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Unable to visit the arboretum this spring I turned my attention to my neglected yard. It turns out that daylilies and coneflowers are fairly forgiving of neglect.
jack kornfield writes, “forgiveness is both necessary and possible. it is never too late to find forgiveness and start again.”
there’s strength and freedom in forgiveness. recently, I've been practicing self-forgiveness—forgiving myself not for harm I’ve caused others, but for harm I’ve caused myself. many of us serve as our own worst critics, yet this spiral of self-judgment is unsustainable. it's more wholesome to find forgiveness and start again. self-compassion generates compassion for others. forgiveness begins from within and eventually heals us all.
Special, accepting, exciting and wise
Truthful and helpful, with honest brown eyes
Confiding, forgiving, cheerful and bright
Yes that's you... not one bit of spite.
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CSS 805 grinds up the hill out of Bailly and over the NS approaching CP 47.5
(Flat and Forgiving) Burns Harbor, IN
June was a devastatingly long month and I never had the opportunity to exit the home with my camera. July has already been more forgiving. This was my first visit to this section of the falls (and a better composition than what is available downstream as well)
At the Simmons home, Thanksgiving meal preparations are also underway. Koncedra Simmons has her daughter, Shasta, and her niece, Honor, helping with planning. Or, they're supposed to be...
Koncedra: Alright, here's what we have so far. Turkey two ways, baked and fried. Cornbread dressing. Collards. Butter beans. Mashed potatoes. Candied yams. Cranberry sauce. Caesar salad. What are we missing...
Honor: What about bread, Auntie?
Koncedra: MmHM! *taps fingernail on cabinet* What are we gonna do about bread?
Shasta: Any garlic bread in the fridge?
Honor: I don't see any.
Koncedra: Now, there is no way we're treating guests to store bought garlic bread. MmMM!
Shasta: Didn't you say we're having cornbread?
Koncedra: I said cornbread dressing. You think some biscuits might be good too?
Honor: Auntie, aren't the guests bringing food too? Have they told you what they're brining?
Koncedra: Yep, mmHM, but what they gonna show up with? We got Tracy Parks and her friends coming over and ain't no telling what crazy dish those girls gonna come up with.* So, you know we gotta plan like no one else is bringing anything.
Shasta: Hey, the more food the better.
Honor: Girl, you big!
Shasta: ... Excuse me, did you just call me big?
Honor: I literally just said, 'girl you big.'
Shasta: Oh, good, life lesson time. When scrawny girls learn why they shouldn't call healthy girls 'big.' It's a painful lesson. You ready?
Koncedra: I'm 'bout to come over there and give you both a life lesson if you don't help me focus. Lord God, I do thank you that we don't have a fightin' family. "How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!" That's Psalm 133:1. Right from the Book, MmHM!
Honor: *giggles*
Shasta winks at her cousin. They've grown up together and love each other. BUT, if one of their fabled wrestling matches occurs in the living room later, a good headlock until Honor screams 'Auntie' at least four or five times is always satisfying.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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The Key To Family Unity - Matthew 6:25-34
We live in a world full of dysfunction. Estrangement runs rampant among the citizens of this fallen society. And nowhere is it felt more acutely than within the family. All of us have seen or experienced intense conflict within marriages, between parents and children, and among extended family members.
But we shouldn’t be surprised. Jesus warned us to expect that kind of division:
From now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. (Luke 12:52–53)
Jesus was testifying to the reality of life in a sin-filled world—especially the strife that can result in a household comprised of believers and unbelievers. But even families made up entirely of faithful Christians can expect their share of conflict. Man’s fallen nature—and even its lingering effects in believers—will always default to selfishness, pride, greed, envy, and every other sin that promotes strife.
The biblical key to cultivating a sanctuary of harmony in your home: Godly forgiveness.
It’s hard to destroy a relationship if you continually forgive every offense. In Colossians 3:13 Paul says, “Bearing with one another and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.” It is godlike to forgive.
Beloved, a family is headed for major disaster if you continually accumulate hostility because of offenses, if you continue to allow bitterness to develop. But whenever there’s an offense and immediate forgiveness, it’s disappearing, it’s gone. That’s the key to any relationship. Children, the same toward your parents. Parents, the same toward your children. Brother and sister, brother and brother, sister and sister, it’s the same situation—forgiveness because that is like God. Practice the Godlike virtue.
No one would argue against the necessity of forgiveness. But how many of us faithfully practice this kind of aggressive forgiveness?
- John MacArthur, Adapted from The Key to Maintaining Family Unity
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* As seen yesterday!
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Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/23317280855/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/38546538356/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/30990317087/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49121920807/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50630434036/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51694298439/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52510954773/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53340821823/
2024
…… When we had the garage re-roofed & a new back wall this got flattened - it’s very forgiving and rewards us each year with masses of flowers and a nice aroma too. I did post the first blooms out well now its ‘full on’. We actually planted this to hide our garage from a neighbours point of view - its up the side of the garage and hidden from our house & garden general view! Taken on my phone in Apple RAW & edited in Lightroom. Alan:-) ……..
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After going out every evening for about a week I finally got colors in the sky and this photo. Actually, this is a vertical panorama. I tried a wide-angle lens but the hills across the lake were too small and it included too much foreground. Instead I choose to zoom in a little and shot one foreground and one background. I knew Lightroom couldn’t auto stich them together because the water didn’t have any way to lineup the image, so I figured I would stitch them by hand. Luckily moving water is very forgiving for hiding stitching lines. For post I added some contrast, sharpening and dropped the highlights a little in the sky.
Photo Info: ISO31 f/22 1/3 sec
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Its been a bad day, you've been looking back
And all you can see is everything you wish you could take back
All your mistakes, a world of regrets
All of those moments you would rather forget
I know it's hard to believe
Let me refresh your memory
Chorus:
Yesterday is history
And history is miles away
So leave it all behind you
Let it always remind you of the day
The day that love made history
You know you can't stay right where you fell
The hardest part is forgiving yourself
But let's take a walk into today
And don't let your past get in the way
Repeat chorus
Yeah Yeah
Would you believe that you are history
In the making, in the making
Every choice that you are making
Every step that you are taking
Every chain that you are breaking
History is in the making
Every word that you are saying
Every prayer that you are praying
Every chain that you are breaking
History is in the making
History is in the making
History is in the making
Repeat chorus
Yeah yeah
Oh history is in the making
Every word that you are saying
Every prayer that you are praying
Every chain that you are breaking
History is in the making
History is in the making
History is in the making
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 76 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV
Flash: Off
Location: Old Salem Lake North Carolina
Copyright© 2009 Kamoteus/RonMiguel RN
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CMQ 9011 was a good un-refurbished counterpart to the trio of overhauled CP 9021-23 Red Barns undertaking their pilot runs on revenue freight (seen here) based in Moose Jaw from November 2022 to April 2023 so that Canadian Pacific could assess performance differences across 9011 and 9021-23.
In the last weeks of 2022 through the New Year, the pattern was that the red barns would continue to demonstrate themselves with runs on the Bulyea Sub, since these runs often involved lots of switching, variable speeds, and intense grades sometimes with fully loaded grainers behind them. CMQ 9011 was meanwhile used occaisonally for the Regina turn E44 when it used to originate in Moose Jaw, likely borne out of crew preferences during the harshest winter conditions. Although this day in particular was forgiving temperature-wise, sitting around -17C when E44-06 was on duty, the southwesterly winds were cruising at 25 km/h, bringing the windchill down to a more prairie standard -30C. Having naively parked the car on the opposite side of the tracks and hopping out glove-less, I had my one-and-only frostbite incident whilst trackside thus far. I had also forgotten to bring my charger with me during the break, so despite buying a new battery, this was one of the last images my shutter was able to handle before the battery pack was lost to the cold temperatures and ice crystals formed on my telephoto lens as they departed Regina here.
My winter break back home wasn't long enough to fully captivate the experience of having a quartet of cowls assigned to Moose Jaw, as rumors from crews I've talked to claim that there were in fact a few operations of 4 barns all together when they had to lift a potential 301 originating from terminals on the Bulyea Sub earlier in December, unlike the trio which simply had to spot for customers. 2 days prior to this and 3 days after the infamous new-years run, there was a more credible conjecture that CP 5875 pre-repaint, assigned to the Lanigan Sub as extra power, ran paired with the red barn trio also to lift a grainer as follow-up to the spotter, though I was unable to verify this while catching up with friends and family instead.
After UP's Glenwood Springs to Salt Lake City OCS train departed Soldier Summit, the sun was nowhere to be found. When I was shooting Kodachrome 25 slide film, photography of a fast moving speedster such as this would be over.
Not to worry, digital is very forgiving, and thrives in all types of lighting, including dark gloomy conditions. UP 4404 leads the 12 car train of streamlined passenger cars through the ghost town of Mill Fork, Utah, along Soldier Creek on July 1, 2025.
See?
what light has seen
from travels and journeys
unto you
see?
what night has given
the new day rises
unto you
see?
what day is bringing
just follow the light
unto you
see?
what life upon life has given
just live true, pure, and without grudges
unto one another...
do you see the light?
difusing our darkness
four all-forgiving seasons
united in palliative harmony
see?
nature our seducer
our superior,
we our equal in Her presence.
by anglia24
11h15: 21/09/2007
© 2007anglia24
☀
In what has become an increasingly rare occurrence, Amtrak leaves the Red River Valley behind in daylight as a westbound Z makes a very brief pause to let them cross over at Watts. 2017 has been much more forgiving to the Empire Builder's schedule and they're usually long out of this area before sunrise.
Anticipation was palpable; this day was going to be beautiful. A mere two hour scenic drive up the coast as we were again popping in on the butterfly exhibit at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, before it closed for the season, on Labor Day.
This being our second visit within a month’s time, we considered ourselves experts on butterfly etiquette. Sure enough, the gate keeper recognized us from our previous visit and immediately welcomed us into the pavilion.
My camera settings were more forgiving this time. It was going to be a perfect day. Even more perfect than our last perfect experience.
The butterfly pavilion is jam-packed with plants, butterflies, helpful docents and human visitors so it’s pretty easy to bump into people.
One good ol boy was loudly guffawing and making cracks about my “huge” camera. I am thinking “Look pal, this is hobby level stuff.” Perhaps because I was ignoring him he had to repeat his observation even louder each time while waiting for that smile or wink of acknowledgement that he was telling a fine joke indeed. I didn’t want to appear hostile ... exactly.
Gomer Pyle had finally relented and ambled away… but you know the saying about Nature and a vacuum?
In strolls one to three adults with three to five children. I semi squish my eyes shut and try not to look. The little person with a weed-wacker haircut is making loud disparaging grumbles. The adults address him saying that if he is going to be like that, they are all going to leave. GOOD he says, just as his beady eyes lock onto my gear. Then the omen announces that he wants to take pictures. NOW! He stands in front of me with the expression of expectation that I hand over my stuff. I quickly scan the area looking for Jerry to rescue me from this irritating (grating, galling) child of the corn. But no one can help me now. The little psychopath is sticking to me like a fresh wad of gum on my shoe. His every sound is a demand and complaint pitched for maximum annoying effect.
Just about the time the demon tyke mercifully faded away, a group of seniors arrive. The expert of the lot, the loudest, is explaining the obvious. "That’s a nice ORANGE butterfly…and THIS is a nice BLUE butterfly." She was holding one of the over-sized laminated butterfly guides to gesture…waving the placard, using it as a pointer, making swatting motions at the very butterfly I am trying to digitally capture.
It was a memorable day in so many ways.
The Butterflies Alive exhibit at the Museum of Natural History closed on Labor Day. We were disappointed to learn that they only stage the butterfly exhibit every two years.
As the festive season is upon us, I’ve been thinking about the essence of Christmas. It seems to bring the best of us, inspiring donations in both time and money, and indeed a fair few of my friends are heading to homeless shelters across the UK. I heard someone say once that Christmas is not only about giving, it is also about contemplation and reflection. For me? It is all you want it to be, whether it is merriness, giving, forgiving, reflecting, or just spending precious time with loved ones.
Or having more time to photograph .. of course!
At the end of the year we tend to reflect on the last twelve months and we often judge ourselves harshly for things that have gone wrong.
Forgiveness of ourselves is often way down our list. Society pressurises us to be perfect. We want to live up to the expectations others place upon us and if we fail we feel negatively towards ourselves.
I know I've been far from perfect this year and I know that I "should have, could have, ought to have" done this or that but this year has been hard and I've been the best I can be. That is all I can do and for that I must accept who I am and what my limitations are.
Forgiving myself encourages positive attributes which if practised often enough makes me a kinder person. It helps me to help others and be more forgiving of others. So, at the end of this year I urge you to show yourself grace, patience be the best you can be.
Happy New Year to you all and thank you to those special people who have guided me through 2022.
Every year I go though old pictures to make calendars for friends and family. I found this one of Giovanni, the grand son of a dear friend. He is a teenager now.
Taken with one of my favorite lenses of all time. Not the sharpest or fastest but it's sturdy, dependable and forgiving. The 70 - 200 VR, you can drop it in a torrential rain storm and it still loves you gracing you with images like this.
Lenny Kravitz - Stillness Of Heart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP6HACvtPUw
I'm out here on the street
There's no one left to meet
The things that were so sweet
No longer move my feet
But I keep trying
I keep on trying
All that I want
Is stillness of heart
So I can start
To find my way
Out of the dark
And into your heart
I got more than I can eat
A life that can't be beat
Yet still I feel this heat
I'm feeling incomplete
What am I buying?
My soul is crying
All that I want
Is stillness of heart
So I can start
To find my way
Out of the dark
And into your heart
Where's the love?
What is this world we live in?
Where's the love?
We've got to keep on giving
Where's the love?
What happened to forgiving?
Anyone?
All that I want
Is stillness of heart
So I can start
To find my way
Out of the dark
And into your heart
All that I want
Is stillness of heart
So I can start
To find my way
Out of the dark
And into your heart
All that I want
Is stillness of heart
So I can start
To find my way
Out of the dark
And into your heart
Happy Birthday to my dearest mother in heaven!
"A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking." - Helen Steiner Rice
My new Instagram account was hacked/compromised yesterday.
NOW I BOW MYSELF TO MY KNEES, I PRAY TO EVERYTHING TO BE RELEASED, FROM ALL THE THINGS I DID IN SIN, AS I SMILED AND DID EVERYTHING WITH A GRIN. I SHALL REPENT AND REMAIN IN MY HEART STRONG, I PROMISE FATHER, TO DO NO MORE WRONG.
"HOLDING A GRUDGE DOESN'T MAKE YOU STRONG, IT MAKES YOU BITTER. FORGIVING DOESN'T MAKE YOU WEAK, IT SETS YOU FREE"
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I smelt sweet night in your black hair
I saw heaven in your eyes
A beauty that no one compares to
A chance you're never given twice
You won my trust
You made me fall for you
Fall into a deep trance
All I knew your voice was a song
Your walk was a dance
So I never had a chance
It felt like it would last forever
That word seemed to fit just right
I don't know if I still hate or love you
But you ruin my mind
At the speed of light
Let me tell you all before I go
Please don't interrupt me
Even if I'm wrong
You live in a labyrinth turning in my head
Baby with no end, with no end
Maybe it's the way you spellbound me
So sexy I could not get enough
Oh maybe it's the way you betrayed me
So cruel I can not forget it if I try
Now forgiving you Oh forgiving you
I wonder if I do if I can
Let you out
Of my life
Not blaming you hope I can forgive
I wonder how I live
If I let you out
Of my life
Ahhh... ahhh...
Ahhh... ahhh...
Maybe it's the way you spellbound me
So sexy I could not get enough
Oh maybe it's the way you betrayed me
So cruel I can not forget it if I try
Now forgiving you Oh forgiving you
I wonder if I do if I can
Let you out
Of my life
~Omnimar
Song: Out of My Life
Breathing in the dark, lying on its side
The ruins of the day painted with a scar
And the more I straighten out, the less it wants to try
The feelings start to rot, one wink at a time
Oh-oh, forgiving who you are, for what you stand to gain
Just know that if you hide, it doesn't go away
When you get out of bed, don't end up stranded
Horrified with each stone on the stage, my little dark age
Picking through the cards, knowing what's nearby
The carvings on the face say they find it hard
I know that if you hide, it doesn't go away
If you get out of bed and find me standing all alone
Open-eyed, burn the page, my little dark age
Giddy with delight, seeing what's to come
The image of the dead, dead ends in my mind
You know that if it hides, it doesn't go away
If I get out of bed, you'll see me standing all alone
Horrified on the stage, my little dark age
~Outfit~
+ Cosmic Crybaby Tears +
{Aii & Ego}
+ Daemonium Tail + Bento/BOM Small {Aii & Ego}
+ Fallen Comet EVOX Oblivion +
{Aii & Ego}
+ Dark Touch Fingers and Toes Tattoo +
{Aii & Ego}
::Static:: Fae Embers
::Static:: Geodemon Horns
QUIXE - Lunar Earring
V/. VoluptasVirtualis - [KORE]
-Ebody Reborn-
[The Forge] Dragon Scale Collar
-Ebody Reborn-
~Face/Details~
/ HEAD / lel EvoX ZORA 3.1
. Nar Mattaru . Liliana {Ghost}
+Dreamy Downbrushed Lashes+ {Aii & Ego}
Doux - Circe Hairstyle
sacrilege . sigrid face paint
A childhood friend took my wife and kids on the Chicago River Architecture tour several years back. I had posted a similar shot from the same angle but it has always bothered me that I posted a shot with a clipped antenna.
Taken with a D700, a tank of a camera, huge, totally droppable and immune to harsh elements, a very forgiving camera.
File was very noisy. Out of inexperience and ignorance I had the aperture unnecessarily stopped down and ISO cranked up.
Fortunately I shot in Raw.
"You've been gone for over a month and you expect me to just be all lovey dovey with you?"
Still getting an attitude from Sally! She's not as forgiving as the rest of the cats and has pretty much given me the cold shoulder since I've come home.
She'll get over it........eventually
February, 27. Another journey to the shore. Late afternoon while the sky was stormy and the light was gentle and forgiving. At a certain point, it felt as if we had a gigantic lamp over the sea waters. The sea was rising but still we had 1hour left until the full peak so, at least, an hour left of light to shoot. The water moved slowly designing the most wonderful curves on the sand and the white foam gently wrapped around the rocks on the shore. I could spend hours documenting these movements. I am becoming addicted to the sea and its mist. Today the weather conditions are very promising again, see you around here or some place else around.
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Another one from May in Cornwall. This time just along the coast at Kynance Cove.
TBH I haven't had the best of luck when visiting this amazing cove as the first time it was too bright and this time the tide was a lot further in than I was anticipating.
We are going back to Coverack next year so hopefully the photo gods will be more forgiving when I visit this particular spot again.
EXPLORE: 01.06.2009 #393 THANX!!!!!!
It isn't enough for your child to hear the truth. He or she needs to see what the truth looks like in your life. Teach them faith by how you handle the storms and the stresses that hit your family. Teach them how to love their neighbor by seeing your compassion for hurting people in action. They learn about forgiveness by you forgiving them and asking them to forgive you. They learn that lying is wrong from a parent who always tells the truth. They learn about managing anger when they see you always make things right before your day ends. They learn to love God's Word when they see you meeting with God by reading His book.
_Ron_Hutchcraft
“A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” Helen Rice
Happy Sliders Sunday
Detour Botanical Gardens
This is a follow up image to a similar posting of a Loch Leven sunset a few weeks ago. I was trying to create some very simply composed images with difficult light scenarios to test my new Canon 16-35 f4 L.
The Canon is much sharper than the Sigma which is great for catching detail but it is less forgiving of movement and diffraction and whilst the Canon is not terrible for flaring I am comparing it to one of the best lenses out there for resisting internal reflections and so it just doesn’t match up. I had to work very hard to reduce the flare in the foreground of this image to make it reasonable and even now I’m not that happy.
The aim of this shot is to get full strength sunlight into the centre of the lens (I know it is off-centre but that was artistic license) with a strong reflection from the water. My previous test was a low light trial whereas this is a too much light trial. I must admit I like the play of the light on the water and way it slightly curves around the foreground rock just helps to break the shape a little. The rock is a little soft at the edges but I think that was me (or possibly the water) causing movement and affecting the exposure.
I’ve now reached the consensus that the comparison between my new lens and my old Sigma is just not really like for like. They have very different strengths and weaknesses and I suppose what I should focus on is getting the best out of the one currently fitted to my camera. That and start saving up for the Canon 11-24 L. :-)
I normally wouldn't post 4 shots at once, but they gave me the stuff for free and they deserve to see what I did with it.
4 shots out of 15 ain't a bad percentage - and there were 2 more spoiled by focus issues, alas.
I like how forgiving this stock is. I like the overall color balance for night shooting. It was great shooting at F8 or F11 and not having to stand there for 8-15 minutes.
Don't like the grain. Can live with the lack of anti-halation backing (the reason for the colored "halos" around light sources.
With someone would do a 160T.
This is number 1 of my 7 autumn moments.
I did a themed group of "A week of flowers" last month, and I liked the idea, though one shot every day proved to be very hard. So I've kept the idea of a themed group but left the timing a bit more flexible and forgiving! ;o)
I've taken lots of autumnal photos, and I thought I would pick out 7 special moments as the last of the colourful displays here slowly give way to winter monotones. This was taken in September when a few oak trees were just beginning to turn colour. I combined the leaves with my summer passion of shooting using a crystal ball.
HTT!!
7 days of...: 7 days of...
Crystal ball, prism and marbles set: Crystal ball etc
My Leaves, fruit, seeds etc. set: Elisa Leaves, fruit,seeds
This is the ex sailor and world traveler from the picture in the cave. He has a stick over his shoulder with a plastic bag at the end full of rubbish he collected. Thank you for cleaning up the beach. A man full of love, anger, happiness, commanding, forgiving. His moods swing faster than the wind was blowing, but he always came back down. I wonder to myself what life has thrown to him and how he has endured it. A pleasure to meet you sailor of life!
~ Marvin J. Ashton
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#AbFav_FULL_AUTUMN_
Paul surprised me with these beauties.
I really get annoyed when people use the worn cliché, that a man only gives flowers if he has done something 'wrong', if he needs forgiving! I'm sick and tired of it, plus I find it most unfair to men.
Many give flowers just to say, I care, I love you, thank you...
Anthuriums are a fun flower and never fail to provoke a smile.
They look almost unreal! The flowers are thick, shiny, ribbed and wrinkled, while the leaves are large and glossy, which makes them so much more difficult to photograph well!
They belong to the Araceae family, which also includes callas and philodendrons.
Their genus name, Anthurium, comes from the Greek words anthos meaning "flower," and oura, meaning "tail."
Anthurium can also be called "Flamingo Flower" or "Boy Flower", both referring to the structure of the spathe and spadix.
Thank you for your comments and time, M, (*_*)
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- this is a painting i have done a couple of days ago with this.... my newly developed technique of "painting on cement" - texturizing my canvas with concrete, a sculpted mixed media painting. actually it is less forgiving to work this way, as the texture has to "sit" right, not much overpainting of mistkes or changes to the composition can be done afterwards (((:
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This one is for Victor as he let me be inspired by his image of a narrow Guanajuato street - visit his beautiful photo stream here: www.flickr.com/photos/veejayidaho/
One from the Summer, a little yellow banded snail snuggling down after a night eating my plants ! I still find myself forgiving them ! Im a soft touch... ! Thank you for the correct ID Herbman 101-Paul ! It is a brown lipped snail...I was just testing, of course ; o ))
Ardtrek Point is rapidly becoming my favourite location for dramatic skies.
This was shot on slightly outdated Kodak Ektar 100 film using my Minolta Dynax 9 camera and Minolta 70-210mm f4 "Beercan" lens.
The Dynax 9 is one of my all time favourite cameras. I remember lusting after it when it was a new camera and cost about £1200. There was no way I could spend that amount of money on a camera at the time so it was many years later in the digital era when film cameras were making peanuts that I was able to buy one in mint condition for about £200/250 - I can't remember the exact amount.
The meter in this camera is uncanny. Even on slide film a duff exposure is rare. This was shot on print film which is more forgiving and there is not one poor exposure.
The only thing I don't like about the camera is the noise the shutter/mirror makes which is horrible. It makes a sharp clatter which would be no use if you were in a location where you had to be quiet.
We Want To Live - UK Rebellion 2020
This is the first day of the 10 days protest rebellion across UK.
The Red Rebel Brigade is an international performance artivist troupe dedicated to illuminating the global environmental crisis and supporting groups and organisations fighting to save humanity and all species from mass extinction.
Red Rebel Brigade symbolises the common blood we share with all species,
That unifies us and makes us one.
As such we move as one, act as one and more importantly feel as one.
We are unity and we empathise with our surroundings, we are forgiving
We are sympathetic and humble, compassionate and understanding,
We divert, distract, delight and inspire the people who watch us,
We illuminate the magic realm beneath the surface of all things and we invite people to enter in, we make a bubble and calm the storm, we are peace in the midst of war.
We are who the people have forgotten to be!
Excerpt from Red Rebel Brigade website
Note: If you zoom in on the face, you will see a teardrop streaming down the left eye.
Parliament Square, London
1st September, 2020
Starting in on the otter shots .... how the hell did I manage to take soo many?? We fairly kept at it with these fabulous creatures whenever the opportunity arose ... usually just a case of idling along shore roads very slowly until someone spotted one - usually Ian as I was driving the whole time.
Some were reasonably forgiving and just looked back at us as we dwindled to a full stop and poked a big lens out of the window - they must be pretty used to this by now, though I can imagine their thoughts might have run along the lines of 'Its still only January and here come the idiots in cars'!!
As ever we stayed in the car or on the road on foot - at no time did we go down on the beach and impinge their personal space. This particular morning it was an early start and I've left the blue tinge brought by early light rather than adjusting it all to 'browns' as I think it says something about the time of day we were out!
Howdy! xD
Here's an alternative, more artsy angle of my MOC 'In the Fields of Lothal' from Star Wars Rebels. That thing blew up, and is like, my third most popular post. I always get a chuckle at what posts get the views; like when my '100 Followers!' post got on the explore page. -_-
Anywaaay, I felt like posting this pretty different shot. I try to keep my page free from clutter, so I may end up privatizing this later, bur here it is for the time being. I would also like to mention that in my original post, I said the white Loth-cat didn't appear until season 4. . .I was so freaking wrong. I even vaguely knew I was wrong as I typed it, I was just too lazy to check. It first appears in the season 2 episode (I can't remember the name, and guess what? I'm too lazy to check, lol) where Ryder Azadi first shows up. Well, I got that mistake off my fanboy conscience.
So, uh.. yeah. I don't know what I'm saying anymore. Leave a comment if you feel like it. Thanks for looking. :)
"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." Ephesians 4:32
In English, in fact, the origin of the term “Good” is debated: some believe it developed from an older name, “God’s Friday.” Regardless of the origin, the name Good Friday is entirely appropriate because the suffering and death of Jesus, as terrible as it was, marked the dramatic culmination of God’s plan to save his people from their sins.
a key to mindfulness practice is remembering to remember: i can begin again in any moment. if i spend hours distracted and disconnected, i can start again. noticing is the first step: it brings me back to awareness. the breath—such a simple thing—is a forgiving and powerful teacher.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
My brother in law, right up with the latest music, bought my sister a John Denver album for Christmas a few years back. Lucky she's very forgiving! Then again, he does think Wings are the greatest band ever to grace the vinyl. If I ever hear Mull of Kintyre sung badly one more time.....
Just been out trying some long exposure shots. I think this worked ok but any suggestions would be very welcome.
PS: If I ever do start actually listening to JD, please shoot me. I'm not an advocate of capital punishment, but in certain instances....
Explore September 27 2008. Thank-you