Part of getting through life is accepting, and dealing with, our weaknesses. Which doesn't mean they aren't still a pain in the butt.

Me, I'm over-sensitive to all kinds of sensory input - and input affecting my sensors. For instance, even in August in our constant ocean breezes, I daren't go outside without my ears covered.

This is, of course, a huuuge pain. When everyone else is out in shorts and bathing suits, I'm sweating with a big fleecy band around my head. It sucks, but the alternative (excruciating ear aches) sucks a whole lot worse.

I'm also overly sensitive to noise. And bright light. Especially bright flashing light that hits my eyes unexpectedly. So... imagine how much fun I am as a companion at a rawk show. Normally I take along ear plugs. Last night I forgot.

I guess I was lulled into complacency by the fact that the show was at a theatre. A play house. A place I last attended in my teens, when I saw some Shakespearean production there. So yeah... I went in plugless. And immediately regretted it. Still... I was up for enjoying myself... until the %$(*&$%(&ing light show started.

I can't imagine whose idea it was to flash big spotlights directly into the audience's eyes repeatedly throughout the night. Probably the same wise person who decided a super-bright sign behind the band... illuminated by 10,000 1,000 watt bulbs... was also a very good thing to flash repeatedly in the audience's eyes.

What really amazed me was that no one else seemed bothered. Whereas I was in several sorts of agony all night.

The bright flashing lights. Fuck, man. I thought I was gonna have a seizure or something. I ended up spending most of the night doubled over with my head in my lap, eyes closed, hands clamped over my face. Every time I tried to enjoy actually watching the band... zappo! Unexpected blasts of super-bright white light set off pinball explosions in my brain.

So today is pretty much a write-off. Migraine city, man.

And I HATE HATE HATE that my body is so delicate.

I'm from sturdy peasant stock. Why am I so fragile? Why do things that normal people take in stride disable me?

Sorry for the whining self-pity. Kee-rist. At least I know, without a doubt, that I am now too old for rawk shows. Goodbye youth. Your time has come and gone. From now on I'll just satisfy myself by listening to records at home.

I had my third Covid vaccination on Friday morning and probably as a reaction to it I had chills with a fever and body aches all night. Today I still don't feel great but crawled out into the garden to take a photo for this week's Happy Caturday theme "Spymasters". The spy in chief of our feline family is definitely Tofu. He spys on all humans and animals in the neighbourhood but his main subject of interest are BIRDS. Behind that fence is a thuja hedge, a preferred hideout of the sparrows, and above him is the birdfeeder. As far as I know he has never seriously tried to catch a bird, he is perfectly happy if he can watch them.

Happy Caturday everybody !

Dornbirner Ache, Dornbirn, Austria

Idea, Concept, Model, Pose, Photo, Edit ... all me.

The Song

I had a dream

I got everything I wanted

Not what you'd think

And if I'm being honest

It might've been a nightmare

To anyone who might care

Thought I could fly

So I stepped off the Golden

Nobody cried

Nobody even noticed

I saw them standing right there

Kinda thought they might care

I had a dream

I got everything I wanted

But when I wake up, I see

You with me

And you say, "As long as I'm here

No one can hurt you

Don't wanna lie here

But you can learn to

If I could change

The way that you see yourself

You wouldn't wonder why you hear

They don't deserve you"

I tried to scream

But my head was underwater

They called me weak

Like I'm not just somebody's daughter

Coulda been a nightmare

But it felt like they were right there

And it feels like yesterday was a year ago

But I don't wanna let anybody know

'Cause everybody wants something from me now

And I don't wanna let 'em down

I had a dream

I got everything I wanted

But when I wake up, I see

You with me

And you say, "As long as I'm here

No one can hurt you

Don't wanna lie here

But you can learn to

If I could change

The way that you see yourself

You wouldn't wonder why you hear

They don't deserve you"

If I knew it all then would I do it again?

Would I do it again?

If they knew what they said would go straight to my head

What would they say instead?

If I knew it all then would I do it again?

Would I do it again?

If they knew what they said would go straight to my head

What would they say instead?

Self portrait with the help of Self timer

Edited by my own Self !!!

Sin rey, ni mazmorras, aunque sí tiene unos fosos bastante grandes... el Castillo de Acher es tal vez la montaña más majestuosa del valle de Echo, en el Pirineo occidental. Esta panorámica está tomada desde la cima del vecino pico Bisaurín.

The Krimml Waterfalls (German: Krimmler Wasserfälle), with a total height of 380 metres (1,247 feet), are the highest waterfall in Austria.[1] The falls are on the Krimmler Ache river and are located near the village of Krimml in the High Tauern National Park in Salzburg state.

Krimmler Waterfalls is a tiered waterfall. The waterfall begins at the top of the Krimmler Ache valley, and plunges downward in three stages. The upper stage has a drop of 140 metres, the middle of 100 metres, and the lowest a drop of 140 metres. The highest point of the waterfall is 1,470 metres above sea level.

The Krimmler Ache is a glacial stream whose flow varies greatly with season. Its volumetric flow in June and July is 20,000 m³/h (about 5.28 million gallons per hour), while in February it is only 500 m³/h (about 0.13 million gallons per hour). The greatest measured flow was on 25 August 1987, when it was 600,000 m³/h, or almost 160 million gallons per hour.

After the falls, the river joins the Salzach, which flows to the Inn, then into the River Danube and finally to the Black Sea.

To ensure that tourists could see more of the waterfall without difficulty, Ignaz von Kürsinger, from Mittersill, created a path to the upper part of the waterfall. In 1879, the Austrian Alpine Club improved the road to provide a more panoramic view. About 400,000 people visit the falls annually. The misty spray of the waterfall creates ideal growth condition for hundreds of mosses, lichens and ferns. The surroundings are the habitat for 62 bird species.[3]

There is a negative impact on the local residents due to the high traffic level in a small village, and because of erosion to the road.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krimml_Waterfalls

How can you always be late for your arrival?

You know I'd forgive you every single time

Retreat, retreat, I've fallen at the low tide

Oh, retreat, retreat and meet me by the quayside

In the end all you can hope for

Is the love you felt to equal the pain you've gone through

Are your eyes showing off for mine?

Your face in my hands is everything good I need

The system's put in place, put there to protect us

For you I'd throw a lifeline every time

Oh, retreat, retreat, I've fallen at the low tide

Now retreat, retreat and meet me by the quayside

In the end all you can hope for

Is the love you felt to equal the pain you've gone through

Are your eyes showing off for mine?

Your face in my hands is everything good I need

Bones starved of flesh surround an aching heart

Full of love

Oh, bones, starved of flesh surround your aching heart

Full of love

Bones starved of flesh surround your aching heart

Bones

Oh bones

I watch as your eyes show off for mine

I watch as your eyes show off

I watch as your eyes show off for mine

I watch as your eyes show off

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Yin & Yang

♪♫♫♪

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

today i review my austria times and great hiking tour along the krimmler falls and ache + today for your fredagsmys entertainment

• Shaking hands with the dark part of my thoughts...

• Ana poses- Pula.

"Sunfire Junipers", Capture at 1/400 sec @F/8.0 ISO 400 ; 38mm on a Sigma 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Lens; The sun was at 12.30 position and shining right into this grove of trees beside a road, That had been just cleared 30ft or so back from the edge of the roadway revealing these junipers. They were lit up in such a way they looked like to be on Fire. It was just beautiful makes a photographer's heart ache to own a Medium format camera with a sharp lens to capture the scenes beauty. Malagash, NS 05-06 2020.

You watch me bleed until I can't breathe

Shaking, falling onto my knees

And now that I'm without your kisses

I'll be needing stitches

Tripping over myself,

Aching, begging you to come help

And now that I'm without your kisses

I'll be needing stitches.

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Essa foto já tava na minha galeria, mas testei uma edição nova e achei tão linda que resolvi repostar hihi

shouts to syse for the flick and all the lads paintin

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I shot this at the Park Avenue Trail. A short but very photogenic trail in Arches National Park.

um besouro na pipa

We put ourselves together

Close enough to feel the heat

and the maelstrom of emotions

What are bodies anyway

Except storage units for

Our thoughts and entropy

Take the top off and

The darkness is released

Into the universe

It starts with a clinging and

A sense that this

Can’t be happening

Reality has never been this cruel

Could we have done

Something more?

Something different?

Is it somehow our faults?

What is this black hole we’re slipping into?

Will we even be human when we emerge?

The thing is this:

Hope is like a dear friend

And when you lose her it is

Worse than losing your favorite lover

As if she had a body, all the messy bits

The substance was there and now

All we have is despair

So we ache against each other

The ashes congregate and rise

To build something new

**Photos and Poems are Copyrighted**

“Make-believe Northern Lights over Helsinki’s Olympic Stadium as part of Lux Helsinki 2022. Borealis shines in different colours and is continually changing according to the prevailing winds and weather. By taking the Northern Lights to places where they are not usually seen, Acher wants to draw attention to our impact on the climate and our compulsion to control the environment.” Dan Acher, Lux Helsinki Annual Light Festival 5-9.1.2022

Photo collage created from three images that I took on opening night 5 January 2022 with Sony ILCE-6300 E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS:

DSC03781 1/60 sek. f/5.6 50 mm ISO 6400,

DSC03848 1/60 sek. f/5.6 50 mm ISO 6400,

DSC03865 1/40 sek. f/5.6 50 mm ISO 6400.

First go at night Photography at the Aches National Park This was about 2.11am in the morning and was so dark couldn't see a thing there was a little bit of the moon up in the sky, bump into a couple of ladies when i was there there one just ahead standing by her camera doing a time lapse

Nat King Cole - Smile

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHoohNyYkw

Smile though your heart is aching

Smile even though it's breaking

When there are clouds in the sky

You'll get by

If you smile through your fear and sorrow

Smile and maybe tomorrow

You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness

Hide every trace of sadness

Although a tear may be ever so near

That's the time

You must keep on trying

Smile, what's the use of crying

You'll find that life is still worthwhile

If you just smile

That's the time

You must keep on trying

Smile, what's the use of crying?

You'll find that life is still worthwhile

If you just smile

refry.oaph.books.ache

My heart aches. Doesn't it?

When the ribs stop moving, it causes considerable pain.

I know this well from my experience with thoracic vertebral blockages. The vertebra blocks and the ribs freeze.

The game also works the other way round. If the ribs don't move, then the vertebrae block.... And now?

The accident with the nasty thorax bruises has led to an 'armouring' of my ribcage. A self-playing system, a vicious circle.

The muscles harden more and more, the fasciae stick together..., the thoracic vertebrae block, etc.

So now the main pain is at the level of the heart, TH 3 and TH 4, mainly.

In fact, the whole thoracic spine was blocked, was treated extensively again yesterday by chiropractic.

I broke TH 3 and TH 4 in 2005 (and a bit more: C7 and TH 7 +8, the last two 'only' microfractured). So I have a predisposition.

A disturbance of TH 3 and 4 can lead to considerable pain in the heart area, some misinterpret this pain as a heart attack.

Prolonged problems in this area can lead to heart rhythm disorders.

I know all about it, I have experienced it.

And now?

Now I have what feels like a knife sitting in my heart area, stabbing again and again, deep.

But what if not only muscular, fascial and bony reasons have an influence on the interaction between ribs and vertebrae and this pain?

What if old wounds are torn open, things that went and go hard to the heart? And maybe not just one?

Then this vicious circle of the 3 sources playing off each other is fed.

My heart aches.

____

I'm very glad at the moment that my lower back decided to stay 'silent'.

All the therapy and pain - killers the last days are helping step by step. But most important is to escape from the circle. Otherwise it is a self feeding progress.

Oh my aching sunset buddha, not another one, please, give it a rest.

Yup, the sun sets once every 24 hours on Bahia de Zihuatanejo.

“Dentro di noi si sono aperte delle crepe. Ognuno all'inizio è una nave inaffondabile. Poi ci succedono alcune cose: persone che ci lasciano, che non ci amano, che non ci capiscono o che noi non capiamo, e ci perdiamo, sbagliamo, ci facciamo del male, gli uni agli altri. E lo scafo comincia a creparsi. E quando si rompe non c'è niente da fare, la fine è inevitabile. Però c'è un sacco di tempo tra quando le crepe cominciano a formarsi e quando andiamo a pezzi. Ed è solo in quei momenti che possiamo vederci, perché vediamo fuori di noi, dalle nostre fessure e dentro gli altri attraverso le loro. Una volta che lo scafo va in pezzi, però, la luce entra. Ed esce.”

— Città di carta - John Green

“Ci sono storie che abbiamo amato di amore infinito ma che in realtà non sono mai iniziate, ed è per questo che mai finiranno. Di quello che non è mai accaduto non ce ne scorderemo mai”

— Il quadro mai dipinto - M. Bisotti

Achei uma fotinho minha quando estava no primário.Olha o lacinho de fita de gorgurão que usávamos na época.

Vamos participar gente da campanha da Maria Lia

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Bjs.Chris.

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via oestero

classic style

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Tough girl in the fast lane

No time for love, no time for hate

No drama, no time for games

Tough girl whose soul aches

I'm at home, on my own

Check my phone, nothing, though

Act busy, order in

Pay TV, it’s agony

I may cry ruinin' my makeup

Wash away all the things you've taken

And I don't care if I don’t look pretty

Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking

... en longeant la falaise...

I don't have many new photos lately. Luckily my archives still contain a lot of unpublished material. But I really should untie myself from the world of duty and dive into the world of playtime. Do I even remember when or where I was taking pictures last time? Hmm...