Mira
Mira's JournalNOW I KNOW what was the glorious impetus for the Ukraian flag. Take a look
Today, in a humongous local hospital, visiting a close family member, I got seriously lost in the hallways. I always study the art on the walls, it's second nature. I came across this one, and took the photo.
I explained to the doctor who came along that the reason I took the photo was because they are the state flowers of Ukraine and they exported the most sunflower oil on earth. He did not know, and was really happy to learn. He said his church had gathered $10 000 for Ukraine, and he himself was financially aiding two hospitals there.
He then helped me find my way.
Only later when I showed the photo to my grandson who came for a visit as well, did it dawn on me when he immediately said: this photo shows the origins of their flag.
Enjoy:
From all the world and beyond
This photo was sent to me from Berlin from a Bonus Sister who got it from a friend in New Zealand.
Angel over Kiev - the whole world should see it - please pass on
***Winners*** Announcement "February Part of the Whole Contest
Thank you all for participating. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the photos come in and watching the votes and the interest.Here is the link to the Announcement of Winners in GD
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216359823
It was a good and interesting contest, thanks to all of you.
***** Winners ANNOUNCEMENT***** FEBRUARY CONTEST "PART OF THE WHOLE"
The winner of the February Contest “PART OF THE WHOLE” is
FIRST PLACE
George McGovern with his sensitive adorable photo of
Cat’s ear
SECOND PLACE (BY ONLY 2 VOTES DIFFERENCE) GOES TO
MichaelSoE with his lovely and intriguing photo of
Attachments
Third Place belongs to
Grumpy Old Guy and his reminiscence with
A Lifetime of Service
Further placements are:
AndyS
Flight
Lake Arenal
Little Feet
Mz Pip with
Infrastructure and
Mnhtnbb with
Courtyard had equal number of votes
then the beauty of sound in
Rocknation
(One Fourth of) A Bass Run
which leaves
Tom Kitten with
La Brea and
soph0571 with
Glitter Angel Wings who also had equal number of votes
I was thrilled with the photographs as they came in and with the unusual mind expansion of the the theme. I thank all of you for participating
The winner of this contest, George McGovern, gets to chose the theme for the next contest in April - he has weeks to think about it and let mnhtnbb know since she is up to run the contest in April.
March is a Seasonal Contest. We will be celebrating the season of Winter and California Peggy has signed up to host it.
MY HOSTESS CHOICE PHOTOGRAPH IS
Little Feet
I ADORED IT FROM THE SECOND IT CAME IN, STILL DO, AND I WANT ALL OF US TO SEE IT ONE MORE TIME.
THANKS TO EVERYONE.
** I ** figured ** out ** what my problem was with posting the photos
I got my pc guru to look over the possibilities. He sat with my computer and watched me show what I had attempted, that i posted the preamble words and then the links to the photos all at the same time and that messed up the sizes. Though it did not do that in the preliminary threads.
When he removed from the text any of the things I had specified in it to make the text look better, such as "bold" and "excerpt" it all posted just fine.
Who knew?
Even for the guru is was a hit and miss and 
it did not even take 
it was just a fluke.
I was going to make it up to all of you and sign up for another stint as host but noticed all slots are filled.
So I owe you one, and will be on standby.
***NEW*** link to finals "Part of a Whole" with new annotations
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216349364mnhtnbb kindly took my links and re-posted the thread for the finals.
I got a new computer in the last week, and had to adjust a lot of settings because of my problems with vision, and i believe that may have made all the photos so large.
I have no clue how to undo that - especially because then I may not be able to see what I'm doing.
I heartily apologize to all who were disturbed by this, understandably so, and wish again it would not have happened.
And I thank mnhtnbb for stepping in and helping out from the bottom of my heart.
***** Photo Contest February***** "Part of the Whole" Threads up in GD
The contest “Part of the Whole” is now up and running.Thanks for your participation, please help by voting and keeping the threads kicked.
I’m excited. It will be a good competition, I feel it.
Thread 1 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336377
Thread 2 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336395
Thread 3 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336405
Thread 3 of 3 ***** Photo Contest February***** "Part of the Whole"
***** Photo Contest February***** “Part of the Whole” Thread 2 of 3
The theme was envisioned and given by HappyCynic who won the January Contest
The thought behind the theme is to portray something which is distinctly a part of a larger object or item. Can be intact, or not, but it cannot stand alone because the connection to the larger part is definitely implied and necessary to be completed in your imagination.
With that in mind please evaluate and vote on the photographs.
The links to the threads are here, or will be shortly
Thread 1 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336377
Thread 2 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216336395
Thank you for looking - for your consideration - and for your vote.
Please comment on the photographs - we love your feedback, and please kick the threads.
Infrastructure
Part of a waxwing ‘museum’
New World Order
(One Fourth of) A Bass Run
ellen
Sun Flower
Flight II
Pasta
The Courtyard
Little Feet
Echinopsis
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