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Female Impala with Red-billed Oxpecker in the Kruger Nationalpark, South Africa
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
All rights reserved. © Thomas Retterath 2022
This mushroom was so big and perfectly shaped I didn't have the heart to end its existence when I mowed the lawn. It measured about 8 to 9 inches across.
"Ce qui éclaire l'existence, c'est l'espérance." Jean d'Ormesson
"What illuminates existence is hope." Jean d'Ormesson
Lac de Vallon is located in Haute-Savoie, at an altitude of 1,080 metres, in the commune of Bellevaux, on the Brevon, a
tributary of the Dranse which flows into Lake Geneva (France).
Le lac de Vallon se trouve en Haute-Savoie, à 1 080 mètres d'altitude, sur la commune de Bellevaux, sur le Brevon, un affluent de la Dranse qui se jette dans le lac Léman (France).
“The daily hummingbird assaults existence
with improbability.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
happy sliderssunday
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Misty is a ragdoll cat whose whole existence revolves around food. She was looking longily at some birds when I took this shot!
Wujiaochang (五角场, lit. "5-corner-square") is a square located in Shanghai's Yangpu District (杨浦区). The square begun its existence as a farmer's market.
Urban development of that area started already in 1929 when the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China begun to develop a "modern Shanghai" in the north of the existing city under the "Greater Shanghai Plan" (大上海计划) - these efforts were roughly interrupted by the start of the Japanese aggression against Shanghai in 1932. Modern redevelopment only continued in the 1990ties.
Today it is a modern square with shopping malls around it - and the most prominent feature is the futuristic elliptic casing around the Middle Ring Road viaduct.
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Bastian watches a visiting magpie.
Eurasian magpie or common magpie (Pica pica) Danish: Husskade. Bastian (mixed breed), 16.06.2023. Shot through glass.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
“Fragment after fragment we make sense of everything.
Fragment after fragment we travel our existence.
Fragment after fragment we evolve.”
Quote ― Talismanist Giebra
Happy Sliders Sunday!
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
~Jim Fowler~
Shot at Hill End which owes its existence to the New South Wales gold rush in the 1850s.
Hill End is classified as a historical site by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), however today, it is still home to a handful of residents operating the local pub, general store, cake store and antique store.
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when I am another, my acts
are more mine when they are the acts
of others, in order to be I must be another,
leave myself, search for myself
in the others, the others that don't exist
if I don't exist, the others that give me
total existence, I am not,
there is no I, we are always us,
life is other, always there,
further off, beyond you and
beyond me, always on the horizon,
life which unlives us and makes us strangers,
that invents our face and wears it away...
from sunstone
octavio paz
“You are alive, and you don’t need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.”
― Miguel Ruiz
Well I sure am the biggest Flickr mystery :-). And I couldn’t even try to explain my existence or non existence, let alone justify it.
🙋♀️ My friends can I ask you to just fave if you like what you see ? My stream is mysteriously (suspiciously) empty.. so on a mission now to provide a show case.
Thank you from my heart to all of you who never forget or desert me, and for your warm welcome back. I hope I can repay your kindness, in whichever way possible. ❤️
🎶. youtu.be/m9f4XtNj1Vg Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift “The Joker and the Crown
Large flocks of Horned Larks huddled together on a freezing day with windchills in the -50s. If you zoom in you’ll see frost forming around their eyes.
I wish everyone a healthy and peaceful New Year!
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Indian Prayer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-gPnyUtKs
Great Spirit, who exists before you are in every person and every thing, we invite you to come from the distant places in our present existence.
Big Spirit of the North, giving wings in the air of water to flow and rain and snow, covering the earth with the crystal carpet over which every sound is beautiful, we stand in front of you.
Fill us with the strength to withstand the snowstorms and help us to thank you for the beauty that springs from the warm earth when it wakes up.
The Great Spirit of the East, the land that rises in the sun, you hold in your right hand the years of our lives and on the left the opportunities of every day.
Prepare us not to reject your gifts, nor to miss the hope of every day and every year.
The Great Spirit of the South, where your warm breath melts the ice around our heart, its aroma speaks from distant springs and summers, dissolved our fears, melted our hatred, burned our love with the flames of truth.
Teach us that whoever is truly powerful is also polite, whoever is wise is also merciful, whoever is brave is also compassionate.
The Great Spirit of the West, the land that the sun is tilting, with the bare mountains and lawns, bless us with the knowledge of peace and freedom. Teach us that the end is more important than the beginning, and that the sun does not reign in vain every day.
The Great Spirit of the Earth, lord of the metals and the stones, guardian of the treasures of the earth, help us to thank you daily for your countless springs that keep us alive and for your untold beauty!
Existence is short but if you need me
You can find me trapped between
The open mouth of the sky monster
Glaring eyes above and below
Teeth that pierce the clouds
A forest face and a dense destructive blue
Please note that my call back hours are short
The internet connection is quite drained
It is better to visit in person or
Write your tender message
On a folded fortune cookie strip
and blow it upwards.
**All photos are copyrighted**
Existence is not a reflection, it is not flying in the air or walking on water, but walking on the earth and leaving your mark.
A solitary pansy ekes out an existence in a narrow crack between the paving stones where ants have disturbed the soil below allowing it to find enough nutrients to survive.
Pose - La Plume - Lilou - 07, available here maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Highland%20Park/174/64/2001
Nails - Tulssy Nail's Art - Spectral, available at Sense Event until Sept 8 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DreamsLand/176/128/1501
Hair - Stealthic - Lilium Hair
Dress - *CK* - Candy Cotton Dress
Socks - *CK* - Candy Cotton Socks
Taken at ..::Sol Existence::.. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sol%20Existence/215/130/43
Somewhere in between
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
~ Toni Morrisson ("Song of Solomon")
ex·is·tence (ig-zistins) | The fact or state of existing; being.
Sunset jump!
The Emerald Coast
Destin, Florida
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For this week's Macro Monday theme "Hot or Cold". Making metal catch on fire.
First of some fun playing with various shutter speeds.
Puppet Master: And can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?
-Ghost in the Shell-
Azoury France - Nicodème Robotic head for Cosmopolitan
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“Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.”
Milan Kundera
Slowness. 1995
«Cada nueva posibilidad de la existencia, incluso la menos probable, transforma la existencia entera»
La lentitud. 1995
Milan Kundera (UK: /ˈkʊndərə, ˈkʌn-/, Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra]; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech-born French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979 but he was re-granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
One of my favorite writers ever. Rest in peace.
A tunnel of the metro, the infinite in front of me, the nothing that surrounds existence, the lines that give way to get out of nowhere.
existential rivalry instead of searching a way of co-existence. Dedicated to our FLICKR friend Wolfgang Bayer.
Nevada City is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Montana, United States. In the 1880s, it was one of the two major centers of Commerce in what was known as one of the "Richest Gold Strikes in the Rocky Mountain West", sharing this role with its sister city Virginia City. Since the late 1990s, Nevada City has become a tourist attraction for its collection of 19th century buildings within or surrounding the Nevada City Museum & Music Hall.
Archaeological evidence found between the Music Hall and the Nevada City Hotel would indicate earlier than mining era habitation, possibly by white hunters or trappers. The earliest white hunters and trappers in the area had no conscious intention of establishing a city on the site, because the existence of a city would have presumably destroyed their economic base, which was based on the harvesting of beaver.
Nevada City, settled June 6, 1863, contemporary in settlement with Virginia City, as miners following the Fairweather party settled the length of Alder Gulch, and established homes, and businesses in convenient locations, the length of the gulch was known as 14 mile city. Nevada City was the first to become an incorporated city, on February 9, 1865, fully constituted a body corporate and politic. In 1896, the Conrey Placer Mining Company was organized to dredge the gulch for the next 24 years, destroying many of Nevada City’s buildings. The dredges were then disassembled and the heavy wooden barges were left to slowly be reclaimed by nature.
Nevada City was populated by placer miners working several mining districts including Browns Gulch just south of the town and Granite Creek, about two miles northwest of Nevada City. Nevada City was occupied by residents as early as June 6, 1863, and its boom era was between 1863–1875, at this point it was boasted that Nevada City was home to dozens of stores and housing that stretched for six blocks (“Nevada City.”). By 1869, the population of the mining camp had fallen to about 100 people. In 1869 mercantile representation included three general stores, and two saloons. In April 1872, the city contained one miners' store, one brewery, blacksmith shop, butcher shop, livery stable, and a Masonic Hall. Most of the citizens were engaged in mining pursuits, but some of the residents had farms and stock in the valley. In 1875 Nevada City's Population was still in decline, by 1880 the Nevada City census listed 50 people occupying 16 dwellings (US Census 1880). The most commonly listed occupation of Nevada City's working class was "placer miner."
When the mining had come to an end in 1922, about $2.5 billion worth of gold in today's market had been extracted.