Friday, November 28, 2025

A little bit of Zen (70)

A black-and-white aerial photograph of a biplane high over the centre of Edinburgh in `920

A biplane over Edinburgh, 1920


"Monotony is the awful reward of the careful."


A. G. Buckham


Mr Buckham is somewhat obscure to the Internet; at least, not eminent enough to have yet earned his own Wikipedia page. However, I very much hope it's the Alfred George Buckham I provided the link for above: a British naval aviator during World War I, and an impressive black-and-white photographer of planes and landscapes. That stunning aerial photograph high above the centre of Edinburgh in 1920 is one of his. There is a lot more worth checking out on the linked website devoted to him.


While rashness, over-hastiness, and silly gambling are never good things,.... neither are timorousness and excess of caution - in FPL, or more generally in Life.


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