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"Merci pour vos commentaires et vos encouragements !
Thank you for your comments and encouragement!"...:)
"Merci pour vos commentaires et vos encouragements !
Thank you for your comments and encouragement!"...:)
♥ If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.
♥ All of us have opportunities every day to encourage others and help them grow and flourish.
“Love between two people, comes because both people want to share their love, not because you want it from the other person. Your family, friends, coworkers, lovers – they all love you because they choose to, not because you want them to. Love is meant to be felt, enjoyed, and lived, not to be forced on anyone.”
“ I have learned that you can not force anything; conversations, friendships, relationships, attention, love. Anything forced is just not worth fighting for, whatever flows flows, what crashes crashes. It is what it is.”
To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.
– Vironika Tugaleva –
"Only Time"
Who can say where the road goes?
Where the day flows?
Only time.
And who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose?
Only time.
Who can say why your heart sighs
As your love flies?
Only time.
And who can say why your heart cries
When your love lies?
Only time.
Who can say when the roads meet
That love might be in your heart?
And who can say when the day sleeps
If the night keeps all your heart,
Night keeps all your heart?
Who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose?
Only time.
And who can say where the road goes?
Where the day flows?
Only time.
Who knows? Only time.
Who knows? Only time.
♥ ♥ ♥ I want to thank my beautiful Sunshine Aziza and my dear friend Kelly for providing me with the beautiful dress and flowers that I am wearing in this picture, you are both so dear to me and I am grateful to have you both in my life.
♥ I also want to thank each one of you for taking the time to look at my picture, for your comments, favs, encouragement and constant support, even though I my self have not been very active here on Flickr the past months. I am grateful always for each one of of you and you all mean a lot to me.
♥ ♥ Peace, love, light and the hugest hugs ♥ ♥
Lori ♥
" Looking close... on Friday!"
Thème: "No Real Animal"
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
Hello Everyone!
It is a privilege to witness tender interactions such as this parent coaxing the wee one to move into the water. This gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling which I wanted to share with you. For Wannabe Warmer Wednesday, a day to encourage warmth of spirit or weather. WWW!
Thank you for stopping by and for your comments. I do love hearing from you! Have a terrific day!
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Happy New Year to One and All !!!
I wish you all a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
May the light be always in your favor.
Thank you all for your kind support and encouragement over the past year, it truly means the world to a putz like me..😋
Well another decade has come and gone.
I think because of my passion for photography the last five years of my life have been very exciting and the most rewarding compared to the first half of this decade.
136 trips, over 135,000 miles of road travel and about 10,000 flight miles and I think about 100 tons of rental cars. I have photography and Flickr to thank for that. I would have never imagined that my passion for the outdoors would have been rivaled by anything, but my love of photography has done that, which makes it a perfect union of ecology and technology. But the social aspect has been the most rewarding considering I used to be a bit of an introverted hermit, Hehe.
I haven't been able to get out and shoot for myself or with my friends lately and I really miss that aspect of shooting photography, but shooting in a workshop group has it's perks too. Although a lot of work to plan and prepare it really gives me a chance to meet some great people that I never would have never met if I had been shooting alone or with my friends.
Here are my 9 favorite shots from the past year. Most were taken while teaching or co-hosting a workshop. Hope you like em.
If you are interested in a workshop trip to Joshua Tree, I will be co-hosting a meetup group there Jan 24-27. 2020
Click the link and join the group!!
www.meetup.com/Southern-California-Travel-And-Photography...
And as always, thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, Thank you for your views, comments, faves, and support, they are greatly appreciated!!
Have a great day my friends!! :)
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Sunset in the Mojave Desert, Twentynine Palms, California
As 2022 draws to a close, I am looking forward to turning the page on this year, which has been a difficult one for me, and starting the new chapter that is 2023.
There are a few lines from a Josh Groban song called "Thankful", that I have always loved:
Even with our differences
There is a place we're all connected
Each of us can find each others' light
For me, Flickr has become a beautiful place to find that light and that connection, especially in a world that seems to grow increasingly dark and troubled. So I want to share a deep and sincere Thank You to all my Flickr friends and contacts for the light you give and all the ways in which you uplift my spirit. Thank you for sharing your talents and creativity which both awe and inspire me, for sharing your beautiful places, special moments, and great adventures, for your thoughtful and generous support of my photography and writing, and most of all for your personal kindness, caring, and humanity. I truly enjoy all of the conversations, comments, and connection with each of you, and am incredibly thankful for your encouragement and good wishes through some of the tough times this year.
I am profoundly grateful to have met such wonderful people here on Flickr. Because in the words of the incomparable Maya Angelou in the poem below,
"Nobody, but nobody, Can make it out here alone.
I wish each of you health, happiness, and beautiful light (both in photography and life) in the new year ahead!
Alone
by Maya Angelou
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
My wife was trying to encourage my younger daughter to finish this long slope.
Main Summit of Joy Mountain. 3,416-metre-high (11,207 ft)
with tender encouragement
decay nurtures life
I take off my shoes
my sincere thanks to all who share the space here... it means a lot!
and for those who might be interested, I've made a small series of umbrella fern images here: www.behance.net/gallery/91607797/where-the-umbrellas-grow :-)
Thank you, my flickr friends, for your support and encouragement, without which, there is no motivation for me to explore possibilities.
Thank you, my flickr friends, for your friendship, without which, photography is just a lonely hobby.
My friends, You Light My Fire.
Light My Fire The Doors
On the edge of Custer Gallatin National Forest, near Livingston, MT. Aug 2019
What I wouldn't give for lush lands, a light rain, and balmy weather right now (Feb. 17, 2021) 😞
Église Saint-Maurice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXaF4cvVnDo
Un grand merci pour vos commentaires, favoris, encouragements et critiques toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
We had gone to the beach to photograph patterns of blown sand in the snow but instead, found ourselves on a totally bare sandy beach. Lot's of ice still out on the lake but the snow had gone in less than 24 hrs on the warm sunny day. While waiting to see what the sunset would present, three riders and their horses came down the beach. One of them, a very reluctant pinto (I think that's the horse breed) being ridden bareback, would not cross the stream with any amount of encouragement. Finally, one of the other riders came back across and splashed through again to show how it's done. With some very loud snorts and whinnies the pinto finally went through.
Shooting directly into the sun, which is something I'm not fond of doing, there was no time for fine tuning the camera settings for fear of missing the moment. I just went with what I had.
九份山景
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THANKS YOU very much for all your stars !
Your encouragements are very important to me.
Enjoy your weekend !
We finish term tomorrow and we'll be heading back to the UK for a family Christmas so I shall be saying goodbye to Flickr for 2025.
Wherever you are in the world, whatever you believe and how you choose to spend your time over the Christmas and New Year period may I take the opportunity to wish you a healthy and happy few weeks until I come back in early 2026.
A very deep and heartfelt thank you to everybody who follows me, checks in from time to time and especially those that favourite and comment on my photos. Your feedback and encouragement keeps me going and I am thankful for all your support.
I'll leave you with a view from my workplace window over the surrounding countryside.
Whispering encouragements into the Lamb's ear was all it had taken. Chaos watched as the Lamb opened the first seal, the fingers of her many hands playing along her staff accompanied by the soft metallic sounds of the lantern chain moving against the steel. Whether or not the female figure actually has a face beneath the inky black shroud is a question that has gone unanswered since the beginning.. A few more words are muttered but impossible to make out. Her voice, if that's what it was, came out like a soft breeze moving through the trees, and low enough that only the Lamb could hear them. Moments later the second seal is broken followed by the third...and then the fourth. The air grew heavy as the doors opened, each revealing a mounted figure looming out of the foggy darkness. The four moved toward Chaos, two taking up positions at each of her sides. Raising her right hands, the staff and chain clutched within the triple grip, she extends her arm forward. Not a word was spoken, but as the lantern swung slowly the four urged their mounts into a gallop. The apocalypse is a child of Chaos. It's siblings, Pestilence, War, Famine and Death were it's heralds. Riding far and wide they bestowed their gifts upon humanity, feeding Mother Chaos as they left countless mired in the mortal coil. Like a snowball rolling down a hill and growing with each revolution, so too will Chaos grow in the end of days.
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"Merci pour vos commentaires et vos encouragements !
Thank you for your comments and encouragement!"...:)
This cub was sent up the tree when a boar came into the area. Once mom gave the all clear, it took the cub a while to get down. Practice, practice, practice.
For Looking close on Friday!
Theme : Red on White Background ».
La symbolique de ces couleurs communément admise est que le rouge est la « couleur liturgique qui évoque le sang ou le feu » et « le blanc évoque la pureté, mais plus encore la gloire divine et l’éclat de tout ce qui touche à Dieu. C’est la couleur de la résurrection. »
The commonly accepted symbolism of these colors is that red is the "liturgical color that evokes blood or fire" and "white evokes purity, but even more so divine glory and the brilliance of everything that relates to God. It is the color of the resurrection."
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
Hebrews 6:17-18 New International Version (NIV)
17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. 18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.
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To give you a little encouragement in the midst of these horrific fires going on in Australia, meet one of the dogs saving koalas from Australian wildfires - a true story:
Thursday, January 9, 2020
As Australian wildfires endanger the lives of thousands of koalas, one dog is stepping up to save her fellow furry friends.
Taylor, a four-year-old English Springer Spaniel, is trained to sniff out koala fur and droppings, said her owner and professional dog trainer Ryan Tate.
To date, Taylor has rescued eight of the country's iconic marsupials from wildfires, which have destroyed more than 2,000 homes, claimed at least 26 human lives and potentially killed thousands of koalas.
Some of these animals were hospitalized, and others were taken to areas deemed safe, Tate said.
Tate and his skillful pup have been traveling along the east coast of Australia for nearly three years. Over her lifetime, Taylor has found more than 50 koalas.
Tate said when the air is still, koalas' scents descend from treetops to the ground, so when Taylor smells an animal, she will sit below a tree and point up.
In more difficult conditions, like the recent fires, she's also trained to find their droppings, and fresh poo is a good indicator that koalas are nearby.
- end -
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For Smile on Saturday!
Theme : Free theme.
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
After a week of rain, I ventured out only to find as I approached what I believed to be a potentially fine location for rural landscapes, the clouds swallowed the polarized blue sky and turned the light flatter than a freshly pressed piece of paper. The histogram was completely void of mid-tones and I was definitely a little disheartened.
I began to look upwards to see if the big guy upstairs was laughing, but quickly turned my attention to the freshly blooming weeds along the country roadway.
I’ve discovered that your percentages of keepers significantly fall shooting very close macro shots without a tripod or a flash. Motion blur is the nemesis of any type of photography but it’s the equivalent to the plague with macro work.
With no disrespect to landscape photographers (including myself) you quickly realize when shooting this type of photography that it requires a completely different talent and experience to take sharp images regardless of your subject matter being static in nature.
Sometimes the ride is a little long on the uphill but it’s great to find a vantage point along the way.
Thank you everyone for your kinds words, comments, fav’s and encouragement. My Flickr friends are awesome!
For Smile on Saturday
Theme: Four in a row
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
I think this flower is gently pushing his shy buddy to go out and join the bunch. Go on! You can do it!! We all need a friend who will encourage us to be our best.
More encouraging on black -- press L!
A mural painted on a wooden fence, part of the continuing development of and interaction with the Albany County Rail Trail.
A big thank you to all of you for all your love, friendship, encouragement and support x
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4D1a00cbFA
TIME OF NO REPLY – NICK DRAKE
THIS IS THE SUMMER OF MY TRANSITION
The devil that was within me
that found me, then drowned me
could not withstand
the beauty of my love for him
the softness of my gentle hand
could not witness the words that I wrote
could not cope with love that gave him hope
he inhabited my soul and it choked him from within
now he scurries through the darkness
avoiding any last vestige of light; avoiding my eyes
he hides and he lies to rid himself of the truth
that he found within that last dance
he burned me, he scorned me, but then he adored me
he haunted my dreams and begged my return
but I found myself healing as I walked along the shore
the pace of my mind slowed; the peace of my mind showed
that at last I could let go and be myself once more
I walked in his shadow, until I found the light
before I lived like a shadow with no strength to fight
A poor tortured soul; I know how that feels
when love can't release him; thaw his soul cold as steel
Sometimes our love falls on stony ground
like the softness of rose petals and the hope that we once found
dashed against the rocks of life's lessons
deafened by the torment that resounds within our caissons
and lifts us up above the maelstrom of the storms
that threaten to define us and defile us; confine us
This is the summer of my transition
as I find my way back to the right path that heals me
I leave him far behind me; the nightmare recedes
now I sleep like an angel on clouds of soft dreams
and feel lucky that I am still here
amid the love of all my friends.
- AP – Copyright remains with the author
My artwork is a compilation of 3 of my photographs
'copyright image please do not reproduce without permission'
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La magie de Noël 🎄The magic of Christmas.
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
A gentle painterly slide this week, entered with Heidi's encouragement... A very happy Sliders Sunday to all!
On the right side of this week's bouquet.
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2015 All Rights Reserved.
My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.
Please!! NO Glittery Awards or Large Graphics...Buddy Icons are OK. Thank You!
Many thanks for every kind comment, fave, your words of encouragement, and the inspiration of your fine photography,
my Flickr friends! You make my day every day!
For Looking close on Friday!
Theme: Matchsticks.
Des friction lights de John Walker aux lucifers de Samuel Jones
Le pharmacien John Walker est celui qui a inventé, en 1827, la première allumette qui s’allume par friction, comme on la connaît aujourd’hui. S’inspirant des travaux d’un physicien et chimiste irlandais, Robert Boyle, il imagine un mélange qui, par friction sur une surface rugueuse, peut s’enflammer. En bon scientifique qu’il était, et ne voulant pas faire connaître le procédé de sa découverte, il refuse de la breveter, se contentant de commercialiser lui-même son produit, et de vaquer à ses occupations de pharmacien, botaniste et minéralogiste. Ce procédé de fabrication des allumettes finit par être breveté sous le nom de lucifers par un certain Samuel Jones. Les lucifers présentaient néanmoins de nombreux problèmes : flamme instable et violente, odeur désagréable. On dit que malgré tous ces désagréments, le nombre de fumeurs augmenta en raison de cette invention. Ils pouvaient enfin déambuler dans la nature, avec leurs cigarettes, cigares et pipes, en toute indépendance.
From John Walker's Friction Lights to Samuel Jones' Lucifers
In 1827, the pharmacist John Walker invented the first friction-lighting match, as we know it today. Inspired by the work of an Irish physicist and chemist, Robert Boyle, he imagined a mixture that could ignite by friction on a rough surface. As a good scientist, and not wanting to make the process of his discovery known, he refused to patent it, contenting himself with marketing his product himself, and going about his business as a pharmacist, botanist and mineralogist. This process for manufacturing matches ended up being patented under the name of Lucifers by a certain Samuel Jones. However, Lucifers presented many problems: unstable and violent flame, unpleasant odor. It is said that despite all these inconveniences, the number of smokers increased because of this invention. They could finally wander around in nature, with their cigarettes, cigars and pipes, in complete independence.
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
How
did the rose
ever open its heart
And give this world
of its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
against its being.
Otherwise,
we all remain
Too
Frightened.
-Hafiz
Your kindness, interest, and encouragement mean a great deal to me. You have helped and are helping me to grow. Learning is a pleasure, but you all make it even more pleasurable.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
We're an agreeable little gang really. All about encouragement and positivity you know. None of us shamelessly trying to outscore the others or anything underhand like that. Although sometimes, but not always, there's a kind of unspoken competition going on. It's never announced that there even was a contest taking place until after the event, and there's no official judging panel. What tends to happen is that the other two look at the back of your camera, coo in grudging appreciation and say something such as, “yes, you've won that one.” No big prize giving ceremony - no brand ambassadorship or gift wrapped set of brand new magnetic filters, no silverware, nor even a bottle of fizz. Chances are the award will have been entirely forgotten later or the winning image cancelled by a late entrant that was stolen from the gods at last light. As accolades go in our world, being told you've won that one is about as good as it gets.
This afternoon we were crashing around beneath the canopy in the woods at the edge of the moor, exploring the network of small tracks that led away from the main path, seeking out lone forest oddities, the ones that somehow stood out from the surrounding pack. In deepest February only the firs and spruces held their foliage, while the rest stood spartan and unadorned, save for the creeping strangulation of ivy tendrils and thick coats of green moss that spread across the bark and protected it from winter’s advance. Ferns hung from huge Ent faces in bearded tresses. And all was silent here beneath the forest roof. Except for the inane twittering of three middle aged men with cameras, who could be surprisingly noisy at times.
This fine beast of the forest was just waiting to be discovered. A soaring tower of sprawling green limbs, all knobbled and gnarled, trapped within a nest of bare twigs waiting for spring to arrive and dress them with new life. It seemed as if at any moment it might uproot itself and march across the glade in our direction, waving multiple arms in fury and driving us from the forest so it could continue its winter slumbers in peace. A perfect subject for the long end of the telephoto lens to pick out the elements that caught the eye and frame them against the dark forest background. It seemed that I was the only one who spotted it. But then again, I was the only one who was looking through the viewfinder at more than three hundred millimetres. With a wider lens, the Ent might have been lost in the forest confusion. There were a number of equally characterful specimens to be found here in the forest, but this one had the added attraction of offering a shot with a complete absence of distracting sky poking through holes in the canopy behind.
When you're rewarded with the honour of “today's winner” by your comrades, the standard response is to rebut the unwarranted praise in favour of one of their efforts with a vaguely plausible level of self denial, before reluctantly accepting the news with no small degree of sanguine modesty. Maybe a shrug in a “how did that happen?” sort of way. It simply wouldn't do to go racing through the cover, arms aloft and singing “We are the Champions,” at the top of your voice. Not cricket at all you know. I tried to remember this and merely nodded and allowed myself a quiet grin as the Tolkienesque forest guardian was unanimously acknowledged to be today's winner.