Happy Saturday... how ironic! This will be a #sepiasaturday post hosted by 
On This Day in History...
1709 Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures inspired the creation of Daniel Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe, is taken off Juan Fernandez Island after more than four years of living there alone.
I can remember hearing about Robinson Crusoe when I was younger... I thought everyone was talking about Jacques Cousteau... Yes, I know big difference! From Daniel Defoe's invention of a modern myth, and the reference to my "On This Day in History". To one of the most famous Ocean Explorer's in our time. I guess I always had too much on my brain... or watched to much sci-fi? Either way, you are probably wondering what this has to do with #sepiasaturday.
Sepia Daisy
It's still a beautiful flower, even though I have added a sepia filter to it. Maybe this could go in line with my last post about Pretending to be something that you aren't, though its not the flowers fault... I took the photo and added the filter. Or could it be that, back then, my young brain understood the difference, but listened to what other's said they "thought" they knew about these two people? Either way... both interesting topics, as well as a beautiful photo of a Daisy from our yard last year.
From this mixture emerged Defoe’s major accomplishment in Robinson Crusoe: the invention of a modern myth. The novel is both a gripping tale and a sober wide-ranging reflection on ambition, self-reliance, civilization, and power.
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Super Human Iri's
A modern myth, described at the Britannica.com site as "Myths are specific accounts of gods or superhuman beings involved in extraordinary events or circumstances in a time that is unspecified but which is understood as existing apart from ordinary human experience." Now... I can think of many things in life I experienced, that seemed existent apart from our own ordinary human experiences... but that's probably because I was experimenting with Cannabis as well as Shrooms... but that's probably another post... I do know however, that this Iris blooms in our yard every year, and the smell is indeed more than just our "ordinary", human experiences. I guess the smell could make one feel like they had super human powers, but I have always felt closer to both my late grandparent's, as well as to God; to my grandparent's sake, for planting these in our yard when I was growing up. And to God for his wonderful creation of these delightful things... #alwaysaflower.
Underwater Lilac
Okay... this is not an underwater photo, but have you ever looked closely at the sun, as it slowly starts to set. The light dancing and dipping, much like that of a water drop? I guess I spend too much time thinking about things... but life is so precious and short... I can't help but think of things in an "out of the box" way; keeps my mind off of having M.S. My M.S. Brain is starting to kick in. So I better wrap this up before this post stops making sense... not that it does now. Sepia is just a color... or an "effect" that we can use, to make photos look different than they do (I love this antique look either way). Some people spend their whole lives creating stories for us... going on underwater adventures, for those of us who may never get to experience them "first hand". Or creating memories that define the definition of "myths" or take us away for awhile, to forget about our daily lives. So too, does this wonderful initiative created by
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I do hope you enjoyed my photos, as well as rambling! Hope you are still treading water... try to have a good weekend, my friends! And of course...
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