Warrior dance where local girls are 'kidnapped', Dobu Is, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, PNG

See more photos from Dobu Island here: http://goo.gl/XU5VS

According to the anthropologist, Nancy Sullivan: "Relations between men and women were managed almost entirely by magic. Without a love charm to arouse and create desire, desire does not exist to the Dobuan. Men and women mate, he (Reo Fortune) reported, only because men are constantly exerting magical power over women, and women over men. But this custom made men and women wildly jealous of each other. If their own natural charms were not enough to draw and hold a mate, then they were constantly searching for and testing out counter-magic to deflect competitors and win over the wayward affections of their mate. Needless to say, the pursuit of happiness was anything but peaceful. It created malicious rivalries with suspicions of poisoning and even death between rivals, lovers, spouses and their families.

82 mm, 1/100 sec, f 6.3, ISO 640, flash fill
5/23/13. Grey Catbird.
For 23/05/13
Another color from the garden of the house next door to the church! There are stunning white ones too! Such gorgeous reds and yellows?????
May 23 2013 - A thing of beauty I found in my back garden
05/23/2013 - 1935 Ford 2 Door Sedan

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

"TIGER LILY"

"O Tiger-lily," said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, "I wish you could talk!" 'We can talk," said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to." ~ Lewis Carroll

SOOC, uncropped, no flash - photographed at an apartment complex in our city

I didn't have my camera with me upon spotting this flower (after work), so I drove home, got the camera, returned to the apartment complex, and........voila!

Another view is here: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/27621878_cwK9KV#!i=2527054311&k=KvmKpHX&lb=1&s=A

Thanks for your comments on yesterday's "Orange Sherbert" flower post.

Hang in there; tomorrow is Friday!!

(photo taken 5/21/2013)
May 23, 2013. Clematis.
Warrior dance where local girls are 'kidnapped', Dobu Is, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, PNG

See more photos from Dobu Island here: http://goo.gl/XU5VS

According to the anthropologist, Nancy Sullivan: "Relations between men and women were managed almost entirely by magic. Without a love charm to arouse and create desire, desire does not exist to the Dobuan. Men and women mate, he (Reo Fortune) reported, only because men are constantly exerting magical power over women, and women over men. But this custom made men and women wildly jealous of each other. If their own natural charms were not enough to draw and hold a mate, then they were constantly searching for and testing out counter-magic to deflect competitors and win over the wayward affections of their mate. Needless to say, the pursuit of happiness was anything but peaceful. It created malicious rivalries with suspicions of poisoning and even death between rivals, lovers, spouses and their families.

82 mm, 1/100 sec, f 6.3, ISO 640, flash fill
Warrior dance where local girls are 'kidnapped', Dobu Is, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, PNG

See more photos from Dobu Island here: http://goo.gl/XU5VS

According to the anthropologist, Nancy Sullivan: "Relations between men and women were managed almost entirely by magic. Without a love charm to arouse and create desire, desire does not exist to the Dobuan. Men and women mate, he (Reo Fortune) reported, only because men are constantly exerting magical power over women, and women over men. But this custom made men and women wildly jealous of each other. If their own natural charms were not enough to draw and hold a mate, then they were constantly searching for and testing out counter-magic to deflect competitors and win over the wayward affections of their mate. Needless to say, the pursuit of happiness was anything but peaceful. It created malicious rivalries with suspicions of poisoning and even death between rivals, lovers, spouses and their families.

82 mm, 1/100 sec, f 6.3, ISO 640, flash fill
Warrior dance where local girls are 'kidnapped', Dobu Is, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, PNG

See more photos from Dobu Island here: http://goo.gl/XU5VS

According to the anthropologist, Nancy Sullivan: "Relations between men and women were managed almost entirely by magic. Without a love charm to arouse and create desire, desire does not exist to the Dobuan. Men and women mate, he (Reo Fortune) reported, only because men are constantly exerting magical power over women, and women over men. But this custom made men and women wildly jealous of each other. If their own natural charms were not enough to draw and hold a mate, then they were constantly searching for and testing out counter-magic to deflect competitors and win over the wayward affections of their mate. Needless to say, the pursuit of happiness was anything but peaceful. It created malicious rivalries with suspicions of poisoning and even death between rivals, lovers, spouses and their families.

82 mm, 1/100 sec, f 6.3, ISO 640, flash fill
See photo in original gallery.

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