Images in the Tropical Zone.....Where.........

(All Photos in this Post by Tavarua)

.....there have been stories written, stories told, stories watched on the screen and stories lived.... if I could write, I would have written one or maybe a few....nothing extraordinary but a story....a story about....we already know about what...we all have a story to tell...but to understand your own story... you have to live in it...there were and are a few men and women who live/lived life to the fullest...because they took life to heart and if you do...life will never be the same... sometimes, for some of us you have to be a risk taker...and balance on the razors edge in life..to feel it...other times it could be just that you refuse to have that ordinary day ever again....

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The heat is increasing during the day.........

There is something ......hidden...out there...called life and freedom - it is up to you to find it...

Turtles bring good luck....

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Listen to the never ending orchestra of sounds....

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Seek some shade......and close your eyes for a few minutes and listen.....

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Shade can bring some magnificent patterns...

Coconuts and coconut water...refreshments in the sun.....

and a dinner......Iguana....very tasty.....another name for it - "Bamboo Chicken".....

The Crab and the Journal.....................

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.” - Eugene Delacroix

and then.....more...

Water world - The Crab like the Turtle....Carries his home with him...Hmmmm and how many steamer trunks...?

Rest your eyes on the blue sky........

" The Green Zone"

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.” - Rumi

From the Tropical Zone - (No Hoggett) - Tantalus - a Roorkhee Chair - and a Turtle Box.....

No Hoggett - Where ever you go......bring your Tantalus ......it was in England but not until the last half of the nineteenth century it came to use - it is nothing wrong to bring it with you - here you are somewhere.....living a simple life.........and you need your Sundowner.......at sunset, a toast to life and the night of reflections and thoughts. Make yourself comfortable in your Roorkhee....The decanters are square, usually of cut or engraved glass elegant decanters can be seen and admired around the world.. we do still Travel with them..... ???? The decanters are safely secured and cannot be removed from the Tantalus during the day, nor can their stoppers be withdrawn as we keep it locked and the "Turtle" keeps the key. No - pilfering ......

Keep the key safeguarded by your Turtle box...(Taxidermy - Of Course).....

If you can hide the key in a Hippo foot?...Must be a large key....

98 Degrees in the Sun - Journals - Finally ???? - Two Pages...

Journals/Collage by Tavarua

Well, I think I am finally satisfied with these two pages...............

Ocean Dreams and Sunrise in The Tropical Zone...............

(Photo by Tavarua)

Life in the Tropical Zone - Each day I rise with the Sun in the early morning.....the air I breath is filling my lungs with salty ocean mist.. a few Manta Rays were swimming by ..

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(Photo by Tavarua)

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..a Pelican is flying close to the water...

(Sea Turtle - Engraving By R.H. Badeau)

the Sea Turtles keep on coming ashore at night to lay their eggs...60 days later the "little" ones will hatch in search for the nearby ocean......Ocean of dreams....My hair is getting blonder my skin is getting darker...Passion for life rises with the heat and intensity of the blood red sun - the heart of life - a canvas for an early reflection - a moment of stillness and thought - each day - to remind us about our gratitude to life... - Absorb it - Tomorrow - Rise with the Sun....and you will know why.....

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(Photo by Tavarua)

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“You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.”

Destination the Tropical Zone.............

So, Finally packing up - light - living on the beach - maybe a few weeks or so....time will tell???

"Under Canvas" - It is the moves between continents and when I have decided to establish my "Travellers Rest" I bring the most of everything you do not need - Well, you always need Books and more books and the oriental rugs, an old chesterfield sofa and a club chair, safari chairs and some old small heirlooms and a few sculptures, hunting bottles, lap desks, humidors, engravings, safari clothes, of course dinner jackets and pumps, and so on...(No, I do not watch a lot of TV ..lost time in a non-reality world)

I do not pack for "under canvas" for each short voyage that would be in excess.....

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."Hullo".......

"A horse is poetry in motion" - Hunting with Hounds.............

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

~Beryl Markham

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Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,

Friendship without envy,

Or beauty without vanity?

Here, where grace is served with muscle

And strength by gentleness confined

He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.

There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.

There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
All our history is in his industry.
We are his heirs, he our inheritance.

~Ronald Duncan, "The Horse," 1954

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“Very few people have settled entirely in the country but have grown at length weary of one another . . . the gentleman falls in love with his dogs and horses and out of love with everything else.” - Lady Montagu

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No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

~Winston Churchill

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Hunting is our music,

It is our Poetry,

It is our Art,

It is our Pleasure

- Baroness Mallalieu

and in the Trophy Room........

At a Glance..............Geneva....

All photos in this Post by Tavarua

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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"Architecture is frozen music"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Geneva...

Leaves....

petit déjeuner......

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.............Cartier................

The Cartier Watch - If you are a women feel free at anytime to wear your watch - If you are a man - you could wear one ........if you inherited it....and it is old, old, old - you can get by with a Santos as it originated in 1904 and has remained almost unchanged....Cartier has been synonymous with superb quality and style.... - The Prince of Wales hailed Cartier as "Joaillier des Rois, Roi des Joailliers" - Cartier the royal warrant of supplier to the Royal Court of England and further Royal warrants - the courts of Spain, Portugal, Russia, Siam, Greece, Serbia, Belgium, Romania, Egypt and finally Albania, the House of Orleans and the Principality of Monaco.

Blue - Blue - Blue -

Blue - Blue......

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

- Le Corbusier

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Pick them - Paint them - Bundle them Up - Place them somewhere ......and smaller ones for decorations on your dining table...

Departure - Back to a "Travellers Nest" for some rest until......Destination.........."the endless summer"....

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Aircraft - "Breitling"....their Watches Not really that understated... I prefer the "Superocean" ....yes, I use it - now a then...Blue face...like the ocean and the sky....