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Evanescence - Across the Universe youtu.be/l4nwKQrne0s
“La légèreté, et elle seule, a le poids suffisant pour équilibrer la balance lourde et triste de la vie.” - Alix Girod de l’Ain
papillon au jardin
Dahlia flower taken at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens.
Hope you enjoy the Beatles singing the same song as the title
"Across The Universe "
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90M60PzmxEE
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I watched this flock of pelicans across a bay in Horicon Marsh when they all rose together and flew over the cattails.
How did they coordinate that move? Nobody spooked them, They lifted off the water in surreal slow motion. It was a moment of graceful motion. Nature amazes me!
I had my Pentax telephoto at full extension; the pelicans were a long way off.
graceful birds
lifting in a slow dance
all of one mind
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
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En traversant l’Univers
Jeune, j’aimais regardé les étoiles
Avec un télescope
Les gens me cherchaient ici
Mais j’étais souvent là-bas
Là-bas, c’est aussi en chacun de nous
Il s’y trouve bien des mondes inexplorés que nous ignorons
Prisonniers consentants de notre réalité quotidienne
En traversant l’univers, celui qui m’habite,
Je n’ai jamais manqué de lumière
Pour aimer passionnément
Les couleurs de ce petit monde
Les choses inutiles
Les chemins peu fréquentés
Les enfants qui rient
L’humeur de tes yeux
Je suis encore là-bas, dansant avec les étoiles
Plus que jamais
Mais, je n’ai plus besoin de télescope
Et les gens ne me cherchent plus
En traversant l’univers, j’ai découvert …
Le rêveur qui regardait dans le télescope
Patrice
Photo originale : Plage Marconi, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, É.U.
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Across the Universe
When I was young, I loved watching the stars
Through a telescope;
People thought I was here,
But often I was up there.
There, is also in each of us,
There are up there unexplored worlds that we ignore,
Consenting prisoners of our daily reality.
Crossing the universe, the one that lives inside me,
I never failed to find the light
To love passionately
The colors of this little world,
The useless things,
The remote roads,
The children that laugh,
The mood of your eyes.
I am still up there, dancing with the stars
More than ever
But, I don't need a telescope anymore
And people are not looking for me anymore.
Crossing the universe, I discovered. . .
The dreamer who was looking through the telescope
Patrice
Original photo : Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, USA
Three Hakuba mountains of Hakuba-yari, Shakushi, and Shirouma or Hakuba across the shrub of Kurobe (Japanese thuja, thuja standishii), an evergreen coniferous species in the cypress family. It is usually a tall tree but is dwarfed here due to a poor soil condition.
Cruise ship passing under the three bridges of Peso da Régua
[Nikkor AI-S 50mm f/1.2, merge of several frames]
I decided to go for a stroll last night and ended up power walking for 15 miles? The weather was perfect for the drone so I let her off the lead and sent her across the River Mersey for a spot of sightseeing on the Liverpool waterfront.
The Ribblesdale railway viaduct on a grey, wet day. The viaduct, across Ribblesdale (known as the Ribblesdale Viaduct and Batty Moss Viaduct) was built in 1875, and is 1320 ft long, 104 ft high. It was closed to rail traffic for a while, but has now reopened, though all trains seems to tip-toe across.
Wide angle landscape shots of the dales and the viaduct were just not working on the day I was there with so much low cloud, rain and mist around...it allowed for some more moody compositions though!
Ive just deciderd to put up this photograph again as its one of my most favourite ones and I love the place. Ive a lot of personal stuff to sort out at the moment so hopefully this will give me breathing space. Best wishes and thanks to all you great people out there!
P.
" I love the ground whereon she stands "
Here is "Celtic Woman`s" haunting version:
Do give it a listen/look;
SONG;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIDgUQiu-8
"Black is the colour, of my true loves hair,
Her lips are soft like roses fair,
She has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands,
I love the ground, whereon she stands"
" I love my love, and well she knows,
I love the ground, where on she goes.
I write her a letter, Just a few short lines,
And my heart it dies, a thousand times"
[ Unknown, traditional, Glasgow, Scotland, 18th century. ]
The evening light slowly fades out to the west
over Lugala and beyond and as far as the eye can see, in the Wicklow Mountains National Park, Ireland.
This lovely mountain is also called "Fancy Mountain".A pretty name for a pretty place.
Im going to ask my friend to write a slip jig on the fiddle for me and call it " The Fancies of Lugalaw " and then every time I go up here, not only will I have the view and the silence but Ill also have the music going around in my head as well. Now isnt that a proper kind of "madness"! Lol! P@t.
My pics are also available in slide form on Flickriver below, if you prefer;
flickriver.com/photos/137473925@N08/
A few people have said that they found the song very sad, particularly the extra verse I put in above.
We may be completely wrong as often in songs and poems of this period from Ireland and Scotland, the woman is actually ones homeland.Many womens names were used in the place of the country and the broken heart and unrequited love has to do with the country been in "strangers hands" and un free and would particularly apply to Scotland and Ireland.
It seems to be in vogue now to be patriotic and whereas a certain amount of it is to be admired, we must be careful, as too much of it has plunged the World into too many wars. We dont want a border here in this country. We had one for a hundred years and lots died because of it. Mostly innocent as always.I do think that they wont allow one and Im hopeful.
Ive just updated this photo as lots of people may not have seen it. I actually think its my best ever and please do listen to the song and watch the video as its amazing!!! P@t.
Sunset across Lake Tyrrell.
My son has been quite sick for a week but is much better now. He did a Rapid Antigen Test and then the more accurate PCR test. Both came back negative. It seemed odd given how bad he was feeling and he rarely ever gets sick. Yesterday his girlfriend started getting sick and did a RAT test. Positive for Covid.He repeated a RAT test which turned a very faint positive. He obviously has it but received a false negative. Fortunately he felt too unwell to go anywhere and infect others so they have basically been isolating anyway.
For the first two years of the pandemic, few people in Australia knew anyone with Covid. Now it would be very few who don't know someone!
Stay safe everyone and keep well.
Amazing cloud formation just after sunrise. The sea was calm and the tide was coming in. Every year the shingle is built up on the beach as a sea defence but you can see the channels in the shingle where the sea has already flooded in during recent stormy weather. The wooden breakers are also a sea defence. Eastbourne, UK
A cloudy day with just a bit of snow -- and a view of Gaustadt's main street. Even though the houses are fairly colorful, I like the look of this image in b&w (Panasonic L Monochrome in LR 6.14). [P1060245_lr_2000]
Thank you all for the clicks, comments & faves. I really appreciate it. (I've decided to reply to comments only if I have something worthwhile to add.)
Trumpeter swans and other birds at the mouth of Duffins marsh with a sunset on this overcast winter day over Lake Ontario and view from the bridge across Duffins marsh in Squires beach , cropped photograph , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , February 7. 2022
Overcast day
Winter day
Sunset
Trumpeter swans
Green and white Trilliums
Round hole in ice
Mullein
woods
Sunset
Duffins Creek Trail
Discovery Bay
Duffins Creek
Trilliums in the woods
Duffins Trail
Cropped photograph
Spring
Discovery Bay near Duffins Creek
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Bluefin tuna
Ontario
Canada
February 2022
Favourites
IPhone XR
forest
Trees
Wildflowers
Trout Lilies
Fallen tree
Duffins Mash
Duffins trail
Trail near Duffins Marsh
Autumn
Red trilliums
Red trilliums in the woods
Beautiful blue sky
great clouds
Beautiful blue sky with great clouds
Squires beach
Blossoms
Beautiful springt tree blossoms
the clouds and blue sky
Rotary Park
Beautiful springt tree blossoms against the clouds and blue sky