Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.~ Vincent van Gogh
A late post: I wanted to share these images earlier in autumn but when I got time to be on WP a new challenge was waiting for me. I enjoyed my hike and the “mindful” landscape.
Six Word Saturday
Jo’s Monday Walk
Hope you all are doing fine.
Stay safe and be kind.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show ~Andrew N. Wyeth
Everything you do has some effect, some impact.~ Dalai Lama
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ख़ुश-नसीबी और बद-नसीबी का कोई पैमाना नहीं होता।
बस लम्हों के फ़ैसलों का हिसाब सालों चुकाना होता है।
-रुपाली
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In the recent times I have an on and off relationship with WP. It is difficult to be back with full swing once I am away for a certain time. I don’t know if it’s the same with the others as well.
Jo’s Monday Walk
This was the only moment when we enjoyed sunshine in week’s time. Moreover the only image we took during our 90 min. walk. I do not see sunrise and sunset from my home. The sun is always behind those mountains.
Both the occurrence of the Midnight Sun and the Polar Night are a direct result of the position of the Earth and its relationship with the Sun. As most people already know, the Earth is not positioned perfectly perpendicular. If it was, then every location on the entire planet would receive exactly 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness every single day. However, as we already know, this is not the case.
The reason for this is that the Earth has a slight tilt to it. In fact, it is estimated that the Earth’s tilt is approximately 23.5 degrees on its axis. This fairly significant tilt of the earth means that one end of it is always pointing towards the sun while the opposite end is pointing away from it.
However, since the Earth is also constantly rotating on its axis and making a complete revolution every 24 hours, it means that the majority of the planet is still receiving a fairly equal amount of sunlight for the majority of the year. But as you get further away from the equator, this ratio of sunlight to darkness begins to become more and more unequal.
Reference : https://www.fjordtours.com/inspiration/facts/norway-winter-sun/
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Jos Monday Walk – Hope you don’t mind one image post, Jo.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.~ Dr. Seuss
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.~ Laura Lippman
In current circumstances I am longing for sunny days. The declining day length and falling temperatures causing “raining leaves”. I wished to capture remains of the autumn but could hardly manage. Anyways, I was happy to be in nature for almost two hours.
Hope you are enjoying Sunday!
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.~ Lee Haney
Jo’s Monday Walk
Robin’s Walktober
Debbie’s Six Word Saturday
Today was one of the best days to observe the gradual “changing of the guard colours” in the vicinity. A day off would have been good but 2 hours break in the middle of the day was also a blessing. We took a walk looking for the first beautiful leaf then the next and the next.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu
We all live amidst various kinds of responsibilities or pressures. Some of our choices and some which are thrust upon us. Do you remember a lesson in physics on electric circuits, series and parallel? It’s better to have parallel circuits in real life. It would be impossible to live a happy and contended life if all events in our lives are connected in series. To cut the story short, we decided to go out and enjoy our “we time” in nature in spite of our current circumstances. You may find it strange but we plan and change our activities according to the weather forecast 😀
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We are happy and satisfied today. Hope you enjoy your day too.
Jo’s Monday Walk
Dawn’s Festival of leaves
The Leprosy Museum (Lepramuseet) in Bergen is housed in the 18th century buildings of St Jørgen’s (St George’s) Hospital, and St. Jørgen’s Church forms part of the old leprosy hospital buildings. The hospital was founded before 1411, and was the central institution for treating people affected by leprosy in Western Norway until its closure in 1946. The present-day buildings date back to the early 18th century. Documents from the hospital were transferred to the City Archives of Bergen in the 1980s.
A famous scientific story is also linked to the cultural monument which was dedicated to St. Jørgen , who was the patron saint of lepers.
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease (HD). The causative agent of leprosy, M. leprae, was discovered by G. H. Armauer Hansen in Norway in 1873, making it the first bacterium to be identified as causing disease in humans
The Leprosy Museum tells about the disease leprosy and its history in Norway, about life in the hospital and the famous Norwegian contributions to leprosy research. The foundation’s archives are part of the Leprosy Archives in Bergen , which are on UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme.
The institution lived through the centuries as part of the surrounding society, but also separated as a separate city within the city. The nine listed buildings were all rebuilt after the town fire in 1702 , and today they form one of the best-preserved leprosy hospitals in Europe. But the buildings are full of settlement damage, because the ground beneath them is slowly but surely disappearing.
St. Jørgens Hospital is one of Norway’s oldest foundations and one of Scandinavia’s oldest hospital institutions . Hospital operations date back to 1411, and down through the centuries the hospital has had its place in the Bergen cityscape. St Jørgen church was the parish church for Årstad parish until 1886, and the church was often used for children ‘s baptisms , which came to an abrupt end when it became clear that leprosy is contagious. At times there were 150 patients in the small hospital, and up to three people slept in each of the barely 4 m² rooms.
Bergen had a pharmacy in 1588, but university-educated doctors are not mentioned until the 1590s. In 1603, Villads Adamssøn was appointed city physician , and it seems likely that it was part of his job to supervise the leper hospital. For a long time the hospital church did not have its own priest . In 1567 it was still the cathedral ‘s priest Absalon Pederssøn Beyer who was in charge of the funerals at Spital’s cemetery , but in 1572 it was agreed with the aging priest Gustaff Olsen that he could be admitted to the hospital in exchange for taking care of the patients’ souls . Halsnøy monastery had donated mass clothes and altar chalice .
At the end of the 17th century, Norway and Iceland were the only countries in Western Europe that were affected by leprosy on a large scale. From around 1830, Western Norway experienced a strong upsurge of the disease. Bergen thus became Europe’s leprosy capital. The majority of patients were poor fishermen and farmers. The last patients died as late as 1946, two women from Fjell and Eivindvikwhich was admitted in the 1890s.
The museum exhibits the Bergen Collection of the History of Medicine, a presentation of Norway’s contribution to leprosy research and the original laboratory where Hansen discovered the leprosy bacillus, M. leprae. The exhibition covers the hospital conditions, symptoms and treatment. The museum also houses patients’ paintings.
References:
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepramuseet
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Jo’s Monday Walk
For what it’s worth… it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Yesterday was my birthday and as a gift from the universe, the sun was shining ☀ . We decided to keep it simple and planned a couple of hours hike with some picnic food. There were lots of butterflies of which some were quite bold. On our way up the top we chatted with an elderly couple (age 75+) with whom we got acquainted during covid-19 lock down in 2020. The gentleman had walking poles but they both were in good shape. Walking on steep trails is not easy for their age. The lady chatted with us and told us about her hospital stay due to some breathing problems she got recently. I am sure there is nothing serious as she is able to hike three times a week. After car parking there is a gravel road (toll road) in steep terrain all the way up to the post. The elevation difference for them was from 260 – 600 m. We need no formula to know how fit they both were.
For Jo’s Monday walk
Life is full of uncertainties.
Your’s and mine.
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Start to observe and learn,
maximize time in own improvement.
minimize time in marking others.
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Exactly after a week it was possible to visit the other half of the garden. Weather was fine but with lot of wind. I was happy to be able to try various shutter speeds. There were more wild flowers. We shall have more flowers by the end of June. I managed to a get a slice of yummy carrot cake before the cafe was closed. No photo though.
Six Word Saturday
Jo’s Monday Walk
Do you remember this house
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