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今週末はとっても天気がいいのであちこちの公園に行ってみました。
こんな世の中でも「府中の森公園」に春は来ていました。
みんな嬉しくなって梅にスマホをかざしています。
The weather was very nice this weekend so I went to various parks.
Even in such a world, spring has come to "Fuchu Forest Park".
Everyone was happy and was shooting plums on their smartphones.
A stroll around Circle B Bar Reserve near Lakeland, Florida, is always a rewarding part of one's day. This photo was taken in the spring before the leaves were fully out.
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***Challenge Day 7 - “Beginnings” - Flickr 21 Day Photo Challenge
Monarch butterfly/milkweed butterfly/Danaus plexippus.
The adult emerges from its chrysalis after about two weeks of pupation. The emergent adult hangs upside down for several hours while it pumps fluids and air into its wings, which expand, dry, and stiffen. The butterfly then extends and retracts its wings. Once conditions allow, it flies and feeds on many nectar plants.
Columbia, South Carolina. USA
It is finely the beginning of waterfall season here in Minnesota which is always a very exciting time to me. I am reminded of how Christ makes everything new and breathes life into our dead lungs. For all things are made for Him and through Him which is stated in Colossians chapter 1. I am thankful for springtime and for warmer temperatures that are on the way. Have a blessed week everybody!
“It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.”
Buddha
A blue Morning Glory Bud for Monday !!
:~)
Crazy Tuesday: December Decorations
This is Crumbs - our Elf on the Shelf. Crumbs joined our family at the very beginning of the Elf on the Shelf popularity craze. My kids have far outgrown him but every December Crumbs still comes down from the North Pole (ok, so it is actually the Christmas decoration boxes under the stairs) and stays with us over the holidays. While I am relieved I no longer have to come up with last minute ideas for his crazy antics (I have to admit I was pretty creative with it) and move him around the house each night once the kids have gone to bed, I do really miss those years when the kids were little and Christmas was a magical time for them. Crumbs has semi-retired now and sits on the branches tucked somewhere in our Christmas tree and every January he returns back to the North Pole to help in Santa's Workshop (under our stairs haha!) and prepare for the next Christmas.
Thanks very much for your visit...Happy Crazy Tuesday!
Stunning sunrise - Alberta Canada.
My camera has been in its case and I, for the most part, in a chair - just waiting for spring. The bears in Alberta and I definitely in hibernation mode this winter.
A difficult month with record breaking temperatures e.g. -35c -
Wishing you all....a HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING. Hope we all have good weather and lots of buds (beginnings).
BLESSINGS ~ BARB
“There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are”
-Ruth Ozeki-
Featuring AZOURY France - Angharad mask for The Crossroads
* Date: 3rd August
* Theme: Apocalypse World
* SLurl: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Crossroads%20Event/1...
Thanks to George Pitarys who reminds me today with his uploads, the fact that Action Red once ruled the Baie des Chaleurs part of Gaspésie.
We are located, on this cold Saturday morning, on the old timber bridge supporting the 5e Rand Ouest, a narrow path cut straight thru the deep forest north of New-Richmond and waiting for the first ever windmill blades train over the Société du Chemin de Fer de la Gaspésie trackage.
The average solitude and tranquility of the forest were quickly interrupted by three ALCo 251 prime movers, working full blast against gravity and the 1.4% grade with 6400 foot of train on the drawbar. The old timber bridge was shaken by the deafening exhaust of 3600 horsepower as the head end slowly top off the grade half a mile from it.
From now, the 60 or so mile-long chase have just began.
Windmill blade trains are no longer operating on the SCFG since a shifting in the size of the the blades build LM Windpower plant near Gaspé was now too long to be put on railcars.
SCFG 1819 will become the first of the small RS18u fleet to be painted in the SP Black Widow-inspired paint scheme a few weeks after this picture.
The old bridge over 5e Rang, closed to thru trafic since a few years, was torn down somewhere back in 2021.
But the show remain the same on the Gaspésie railway.
SCFG 565-03
1819 1856 1865
Milepost 63.6 Cascapedia subdivision
New-Richmond,QC
December 3rd, 2016
I'm sorry my dear Flickr Friends, comments posting has been turned off for this upload....
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day 130 from 365 - "When every day is an adventure"
Explore #8, 10/11/2011
I'm sure most of you will have noticed by now that I'm shooting different subjects/styles. I love LE seascape work and the peace and tranquility that comes with being near water, but I'm feeling the urge to rebel and try my hand at other subjects (hence my deliberate move to explore other avenues of photographic expression). The tilt-shift/focus work I've been trying lately is really starting to resonate with me and I'm curious where this path will take me.
All comments, critiques and feedback both positive and negative welcome.
Patient Trust
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hearts on Fire