Etta's been in the waterhole :)

Daily Dog Challenge: Fibonacci

I hadn't heard of this before but it's quite fascinating. I think, if I understand correctly, that this approximates the Fibonacci spiral. Hope so :I

Scribbly Gum Moth (Ogmograptis scribula) Larvae Trails "decorate" the bark of Scribbly Gums without hurting them.

♡Love these trees♡

I'd forgotten how green everything is in spring, this a top down shot of lilies after a spring shower...

on a rainy day in the indian ocean

Detail from an exhibition piece.

Danish Architecture Center (DAC) Slide, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Little red maple leaf on this drizzly day.

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Another from the archives of 2009...

Meh.... it's colorful and fun.....

drip collector

After a night of heavy rain you can see how nature stores water. The thick raindrops can be seen on the plant. the plant is from the genus Spurge (Euphorbia) it is incomparably diverse with a number of over 2000 species worldwide.Tropfensammler

Nach einer Nacht mit viel Regen kann man sehen wie in der Natur Wasser gespeichert wird. Die diken Regentropfen sind auf der Pflanze zu sehen. bei der Pflanze handelt es sich um die Gattung Wolfsmilch (Euphorbia) sie ist mit einer Zahl von weltweit über 2000 Arten unvergleichlich vielfältig.

Number 29 in the group 52 in 2016 Challenge list

male mallard leaves the pond to join some friends across the wetlands park

An American Flamingo looks up to scan its surrounding between feedings on Honeymoon Island.

I love watching drops as they gather along horizontal surfaces. Forming a tidy row, they start small and grow in size, plumping and stretching. The bigger they get, the better I can see the fantastical, upside-down version of my world inside each watery orb. Pulled by gravity, they tremble to hold on but eventually they fall and the cycle begins again.

Like a giant metronome of life, they measure the moments.

Drip, drop. Tick, tock.

I went to nearby Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. I took two shots of this Japanese fountain with an LED light from two different directions, then blended them together.

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Sam Ka Tsuen, Hong Kong, 2018

To much time on my hands lol

Taken and edited on my iPhone

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Helsinki, Finland.

It rained and rained and rained....

My Photoblog- My Third Eye...!

That's the 6/17/17 theme for Macro Mondays, and since I've made numerous attempts to try to perfect this olive-drop-into-the-martini shot, I decided this was a good excuse to give it another try. I got several great splashes, but that *&%**! olive rarely cooperated and insisted on turning its back to the camera, and without the red pimento showing, the shot was a failure, no matter how great the splash.

Actually, this time I got two shots I wanted to post to the MM group, but one's the limit, so I posted the other one in the first comment below. I'd appreciate knowing if you think I made the right choice...

Just walking around Rome

Gum Leaf

Etta at Lawson Dog Park

Writing about human suffering runs many risks, and most of these risks have been the subject of to much commentary. But there is also the artifice of packaging something so it offends the senses, but not too much. Surely, this too is a marker of a lost innocence. I have come to terms with the fact that I will never be asked to write, or even reflect overmuch on what is described in these pages, because in Haiti, I am asked to do only one thing: be a doctor, to serve the destitute sick. And since none of my patients can pay for my services, it is my job, my great privilege, to draw attention to the suffering of the poor and to bring resources to bear on the problems that are remediable. Most are.

I contemplate my own loss of innocence with resentment, sometimes in even in tearful silence. From whom can I demand it back? As Garcia Lorca said, "Things that go away never return-everybody knows that."

Everybody knows that things that go away never return.

-Paul Farmer, Cange, Haiti, March 8, 2000, afterword to the Pathologies of Power

#Reflectioninaspoon

Isaiah 45:8: “Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, and righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.”

I think today is the day I do my rounds on flickr. Sometimes I lose track of time. But today I am busy. I have a date with the trees. I will be in the bush hugging trees and taking selfies. Maybe I will ride an elk through the forest or chase a cougar around the trees or talk to the bears. Who knows?

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