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"You hanging with anyone tonight?
Nah...im chillin"
"To be in a state of prolonged satisfactory boredom. A positive phase of being, not regarded as being bored but not in the process of doing anything worth elaborating upon."
We feel the storm #Ingunn even in the southern part of Norway, it is mostly heavy on the western coastline of Norway - all the way up to the northern part.
Wind gusts of 40-50 m/s was expected on the coastline of Norway, and that has happened, cars have been lifted up and roof parts are flying off.
While in the inland, local wind gusts of 30-35 m/s have been expected.
We just checked our weather system now and it showed 34 m/s! The wind is howling.
Nice to know we have been out hiking 😊 - this is taken from today, we don't risk anything when we are out (of course)!
And on the other side of the road all the geese were gaggling about. I haven't submitted to 7 days of shooting in awhile, but this may fit the theme this week.
7 Days of Shooting - Week #12 - It's A Punny World - Shoot anything Saturday.
BN SD60M approaches Hoffman Ave in St Paul, MN with a heavy manifest. I would follow this train over to Northtown if I remember correctly, which these days I am not certain of anything 5.92
Jan 31 31/366
I had to go to a meeting tonight, it was a bit of a waste of time. Other than handing in my monthly paperwork I didn't really gain anything from being there. As you can see from the page in my notebook I didn't take any notes.
When I got back home I discovered that some scumbag had stolen my mountain bike.
Perfect end to a perfect day!
So here's my interpretation of wrath, a pencil snapped in anger on a blank page in a notebook after a meeting I didn't need to be at. And if I'd stayed at home I'd still be the owner of a very expensive mountain bike.
Wrath, no. Really bloody pi**ed off, yes!
Also used for August scavenger hunt, theme 'spit the dummy'.
46/365
(I chose not to upload day 45, because.. it's.. gah.)
I was down by the ocean with my mum all day. I hadn't planned to shoot anything, but I brought my camera and tripod anyway, and just shot this spontaneously. Harsh sunlight wasn't all that bad.
DUCKS SWIMMING IN A ROW AND ANOTHER ONE GETTING READY TO FLY FROM THE PARK LAKE WATER IN LODON ENGLAND DSC03520
This is part of the FOES 10 year wall...I hav'nt posted anything on here in ages, been pretty busy of recent.
This is not my best protest photo but in a city where ICE is cracking down in force, I could not risk outing someone who could be put in a camp/deported just to put a more personal human element into a movement. There's a whole set of photos like that you can refer to if you really want. I'm not posting this because it's a good photo (it isn't) I'm posting this because it's a reminder that we all have a choice to say no to corruption and to say yes to human rights. We must do these both simultaneously and with every molecule in our body.
I wanted to talk a little bit about what is happening in America right now. If you did not already know, there have been even more for profit concentration camps set up for people who have come here fleeing persecution, seeking a better life. This is an abomination paid for by our tax dollars and many of our politicians are invested in these camps, making money to inevitably fund their next campaigns and the viciousness continues and profit over people continues to be the theme. We've lost our souls.
I don't know how to be more hopeful. The good people in this country, the 70% of us are being held hostage against our wills by a hostile treasonous fascist who literally doesn't even know they didn't have airports back in 1776, an idiot who couldn't pass preschool and yet, the fact that he is a serial rapist and a treasonous coward is even worse. He is an unforgivable murderer. If he truly represents America, all I have left instead of my patriotism is true horror for what this country has become.
These deaths are on our hands. Their blood is on our consciousness. It is a gift to receive an immigrant. And all these people who are pro death camps all happen to call themselves "pro life" It's laughable. They just merely want to control women's bodies.
Every day, I wake up a little more hopeless and helpless, I have to be honest. Over the last three years, I've been to protests downtown, in airports, I've called congresspeople in multiple states, donated money to progressives, signed too many petitions to count, done phone banking, and tried to be a genuinely kind person to all in my every day interactions.
Above all is the narrative stream in my mind, is the kindness enough? Is it? I don't know. I really don't know. Is kindness greater than greed, greater than all the blood money? Is it? Because people have been protesting since the 1960s for basic human rights, for an end to racial discrimination and for universal healthcare, for equal rights among the sexes and for the LGBTQ community, for an end to war and look where we are right now. It's hard to believe that anything any of us non billionaires do make a difference.
But I do know this and I believe this...they want us to be as complacent as possible, to get us numbed with constant breaking news, to gaslight us into believe that when Trump says he'd collude again that's totally fine and not surprising at all. They want us to stay at home, do nothing, turn on the tv, have a pint of whiskey to numb our pain-that sort of thing. That's what they are banking on. Whatever you do, live as a light in the darkness. If it makes no difference in the grand scheme, at least you tried.
But, I bet it will make a difference to someone.
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Lily of the Valley,
French: Muguet, lis des vallées
Dutch: Lelietjes van Dalen
Flemish: meiklokjes (Little BELLS OF MAY)
The flower is also known as 'Our Lady's tears' since, according to Christian legend; the lily of the valley came into being from Eve's tears after she was driven with Adam from the Garden of Eden.
According to another legend, Lilies of the Valley also sprang from the blood of Saint Leonard of Noblac during his battles with a dragon.
Other names include May Lily, May Bells, Lily Constancy, Ladder-to-Heaven, Male Lily and Muguet.
Lily of the Valley became the national flower of Finland in 1967.
The Norwegian municipality Lunner has a Lily of the Valley in its coat-of-arms.
It is also the official flowers of many fraternities and sororities.
... an erect low-growing perennial herb of the genus Convallaria (C. majalis) that has two large oblong lanceolate leaves and a raceme of fragrant nodding bell-shaped white flowers.
All parts of the Lily of the Valley are highly poisonous.
The first day of May in France and other European countries is La Fête du Travail (Labour Day). It is a holiday.
May 1 is also La Fête du Muguet, and the tradition is to give the ones you love a sprig of Muguet, for good luck and to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
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Too bad it wasn't a bit closer. It was making its way toward me and a car stopped right in front of me and asked it if needed anything, Grrr. It then trotted off. You would think it was obvious i was trying to take pictures with my camera out the window and all....
[MM] - Anything goes
test pour Macro Mondays "smaller than a coin"
[7DOS] - Imitations - Texture Tuesday
2531 (YX15OXA) is seen on the E1 at Ealing Broadway.
This route is allocates the SK14s, but anything will do this route.
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Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh myself to sleep it's my lullaby
Sometimes I drive so fast
Just to feel the danger
I want to scream it makes me feel alive
Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
To walk within the lines
Would make my life so borin'
I want to know that I have been
To the extreme
So knock me off my feet
Come on now give it to me
Anything to make me feel alive
Yes, this morning I stumbled across this large outside wall complete with astro-turf. I don't know why, especially because this wasn't any sort of feature wall or anything. I would suspect that mostly it would only be seen by staff working in the nearby cafe... and nosy Jim. :-)
Yesterdays posting was based on soft & subtle as well lethal. I think I can say the same for this one but add pastel into the description. I do love detail but at the same time I love out of focus and I think this does each. The overall of an image is important but at the same time I like to explore the “images” within total image. The graduated soft tones of color and light, sometimes the texture as well shape and line. When I view anyone’s image I like to do this, it tells me what the artist was thinking and why they did what they did for a final presentation. Anything short of seeing it all is not fully enjoying the art.
The only processing I did was lower the vibrance, remove my usual sensor dust spots and sharpen a little, other than that it’s as shot.
Dramatic light, flare, colour shifts and funny little glowy balls - the final roll of film I exposed on the day had a bit of everything. But I suppose that's part of the fun of expired film.
I can only think that Kandersteg enjoyed our visit as much as we did, if the heart in the final image is anything to go by. 😉
Either way, we had a very enjoyable day out amongst the mountains and can definitely recommend a day trip to Kandersteg and Oeschinensee.
Committed to expired Kodak Portra 160 using a Mamiya 6 and 50 mm lens. Developed using a C-41 kit from Ars-Imago and digitised with a digital camera. Positive conversion, colours and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and final tweaks in Photoshop.
False Cape State Park © 2014 Deb Snelson Photography, All Rights Reserved. This image may NOT be used for anything without my explicit permission.
@ Leh Monastery. Had hard time taking this photo, the statue was enclosed with a glass pane....
I had to go back to my guest house to bring tripod for this shot.
The artist Jani Leinonen bought signs from beggars and framed them. From a visit to AROS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark - April 22, 2016.
2017 Rose Parade in Pasadena, California
Shriners Hospitals for Children – “Anything is Possible”: The sky’s the limit for Captain Fezzy, the fuzzy bear mascot for Shriners Hospitals, and his crew, which includes Super Bowl MVP and East-West Shrine Game alumnus, Mark Rypien, Shriners Hospitals’ national patient ambassadors, Karolina and Marius, and others. Shriners is also excited to begin serving more children when its new Medical Center for Children opens on Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena.
Today, 16 January 2022, our temperature is 0°C (windchill -4°C) just after noon. Sunrise is at 8:32 am and sunset is at 5:00 pm. A sunny day. A few days ago, our deepfreeze finally come to an end - at least until the next one - and we have been enjoying much milder weather. We do have a Special Weather Statement for tomorrow night (Monday), though - "Strong winds, snow, blowing snow and a rapid drop in temperature expected for southern Alberta. Be prepared for poor travel conditions." Hopefully, it will miss my city!
Yesterday, 15 January 2022, I was finally able to get out for a drive out of the city. The last time I had been for a drive was on 24 October 2021! I had been wanting to get out for the last few days, but each day involved having to do something in connection with the car accident on 20 December 2021, when a young driver T-boned the loaner vehicle I was driving just a couple of roads away from home. Apparently, the Police Accident Report that was made at the time of the accident had been sitting on someone's desk, waiting to be authorized. This resulted in my having to make and answer endless phone calls and emails to various people, plus having to go to the nearest Police Station to pick up a driver's copy of the now-authorized report. I was told that an accident benefit adjuster is now supposed to phone me. I have never put in an accident benefit claim for anything before. I read that ones payments will go up if a claim is put in, so I don't think it's worth doing. My only financial expenses during the week after the accident, were several taxi rides. The rest of the 'damages' were pretty much stress, including being without a vehicle for the Christmas week. Oh, and whiplash and other muscle injury, for which I won't be getting physio. So, I don't think it's worth going through all the hassle of putting in a claim and then having my payments increase..
Anyway, yesterday, I decided to go for a drive SE of the city, really just to get out and see something other than my four walls. Not a lot to see, but it was good to drive a few quiet, peaceful back roads, and on a lovely sunny day. I was surprised to see a lot less snow on the ground than I was expecting. It also surprised me, though, that I found it so very tiring to do a shortish drive like this, along familiar roads.
I was supposed to be busy with work and family, but this kind of opportunity comes once in a blue moon, and I told everyone, “I have an event from 7-8 or 8:20. I’m sorry, but there’s no way I’m missing it.” This is my time slot! I know that was not my usual Friday night at the Strand, but “no”! Unless it's a real-life emergency, nothing you love should ever be missed. There's never a really perfect time or place for anything you don't make time for.
P.S. I was thinking while I was there how to put that evening into words… perfectly romantic NYC evening inside the most dreamy, ethereal room in the entire city. That room in the evening, books, decor, and overhead lights is just romantic magic. I guess everything one expects from an NYC night. Those kinds of things always make me excited and nervous as a teenager. I’m 10 days shy of being 43, and what I felt inside wasn’t any different when I was 17. I believe that when we truly love something (or someone), it never really goes away. It's a different kind of photograph, protected inside the heart, that even a computer cannot crash.
Hostlers shuffle Union Pacific SW9 No. 1848 and DD35 No. 85B at North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 27, 1977.
British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.
(Local Band "Anything But That")