Pigeon on Bench

 Here is a pigeon on the back of a bench but far from relaxing, hoping for food, overwhelmed by samsaric urges.

Shoulder level portrait

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Summer Still Life: Joys of Dacha: Heat, Cold Beer, Potato Snack, Humi...

Here is some summer still lifes at dacha with an accompanying text from my other blog:

 

 Joys of Dacha: Heat, Cold Beer, Potato Snack, Humidity and Some English Reading

 

These English ladies are forward.

Tomskoye beer, a decent larger, nothing much to taste but good on a hot summer day and the weather is in near 30s Celsius in Moscow and around currently and has been so for about three weeks already, though with regular thunderstorms.

Kate has different agonies now. But it's alright. The important thing is not to make a big deal out of it.

Developing cancer and dying is as natural as taking a dump.

Not to mention that the British Royals are guilty of murdering lots of people, millions in fact, first directly such as during the reign of say Henry VIII, then and up to, and including, now through the actions of the British regime whose figureheads they are.

But it's a trifling matter too, something to laugh about, just a note in passing, nobody gives a fack, that's my sincere advice to the english biatch.

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News and Entertainment Photography: M1 Abrams et al

Here is an M1 Abrams tank something or other... but there is a catch... this one is in Moscow at Dead Iron Expo May 2024

Full size pictures and more at Shutterstock

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 Saw it today:

British Uglo-Saxon

A version of US M113, an RPG operator's dream

Another British dog-named vehicle, a Husky TSV... she went to the dogs

Rusting Abrams

Sincerely Yours. Aeroflot.

Our city on a hill, a shining light cutting through the dark world dominated by Angloids and Natoids... but not for much longer.

 

 

 

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Russian Caviar, French Champagne Still Life

 Caviar and champagne still life, text from my other blog.

 

 

This is how we rollin' here in the times of plague and various other unpleasantness.

Here is an impromptu al-fresco lunch for two, involving principally some Russian caviar and a bottle of cheapish French champagne, but also soft cheese, butter, pineapple rings and orange juice for mimosas.

The caviar was Siberian caviar not some filthy and polluted, not to mention depleted, Caspian slop.

This was Lena sturgeon.

Re: Champaign, seemed good enough with evidence of genuine secondary in-bottle fermentation on the taste.. maybe... lively and a note of live yeast on the taste if not on the nose anyway.

 

 

Regarding Marquis de Sade himself, he was of course a prolific writer of fiction and a major proponent of back door entry, But did you know, it was he who started the French revolution in earnest by precipitating the storming of La Bastille?

Some time at start of July 1789, crowds in Paris began to congregate around the Bastille. They believed there were people imprisoned in the royal fortress turned prison with whom they sympathized and whom they might liberate from the King's despotic rule.

The crowds, however, did not know that only a few aristocrats were held there, mainly on morals charges, and scarcely deserving liberation in the name of the people. On July 2, the crowds in the street heard a voice, apparently amplified by a megaphone improvised out of a rain spout, shouting that prisoners were being slaughtered and needed rescue. The prisoner to whom that voice belonged was summarily transferred two days later to the Clarenton insane asylum. But it was too late, the crowds stormed the Bastille on July fourteenth.

The man who attempted so outrageous a ruse in order to regain freedom after twelve years of imprisonment we know today as the Marquis de Sade!

(adapted from Forbidden Knowledge by Roger Shattuck)

So three cheers for Marquis de Sade, Hero of the French Revolution!!!

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Thymus in Bloom

 Blooming thymus

Frog and Bullfinches

 Here is some animal life from my country place, a frog and a bullfinch.

Bullfinch is naturally out of focus because camera wouldn't focus on him because of the twigs.

And a frog