Tuneage

This was intended to be part of the Stand Up for Peace Challenge last week but it took me a bit to figure out :D It's about the best homage I could to the Indian Holi Festival. For those that don't know and in short it's basically a festival to celebrate love. After I thought about the challenge a bit, I got to thinking: standin up for peace is awesome, but even better if you just applied this to all aspects of your life. Stop hating on others and stop hating on yourself. If everyone took a grip more time putting others before their own insecurities, then maybe there would be no need to stand up for peace. Maybe we would already have achieved it.

Already Monday again. And it is back to the office for many of us!

Spotted this on the wall of an office supplies store at Deventer. Have a wonderful week :-)

Already Gone - Sleeping At Last

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I have already taken the lead on containment

Très bon confinement, à tous ! prenez bien soin de vous partout sur la Terre, La deuxième vague en Europe est exponentielle ! Bon courage à tous ceux qui vont travailler lundi ! Je n'avais pas donné mon avis à ce jour, sur les terribles actes, paroles et autres faits ... N'oublions jamais ! que sans amour l'Humanité ne survivra pas !!!!!! Nous devons nous respecter les uns les autres ! en tenant compte des codes de chacun !!!

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Very good containment, everyone! take good care of yourself everywhere on Earth, The second wave in Europe is exponential! Good luck to everyone who goes to work on Monday! I had not given my opinion to date, on the terrible deeds, words and other facts ... Let us never forget! that without love Humanity will not survive !!!!!! We must respect each other! taking into account the codes of each one !!!

...you could already feel the oncoming rain in the air...it was so peaceful, far from the hustle and bustle of the world.

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Remember, context is one thing, but peace is acausal.

Örebro, Sweden

Always My King

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" It's hard letting go,

I'm finally at peace, but it feels wrong,

Slow I'm getting up,

My hands and feet are weaker than before.

And you are folded on the bed

Where I rest my head,

There's nothing I can see,

Darkness becomes me.

But I'm already there,

I'm already there,

Wherever there is you,

I will be there too

There's nothing that I'd take back,

But it's hard to say there's nothing I regret.

Cause when I sing, you shout,

I breathe out loud,

You bleed, we crawl like animals,

But when it's over, I'm still awake

A thousand silhouettes dancing on my chest,

No matter where I sleep, you are haunting me

But I'm already there,

I'm already there.... "

- OF MONSTERS AND MEN -

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Thank you so much in advance my dear friends for the faves, awards and comments. Forgive me if I cant respond sometimes. Work has been stealing my time from Flickr. But for sure and 100% I read all your comments and always so grateful for it. Take care my sweet friends. Hugs to all 💞

I'm already waiting for the autumn fog and low sun:).

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Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.

Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.

The road that leads to the City is endless;

Go without head and feet

and you'll already be there.

What else could you be? - you are That."

— Rumi

#windowwednesday

Explored 7 September, 2021

While flipping through my Lightroom catalogue in search of an image for Window Wednesday I stumbled upon this oldie from November 2018 which I'd taken during a very nice photowalk with Flickr friends. Somehow, this photo felt finally "ready for upload", but I also knew that if I don't process and upload it today, I probably won't do so tomorrow, because it's possible that that "ready moment" has passed by then. Weird, I know, but that's the way it sometimes is ;) This is why I post the image already today.

The image shows the river Spree and the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus (MELH) in Berlin's Government district. I've already posted a slightly different photo taken at the same photowalk earlier; I'd taken that photo from the bridge that you can see on the left. You can find it in the first comment, in my description for that photo you'll also find more info on the MELH, if you are interested. While I (re-)processed the image this evening, I was humming Patti Smith's song "Poeple Have The Power" to myself (I wonder why...Freud would know), and I thought it would be an apt title for an image showing a governmental building ;)

Happy Window Wednesday, Everyone, and Happy Hump Day as well :)

Already blooming, so much earlier than Northern Ontario.

Now, as I have already started with saying goodbye, I will simply go on with that and show some of the left behind photos from my trip to Portugal.

I'm starting with lisbon and to be more precise with one of the two famous bridges of the city and to be even more precise with the Ponte 25 de Abril.

What I did like at this view was, that every corner of this photograph has got it’s own picture, separated and united at the same time by the silhouette of the bridge.

Weil ich gerade mit dem Verabschieden angefangen habe, mache ich mal einfach weiter und zeige ein paar Nachzügler von meiner Reise nach Portugal.

Ich beginne mit Lissabon und genauer mit einer der beiden berühmten Brücken der Stadt und noch genauer mit der Ponte 25 de Abril.

Was mir an diesem Anblick so gefallen hat ist, dass sich in jeder der vier Ecken ein eigenes Bild verbirgt, getrennt und gleichzeitig verbunden durch die Silhouette der Brücke.

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We already have crocuses, but I haven't posted any snowdrops yet, so this one takes priority. And it was the first bee I saw this year :)

I am going to be offline for about a week. We are going out of town for my mother in law's 94th birthday. And next Saturday is a gallery opening, where some of my photos will be on exhibit. There will be four different artists (including me), live music and food. If you live in the Greater Vancouver area and are interested in coming, I would love to see you there. Just send me a Flickr mail and I'll give you the details :)

9:52 - Peaceful easy feeling

Maybe eggs in the nest for this couple of Great Egrets in the rookery at Resoft County Park, Alvin, Texas.

In fields like this one, the Castilian and Leonese knights and all the knights of the western world celebrated their festivities. They spread their festive joy with blows and spears dressed in their best clothes. Let's not say what they would do with their personal problems, already angry... This is Hospital de Órbigo-

I have seen a similar one at the foot of the Belmonte Castle. They say that the movie El Cid was filmed there.

LA 458

The cardinals were already visiting when I placed peanuts at the palm stump. Normally they wait for me to go on about my business before heading over to partake in a peanut treat. This guy surprised and delighted me. I watched as he started working his way toward the stump. I was only about ten feet away when he decided to come on down and get a peanut. In this image I think he looks like he is admiring the bounty before choosing just the right nut. He stayed long enough to eat two peanuts before carrying a third one to a branch in oak tree one. I felt very privileged to be allowed to point the camera in his direction and take a couple of shots while standing so close.

I hope everyone has a delightful weekend, happy snapping.

Black Magic

Where it all started, or where you can find out how it started.

There are stories that should not be forgotten... Well, perhaps we should never forget. From memories, from the past and from our history we learn. Today I begin to record the result of my investigations. A task that has taken me a year, a long year of wandering between the shelves of the Carnelian Archive, where all the Fairlands chronicles are kept. The dust, the smell of leather, paper and history have been my faithful companions in this search, which is now over. It was something personal, yes. It has already been lost in time and in the silence of my relatives over the years, but I needed to know the truth. And the truth, like a polished diamond with countless faces, is not as simple as they imagined. There is no good or bad, but a mixture of the two whose balance maintains the Universe. Anyway, this is not the time to ramble. I think I should pick up the scattered fragments, hinted at in these flickr posts, and tell the whole story, though maybe not the whole truth, who knows....

Story, style card and credits here

……And B is for Borage - Blue Borage in bijou bottle on a Blue Background. If you hadn’t guessed already this is a themed shot and yes B is the common denominator we are after. Happy Smile On Saturday and I hope this did just that - 😊 Alan:-) HSoS…….

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Not the best picture of this hard working great spotted woodpecker / Buntspecht (Dendrocopos major, Syn.: Picoides major)

but I'm happy with it as it is a rarely seen visitor in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend

Calm, quiet, tranquil scene captured a few weeks back and Blea Tarn - loved it up there... shared a few pics from there already, however, these ones are edited on my laptop (rather than mobile phone)

It was a photo session where the clouds and the sun kept changing the colours in the landscape - loved it!

Tofu already informed me of the rain in the middle of the night. He came home wet, jumped onto my bed and put his paw on my face to make sure that I noticed him.

Already the dandelions are changed into vanishing ghosts.

-- Celia Thaxter

I was surprised to see this common starling at Lake Meyer Park today. I can usually count the number of times I see a starling in the park on one hand during any given year. Although many people consider the common/European starling a nuisance, and I guess they can be in certain settings, I think they are a beautiful bird. This colorful starling is close to being in full breeding plumage already.

Four men between their early forties and already no longer polite to ask

Molden, Resetarits, Soyka, Wirth at the Popfest 2014 at the Karlskirche in Vienna. Their performance was the highlight of the festival, and this experience was a real moment of happiness for me. Perhaps you can imagine this if you watch and listen to the following youtube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIvnP6bOSEc This song is about the slide tower in the Wurstelprater, which I showed you in the previous photo.

In some European countries winter has already arrived but in the south of England, autumn foliage is still on display, probably due to the unusually warm, dry and wind-free October that we have had; low level light and deep shadows make every scene look attractive and special, it's hard not to take a few snaps :)

Well, I knew the aliens had arrived, but I didn’t realize they were crossing already. In fact, a little gray alien in a yellow rain slicker is at this crossing twice a day, morning and evening. He has a sign to stop traffic from getting into the landing site. The sign says “watch out for metal that you haven’t even discovered yet falling from the sky.“ under that it says, “Violators will be experimented on!”

Surprisingly, no one has gone beyond this point.

You can occasionally see little gray aliens climbing all over their flying saucer and speaking gibberish to each other. To think people believe they could conquer us. We could just get together a group of people with size 12 and larger shoes to step on them if they cause any trouble.

Earlier I already posted a picture of this roe in between the bushes where she has fled into it because of a passing cyclist (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/53962995818/in/datepo...). This was a moment before when she was grazing very peacefully although she had found out there was somebody pointing a camera at her.

It is one of those moments that you remember for the rest of your life because the whole setting breathed peace and tranquillity. For me the reason to go out as much as possible. With nature I connect, far away as possible from human society.

Romantic mood is already in the air and I'm falling in love over and over again with antique decor. Highly recommend this cozy elegant fireplace set by Soul2Soul, the carved fireplace itself is absolutely stunning. And those figurines!

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Apple Fall - Venetian Oil in Gilt Frame (Portrait)

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♫ Already gone ♫

I am wearing:

***GIULIADESIGN*** - DORIS2 outfit (top, skirt and hat - the hat is originally attached to the head) Main store release

Truth hair - Lisette

Catwa head - Jessica

Maitreya Lara body

Lara Hurley skin - Beth

Vista prohands bento

Mayfly Luminious Mesh eye (Dark chocolate)

The pose is from Luanes World poses - "Blowing in the wind" - it will be available soon.

Still very much summer here, hot and humid but I'm ready for the next season, autumn is my favourite time of year.

Topaz edit.

This is a (already used) bamboo whisk (a so-called "chasen", 5 cm wide) - a tool for traditional preparation of macha tea.

The matcha powder (ground leaves of certain green tea varieties, the Tencha) and hot water (70 - 85 °C) are mixed and then frothed up whith the chasen - the movement of the chasen should follow the letter "W" or "M" (kind of zigzag movement).

The part in the centre of the chasen is called Chajimi :)

Crazy Tuesday - theme of September 15, 2020: In The Centre

... playing around with lighting and colours ....

HaPpY CrAzY TuEsDaY, everyone :))

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Bambus-Sonne

Dies ist ein (bereits benutzer) Bambusbesen (ein so genannter "Chasen", 5 cm breit) - ein Werkzeug zur traditionellen Zubereitung von Macha-Tee.

Das Matcha-Pulver (gemahlene Blätter bestimmter grüner Teesorten, des Tencha) und heißes Wasser (70 - 85 °C) werden vermischt und dann mit diesem Bambusbesen aufgeschäumt. Die Bewegung des Besens sollte dabei dem Buchstaben „W“ bzw. „M“ folgen (Art Zick-Zack-Bewegung).

Crazy Tuesday - Thema am 15. September 2020: Im Zentrum / zentriert

Der innere Teil des Chasen wird Chajimi genannt ;)

Einen schönen Dienstag euch allen ! :))

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977

Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin

Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

(haha - can sure relate to that last one)