and then there was silence..............

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

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Life enters into a new dimension each year with each season....

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. The rhythmical flow of lines and curves to the sound of falling waters.......

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“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”

. Realize that you can live your dreams...

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There are no roars in the Trophy Room......

Silence will Speak......

Well,....it is a difference between "hand-made" and hand-stitched ......hand made are still very nice indeed....

Autumn arrives in early morning......I discovered it by nightfall...

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

When night falls.....the colors will dance in front of our eyes.....

“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower”

- Albert Camus

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree" Emily Bronte

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”- Rabindranath Tagore

Like the tree streches its branches and speaks to the winds of wisdom so has another autumn arrived for us to reflect upon.....

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” - Sir Winston Churchill

“Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.” - Sokrates

Under the stars, the air is clear and crisp .......and another year has soon passed us by........

If I cook? Absolutely ......Today ...Thin Sliced Wild Boar Steak with Fresh Chantarelle Sauce....

Thin Sliced Wild Boar Steak with Almonds and Fresh Chanterelle Sauce....

1 to 3 lb. Boned Wild Boar meat
125 - 250 ml Port wine
2 Cloves of garlic, minced
125 – 250 ml olive oil
3 Spring onions, diced
64 to 200 grams sliced or slivered almonds

Cut boar meat into thin slices. In a bowl, blend port wine and garlic and Herbs de Provence. Marinate meat for 4 hours. Heat olive oil in a cast iron skillet/pan. Mix meat, almonds and onions for 4-8 minutes, until done.

Boar engraving......

Creamed Chantarelle Sauce

2 tbsp. butter
3 tbsp. flour
3 1/2 Cups of double cream (or heavy cream)
Optional: 2 tbsp cognac or sherry

Use some of the water from boiling the Chantarelles and mix it with the cream.

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper....

Let simmer for 20 - 25 minutes

Serve with rosted potatoes and/or grilled vegetables.

What type of wine would I pair this dinner with?

Very likely a Brunello from Tuscany, Italy - for its smoothness with flavors of rosted chestnuts, plum, and earth which is a good match and excellent with game...

If, not........

Well, well, well...would you then care for a glass of Grappa???

Campaign Furniture - Easily portable...

Bring your travel library with you.

Writing Slope

Some good Roorkhee Chairs - one of my favorites -  bring six to eight of these chairs ...so you are able to sit back with your friends in comfort by the camp fire - under the stars - listening to the sounds of the african night somewhere out there in the tropical zone...

A Tantalus for your travels - most important

Campaign furniture - Africa and India comes first to our mind - when we talk about furniture made for travel - any type of furniture that could be easily disassembled and transported on a short notice. I refer mainly to the British Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Made for the military campaigns by some of the best furniture makers you could find in the Empire.  Furniture that was built to last under severe rough conditions.

"The traveller" could now when he arrived in the colonies have the same standard of living as he did at home.

The Duke of Wellington.....

The Duke of Wellington used campaign furniture on his expeditions. Today , I suppose it is rare and rather collectible. "Under Canvas"  - a simple life - around the globe.

Travel Flask...

Travel Cup.....

Cutlery

Theosophist......Mysticism.......or Pure Eccentricity...?

Genius Loci
"The guardian spirit of the place"

A Philosophical Writer, Painter, and Poet - Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962).......

German-Swiss writer Hermann Hesse, born in Calw, Germany,awarded the Nobel Prize for "the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency" in literature. Determined in early age "to be a poet or nothing" He did undertake psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology. His work found a new dimension reflected in; Demian (1919), Steppenwolf (1927), and Siddhartha (1922) -.... this book was an inspiration for me when I read it as a teenager ....Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. ...one day years later after I had left my family home on my journeys...back for a short visit - I found an inscription in the book from my father...his reflection , perhaps an understanding.......

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We can easily follow the influence of Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Buddhist mysticism and clearly find his journey into the inner self. His opinion of that man must express himself in order to find his own nature. A man of great intellect who followed his own path in life.

His grandfather had a deep interest in Far Eastern culture, and religion - this and the large family library inspired Hesse at an early age. Hesse traveled to the East in 1932. He moved to Switzerland in 1912, of which he became a naturalized citizen in 1923.

An Eccentric - Eccentric - Eccentric - Rebel - 7th Marquess of Bath

Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath was born in 1932 - an eccentric and rather colorful Lord. He was educated at Eton. Art was close to his heart already when he was a young man. He studied under Wilfred Blunt, Oliver Thomas and Gerald Leet at Eton.

In Paris - he joined the art scene of the legendary La Rive Gauche - the "Left Bank". The old era of artists has always been connected with the Left Bank - Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, Nancy Cunard, Anais Nin, Gertrude Stein...here the life style of bohemians - writers, philosophers,photographers, poets, and artists...can be seen an lived....Atmosphere - fill your soul - Boulevard Saint Germain des Pré's....

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Longleat - 1675 - Artist - Jan Siberechts

On the death of his father in 1992 he (Viscount Weymouth) became the 7th Marquess of Bath and took control of Longleat House a very attractive stately home which, is set within 900 acres of magnificent landscaped parkland with a further 8000 acres of nature.

His life..... art, writing, and music....

which, you can follow througout his life in his paintings and writings. You can experience his murals entitled "keyhole glimpse into my psyche" at Longleat House.

The Red Library at Longleat has approximately 40000 books... for us who like books....

Strictly Private to Public Exposure - his Biography/autobiography consisting of six volumes.

His "Wifelets" that is another story......

Manu Propria.........

"Scientia est lux lucis"

"Knowledge is enlightenment"

"Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?"

"Where are those who were before us?"

"Disce aut Discede"

"Learn or Leave"

"Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno"

"Memento Mori"