Madmen and English Dogs

...among other things...

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“The Protector”

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The distinctive nose of the Pachon Navarro - Sky, our rescue from Spain.

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Weims are so weird

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English Pointer

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Oh the pointer and the lurcher can be friends...

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Air ambulance outside Gloucester Royal Hospital

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Max having a power nap.

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With Max and Leti at first light on Robinswood Hill, Gloucester, 9 July 2015

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Vafþrúðnir (Old Norse “mighty weaver”) is a wise jötunn in Norse mythology. His name comes from Vaf, which means weave or entangle, and thrudnir, which means strong or mighty. Some interpret it to mean “mighty in riddles”. It may be anglicized Vafthruthnir or Vafthrudnir. In the Poetic Edda poem Vafþrúðnismál, Vafþrúðnir acts as (the disguised) Odin’s host and opponent in a deadly battle of wits that results in Vafþrúðnir’s defeat.

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A few words about this painting, since so many of you are asking me about the symbolic meaning. As you may know, Yoni is one of the most primeval forms of the goddess. She represents the origin of life, the womb or “secred temple” in Hindu philosophy, the creative force of the Shakti/Devi. She’s doing a “yoni mudra” with her hands (a symbolic hindu gesture that represents the woman’s vulva and the primal female energies) and behind her you can see the moon phases which represent the female fertility. In this case the antlers contribute to convey the idea of the fertile uterus (just look at a picture representing the uterus, you can actually see the “horns”). Studying archaeology I noticed that from the neolithic period (and even before, if we think about the paintings in the Chauvet Cave in France - upper paleolithic) the female archetype is frequently associated with horns and bucraniums (Marija Gimbutas wrote an interesting essay about this). [Facebook • DeviantArt • Blogspot] © Nataša Ilinčić, do not remove credits

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500 year old yew in the churchyard of St. Thomas the Martyr, St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire

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Young Edgar Allan Poe. ©Tom Brown

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Max has impeccable table manners...

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Taken somewhere in New Mexico...