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Finland
Photo by Andy Sherwood from his recent visit to Finland.
Andy Sherwood is a good cyclist who has twice completed the national 24 hour Time Trial championship.
Recently me and Andy did a 2 up Team Trial and finished a very creditable 3rd in a time of 21.52 (I think)
Iris from Back garden May 2007
Burnsall
Some photos from Yorkshire holiday. I will be away again from Computer again as to today I am flying to New York.
Picture of Lion taken by Pranlobha Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
Windermere from Kirkstone Pass
Micheal Broadwidth is a good time triallist but is selling is bike to go on a round the world trip in a VW camper Van with his wife Helen. Good Luck! I look forward to seeing their photos as they cross the Asian subcontinent.
Visit site: Round the World 2007
Spring Comes early to Oxford
After one of the mildest winters on record, spring has come early this year. I took this photo of tree blossom last weekend.
Heart of Autumn
This guy looks to be enjoying himself, but he looks dangerously close to the edge of the waterfall.
Florence in Sepia
Photo by Unmesh Swanson Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
This photo is from Loch Leven
Continuing the Pettinger theme I came across this website by Martin Pettinger who is a photographer from Scotland. Specialising in weddings and landscapes of Scotland he has some really beautiful photos.
I have included one photo here but it is worth checking out his blog and site for more.
River in Kings College Cambridge
I spent the weekend in Cambridge, visiting Kings College where Sri Aurobindo once studied
white geranium
Only a couple of months to Summer...
The Natural Beauty of China
image source: Chinese image aggregator sites via: Dark Roasted blend
Richard with Abakash
On Christmas day in Turkey, we had Christmas lunch in a Pizza restaurant, Antalya. It was very good and afterwards the owner kindly brought us Turkish coffee.
On my left is Abakash. Abakash runs a successful printing business in New York Abakash is also a very good photographer. Here is a photo of Ashrita breaking a Guinnes Record.
This photo was taken by Priyadarshan Bontempi who is an expert on cooking pasta, making coffee and Lisp Programming language. Although Priyadarshan is Italian he speak English better than me. See: Is Plenilune, a desuetude word... or not?
Afterwards we went for coffee and cake
Mt Reiner.
W.H.Davies was born in 1871 in Newport Wales. He started writing poetry at the age of 34. At one time he tried selling his poems by going from door to door. The people he visited were mostly poor and ti is said he didn't sell a single copy. One old lady gave him some money but refused to take the poems. When he reached the doss hous again that evening, he burnt every copy.
Photo by Pranlobha from Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
Fishing in China at dawn
Chu has traveled to China on several occasions, where he took this photograph of "pull net" fishing in the village of Da Cheng. To get this image, he woke up at 3 a.m. to travel to the beach. "There were about 20 fishermen and women pulling the net from the ocean," he says. Chu adds that it took the fishermen more than an hour to pull the net back, but they ended up with only two fish. (Nikon D100 digital camera, 17-35mm zoom lens)
Kitten in a cup
Even I have to kind of admit this kitten is kind of cute in a certain way.
Funny cat video from You Tube
Giant Panda
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) ("black-and-white cat-foot") is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central and southern China.
The panda's main food is bamboo, but they may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, and yams. Easily recognizable through its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, ears and on its rotund body, the giant panda is an endangered animal: an estimated 1,600 pandas live in the wild and some 221 were reported to live in captivity at the end of 2006 in China, with twenty pandas living outside of China. However, reports show that the panda numbers in the wild are on the rise.
Mediteranean Sea
I never know how to spend "mediterenean"
- never mind. I read this from my good friend Mahiruha.
"There are many words I can't spell. I don't know how to spell "embarrassed", for example- I'm too lazy to use my Word for Windows spell checker- and I don't give a damn that I'm typing all of this in Safari and that tihs artice will feature crazy word wraps or that the word "tihs" does not exist in the English language and should have been "this" but I don't feel like correcting it and if you don't like it, well that's not my problem, you can read any of the other posts.
And I realize, dear friends, that this post is already too long and has not yet begun to make the slightest sense, and probably will never make sense. Oh, well..."
Turkish Mountains on south coast by Antalya
University Church across Christ Church Meadow
The Sphinx, Egypt
Photo By Anjan
2 Girls on a bike at Magdalen Bridge
I took a few photos on Friday afternoon from Magdalen Bridge in Oxford. Look how flat the back tire is in this picture. There are many cyclists using Magdalen Bridge, mostly students. We have had a lot of rain in Oxfordshire and many places are starting to flood.
broad street
Soul Bird
Sri Chinmoy has painted several million Soul Birds. This year he passed the 15 million mark. Often when signing his name he will also draw a "Soul-bird". He can draw them very quickly with a few strokes of the pen. He says Soul-birds symbolise both freedom and the aspirations of our soul.
The last leaves are falling off the trees
Europe sepia art.
Photo By Unmesh Swanson Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
Deer in the mist.
- From: Stefan Loeliger Photos
Radcliffe Camera square
Photo from Phil Borges
My photographic projects are devoted to the welfare of indigenous and tribal people. My intention is to help bring attention to the value these cultures represent and the challenges they face.
Oxford from boars hill, yesterday evening
Take Off by Jakob Sigurdsson
A good collection of photos people have submitted and have been chosen.
Oxford Spires at Dusk
Spires of Oxford from North East.
I took this photo from Marston Road at about 4.30pm
Radcliffe Camera at Night
This is a picture of the Radcliffe Camera Library. In the background is Brasenose Colleg. To the right is the Bodleian library. The picture is taken with a Kodak Z612 with a night photo setting. The trick is to be able to keep the camera steady.
Picture of Frog close up
- Many close up photos of insects and bugs
Photo of Christ Church Meadow. A new digital camera is coming soon.
Photo from Christ Church Meadow
Jesus College is on the left. This photo is taken from Broad Street looking towards High Street.
Radcliffe Square taken October 2006
View: Photos of Oxford in Autumn
View: Photos of Oxford in Summer
View: Flowers from Oxford Garden
View: Oxford Botanic Gardens
View: Oxford Skyline photos
View: Foggy Oxford Photos
This is a view from the Bike path along the Thames I use to get to work.
The photo was taken a week ago, the leaves are now slowly starting to change colour. We are enjoying a very mild autumn so everything is a bit delayed. The warm weather bodes well for tomorrow when I will be counting in the Self Transcendence 24 hour Race in London.
Radcliffe Camera taken October 6th
The World Harmony Run has been passing through England and Scotland. This is a photo of the Harmony Run Team in Scotland. The British Run started in Douer and travelled through Cambridge and then north through Nottingham, Manchester and Kendal, before spending 2 days in Scotland. Along the way the run is met by various people who come to give their support. The run also visits schools where the children get the opportunity to participate in the run.
The World Harmony Run is organised by members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. It is currently in Ireland and will soon by passing through Wales and then Bristol
Although it is extremely difficult
We must realise
That we came into the world
Not to destroy but to illumine
Our enemies
From: 77,000 Service Trees Part 45
Poems on Forgiveness at Poet Seers
Photo of Habranthus
Sunflower and Botanic Garden
Photo by Ranjit, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
Featured at Poetseers Poem of the Day
Pictures from Sri Chinmoy's 75th Birthday Celebrations
A good write up from my friend Shardul about The Record breaking Popcorn cake at Sri Chinmoy Centre
After finishing my degree In PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) * at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. I made (a not very common) career choice and got a job as a gardener in my own college. At the time I flirted with become a professional gardener and when revising for my final exams I used to intersperse bit of Keynes and Friedman with memorising Latin names for plants.
View: Pictures from my garden
" The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough."
