OK! My dear Left_Winger....these pics are all of Greece...Enjoy!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[bigwillq]

1. Very nice!

I bet Greece was beautiful! :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thanks...it certainly was...hot too...

and smoggy! Athens looks like LA about 20 years ago...but it is still a very beautiful city...

:hi:

[merh]

3. What great images! Thanks Miss Peggy

Oh, btw - 8 more posts to go!!!! :bounce: :bounce:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Thanks for keeping a running total,,,my dear merh!

You are too good to me....I'm also thrilled that you like the images. They are beautiful..IMHO!

:bounce: :bounce:

[merh]

6. You've got 7 more to go!

No need to run - you can take your time and enjoy the accomplishment!

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I am having so much fun...you could hardly believe it...

You are my good and true friend! And someday I will stand by you, and help you get to 5000 posts just as you are helping me today...

:yourock: :pals: :loveya:

[merh]

12. Heck -- it's just fun helping you reach your goal!

:party: I love celebrations! :P

I am 1,777 shy of 15,000 - when I get closer, I will find you and we will reach that goal together. :pals:

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. You might want to fix your "goat" word! People might get the wrong

idea! Thanks for your encouragement! It makes my journey ever so much more fun...

:loveya:

:pals:

[merh]

15. Oooops

:blush: :blush: I've never claimed perfection! :rofl:

Thanks :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. No worries, darling!

I think that your error makes my 5000!

[merh]

19. Yipeeee!!!!!!

:hug: 5,000 Congratulations :hug:

:toast: :bounce: :grouphug: :hug: :loveya: :party: :party: :grouphug: :hug: :loveya: :party: :toast: :beer: :bounce: :woohoo:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. HOLY COW! My dear merh!

I am overwhelmed at your gorgeous tribute to me! How did I get so lucky to have such a good friend as you are?! Blessings on you, my dear...

It is just beautiful...and I am so moved and touched....

:yourock: :hug: :pals: :loveya:

[merh]

23. Heck Miss Peggy - I like making happy posts

and I like celebrating other's successes! This is fun!

:hug: :loveya: :hug:

[matcom]

4. PENIS!!!

and BREASTS!! x(

i'm calling Ashcroft! THIS CANNOT STAND!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. ROFLMAO!

Now, now, my dear matcom...this is ART! Go ahead, call Ashcroft...he has nothing to say about this anymore, anyhow...

I just KNEW that some wiseass would come along and fix on the first thing to be seen, I just KNEW it!

:rofl: :rofl:

[matcom]

8. well if ANYBODY was gonna do it...

wouldn't you have EXPECTED me? :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. You were a LEADING candidate!

My dear matcom...BTW, did you like the pics? When you were't busy being offended, I mean? J/K...

:loveya:

[matcom]

18. LOVE THEM

and am MIGHTY jealous of you! Greece is on my list. HIGH on my list

:loveya:

[cally]

11. First the pictures are beautiful

Did you have a good time? What was your favorite part?

Second, did you see the little figurines sold in tourist shops engaging in various sexual activities? It surprised me since it's so different than what would be sold in tourist shops here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Thanks for your compliments!

We had a BLAST! I love travelling by ship...It's hard to pick a favorite part...it was all beautiful, and we met some truly outstanding people in our tour group...

I didn't actually get to do much shopping...too bad! It was really hot, and I found that I really just wanted to get back to our ship and REST! So I didn't get to see the figurines you've described! It wouldn't have surprised me though, to see them...

[Left_Winger]

25. Who is Ashcroft to criticise nudity?

As a law professor stated after he had the $8000 curtain placed in front of the statues of Liberty and Justice because of their bare breasts, 'It still doesn't matter what he does, whenever he takes the podium at the Attorney General's office, there will always be one giant boob out there for all to see.'

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. What a great quote!

Thanks for stopping by...of course, you did! Since this thread is for YOU! I got your PM, and thank you for it...

:hi:

[Left_Winger]

32. Thank you very much,

I am trying to download some photos of my recent trip to Denmark and Germany for you. I do not know if I will have any luck as I can be technologically incompetent sometimes :dunce:. I guess we will have to wait and see.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

33. I'll be on the lookout!

Thank you for thinking of me... :pals:

[Left_Winger]

34. Well here is my first attempt to post a photo on the DU, how'd I do?

Here is a photo of my students in front of the Frederiksborg Slot In Denmark. Quite a dangerous looking group, are they not? I wonder if Matcom will have a comment concerning all those naked figures having fun within the fountain. As you can tell it was a rather cold day...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

35. My dear Left_Winger!

This is fabulous! Great pic; obviously you were all having a wonderful time...one thing only: You might consider downsizing just a tad...it is rather hard to see all of it...Did you use PhotoBucket? They have an editing feature that allows you to reduce the size of the pic...and it's easy...

But thank you so much for your beautiful contribution! I am honored to have your first one in my photo thread!

:pals: :loveya:

[Left_Winger]

42. Yes, I'm trying to use PhotoBucket

and I am having to learn how to navigate the site. I had other photos, but getting them all in one grouping was confusing. However, I am learning.

I hope you have a nice day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. I've seen their feature where it says you can load more than one pic

at a time; I've never done that...I figure that it's more cumbersome to do them one by one, but at least I can keep track of just what I'm doing...I gotta crawl before I can get up and walk!

A very nice day to you as well... :hi:

[NV Whino]

16. All Right! The full monty!

Gotta love those Greeks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Hi there, NV Whino...

Thanks for coming by! The full monty indeed...why oh why do I post these pics? The other thread earlier today had a pic of Khaddafi...and that was about all anyone talked about...oh well...

Hope you like the pics...these were taken with my little point and shoot Canon PowerShot A60...Not too bad, huh?



:hug:

[NV Whino]

27. Splendid

Point and shoots are great traveling cameras when all you want is a memento of the trip and not do anything fancy.

[Catherine Vincent]

22. Why do they always sculpture a grown man's penis that of a little boy's?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. I don't really know....

Not having inspected very many men...but perhaps the ancient Greeks just weren't endowed the way we have become used to?

:shrug:

[Book Lover]

37. It makes the other men feel better ;-)

Isn't that why pale and pudgy men perform in video porn? Oh dear, Miss CPeggy, I'm turning this into a sex thread!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

39. Oh no, you aren't turning this into a sex thread!

You may be onto something with your remarks...I'll take your word on the porn, though!

[Aristus]

47. Well, the Greeks weren't hung up (excuse the expression) on endowment

back then the way we are today. Anyway, a small flaccid penis was used to distinguish art from pornography (Hey! Greek word there! Pornos - prostitution, graphos - writing; Pornography=written prostitution).

Greek pornography had, as you might imagine, penises of every size, shape, color and whatnot. Today, if we see a penis in a creative medium, we automatically think 'pornography'.








Okay, I think I revealed WAY too much about my knowledge of Greek art and porn. :hide::blush:

[Catherine Vincent]

49. Yeah, that's true.

I guess if someone created a sculpture and it showed a normal size penis, people would be offended. :-)

[knowbody0]

24. awesome

thanks for sharing, yes i am jealous!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. Thank you so much...

I'm truly glad you enjoyed them...Someday, you must make your way to Greece..just not in the summer..too damn hot and humid...

:hi:

[lumberingbear]

26. Thanks for the pics Peggy!

I was hoping you would post them!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. Your hopes were not in vain!

I've put up quite a few now...a pretty good selection from my vast archives!

I'm so glad you like them!

:loveya:

[LastKnight]

36. i envy you.

ive always wanted to travel the Mediterranean, hit all the ancient landmarks.

enjoy it? if i went to greece id take a helluva lot more pics than this! lol.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. Thank you for your ver y kind remarks!

I DID take a lot more pics than these...I used a lot of film as well; exposed about 11 rolls of mostly 24 exp.... And I also took my digital camera, as you see here, and on that I took over 300 pictures...

But I can't post them all! I've just picked out the VERY BEST ONES!

[Book Lover]

38. Thanks for the pictures!

I'm so glad you had a lovely time, and that you're safely home :-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. You are so very welcome, my dear Book Lover!

It was good to go, and good to come back safely!

:pals:

[Rhiannon12866]

43. Yay! I was waiting for these, as well!

Incredible pix! Hope that you had a wonderful time! Welcome back and thanks for sharing!:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. I'm so glad you like them! It's a terrific boost to my ego....

We had a wonderful time, thanks! Gotta share with my DU pals, ya know!

:hi:

[Aristus]

46. Uuuuuuuummmmmmm! 'At stat-chew is NEKKID!

D'ya hear? Buck NEKKID! 'Atsa disgrace ta family values! Them Grecians should all be ashamed fer bein' NEKKID!

Okay, sorry for channelling a freeper, there. :-) ;-) B-)

I think the first statue is traditionally recognized as being one of Poseidon. But as I understand it, to save money, sculptors would often carve or cast a "generic" god figure, and then add an appropriate prop, like a trident for Poseidon or a lightning bolt for Zeus. Yes, even master Greek craftsmen would cut corners occasionally.

Great photos, Peg! :thumbsup:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

50. My dear Aristus...thank you for your enlightening comments!

And, BTW, I also appreciated your comments upthread about the origin of the word pornography...it makes a lot of sense...You helped my education there!

I love your freeper channelling, too!

And yes, I believe that the statue is Poseidon. The temple fragments further down are of a temple to him...it is amazing. I'm not sure if the gods had the same generic treatment that people did...but I am sure that the famous and not-so-famous did do as you describe. The generic body, with the individual head. Only the very wealthy or very famous would have a totally custom job in a statue. The craftsmen could work much more efficienly using this technique...

Glad you like the pics! :thumbsup:

[Old_Fart]

48. Artemisium

Athens is gorgeous.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. It certainly is...thank you, Old_Fart, for coming by...nt

[Old_Fart]

52. Do you know the legend that goes along with his statue?

Your welcome.

Some people believe that he is the statue of Zeus holding a thunderbolt and others believe that he was Poseidon and he is holding a trident. They found him in the sea around the northern tip of Artemisium.

I think that he is a splendid representative of the early classical period of greek sculpture.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

53. Tell me!

There is so much I don't know! And, BTW, your reference to Artemisium...would you please enlighten me about this as well?

Thanks! :hi:

[Old_Fart]

54. Give me a few my mind is old

I keep thinking that it had something to do with the The Peloponnesian League. I had it in my mind and now I can't think of what I was going to type about the legend.

Is that the statue of Marathon? I have always thought that it was of Alexander the Great as a boy.

The one picture of the Roman Amphitheater in your other message thread is fantastic. What tour did you take?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

58. We signed up with Stanford University's Travel/Study Program....

They have the most wonderful (and expensive, I might add) trips all over the world. This one was our third with them. Everything is first class...along with the prices...But well worth it. They always have at least one or more commonly two professors who are expert in what we see along for lectures. And then they also hire the very expert local guides for in-depth stuff...

We usually go every 2-3 years or so...gotta save up for these!

[Old_Fart]

55. What do you think about the Laws of Hammurabi?

History is one of my escapes from what is going on with * and his fourth crusade.

The bottom picture has me puzzled. She is from a much earlier age isn't she. Give me a few to think about who "she" is.

[Old_Fart]

56. When you entered the room of the Gods

Did it give you a feeling like no other feeling that you have had before? It made me feel as if my hairs on my arms were standing on end. Sounds crazy but you get a feeling that the part of history in that room alone has so much to do with how our beliefs started.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

57. Wow...what a very cool way to feel...Alas,

I did not experience such a sensation there...lucky you...

But I have had that historical feeling...My husband and I were wandering around in Frankfurt one day, and we just happened upon some Roman ruins...Not in any guide book, as far as we knew...in a little park, these ancient stones...I wanted to fall on my knees! The sense of history was overwhelming...

You don't sound one little bit crazy to me! Thanks for stopping by, and for your most interesting contributions to my thread...

:hug:

[Old_Fart]

59. Crazy?

I might be old but I am not crazy, at least I don't think so.

Where did your picture go of the Roman Arena? Did you know that they use to hold the olympics in the nude and people would oil their bodies up and have contests of who had the best looking body. They also had poetry and other areas were you didn't have to compete in the olympics. At one point they didn't allow women to join in which makes no sense to me because you see statues dating back to that era with nude women in the olympics so that might have been a different type of game. The greeks and romans also were bi-sexual or they had same sex life partners but history has left that part out and they should tell the truth in the books so that the kids can find out that its not something bad or something that didn't happen since the beginning of time.

I wish that we could tell the parts of history that has been hidden. The Christians have always tried to repress people. The crusades hold the truth about what they were really like and look at what they are doing now.

I can go on for days when it comes to history.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

60. Yes, I was aware that the Olympics were held in the nude..didn't know

about the oiled bodies, but that doesn't surprise me one bit! I had thought women were banned from the games, though...I do believe it is known that the Greeks were bi-sexual; young men would pair up with the older ones...until they were married...I believe it was considered part of their education.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I thought you were crazy! I picked up on that word...and ran with it!

:hi:

[Old_Fart]

61. "Thats ok"

How do you think * is going to go down in history? I don't think that it will be hidden, somehow it will get out.

That is why I asked you about the code of Hammurabi. If we followed it now it wouldn't be a pretty sight when it comes to the * administration.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

62. I firmly believe that * will go down in history as the worst person

to ever occupy the White House! I'm sure that all of this will get out...I always remember the quote from Martin Luther King: "The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice."

I wondered why you asked me about the Code of Hammurabi...now I know. You are so right about how ugly things would be if we still followed it...especially for those fundies in the White House...and elsewhere in that administration...