Knowledge grew on study banks

On the study banks
From flowing facts, fearful thought
Hung Odin... learning

all by ian

and Kuu reflected...

I drove my shiny silver coach
With ten proud brown horses
Carrying my heart to its destiny

I had briefly glimpsed you many a morning
With dewdrops sparkling in your alluring hair
As I drove my shiny silver coach
With ten proud brown horses

I heard that many suitors came calling
They had fallen for your bewitching beauty
I had seen your caring heart with your friendship with the songbirds
So I drove my shiny silver coach
With ten proud brown horses
Carrying my heart to its destiny


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And I drove my shiny silver coach on
With ten proud brown horses
Carrying my heart to its destiny


I brought twenty gifts each mirroring your lovely personality traits
Yet you refused and said my path was too old and changeable
So I had driven my shiny silver coach
With ten proud brown horses



I thought I would hide my heart in the dark cold sky
I would disguise my face behind the black curtain
One night I will start peeking out again


and then I will drive my shiny silver coach
Still with its ten proud brown horses
Carrying my heart to its destiny


all by Ian


Note: Based on a Myth about Lindu (a Maiden) who has many suitors... The Sun, North Star and Moon included. Here is Kuu the Moon who fails to win her as he changes a lot (appearance) and always treds the same path across the sky

The Lure

You are the twittering birds
You are the contagious laughter

You are the phoenix sunrise
You are the warming hug

You are the pure blue sky
You are the radiating beauty

You are the slight breeze on a hill
You are the listening ear

You are the green fields
You are the new faces

You are the mountains of snow
You are the old faces

You are the invigorating taste
You are the friendly purr

You are the racing river
You are the beating soul

So..

You are the next bend
You are where I will mend

You are why I keep going
You are why I can't stay

All by Ian 31st Dec 2009

Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year time.... and happy holidays... which leads me to that you can now book to go back to Palupõhja ... or other places in Estonia:

http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/int_est_info1

Post by Ian; photo, õ, link and labels added by Katrin.

Photo by Ellen

Fotokonkurss Elamusi Emajõel

The results for the photo competition are in:

http://www.rmk.ee/teemad/metsakool/konkursid/elamusi-emajoelt

A quick rough translation says that there were 68 photos entered and 15 have been selected to go into an Exhibition (which is to be in January in RMK Emajõe-Suursoo nature center).

My entries weren't placed. However one was chosen to be in the exhibition! So anyone there can go and see.

Final point
my entry is the only entry in the top 15 to be in English... not that is any different from before. And that the title is spelt differently to what I had intended...

It was originally

"Knowledge grew on sturdy banks"

However I might have mistyped it or something

and it is now

study banks, which I quite like.

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the chosen photo by Ian of Emajõgi in Palupõhja and added here by Katrin