...amongst other things.
My university has strong Buddhist affiliations. Although we are not required to be Buddhist in belief, I guess we are expected to have some sympathy with the Buddhist outlook on life.
I don't have a problem with that. Indeed, each Tuesday we have an opportunity to gather in one of the larger lecture theatres and listen to a colleague offer their views on life and research...with a nod to the Buddhist deities. Today was the last such session for this academic year. It has been a nice 25 minutes each week to take some time out from the schedule and listen and reflect and contemplate.
After today's session, I decided to extend the contemplative moments and continue on to one of the nearby parks just for a stroll and to see what I could see.
There was a lot of dried wintery grass...
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| A few moments contemplation |
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| Hide and seeking the wheel |
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| The water museum |
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| Red arrows<-->cable |
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| Through the rushes |
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| Reaching up |
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| Catching the sun |
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| Dry as... |
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| Feeding |
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| Not so hiding wheel |
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| Under the water |
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| Signs of times past |
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| Painter-reflected |
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| Someone's clover chain |
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| And the park, from the office (and if you look closely, you can see the painter) |
...a painter and ...
...for those following at home, the ducks continued to float along on their preferred patch of the the port. That's more than a week now. They've certainly been taking some time out.
A nice stroll. I must do it more often.
[Camera : Lumix TZ-85, 12.19pm, 12.57pm-1.32pm; 17 January 2017]
