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Archive Sunday challenge 171 Spooky

Bookmark from travels in New Zealand, a favourite destination. 7 20251007 092046

SC83 post 18 February - Random subject - in this case... Mask (from archive, as this is a dividing image... a real photo, a mask I bought years ago, hand crafted in New Orleans, ) OR choose your own subject/theme. www.ipernity.com/group/daysincolour365/discuss/199004 Random subject/theme - means that for this week's Sunday challenge, you can chose your own theme for your photo. Please mention your chosen theme in the photo description. A new photo taken during the week please, not an archive. These links may help you to find a subject for your photo... codebeautify.org/random-theme-generator perchance.org/random-theme-generator 14 February - NOTE: The links to the random theme generators don't seem to be working for some people. The main thing is to chose your own subject this week, and mention it in your description. The links are not essential. The links lead to web sites which generate words for themes, NOT actual photos. I am unable to do anything about the links. They work for me, but ipernity drops the https:// (which precedes the link) when I post here.

Wishing you all a healthy and happy 2024! Background AI Leonardo My golden tray

A friend suggested it might be better to go for a pre-owned year, which made me laugh :-) It might be more reliable. Anyway, wishing everyone a happy and healthy one... We didn't stay up til midnight but I was woken by our cat Dora, so captured this in the early hours - our Christmas deck lights. Sunday challenge

Sunday challenge - Hallowe'en ~ but with a focus on black. Despite Halloween's rich history and the shared culture between Australia, Britain and the US, Australia doesn't really celebrate the festival... although we sometimes have a few trick or treaters. Halloween, or All Hallows’ Eve, originates from Celtic culture in the British Isles, with All Hallows’ Eve typically being linked to the festival of Samhain, or Summer’s End. This festival marked the end of summer and the harvest season, and the beginning of the darker half of the year. The spooky side of Halloween comes from the idea that this period is considered a ‘liminal time’. This means that the boundary between the physical world and the spiritual world is weaker, allowing spirits and fairies (called the Aos Si) to cross into the physical. In times past, food and drink would be left outside for these fairies to ensure good luck and survival through winter... spooky events associated with Halloween being linked to less daylight, and in Australia we have more daylight now, going into Summer, which traditionally starts 1 December. Another version in PiP

The Italian challengers. TV coverage of the 36th America's Cup, in Auckland, New Zealand. The yacht design has changed dramatically since we went to the event in Auckland in 2000. "the engineering and sailing techniques needed to get the AC75 to fly are completely different from anything seen before." www.americascup.com/the-technology

New South Wales, Australia Black Head is composed of Devonian mudstones, however unlike its neighbour Red Head, the name does not refer to the colour of the rock, but rather the Irish birthplace (Black Head, Antrim) of the first settler William Hoy, who moved to Black Head NSW around 1881.

Noosa, Queensland

En route to Australia we had a holiday in the North Island of New Zealand

Fancy Faces New Orleans Mask (Mardi Gras, Halloween) Hand painted ceramic mask, signed 8/01 Renee. Fancy Faces, ceramic mask makers. Masks are made from their own moulds, poured, painted, and fired in kilns in New Orleans. The masks are signed on the back by the artists and embellished with varying degrees of ribbons, laces, sequins and fabrics. Sunday challenge... Mask

1/366 2020 We normally take the ferry into Noosa on New Year's Day, but have decided to break with tradition, have a quiet day, and do the ferry trip tomorrow when it will be less busy, theoretically. Happy New Year!! Can never resist this hibiscus in our garden which is producing new flowers daily...

We took the ferry on the Noosa River, from Tewantin to Noosa Heads, had brunch at Bistro C, and wandered along the boardwalk and Hastings Street. The beach was busy! Saturday challenge - New Year's resolution. The ancient Babylonians are said to have been the first people to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. They were also the first to hold recorded celebrations in honor of the new year—though for them the year began not in January but in mid-March, when the crops were planted. During a massive 12-day religious festival known as Akitu, the Babylonians crowned a new king or reaffirmed their loyalty to the reigning king. They also made promises to the gods to pay their debts and return any objects they had borrowed. These promises could be considered the forerunners of our New Year’s resolutions. If the Babylonians kept to their word, their (pagan) gods would bestow favor on them for the coming year. If not, they would fall out of the gods’ favor—a place no one wanted to be. A similar practice occurred in ancient Rome, after the reform-minded emperor Julius Caesar tinkered with the calendar and established January 1 as the beginning of the new year circa 46 B.C. Named for Janus, the two-faced god whose spirit inhabited doorways and arches, January had special significance for the Romans. Believing that Janus symbolically looked backwards into the previous year and ahead into the future, the Romans offered sacrifices to the deity and made promises of good conduct for the coming year. www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions

Arriving in the South Island. On board Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas cruise to New Zealand 8-17 December 2019.

2022 Archive Airings Parks and Gardens Shakespear(yes without the e) National Park, New Zealand. North Island of New Zealand, overlooking Hauraki Gulf. Panoramic views, walking tracks. A special place. www.freewalks.nz/auckland/shakespear-regional-park-walk/track

Sunday challenge... a photograph that has anything to do with the New Year Health and happiness in 2019! Photo of the number cards, with graduated tint and text applied. Balloons from picmonkey

These have just started flowering in our front garden. These fascinating tropical American natives come in a wonderful variety of sizes, shapes and foliage colours. They seem very strange and exotic, but one of our most common fruits, the pineapple, is actually a bromeliad. Many bromeliads are epiphytes (ie they live on other plants but do not parasitise those plants), living up in the forks of tree branches and surviving mainly on the moisture and nutrients they obtain from the air. Burke's Backyard factsheet

On board "Miss Tewantin" for our traditional New Year's Day trip from Tewantin to Noosa Heads. The best ferry ride of the year. 9.15am, just us and another couple. A family of four joined us later on and a young girl Rose was invited to toot the horn. Main Beach was really busy and all the cafes had queues. We had morning coffee at the Sheraton. On the return trip there were only six of us on board, Ian and I and a family of four. Composite image of some of the photos I took. TSC pick your favourite challenge and re-visit!