Letters of Ali

I spotted these words on a wall on the east of the river Gilao, in Tavira, Portugal, and knew exactly where this particular arrangement of some of the alphabet came from. It’s a famous quote from Muhammad Ali, the former World Heavyweight boxing champion, who taunted his opponent Sonny Liston, in the lead up to their fight in 1964. These words look like they may have been on the wall since then.

float

Float like a butterfly

Sting like a bee

Ahhhh rumble young man, rumble

This is my second post for the Weekly Photo Challenge of Alphabet.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet

Michelle created the weekly photo challenge this week, and I love it! This is what she says.

This week, let the alphabet be your inspiration: find a string of letters. Try a multi-photo gallery to collect images of single characters. Find some beautiful typography, or look for letters hidden in natural forms. I’m excited to see your ABCs!

bar

I found these letters in Portugal, I can’t say I found the bar very tempting but it did make me smile. You can join the challenge here.

Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku

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Waiting and longing

for the dappled hellebores

to do their spring waltz

Great minds really do think alike don’t they? This week my restless friend Jo not only had the same thoughts as I did, but she totally eclipsed me! She’s a sweetheart so I’ll forgive her! Pop over and read her hellebore haiku.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge : Weight(less)

This is what Ben Huberman says about this weeks photo challenge at The Daily Post,

This week, share a photo of something marked by its weight — or its air of weightlessness. Show us gravity at its most unforgiving, or most generous. Bricks or feathers. A collapsed ruin or a plane taking off. A heavy piece of old furniture or the flying buttresses of a cathedral. Keep in mind that weight doesn’t even have to be physical: emotions and memories can weigh on us (or lift our spirits) at least as much as real objects.

I found this really difficult and couldn’t come up with anything original, but I suppose if wouldn’t be a challenge if it was too easy!
And then this afternoon as I walked the dogs in the cemetery, I listened to birdsong all around me. As well as the small songbirds, there was the call of the jay and I failed to photograph it yet again. Pigeons made their gentle cooing sound, seagulls shrieked and then the crows joined in. There are lots of crows in the graveyard, I’ve always thought them most appropriate. So they reminded me of a possibility, and I headed for the tall, bare trees where they nest.

It’s way too early for any eggs, even in this mild winter, so the nests appear to be weightless, suspended on the most delicate of branches. In just a few months those branches will be full of activity and weighed down with another generation of crows.

Another Circle

The Devonshire Regiment was formed in the late 17th century as an infantry regiment,  and was engaged in many conflicts until 1958, when it amalgamated with the Dorset regiment to become the Devonshire and Dorset. They had a base at Topsham barracks in Exeter, a once grand building that I suspect is rather faded now.

The regiment’s badge was an eight pointed star surrounding a circular scroll with Rougemont (Exeter) Castle in it’s centre.

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I found this badge on a wall at Coldharbour Mill on Saturday and thought it was a good circle for Cheri’s photo challenge.