visit my sisters pictures!

my sister is an absolutely great photographer, everyone i know loves her pictures!
i have posted a picture of hers on here in the post of Dreams,
heres the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39263149@N00/

enjoy and delight yourself! :)

happy holidays!

South American Goddesses

Mama Quilla, Lady Moon.



Mama Pacha, Mother Earth.



Yemanja, Mistress Sea.

Mama Quilla, Lady Moon. In the Incan tongue, Her name means "Mother Moon" or "Golden Mother." She oversaw marriages, the calendar and feast days.

Mama Pacha, Mother Earth. Mama Pacha was the Earth Mother of the Chincha of Peru. She oversees planting and harvesting. Some depict Her as a great dragon Who causes earthquakes.

Yemanja, Mistress Sea. Originally an African Goddess, She is now worshipped through the Carribbean and along the Atlantic coast of South America, particularly in Brazil. She is the benevolent Goddess of the Sea.

Liars

We Are All Liars
Lying is a part of our everyday lives, according to Bella DePaulo, a researcher at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her work shows that we are likely to lie several times a day, or in one out of every four conversations that lasts more than 10 minutes.

Little Lies
Most of our lies are the little white lies we tell others, to make ourselves look better, or to spare others' feelings.

Big Lies
DePaulo says serious lies are far less frequent. The most common are about affairs and money. "The most serious lies we tell are more likely to be told to the people we care about the most. Because the serious lies are told to cover up something we're ashamed of, often. When we didn't meet our own standards, our own expectations. And importantly, we didn't live up to the image that these people have of us."

What Makes A Good Liar?
Successful liars fib with conviction and confidence, and they're skilled at gaining our trust. "The best liars are the people who really do not feel badly about what they're doing," says Bella DePaulo. "They feel justified. They feel confident. Maybe they've even persuaded themselves that there isn't anything wrong with what they did, or they were entitled to do it."

We Are All Liars
Lying is a part of our everyday lives, according to Bella DePaulo, a researcher at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Her work shows that we are likely to lie several times a day, or in one out of every four conversations that lasts more than 10 minutes.

Little Lies
Most of our lies are the little white lies we tell others, to make ourselves look better, or to spare others' feelings.

Big Lies
DePaulo says serious lies are far less frequent. The most common are about affairs and money. "The most serious lies we tell are more likely to be told to the people we care about the most. Because the serious lies are told to cover up something we're ashamed of, often. When we didn't meet our own standards, our own expectations. And importantly, we didn't live up to the image that these people have of us."

What Makes A Good Liar?
Successful liars fib with conviction and confidence, and they're skilled at gaining our trust. "The best liars are the people who really do not feel badly about what they're doing," says Bella DePaulo. "They feel justified. They feel confident. Maybe they've even persuaded themselves that there isn't anything wrong with what they did, or they were entitled to do it."

.ullysses butterfly.

The Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses), also known as the blue mountain butterfly, is a large Australian swallowtail. The Ulysses butterfly has a wingspan of about 14 cm (5.5 inches). It lives in northeastern Australia along the coast of Queensland. It inhabits tropical rainforest areas and suburban gardens. The Ulysses butterfly's favourite food plant is euodia (Melicope elleryana), a tree with clusters of small pink flowers growing straight out of the branches. The upperside the wings are an iridescent electric blue; the underside is a more subdued black and brown in colouration. The colours are produced by the microscopic structure of the scales.
When in flight the butterfly can be seen hundreds of metres away as sudden bright blue flashes. This butterfly is used as an emblem for Queensland tourism.
Males are strongly attracted to blue objects which they mistake for females. Females favour small trees up to 2 metres tall to lay their eggs.

as my dear friend shani suggested...

a nice little ending for the story that was bending, it was going so wrong, so miss shani put a spinning and wrote a song!

the wall was alone
but for sure not for long
along with some time
came a tribe called the wong
the wong live in caves , holes and in walls
but when a wong is not careful he falls
off the walls
he stumbles and mumbles
and climbs up again .
a wall is a dangerous place for a wong
theres an awfull lot that can simply go wrong... :)

thank you*

benji

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Benjamin Franklin

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.
Dr. Seuss

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."

Antarctica

Situated in the southern hemisphere, Antarctica is the southernmost continent on our planet Earth. Out of the seven continents, Antarctica is the fifth largest in area. Owing to extreme weather conditions in the region, there is no human population there. The living organisms here include cold-adapted plants and animals. The name ‘Antarctica’ is a Romanized version of Greek compound word, ‘Antarktike’, which means ‘opposite of the Arctic’. The continent is not governed by any specific country, rather by the Antarctic Treaty, signed in 1959 by twelve countries. Today, the treaty has been signed by forty five countries. The main aim of the treaty is to prohibit military activities and mineral mining, while supporting scientific research and protecting the continent's ecozone.


Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth, as the lowest temperature recorded here was -89o C. On an average, it is 17 degrees colder than Arctic in the north.
It is the driest continent on earth, as it hardly receives 2 inches of rainfall annually. The ‘Dry valley’ region on the continent is supposed to be bereft of rainfall since 2 million years.
The continent of Antarctica is buried under 1 mile of ice sheet and snow. If the ice melts, the continent would spring back 500 m, in around 1000 years.
If Antarctica's ice sheets melt, the level of the world’s oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters (200 - 210 ft).
Antarctica is the ideal place to find meteorites, as they are easily visible on the white sheets of ice. They do not get covered by vegetation and even get trapped into the ice.
Antarctica is one and a half times the size of United States.
At the deepest point, the ice in Antarctica is around 3 - 4 km thick.
The largest animal living on the continent is midge, which measure less than a half inch long.
Antarctica is the windiest continent on earth. It experiences frequent wind storms, which at times speed over 300 knots at the sea coast.
The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot here.
Owing to the chilly water in Antarctica, codfish have antifreeze in their blood to save them from freezing.
The ice cap at Antarctic contains 29 million cubic kilometers of ice. This constitutes nearly 90% of all the ice on the planet and between 60 - 70% of all of the fresh water in the world.
Only 0.4 percent of Antarctica is not covered by ice.
Antarctica is the highest continent in elevation.

everyone must watch- "the march of the penguins"