Things I Like

The Toscany picture is exactly how it looks; it's so beautiful, most of it is breath taking! I was fortunate to have visited there last month, and spent seven wonderful days in that area.

we spent a month in a town in Tuscany and I worked for an oil concern. They rented us a house and we had a cook and help . It was so fuckin decadent , and like CI aid, its goddam knock yer sock off lovely.
I worked hard for my client but they had a really neat attitude for fine food, time spent in recreation, my wife was a super starwith the clients sond(who were younger than my wife but were "hot for teacher") I hadda watch out

Mystical Lake

A small lake near the entrance to Balinsasayao Nature Park.
Negros Oriental, Philippines

CI and FM glad you liked the Tuscany photo and thanks for your comments.

Forest Venice

Here's one of my pictures of Tuscany.

Oooo very nice!

Tokyo, Japan Typical restaurant (Photo by cicerone imposter)

Venice

╰☆╮The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them, though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances, that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

Henry David Thoreau

Butron Castle, Basque Country, Spain

Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia

The dragon (from Ancient Greek δράκων - drakōn, "a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon") is a mythical creature typically depicted as a gigantic and powerful serpent or other reptile with magical or spiritual qualities.

The earliest record of a dragon-like creature in the Ancient Western civilisations is in the Biblical works of Job (26:13), and Isaiah (27:1) where it is called Nachash Bare'ach, or a "Pole Serpent". This is identified in the Midrash as Leviathan. In Jewish astronomy this is also identified with the North Pole, the star Thuban which, around 4,500 years ago, was the star in the Draco constellation's "tail".However this can also have been either the celestial pole or the ecliptic pole. The ancient observers noted that Draco was at the top of the celestial pole, giving the appearance that stars were "hanging" from it, and in Hebrew it is referred to as Teli (semantically cognate with the Greek tele (τῆλε), far, as indeed stars are a long distance away), from talah - to hang.Hebrew writers in Arabic locations identified the Teli as Al Jaz'har, which is a Persian word for a "knot" or a "node" because of the intersection of the inclination of the orbit of a planet from the elliptic that forms two such nodes. In modern astronomy these are called the ascending node and the descending node, but in the medieval astronomy they were referred to as "dragon's head" and "dragon's tail".

In Ancient Greece the first mention of a dragon is derived from the Iliad where Agamemnon is described as having a blue dragon motif on his sword belt and a three-headed dragon emblem on his breast plate