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My new obsession is a sailboat. Not that I like sea that much, but I love the freedom implied. Being able to travel on a confortable boat, with no noisy neighbors or telemarketing calls. Just water all around, stopping city after city, getting supplies, living just to live. Must be an amazing sensation. And of course, sunrises in the middle of the ocean must be spetacular :-)
A line of greylag geese flying across the rising sun I could hear them before I could see them luck plays a great part in photography!
Southwest 737-800 #W500NR, aka "Freedom One" prepares to touch down at Chicago's Midway Airport. If you would like to read a little more about Freedom One, check it out here. You can even watch it being painted in hyper speed:
community.southwest.com/t5/Blog/Introducing-Freedom-One/b...
Sure it's a normal pic ..
but cuz i'd finished my exams ..
i would like just to express :D
So happy - At least i'm free for 2 weeks :D
This photo is a representation of freedom and independence. Yes it is a car but stop and think for a moment of all the adventures you can have because you have a car. You have the freedom to just jump into your car and go where ever you want to and are not dependent on anyone else to take you where you need to go. If you are feeling down you can jump in the car, put music on loud and go for a drive. How fortunate some of us are to have this ability to be both free and independent.
Today is American Independence Day, aka July 4th, 4th of July. I will not be celebrating it in a traditional way with parades, picnics, or family get-togethers, but I did wake up this morning thinking of my country & what it means to me. I searched my home for a symbolic star & was interested to find only one--the simple star in the wooden nativity scene that I display year-round. For me, my love of country & of God are intertwined & I am most thankful for both. Being a librarian, I couldn't resist doing a little research on star symbolism. Not surprisingly, I found a plethora of information. What caught my imagination was a quote from the nineteenth century minister, Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriet Beecher Stow, who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"). He said, of the American flag,
"A thoughtful mind when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. And whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag, the government, the principles, the truths, the history that belongs to the nation that sets it forth. The American flag has been a symbol of Liberty and men rejoiced in it.
The stars upon it were like the bright morning stars of God, and the stripes upon it were beams of morning light. As at early dawn the stars shine forth even while it grows light, and then as the sun advances that light breaks into banks and streaming lines of color, the glowing red and intense white striving together, and ribbing the horizon with bars effulgent, so, on the American flag, stars and beams of many-colored light shine out together ...."
May we all celebrate the freedoms & the gifts in our every-day lives. May we nurture them in our various ways, day by day.
July 4, 2008
...nature and artist together:) ...or payback time...the hunter became the hunt.:):):)Have a good weekend
This is a monument on the downtown riverfront where I live,
Evansville, IN USA...it's a very lovely peaceful place for a stroll etc. A week ago today...things started getting NOT so peaceful at flickr...so thought I'd post this pic...no other description necessary yes?
Dedicated to the people of the UAE who are not able to axcess flickr because the phone company blocked it FOR NO GOOD REASON.
i could talk about this forever.. but i think i will let the picture speak for itself.
IT IS A SAD TIME I hope all will be resolved soon.
People of the UAE.. You Are resiliant & WILL FIND a way.
In the mean time you are missed.
"TOGETHER WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL"
-Unknown Author
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HONEST
Freedom Crossing Monument is located on the bank of the Niagara River in Lewiston, New York, and honors the courage of fugitive slaves who sought a new life of freedom in Canada, and to the local volunteers who protected and helped them on their journey across the Niagara River. It was dedicated on October 14, 2009.