age and what medeam has ben uesed to paint with if its pre 1900 you are probly safe as the papers uesed back then were fairly acid free but modern papers have to be put threw a bath of sodeam Bicarbanat to nutrals the acids and make what is caled a acid free or conservation paper i ues Archech 100% cotton papers they last for hundreds of years but on the down side each pice of paper that i ues cost 18$ US and many artist are just to poor to get this type of paper

wihich bring up an inportint fact if you love art and plan to buy any work of are make sure you ask the dealer of artist what he or she uesd to make there work this may seem a bit silly but i can tell you this after you pay from 500 to 50000 dollers for a water color or drawing and then find out such as you have that it has ben done on a unstabal pice of paper and that with in 10 year it will yelow and start to cumbal under the inflowins of acids left in the paper you will want to cry this aslow gos for work being properly seeld all water colors are suseptibal to the acid that hangs in are modern industrealised atmosphir so all workd need to be behind sonservation glass treated to keep uv light out and acid air at bay of your works will yelow and fad with time i do two thinks to insur this dosint hapen i apliey wax sealer to my water colors a vary uncomin pratis put it never yelows if its mad from bees wax and then i make sure that i ues good glass and seal the back of the pating with all conservation matireals dont for get tap it has acisd in it to get acid free taps and the art boards youed to mat your work must be acid free sorry i know you asked a siple question its not coplicated but it is hardt to exsplane in texst

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Your explaination was good. I'm ignorant of this subject. We don't collect art except for afew things painted by family members which aren't worth anything to anyone but us. We try to carry on the personal touch to everything, like the frame for this one is very simple that my husband made with a neighbor telling him how to do it. We did go in and talk to the owner of an antique store once and he said basically the same thing you did. We've ignored the situation for now because of what kind of $$ this could cost if anything can be done at all. I think someone wrote the date on the back and we can see if it goes back far enough to be acid free. I know there is a little story handwritten on the back telling about this painting being bought for a couple pennies and some land traded between the two friends. I just took some pictures of it and will post it.

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I don’t say much but that is also the way I fell.!

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Course, this is a great pleace for meeting other peoples, pleaces and cultures.
Why ruin something like that?
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I think everyone is jumping the gun by deleting pictures. I don't post very many but the last year I pulled them in from photoshop because that is where they were. No one told anyone to delete photos. I saw it merely as a decussion that was put out there.

I won't be able to post the picture of Mt. Shasta until tomorrow. My computer froze and now I have the grandkids here that have taken my computer over.

Deb

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