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Weekly Photo Contest Challenge: Luck (11 March - 18 March)
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No home brew but we did have some Lagavulin. No photos though.
It's all connected. The fermented mash is really beer.
That is, unless you're from Germany. A law called the Reinheitsgebot was past in Bavaria in 1516. (There were other earlier laws but this is the best known one.) It required that beer was to be made ONLY from barley, hops, and water. They didn't know about yeast. Over time, the law was adopted in other regions. In 1906 it became the law governing all beer brewing throughout Germany. The law was amended to include yeast once those magical little buggers became known.
Most important - I hope you enjoyed your scotch ss much as I enjoyed my brew.
Decided last minute to carry a camera on my run today, and that was lucky! Got a bit of a rainbow (actually a sundog) just before sunset! Also for all of my grumbles about daylight savings time, it feels lucky to be out before sunset now. The other luck is that I took this picture at 6:30PM on the 18th and the contest is still open
Good morrow gentle folk, and many thanks for playing-along!
Must be off to many points of the compass . . . but I'll return, later today, with a clearer head and a larger chunk of time.
Till then: enjoy the day
Regards, splifingate
Must be off to many points of the compass . . . but I'll return, later today, with a clearer head and a larger chunk of time.
Till then: enjoy the day
Regards, splifingate
When I once asked a dear friend “Does luck really have anything to do with it?” she replied "Luck: not so much but sorta kinda maybe sometimes, every now and then perhaps ”
No better example of how I, personally, view ‘luck’.
I subscribe, for the most part, to a Carl Jung'ian view of things . . .
. . . Jung’s idea of “meaningful coincidence” (i.e., "synchronicity")--when one event is apparently not directly responsible for the other, yet the two are seemingly and meaningfully related--lends directly to how I ‘feel’ about such encounters.
As he wrote: “ . . . it cannot be a question of cause and effect, but of a falling together in time, a kind of simultaneity.”
To make a short story long, these special, 'lucky' events happen in all the times: they just need someone to consciously make (or take) the time to stop, and look.
In the end, it’s not really ‘luck' which brings one to such things
My MBTI does not include a "J", so this 'Contest' thing is rather difficult for me . . .
MtLoin2020 - "banga-kims-house": the back-drop placard (featuring whom I assume to be "Santa Clause") in the background, juxtaposed with the (naturally) pleased puppei next to the St. Pat's banner still has me in stitches
deep diver - "1_img_20190830_194152-jpg" ("BEER = SALAD!"): "beer's one of teh five food groups, no-messin' !"
OldMacsForMe - "05_418rose-jpg": I captured a shot of a rose about seven years ago--with similar 'coincidental' lighting--and it [still] appeares too good to be true . . . but, it was true I feel the joy.
oblomow - "Fbig%2Fa95b94dd2e48c4fb9d1b3c760e37221d.jpg" (i.e., "Aer Lingus"): I could not (initially) help but to reminisce upon a select, few Beavis&Butthead episodes; but, the gradual shading in perspective of the mountains, and the clouds filled me with happy echoes . . . .
Hughmac - "i-kWcsVvT/A" ("In The Clover", or "I didn't know what luck was until I started having bad"): ". . . after me own heart, Mate", and I do not state this lightly, as dew, clover and Guinness are in my Top Five. Welcome to a new year, Brother *thik-pfft*
someoldguy - "_dsc0021_dxo2k-jpg": I have twenty-five MM, and twenty-five PB numbers in a box, awaiting my inspection . . . seeing (here, we are inundated with daily-updates (vis-a-vis "billboards" tallying this-day's 'Numbers') as I did not get the Jackpot, I play games with myself around when I will actually check if I have garnered any auxiliary "luck"
Laird Knox - "1616106785334-png": Buffalo Trace is my Distillery of Choice (see: Wheatley)
mackmgg - "img_6656-jpg": "rainbow-clouds" . . .
These moments with Time
Draw us closer to the Source:
Synchronicity.
So; it's So.
Arbiter of athousand eight hopes; decider to three . . .
To Hughmac, I feel free, through my Irish heart, to place third.
To OldMacsForMe, I faced quandary, for a second.
To mackmgg, this is my best, and first.
This took me a bit longer than I had expected (helping SO prepare dinner, and drawing her a bath) . . . y'all are gracious Hosts, and I am gladdened to pass Ye Old Torch
Regards, splifingate
”No better example of how I, personally, view ‘luck’.
I subscribe, for the most part, to a Carl Jung'ian view of things . . .
. . . Jung’s idea of “meaningful coincidence” (i.e., "synchronicity")--when one event is apparently not directly responsible for the other, yet the two are seemingly and meaningfully related--lends directly to how I ‘feel’ about such encounters.
As he wrote: “ . . . it cannot be a question of cause and effect, but of a falling together in time, a kind of simultaneity.”
To make a short story long, these special, 'lucky' events happen in all the times: they just need someone to consciously make (or take) the time to stop, and look.
In the end, it’s not really ‘luck' which brings one to such things
My MBTI does not include a "J", so this 'Contest' thing is rather difficult for me . . .
MtLoin2020 - "banga-kims-house": the back-drop placard (featuring whom I assume to be "Santa Clause") in the background, juxtaposed with the (naturally) pleased puppei next to the St. Pat's banner still has me in stitches
deep diver - "1_img_20190830_194152-jpg" ("BEER = SALAD!"): "beer's one of teh five food groups, no-messin' !"
OldMacsForMe - "05_418rose-jpg": I captured a shot of a rose about seven years ago--with similar 'coincidental' lighting--and it [still] appeares too good to be true . . . but, it was true
I feel the joy.oblomow - "Fbig%2Fa95b94dd2e48c4fb9d1b3c760e37221d.jpg" (i.e., "Aer Lingus"): I could not (initially) help but to reminisce upon a select, few Beavis&Butthead episodes; but, the gradual shading in perspective of the mountains, and the clouds filled me with happy echoes . . . .
Hughmac - "i-kWcsVvT/A" ("In The Clover", or "I didn't know what luck was until I started having bad"): ". . . after me own heart, Mate", and I do not state this lightly, as dew, clover and Guinness are in my Top Five. Welcome to a new year, Brother *thik-pfft*
someoldguy - "_dsc0021_dxo2k-jpg": I have twenty-five MM, and twenty-five PB numbers in a box, awaiting my inspection . . . seeing (here, we are inundated with daily-updates (vis-a-vis "billboards" tallying this-day's 'Numbers') as I did not get the Jackpot, I play games with myself around when I will actually check if I have garnered any auxiliary "luck"
Laird Knox - "1616106785334-png": Buffalo Trace is my Distillery of Choice (see: Wheatley)
mackmgg - "img_6656-jpg": "rainbow-clouds" . . .
These moments with Time
Draw us closer to the Source:
Synchronicity.
So; it's So.
Arbiter of a
To Hughmac, I feel free, through my Irish heart, to place third.
To OldMacsForMe, I faced quandary, for a second.
To mackmgg, this is my best, and first.
This took me a bit longer than I had expected (helping SO prepare dinner, and drawing her a bath) . . . y'all are gracious Hosts, and I am gladdened to pass Ye Old Torch
Regards, splifingate
Thank you very much for the lucky and very safe 3rd place, and congrats to the winners
It really was my birthday on St Patrick's Day (and always has been), so it wasn't a ploy, although my entry was an obviously setup shot as I had nothing to offer from the archives.
Cheers
Hugh
It really was my birthday on St Patrick's Day (and always has been), so it wasn't a ploy, although my entry was an obviously setup shot as I had nothing to offer from the archives.
Cheers
Hugh
Judging is hard! Or at least, constructive judging...
Spring is here! And winter is quickly coming back... so today and tomorrow are outdoor days for me. Either tomorrow evening or Monday morning I'll try and get another one going!
"I am particularly enamoured with symmetry in Nature"
well the winner knows how to read first sentences!
thanks for your compliment on my entry, this must have been a thankless task!
well the winner knows how to read first sentences!
thanks for your compliment on my entry, this must have been a thankless task!
As Hughmac said ..."it's a difficult subject to convey...." :/
If I'm lucky--and get to it again--I should be able to pick a *cough* easier subject to convey <s>
Regards, splifingate
You better start warming up. @mackmgg is almost late and if @OldMacs4Me is also late it's back to work again for you!Thank you very much for the lucky and very safe 3rd place, and congrats to the winners
It really was my birthday on St Patrick's Day (and always has been), so it wasn't a ploy, although my entry was an obviously setup shot as I had nothing to offer from the archives.
Cheers
Hugh
ahh, the advantages to a week off from competitions is that there is no chance of moving up the ladder!
I'm working on it! It'll be up within the next couple hours
It wasn't much of a photo. Just a snapshot that I took to post in another medium. Total Wine does a drawing for their allocated bottles. They have about a dozen different picks and grand reserve members can enter. I know people that spend way more there than I do that didn't get anything. So I was very lucky for my first lottery.
The whole Pappy craze is stupid. The "Lot B" bottle I got is going for around $1700 on the secondary market.
Not that I would sell it. It may be my only chance to have a bottle.
It wasn't much of a photo. Just a snapshot that I took to post in another medium. Total Wine does a drawing for their allocated bottles. They have about a dozen different picks and grand reserve members can enter. I know people that spend way more there than I do that didn't get anything. So I was very lucky for my first lottery.
The whole Pappy craze is stupid. The "Lot B" bottle I got is going for around $1700 on the secondary market.
Lucky, indeed.
I hope you have as much luck finding a special moment to share, as you did receiving the bottle
Regards, splifingate