Ruptured illusions, used: Pixabay 2981411 - Photoshop - Filter Forge

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Wishing everyone a colorful and delightful Sliders Sunday.

As I was working on this image, that title came to me. I knew it was a Bob Dylan song I had not heard for 45 years, so I looked up the lyrics, and sure enough, they are perfect for the universe shown here. Thank you, Bob :)))

HMBT!

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Our wilderness neighbors seem to be taking turns visiting us each morning. This morning before the crack of dawn, our two moose emerged from the forest to chomp on what ever goodies they could find on what was once a garden plot.

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Created for the Kreative People July Challenge 41 - Summer Expo from a photo I found my archives when I was looking for something else all together;-)

The textures WrappingPaperBokeh1 and SandAndSea are my own.

All images within each image are my own. All heron and egrets shots are taken on the RBG grounds at Cootes Paradise or Dufferin Islands in Niagara Falls.

This flight sequence taken at Cootes Paradise has been placed on a background composed of two overlapping motion blurred and stretched images of autumn colours which I often use for texture. The top layer is at 50% density to reveal the bottom layer.

Happy Sunday Sliders

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March is a wonderful month in Alaska. You can just feel spring in the air, as the sun radiates its warmth, and the days lengthen. We no longer need to keep the wood stove stoked all day, thereby saving what is left of the precious woodpile, after a brutally cold winter.

It is this time of year, that most rural Alaskan's start scoping out the forest, for the trees that will be needed for next winters fuel.

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As the mist rises from the pond, Trumpeter Swans prepare for a day of rest in the Alaskan wilderness.

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Also known as the flower of paradise. To appreciate the beauty of this flower I felt it necessary to isolate it from the tree's foliage. The image was taken at the RBG (Royal Botanical Gardens) where the out-of-focus soft water movement was also taken. The stone angel and the clock (mine) were added as a symbolic representation of paradise.

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Rippled angular architecture from another photo of the library.

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Wildflowers grow prolifically along Alaska's roadside's each summer. There are miles upon miles of pink, purple, and yellow flowers.

This little bouquet popped up at the end of our driveway, along with many other varieties. After our long cold winter - it is so wonderful to see color again.

How very fast we go between summer and autumn in Alaska. One minute my rhubarb bed is producing more juicy stalks than I can possibly use - and the next minute the leaves are turning ruby red signaling the end of the harvest.

Soon Doc will gently pull the remaining stalks and cover the bed with spruce bows for winter. Come early spring - (sometimes before the snow has even melted) - little ruby red heads will poke their way through the icy cold soil, and once again I will be knee deep in rhubarb.

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The glacier fed Chickaloon River, surrounded by the colorful autumn foliage, looks especially pretty this time of the year.

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With sub-zero temperatures predicted for the next couple of weeks - I am waiting for the day that our boreal forest welcomes spring flowers. Until then, I'll see them in my dreams.

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A Floral Fantasy

Fantaisie florale