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Lantern Festival - Poconos Racetrack,,PA,USA on September 26 2015. Photo: Eduard Moldoveanu Photography

Boulder County, Colorado

I guess I've been looking in the wrong places. Micro climates at the arboretum yielded some nice surprises this week.

Skinner Park road on Mount Holyoke

 

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"O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell."

John Keats

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”

― Brené Brown

 

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with my sister and we were discussing why we didn't go to our High School reunions and they were for the opposite reasons. I didn't want to go because I didn't like who I was in High School. It's funny how you can look at someone and see so many wonderful traits that they themselves may miss. Remember this when thinking of your shortcomings and flaws, most people won't see those, they will see the good. Be brave, own your truth and be a beacon for others.

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Ordinary World

Song by Duran Duran

 

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue

Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio

Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?

Crazy, some'd say

Where is the life that I recognise? (Gone away)

But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say

"Pride will tear us both apart"

Well, now pride's gone out the window

'Cross the rooftops, run away

Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?

Crazy, some'd say

Where is my friend when I need you most? (Gone away)

But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ah-ah-ah

Gone away

Oh-oh

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed

Fear today, forgot tomorrow

Ooh-ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need

Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

Just blowing away

And I don't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

I will learn to survive

(Any world is my world) I will learn to survive

(Any world is my world)

(Every world is my world)

(Every world)

Kfar Vradim village street found by me without looking for it at the end of a walk.

Explored [143] - Dec 2, 2011

Often in these stressful, uncertain times we are living through it's hard to find much to be joyful about. Stumbling across this painted stone last Summer was a joyful moment for me. So was Ireland beating the New Zealand All Blacks in the rugby this afternoon 😃

 

For Smile on Saturday theme Paint(ed). Happy Smile on Saturday everyone! Hope you're having a great weekend.

Finding my way out of the dense undergrowth.. early morning on the heath recently.

A fishing Gannet, just off the Bass Rock, taken from a moving boat.

 

Gannets hunt fish by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. Gannets have a number of adaptations which enable them to do this:

 

no external nostrils, they are located inside the mouth instead;

air sacs in the face and chest under the skin which act like bubble wrapping, cushioning the impact with the water;

positioning of the eyes far enough forward on the face for binocular vision, allowing them to judge distances accurately.

Gannets can dive from a height of 30 metres (98 ft), achieving speeds of 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) as they strike the water, enabling them to catch fish much deeper than most airborne birds.

  

General Watkins Conservation Area

Benton Missouri

 

I often see moss growing along paths in the forest I visit. I suppose our constant trampling makes it difficult for other forms of life to take hold. Moss being an opportunist as most living things are, has found a niche filling in where other living things could not.

''People who are meant to be together will always find their way back. They may make a few detours, but they are never lost''

EXPLORED [# 122 Highest] on Flickr - 19 June 2011 - Thanks Everyone!

Total: 206 shots stitched together.

Total Duration: 2 hours.

Each shot is f/3.5, 30 sec exposure, ISO 100, focal length 18 mm. I did not use the "bulb" mode for a continuous 2-hour-shot in order to avoid excessive noise, sensor heating and over exposure.

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