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The Dragonflies'Lair~Thread XXXVIII~June 2007-July 2007
Soaring Feather/Poets of the Lair
| June 1, 2007
| Soaring Feather
Posted on 06/01/2007 6:53:35 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
My Dragonfly and Me
If I could be a Dragon Fly
and wing my way through the sky
I would never be shy
just me and my Dragon Fly!
By moonlight we ride the wind
chase the comets tail for fun
by day we would hide from the sun
our fragile wings would come undone
On darkest nights we would use
fireflies as our guide
we would dip and we would glide
through the heavens open wide
and scatter diamonds in the night sky
my Dragon Fly and me...
And we would wing past our lovers
silent in the night...
to kiss their face in our flight
much to their surprise and delight
my Dragon Fly and me in sight...
Such a view do we share
away up here in the air
of breezes soft through our hair
my Dragon Fly and me a pair...
bentfeather (c) 2002
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Music/Entertainment; Poetry
KEYWORDS: classicpoets; dragonflies; dragonflieslair; glengaulway; july; june; lair; poetry
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New Thread Ping~June
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:00:57 PM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(I Soar 'cause I can....)
To: Soaring Feather
Howdy howdy hi! I thought the label for threads was "May and June", but are you going to make threads for May to June? In other words one thread per month?
They will get awfully long on a two month basis, I was curious to see how long a two month Lair thread would get. ;-)
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:08:22 PM PDT
by
starbase
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To: starbase
Yes, too long, and I nearly missed NYAttitude’s lovely poem.
I put June ~July thread for some reason which escapes me now. LOL
I shall stick to my 1000 posts or try hard anyway. We had Memorial Day and I did not want to post so near the end of the month with such an important holiday.
I have run some long threads but they get so tiresome to me anyway.
So how goes it for you? Keeping busy?
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:14:57 PM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(I Soar 'cause I can....)
To: All
In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.
No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
- Aldo Leopold
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:17:10 PM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(I Soar 'cause I can....)
To: Soaring Feather
Yep, keeping busy. This morning was gloriously sunny, now it's meditatively overcast. I'm enjoying hanging out at the Internet cafe, and will probably be here all day. (I was going to run out while it was sunny, but now that it's overcast, might as well listen to music and surf!)
For no particular reason, here's a tiger diving under water!:
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:22:17 PM PDT
by
starbase
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To: starbase
WOW, that is a fine picture. ;) Is that his supper he is after?? Looks like raw meat.
Oh it’s morning for you!! Well Good Day to you.
We had a very nice day, no rain, but a tad on the humid side.
I think rain will come in the night.
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:26:47 PM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(I Soar 'cause I can....)
To: Soaring Feather
Yes, that's his supper. I saw it in a story somewhere on the Internet, he learned to dive into water by chasing chunks of meat his handlers threw in (guess they had too much time on their hands!)
In posting that picture to my photobucket account (so I could host it here) I saw I still have some pictures from the second to last trip to Thailand.
Some series take more imagination to make a storyline than others. I was going to put together a walk through the rain down by the river, then back around to a street market. But the rain walk is hard to cobble together into a storyline.
I think I'll just skip ahead to the street market pictures and post them here on the new thread. I think I'll throw that together right now!
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:34:17 PM PDT
by
starbase
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To: starbase
Okay, great! I will post the Index of you photo links a little deeper in the thread.
Oh, I saw on the tube tonight, that your city Taipei, had given some sharks to the state of Georgia. Big hummers they were. They showed footage of the loading of the shark for transport.
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posted on
06/01/2007 7:50:40 PM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(I Soar 'cause I can....)
To: starbase
The tiger is certainly focused on capturing it’s dinner.
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posted on
06/01/2007 8:22:10 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: NY Attitude
The tiger is certainly focused on capturing it’s dinner.
Yes, it's not pussy footing around!
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posted on
06/01/2007 8:28:05 PM PDT
by
starbase
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To: All
Good night everyone.
To: Soaring Feather
and with 2 sonic booms, Soaring Feather bids us good night. Rest well.
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posted on
06/01/2007 8:36:53 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: Soaring Feather; Lady Jag; WayzataJOHNN; JimSEA; All
Well, here's another Bangkok installment.
After walking down by the river in the rain (which isn't quite picturesque enough to turn into a series), we head back to town and visit the street market for some snacks.
1.)So let's leave a pensive and brooding rainy afternoon by the river, and head on over to the colorful market.
2.)As we walk, we pass a Chinese art shop. It's hard to see, but the very center of this huge varnished root system is carved into the head of a phoenix. Can you see the phoenix? There are also coconuts for sale, if anyone wants a quick snack. But don't eat too much, the market will be full of food!
4.) Yowley! What a big head!
5.) Traditional Chinese figures. I really should know who all these guys are, but I don't! I'll try to ask my Chinese colleagues the next chance I get. Holding those little baby midgets, I think it's a safe bet these are New Years figures of some sort.
6.) Ah, finally, we're at the market! Now the next several shots will show all the kinds of things they sell on the sidewalk on a typical street in Bangkok. There are some stewed fish down front, but really, as I walked by all these tables, I had no idea what most of these foods are. Not speaking Thai, and with most street vendors not speaking English, it was difficult to find out what some of these foods are made from.
7.) There are coconuts on the right, trimmed and ready to whack open with a clever, insert straw, and enjoy fresh coconut milk walking down the street. It's quite tasty, you can see some opened coconuts behind the plastic containers. On the far left are what I believe are steamed mussels in spicy sauce, placed in bags for "take out". I'm not sure what the brown "bun" looking things are in the middle!
8.) Except for the hot Thai babe working the table, I don't recognize any of the things in this picture! I'm sure it's all delicious though!
9.)Fried fish and vegetables, a classic combination!
10.) Lots of little impromptu "cafeterias" like this one are all over in Thailand. As you can see, a wide selection of delicious dishes served up as "fast food" on the cheap. (Taiwan has similar dining establishments). In Thailand, these types of places are usually cut off from foreign visitors, due to the lack of pricing, English menus, or dishes recognized by foreigners. That's OK, the Thais would rather charge tourists top dollar at sit down places, these much cheaper Thai cafes are more for the local population.
11.)And finally we end with lots of sweets. Through different combinations of processing, coloring, and sweetening, rice based sweets can be made to have a vast range of flavors, appearances and consistencies. These all might be quite interesting to sample!
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posted on
06/01/2007 8:42:24 PM PDT
by
starbase
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To: Soaring Feather; NY Attitude; starbase; WayzataJOHNN
Hey, remember poodle skirts?
15
posted on
06/01/2007 8:58:57 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(A positive attitude will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.)
To: starbase
I remember that a helicopter while placing the flame on top of the bridge span lost altitude and the rotor blades struck the flame and went to pieces. The helicopter fell to the bridge roadbed with a loss of everyone on board.
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posted on
06/01/2007 9:02:14 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: starbase
Brings back plesant memories.
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posted on
06/01/2007 9:04:02 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: starbase
Nice photos. They start out interesting and then get very tasty looking. You said the food fare is probably good. Would you sample anything they sell?
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posted on
06/01/2007 9:07:56 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(A positive attitude will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.)
To: Lady Jag
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posted on
06/01/2007 9:20:49 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: Lady Jag
Would you sample anything they sell?
Sure, I've eaten several things from the vendors. The real barrier is asking for something. You're not sure how it will be handed to you, or how much they'll give you, or what the price should be, so you hesitate to buy anything.
But I've eaten at one of the little dinner cafes once, by pointing at things in the pots, and I've bought some packages of the little sweet things they sell. But the sweet treats often have a weird taste to us. Like they use lots of coconut butter, or some strange spice, plus the consistency is unfamiliar to Westerners. Sometimes mushy, some times "fleshy", and very often extremely gummy, but made from dough, or pounded rice gluten.
I bought one bag of "things" (medium sized, white doughy balls with a yellow spot on each one) from a handicapped lady in Bangkok. When I ate them later, well they tasted alright, but it was a mushy sugary sweetness, combined with a bizarre mesquite-like bbq flavor, with something that tasted vaguely of egg inside (they cook a lot of tiny eggs, I guess they're pigeon eggs, or quail or something). So the over all experience of their preferred foods is not what Thailand is known for.
The beaches, sunshine, temples and beer are much safer ground for outsiders!
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posted on
06/01/2007 9:28:34 PM PDT
by
starbase
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