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And this flood, this flood is slowly rising up,
Swallowing the ground beneath my feet
Tell me how anybody thinks under this condition, so
I'll swim, I'll swim as the water rises up, sun is sinking down and now
All I can see are the planets in a row suggesting it's best that I
Slow down, this night's a perfect shade of
Dark blue, dark blue
Have you ever been alone in a crowded room
When I'm here with you
I said the world could be burning and burning down
Dark blue, dark blue
Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?
Well, I'm here with you
I said the world could be burning dark blue
-Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin
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...yeah... i really like this pic. therefore i used it twice... :D
Pleased to see several of these this morning but the weather wasn't the best for photography. In pretty much mint condition.
Night after night... floating in warm waves of expectation. He always ends up here... with me
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Does any body recognise themselves? A scene at Birmingham Snow Hill station on 21 August 1965 with Britannia class No.70053 Moray Firth in deplorable condition minus nameplates with a train heading westbound.
A time for conversation and reflection on the last evening of BR Class 504 operation on the Bury to Crumpsall line on August 16th 1991. On the left, set M77165 & M65444 was awaiting departure to Bury Interchange, whilst alongside M77167 & M65446 had just arrived from Bury. The section from Crumpsall to Manchester Victoria had previously closed on July 13th 1991 with a rail replacement bus service in operation, as seen in this view with a Greater Manchester Leyland Atlantean (LJA 602P) stood outside the station entrance waiting to return to Manchester Victoria. As demonstrated in this scene, as the end drew near, the external condition of the 504's deteriorated. An image rescued from a damaged transparency, apologies for the quality.
322/365....I'm grateful for air conditioning on a hot day (we arrived in Palm Springs today and I remembered what hot is!)....
...for my 30 days of gratitude project....
This photo is a tribute to those people who volunteer their time to restore and maintain these old steam locomotives in working condition. In this photo, two men are performing minor maintenance tasks while waiting the two hours or more that it takes to fire this engine up. This engine runs a tourist loop at New Hope Pa. and was out of service in 2014. Hopefully it will be back this year. Parts have to be hand made and there are not many people that know how to repair or operate them anymore.
the city hummed outside, alive with the season's buzz, yet here, behind glass and strings of colored light, was stillness. the bokeh of a thousand tiny bulbs blurred into an electric haze, framing a man who sat quietly, detached from the festive chaos. his eyes drifted sideways, lost in thought, as if the lights had stolen his attention but not his heart.
there’s a story in his hands, wrapped around a half-eaten meal. the kind of moment caught in transit—between the glow of holiday cheer and the weight of something heavier. madrid’s pulse continued on, neon reflections bouncing off the glass, but in this corner of the night, time slowed. the decorations tried to bring joy, but they felt distant, merely an echo of warmth.
beneath the cold, muted tones of a coat and hat, there was a flicker of warmth. but it wasn’t from the season—it was from the human condition, the quiet battles we all carry, unnoticed in the noise.
#customblythe#desert#gbabydolls #roadtrip
"I will get back into the car under one condition: you allow me to listen to my music, meaning the one song I listen to, however long or however many times I feel like. After that you can have a turn and can listen to songs and or music on my short approved list."
Clarence Drive is a magnificent scenic coastal drive between the windswept hamlet of Rooi-Els and the naval town of Gordons Bay, which nestles in the north-eastern crook of False Bay in the shadow of the Hottentots Hollands mountains. This beautiful, coastal drive stretches between the two towns over 21 km, hugging the wild turquoise Cape coastline all the way. If you like passes with lots of corners, then this one is for you, as it contains 77 bends, curves and corners of which four are in excess of 150 degrees. The road is in a beautiful condition and attracts tourists, locals, bikers and cyclists in their droves. Overtaking is fairly limited and in general one can expect to average well below 60 kph.
Explored ( Jan 5, 2010 #375 )
Um El-Ma'a Oasis Lake ( Arabic: بحيرة أم الماء ) ( English: The Mother of Water Lake ) is an oasis with a large lake located in the municipality Wadi Al-Haya ( Awbari ) in the Libyan Sahara .....
As Andrei'f said, One of the things that always crossed my mind is how the sand dunes stand so high without collapsing, and covers the lake.
Local people have told me that the sand dune is the same since a long time and Never affected in any of the weather condition !
As you can plainly see, I don't try very hard to keep my MacBook Pro in mint condition. The bevels are unglued, the fans aren't as quiet, and as for the onions: I'm just lucky they haven't set the thing on fire.
I was lucky enough to be able to shoot in a 1974 Lotus Eclat in great condition. I'd been planning to use my car, but jumped at the chance to use this due to it's classic nature, but mostly because my car is a heap!
Lighting Info: Elinchrom Quadra head (A Channel) in Wescott Apollo softbox pressed against window camera left, Quadra head (B Channel) with reflector, plus 20 grid spot, plus warming gel behind rear window, white reflector camera right for fill. Fired by built in Quadra Skyport.
Explored at #35 on Jan 27th 2011.
Thanks for all the positive comments and favourites. In one day this single shot has become my most viewed. The usual average per day (according to the Stats) is 30 views. In the two days after posting this image I've had over 14,000 views!
Tomorrow Christophe is getting his PET-scan to see if the tumors are all gone and the chemo treatment has worked... Also now his father is in hospital after discovering a tumor during some tests last friday and having to go into surgery. Tomorrow we should learn more about his condition. So, fingers crossed to the extreme for both of them!!!
La Berceuse
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My photographic version of the van Gogh painting "La Berceuse, portrait of Madame Roulin, december 1888" (Made after different versions as seen in the Kroller Muller museum, Otterloo and the Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam and the Metropolitan museum, New York).
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The background is painted by Polina Mavrikaki, co-painter of the Loving Vincent movie.
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How did I create this photo?
Apart from finding the right clothing and the chair, the biggest challenge was photographing everything correctly.
Why? Well, because Vincent painted Madame Roulin very much out of proportion. This was intented as he wrote to his brother Theo.
But with a specific lens and some photoshop I got it to a certain point it was photographically out of proportions enough for me.
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The whole proces of researching, planning, finding the clothing, the chair and model, testing light set-ups and camera settings, shooting and post-processing in Photoshop, took me about four months.
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Thanks to my dear wife Marcella for helping me find the clothing, props, lighting assistance and being the model this time!
Thanks to the hair specialist Linda Ineke.
Thanks to Polina Mavrikaki for painting the background.
Thanks to Leo Vas for post-processing in photoshop
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
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Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54950920265
** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51121244013/
Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/22949342829/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”
- Rene Magritte
My tribute to the famous painting by Rene Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) with the title “The Human Condition” oil on canvas, painted in 1933
In stunning condition. I suspect it's had a top class restoration in recent years as the DVLA thinks it's blue. I'm pretty sure it once had a personal plate because an original FJF would have a D suffix.
92,000 miles at the last MOT and it's covered less than 6,000 since 2006, including a few years off the road. Present owner since 2013.