This is for the refugees in the world fleeing from their homes because there is a war going on in their country or where they are in danger because of their religion. I am truly blessed that I was born in a country without war and with democratic standards. Bless you!

I have been posting a lot of pictures that were taken several months ago. Some of you may or may not know that I struggle with mental health issue and I had taken some time away from Flickr and Social Media. Thank you all for you visits and faves!

"Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die:Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred." Alfred Lord Tennyson

comments off for this one

but my thanks for sharing the quiet :-)

forgive me for deleting group comment codes...

they're not my thing.. tho I do appreciate the visit!

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend." Emily Dickinson

"The prairie skies can always make you see more

than what you believe." Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends

We never know what is around the bend.

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." Confucius

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." Rabindranath Tagore

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." Robert Frost

"There was only the enormous, empty prairie, with grasses blowing in waves of light and shadow across it, and the great blue sky above it, and birds flying up from it and singing with joy because the sun was rising. And on the whole enormous prairie there was no sign that any other human being had ever been there." Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

This picture was taken a couple weeks ago, while my hubby and I were driving to Ontario from Alberta to visist family.

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better." Henry Rollins

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

― Jim Bishop

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." Robert Frost

Taken at the Toronto Zoo

This is one of my favorite places in the world I feel at peace here. Maybe it is because the sound of rushing water blocks out everything else going on in my head. Maybe its because it is so beautiful. I don't know I just thought I would share this with you.

Rideau Canal Ottawa

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality." Jonas Salk

"No I am not a rock and I can feel it now

But for a moment, I'd like to forget

That my heart is sinking like a sunset" Tom Cochrane

There is so much beauty in patterns. Fractals occur in everything.

..or as Helen would say.. "she likes to use all the colours!"

Today’s soundtrack: Trem das 7 – Raul Seixas

A week of curating and installing artworks by children.

My favourite season is Autumn. The colours shift and change and Mother Nature changes her gown

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. - Carl Sandburg

Every once in awhile the universe reminds you that you were meant for bigger and better things. This week I got that reminder. On to bigger and better things!!!!!

A small 'branch of the River Stour to keep the dogs out of, with all the coloured houses behind it

All the Colours (Our Daily Challenge)

ODC-All The Colours

Only AI could create something like this.

It's Christopher Street Day today in Kiel and various other cities.

Für heute und so ganz generell jeden Tag spendier ich gern etwas Musik auf die Ohren 🎶 dazu. :)

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" Audrey Hepburn

"No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn." Maya Angelou

Playing around with mattes and textures

just practicing with a cute light bulb shaped mason jar. Sometimes you can find the coolest things when you are not looking ;)

A friend of mine posted a shot like this a couple years ago and it inspired me.

In the midst of a ridiculously stressful week at work, I took a break to wander Oxford Street on Tuesday night. In Selfridge's food hall, I saw rainbow bagels--which I'd read about somewhere as being all the rage in NYC and beginning to make a splash here in London. I bought a bag for the kids and a bag for my team at work. They were very well-received by both parties, but ultimately I found them to be a fun little novelty, nothing more.

Still, they made for a colourful photo opp at breakfast yesterday morning, right?

Trippy little psychedelic bagels deserve a tripply little psychedelic song. I offer John Grant's "Marz": youtu.be/mzWQSabtWLs

Rainy summer days. A relief.

"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity." Oscar Wilde

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

Stephen Hawking

"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." Ralph Waldo Emerson