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Listening to Carole King today… another old Rocker that’s made beautiful music for a number of years.
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years.
Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.
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The Hooded Merganser:
Spotted this Female Hooded Merganser Strutting Her Stuff after finishing a breakfast of Frog Legs alfresco. The legs were still attached to the frog, so it took her awhile to dine, but she seems to have had a Happy Ending : )
Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles.
Hooded Merganser ducklings leave their nest cavity within 24 hours of hatching. First, their mother checks the area around the nest and calls to the nestlings from ground level. From inside the nest, the little fluffballs scramble up to the entrance hole and then flutter to the ground, which may be 50 feet or more below them. In some cases, they have to walk half a mile or more with their mother to the nearest body of water.
The oldest recorded Hooded Merganser was a male and at least 14 years, 6 months old when he was shot in Mississippi in 2009. He had been banded in Minnesota in 1995.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
of a wet Flowering Onion / Iranischer Blumenlauch (Allium aflatunense) with azalea bokeh
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
for a HBW !
... of the last coneflower Sombrero Salsa Red / Roter Sonnenhut (Echinacea x hybrida 'Balsomsed')
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend.
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
Bill Toomey
The sunset behind me was not spectacular, but to the east, the sky illuminated, and I ran to recompose and capture.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the photo.
I was racing around Johnston Lake to try and find a shot before the Kayakers made their way on the lake and ruined a perfect reflection. I found this shot and loved the tree leaning in from the right side ready to fall over. It almost looked like it was leaning in to see the view!! VLOG below..
With an afternoon storm clearing, we were treated to a vibrant sunset while visiting Evans Head, NSW. A neighbour kindly offered for me to take some shots from their back deck. I only had sufficient light for a few goes handheld, however the colours came out alright.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Buddha
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
~happy fence friday~
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
~Dr. Seuss
Our power is supposedly going to be out tomorrow, so I may not be able to comment, but I will try to catch up when I can:)
Well as far as the pigeon goes I'm ending my story here and saying that he never ended up with any of our food! But as annoying as the birds were the view was worth it!! :))
Turn around
Look at what you see
In her face
The mirror of your dreams
Make believe I'm everywhere
Given in the light
Written on the pages
Is the answer to a never ending story
Ah
Reach the stars
Fly a fantasy
Dream a dream
And what you see will be
Rhymes that keep their secrets
Will unfold behind the clouds
And there upon a rainbow
Is the answer to a never ending story
Ah
Story
Ah
Songwriters: Keith Forsey / Giorgio Moroder
Picture taken @ The Notebook
"For last year's words belong to last year's language,
And next year's words await another voice.
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What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from."
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
As the year comes to a close, I want to offer a heartfelt thank you and abundant gratitude to all of my Flickr friends for helping me find my voice in my first year here. Your kind and generous comments about my photos and my writing, your thoughtful feedback, your support and encouragement, and your friendship, truly mean a lot to me.
And as a new year begins, I wish for each of you a year that brings good health, great joy, many moments of beauty, and days full of light and hope.
(Out of the archives) Try as I might, having a hard time pulling myself out of this funk I've gotten into lately. Hope y'all are doing fine :)
once more a sunset shot of manila bay. this time the hues are a blend of blue and pink, more quiet, less dramatic, but nonetheless a fitting ending to the day.
"You can’t go back and change the beginning,
but you can start where you are
and change the ending. "
~C.S. Lewis
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Vintage Fair | Silvery K | Shiny Stuffs | [Rezz Room] | Truth
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All the details SimplyAnafied
Tp: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tilheyra/50/222/26
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IU- Ending Scene
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh5ok0ljrzA
녕, 오랜만이야
물음표 없이 참 너다운 목소리
정해진 규칙처럼
추운 문가에 늘 똑같은 네 자리
제대로 잘 먹어, 다 지나가니까
예전처럼 잠도 잘 자게 될 거야
진심으로 빌게
너는 더 행복할 자격이 있어
그런 말은 하지 마 제발
그 말이 더 아픈 거 알잖아
사랑해줄 거라며, 다 뭐야?
어떤 맘을 준 건지 너는 모를 거야
외로웠던 만큼
너를 너보다 사랑해줄 사람 꼭 만났으면 해
내가 아니라서 미안해
주는 게 쉽지가 않아
그런 말은 하지 마 제발
그 말이 더 아픈 거 알잖아
사랑해줄 거라며, 다 뭐야?
어떤 맘을 준 건지 끝내 모를
솔직히 말해줄래 제발?
너라면 다 믿는 거 알잖아
네 말대로 언젠가
나도 나 같은 누군가에게 사랑받게 될까?
Spent the night across the highway at the not so plush rest area in Luning, Nevada. This used to be a magnesium mining town, a few people still live in town.
Luning, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vivitar 80-200mm F4 MACRO FOCUSING ZOOM MC
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There are some great country roads surrounding Paris. They always offer my different points of view.
Happy Slider Sunday
is a beginning in disguise".
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Paraphrased - source unknown to me.
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