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The weekend before last my parents and I drove to a place in the neighboring town which is full of christmas roses. Unfortunately I felt pretty bad because I was at a party the day before, but nevertheless I took some pictures of these wonderful flowers, where I really like this one due to the nice bokeh which seems to cover the flower. Hope you like it!
PETER: (riding a tricycle)
Hi Oleg!
OLEG: (sits relaxed on the sofa)
Oh...Hello Peter!
Huh...why are you on a tricycle when you have a bicycle?
And.... what's hanging behind the tricycle...it makes quite a noise.
PETER:
Christmas baubles
OLEG: (indignantly)
Christmas baubles?
PETER:
I don't think the Christmas tree looks festive yet. It needs more coloured baubles .
That's why I borrowed the tricycle from Big Sister Maileg to transport the baubles. I hung them behind the tricycle so I can pull them
It's easier than with my bike.
OLEG:
I think the Christmas tree looks nice enough.
But if you think there should be more coloured baubles then you should.
I wonder how the balls get to the tree. In pieces I'm afraid
PETER:
You're acting weird again Oleg.
Looking out of my Mom's window at the pretty Christmas decorations & lights! Best Wishes to you all my vfriends =)
Sunday in London, I just missed the rain :)
Website: www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/cuppyuppycake?excludenudity=...
One of my favorite things is sl is food, I just love how real it looks. Christmas decor is another favorite, my rl decor is pretty much signs on a wall thanks to my cats lol. I did not get to snap as many pics as I would like because rl was really busy. I hope everyone had a Happy Christmas!!
Outfit:
*Tay-Lay-Designs*
Christmas Dream-Outfit 13
Marketplace:
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Tay-Lay-Designs-Christmas-Dr...
Mainstore:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paradis%20Moment/162/129/2502
Flickr:
This is one of several angels which are the symbols of the Christmas market at Ludwigsburg. They are huge and as their wings are illuminated they look spectacular at night but they are also quite impressive in daylight.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !!
FROHE WEIHNACHTEN EUCH ALLEN !!
May the spirit of the season be the melody that plays in your heart all year long....
Möge die Stimmung der Weihnacht die Melodie sein, die das ganze Jahr über in Euren Herzen spielt....
Thank you for your friendship, girls and boys :)
Danke für Eure flickrFreundschaft, Ihr Lieben !!
Spirobranchus giganteus is similar to most tube-building polychaetes. It has a tubular, segmented body of an approximate length of 3.8 cm (1.5 in) covered with chaetae, small appendages that aid the worm's mobility. Because it does not move outside its tube, this worm does not have any specialized appendages for movement or swimming.
The worms' most distinct features are two "crowns" shaped like Christmas trees. These are highly modified prostomial palps, which are specialized mouth appendages. Each spiral is composed of feather-like tentacles called radioles, which are heavily ciliated and cause any prey trapped in them to be transported to the worm's mouth. While they are primarily feeding structures, S. giganteus also uses its radioles for respiration; hence, the structures commonly are called "gills".
One major difference between Christmas tree worms and the closely related Sabellida fan worms is that the latter do not have any specialized body structures to plug their tube holes when they withdraw into them. S. giganteus, like other members of its family, possesses a modified radiole, usually called the operculum, that it uses to secure its hole when withdrawn into its tube.
As an annelid, S. giganteus possesses a complete digestive system and has a well-developed closed circulatory system. Like other annelids, these worms possess well-developed nervous systems with a central brain and many supporting ganglia, including pedal ganglia, unique to the Polychaeta. Like other polychaetes, S. giganteus excretes with fully developed nephridia. When they reproduce, they simply shed their gametes straight into the water where the eggs and spermatozoa become part of the zooplankton to be carried by the currents. (Wikipedia) Nuweiba, Golf of Aqaba, Egypt.
As we move closer to the Winter Solstice the nights get longer and the constellations shift in the sky - this is what I saw the other night!
Happy Slider Sunday!
after all the years of doing photography, this is the first time I used my own image for my Christmas card... I had them printed before I took in Daisy... so I updated this one to include her!!
Happy Caturday and wishing everyone a wonderful weekend and a Merry and Blessed Christmas!!
❤🎄🎅⛄🎁❤
Merry Christmas to all my flickr friends and contacts.
Christmas
Celebration
Added to: "Weekly Theme Challenge"
Also in: The Flickr Lounge
Christmas can be many things for many different people. When I was a kid, Christmas was that wonderful day when we got many presents and ate many sweet things. Regrettably, it took me a while to understand that not all had had so many presents or eaten so many sweet things, but that is another story.
Later, it became the season when we spent days and days shopping for presents to give to family, friends, office colleagues and, and, and… Once in Japan, Christmas was the day when I had to play Santa (what has this got to do with Christmas?) and eat sushi, which, even though a delicacy, made me feel very very homesick.
Now, my children married and living away, it became the day when my wife and I have some special treat, like pork sirloin roasted in the oven or some special codfish recipe. A glass of champagne is mandatory, a few drops for my wife who can drink no alcohol. The old tree keeps us company.
What is, after all, Christmas? We are taught it is the day when we celebrate the birth of Christ. But is that all there is to it, or is there anything more? There must be. Christmas centred on a Santa Claus reinvented by Coca-Cola is so different from the christian celebrations of my youth around the Christmas creche that there must be a common thread somewhere.
We first note that Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December although the birthdate of Christ is known to no one. Then you read about the first christians building churches on top or near old temples to easily gather around them people who went to the temple of old. Next we hear that there was sometime around the longest night of the year a major pagan gathering to celebrate the new year reborn from the dead of winter, and you are mesmerised at the sagacity of early christians. After all Christmas might be the celebration of the birth of Christ but it is essentially all about redemption of our sins (I would rather say faults) and, now cleansed, rebirth.
Christmas is for me the time when we look back and forward, into our heart and soul, and outward to the world we created, and, maybe with a humble heart, approach our relatives, our friends, neighbours, our fellow men and wish them "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".
Je vous souhaite un joyeux Noël *
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas *
5th Place, Indoor winter photography Contest on 1X.com,
Stockholm, Sweden, December 2024
1x.com/magazine/permalink/9875
Many thanks for choosing this photo as the cover photo for the anemone group !
January 2025
We did a lot of shopping on Christmas Eve. My wallet is so light, but my wife is smiling with joy. My heart is so full. Merry Christmas! I hope our love will continue to last forever.(◡‿◡*)❤
Green story
SINCE 2013
Rain.Rest.Romance. Photo.
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Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
Luca
[Deadwool] Polar coat - Legacy - caramel
[Deadwool] Dean jeans - (full) - Legacy - vintage blue
[Deadwool] Kojima keychain - Gianni
[Deadwool] Ankle boots - Legacy M - tight - brown
WINGS-ES0715-HAIR
[ kunst ] - Feather Necklace (M)
[Deadwool] Blue moon - platinum/cream - 41 mm - mat. ON
Lulu
Addams // Layla Boots (long socks) // Maitreya X Addams // Layla Fur Coat Parka // Maitreya X
Addams // Layla Leather Zipper Skirt // Maitreya X
Addams // Layla Sweater for jacket // Maitreya X
ORSINI Jewel Care CASSY Earring
ORSINI Jewel Care CASSY Necklace Maitreya
WINGS-ES0630-HAIR M
Pose
Secret Poses - Christmas Eve (posestand)
PSC-Rockwell 1.9
.:Bee Designs:. Christmas tree - Adt-Complete
Wishing all my friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy , Healthy and Prosperous 2012.
Eucalyptus caesia ssp. magna
This is called 'Silver Princess' and flowers just down the road from us.
Perth, Western Australia