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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0pkn9evgKs
LOVE IS LIKE A BUTTERFLY – DOLLY PARTON
SEPTEMBER DANCES
Butterfly kisses tickling my cheek
with gentle soft wings fluttering and meek
whispered words brushing my ears
caressing my skin
warm and golden
sun-kissed and velvety peach texture
such fine downy feelings
dreamy, delightful and meaningful glances
that conjure up September dances
of love and longing
such sweet all-embracing
touching and tracing our finger tips
down profiles so gleaming
in the subtly revealing
after-glow that left us
belonging and longing for more
knowing that this may be all that we have
let us savour the moments,
so precious and glad
to have gifted this time to each other.
- AP – Copyright remains with the author
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A short trip up to Haldon Forest last Saturday was worth the trip as I was gifted with this lovely sunrise over East Devon. A little mist formed on the hillside below me to add a little atmosphere to the scene so all in all not a bad trip.
Give me your laughter as a gift,
Teach me to dream
With just a caress
I lose myself in this sea
Give me your star,
the one that lights up this night
full of peace and harmony,
and I will hand my life to you.
The Maximilianeum in Munich is the seat of the Bayerische Landtag, the unicameral parliament of the state of Bavaria in Germany.
It is also home of the Stiftung Maximilianeum a gifted students' foundation.
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
This little lovely is one of four Carolina wrens that have been gifted my yard as their territory by their parents. As usual, the parents raised several broods in the yard this year. Once the last brood was old enough to be independent, the parents moved on.
These little wrens are more friendly than their parents were, they come very close to me when I am in the yard and they allow me to approach them as well. If it ends up that there are two pair, perhaps both pair will nest in the yard. That has happened before. They chose different sides of the house of course, still it was nice to have so many year-round and all of the extra activity during nesting season.
Enjoy your day and happy snapping.
The annual vivarium that is setup at New York’s American Museum of Natural History as the Butterfly Conservatory is a wonderful 80 degree temporary home to almost 500 living butterflies and moths that just closed up at the end of May. Butterfly diversity is decreasing more and more all over the world. In fact I remember growing up not too far from where I live now in northern New Jersey and the many butterflies I would see in our back yard and the park up the street where my parents still reside. The one striking difference is the lack and in some cases total lack of butterflies and moths in many places in New Jersey and New York. They play such a vital role in the life cycle of plants so one can only wonder what effects their decreasing numbers is having on vegetation as insects like butterflies and bees continue to dwindle in number. So this wonderful Conservatory that the American Museum of Natural History sets up annually brings attention to the plight of these wonderfully diverse arthropods and allows one to literally enter into their world. I stayed within the vivarium over an hour, patiently waiting for these gifted insects would come to an area where I could photograph them. Definitely worth seeing if visiting the museum when the conservatory is up.
Taken with Olympus E-5 using a ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm F4.0-5.6 handheld RAW file processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Le travail de Karen Assayag comprend un assemblage de créations produites par des femmes elles-mêmes.
Des photographies prises à l’appareil jetable qui montrent ce qu’elles souhaitent partager de leur quotidien hors du centre de jour et de l’autre, des portraits individuels lors de séances à deux, dans un temps privilégié.
C’est ainsi que, après impression, ces photographies sont commentées et peintes dans un esprit collectif : les regards se croisent, se confrontent, mais surtout, cette collaboration instaure un dialogue bienveillant entre les unes et les autres.
Une autre manière de voir les choses par un artiste doué et qui fait preuve d’originalité ! 😉
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Karen Assayag's work includes an assemblage of creations produced by women themselves.
Photographs taken with a disposable camera that show what they want to share about their daily life outside the day center and on the other, individual portraits during sessions for two, in a privileged time.
This is how, after printing, these photographs are commented on and painted in a collective spirit: eyes meet, confront each other, but above all, this collaboration establishes a benevolent dialogue between each other.
Another way of seeing things by a gifted artist who demonstrates originality ! 😉
** From Fountains Abbey it is only a short walk along the river to the Studley Royal water gardens . The gardens were designed by John Aislabie in the early seventeenth century, they are a fine example of a Georgian water gardens
The Temple of Piety seen in the centre of the image is one of the many neo-classical buildings in Studley Royal.
a bit more background
In the early 18th-century John Aislabie had great plans to impress visitors to his Yorkshire estate and so turned the wild and wooded valley of the river Skell into one of England’s most spectacular Georgian water gardens.
John Aislabie inherited the Studley Royal estate in 1693. He was a socially and politically ambitious man and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1718. Disaster struck his career in 1720 due to his part in the South Sea Bubble financial scandal and he was expelled from Parliament. It was then that John returned to Yorkshire and devoted himself to creating this ground-breaking garden. Inspired by the work of the great French landscape gardeners, the two gifted amateurs created the Water Garden with its formal, geometric design and extraordinary vistas; including the much photographed Temple of Piety.You can also find classical statues, follies and garden buildings carefully positioned within the landscape to discover and enjoy.
Amazingly the garden you see today is little changed from the one that would have impressed Aislabie’s visitors 200 years ago.
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The sky-blue smiles above the roof
Its tenderest;
A green tree rears above the roof
Its waving crest.
The church-bell in the windless sky
Peaceably rings,
A skylark soaring in the sky
Endlessly sings.
My God, my God, all life is there,
Simple and sweet;
The soothing bee-hive murmur there
Comes from the street!
What have you done, O you that weep
In the glad sun,--
Say, with your youth, you man that weep,
What have you done?
Paul Verlaine
I believe they were gifted to Canada by the Netherlands commemorating Canadian contribution to the defeat of Nazis during WWII
For the Definitely Dreaming Week 48 theme of "A Gift".
I love the inspirational musings of @boyunderthebridge - this is an image I’ve taken in my local park, using one of an envelope full he sent me during lockdown, because I wasn't allowed to the suburbs he was posting them. I truly think that his inspirational notes to be found around many Melbourne suburbs are a beautiful gift to so many people and were especially so during our tough lockdown.
This image was also taken with my Lensbaby Twist60 lens which was gifted to me earlier this year by the husband of a very dear friend who passed away after a short battle with cancer. It is special image for me because of that too, I love the twisty bokeh the lens produces.
Even after a dull gray day the Sheboygan riverfront is often gifted with a stunning sunset. Thank you again, Mother Nature.
EVER GIFTED (IMO: 9786827) is a Container Ship that was built in 2018 (3 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Singapore. It's carrying capacity is 20124 TEU and her current draught is reported to be 16.1 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 399.98 meters and her width is 59 meters.
Happy Holidays to all my flickr friends - and good riddance to 2020. Let's hope we can put the difficult times behind us and look forward to a better 2021. Thank you for all your encouragement and inspiration - which thankfully has been made possible by this wonderful community of gifted photographers.
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Watercolor Art paintings that our daughter drew and attached to the gift wrapping on our Anniversary gifts.
***Gift: something given to another....
***Gift: a personal attribute
Artistb credit: DLJohnson
Noritake pattern Floral Bay gifted as a wedding present. Originally only used for the Christmas table. Whilst taking these photographs for the theme I was reminded of my single life where my best friend would laugh, as I set the table and cooked a steak, made fresh salad and poured a glass of wine for myself at least once a week. "Why do you do that" she would ask, "I couldn't be bothered if I was single" It became known as my 'Table for One, dinner A must have treat for those who flew solo for such a long time. I still like to set the table and we now use the Noritake every day.
Por el mar del Mármara surca el Argos con su proa que tiene el don del habla y de la profecía ...Quizas el oráculo me trajo aquí para sentir emociones desconocidas. Respiro la sal en el aire y una fuerte brisa enfurece las olas mientras faena el pescador...F.O.G.
The Argos sails across the Sea of Marmara, its prow gifted with speech and prophecy...Perhaps the oracle brought me here to feel unknown emotions. I breathe the salt in the air, and a strong breeze stirs the waves as the fisherman works...F.O.G.
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
This photo was given to me today. It's a scene from the Metrics Cheerleaders Saturday practice, which I attend whenever I can.
I like this photo so much that I wanted to share it. Many thanks to Shawn for taking this picture.
2024 Photo 12/354 Boo Boo Blackington the cairn terrier has a new song, to the tune of "Here Comes Peter Cottontail":
"Here comes Boo Boo Blackington;
"She hunts forward and backington;
"Barkety, barkety, danger's on her way!"
©2024 | John M. Hudson
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This Victorian-era Queen Anne style home was built in 1882 for John T. Lillard, a prominent attorney in Bloomington. Lillard's wife, Sarah Davis Lillard, was the daughter of of Judge David Davis, who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and, later, as a United States Senator representing Illinois.
The Lillard House is a contributing property in Bloomington's Franklin Square Historic District, which is located northwest of downtown Bloomington. The Square is named in honor of Franklin Price, who was the mayor of Bloomington Mayor in 1856 when land for the Square was gifted to the city.
Franklin Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was designated a local historic district in 1979. The houses of Franklin Square were built in a variety of architectural styles from the mid 19th century through the early 20th century, including Georgian Revival, Italianate, Colonial, Queen Anne, and Richardsonian Romanesque.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
Land gifted to son Isaac Hite Jr. shortly after the American Revolution. The manor house was built in 1797 and eventually became the center of a 7500 acre grain plantation.
She can't walk anymore without the aid of a walking stick, but this gray-haired 91-year-old lady still has an amazing good memory.
For one thing, she still remembers the first name of my deceased mother whom she last met 60 years ago.
I was then just a little boy, so I can't recall an instant having seen her at our place of abode when she went there to pay to my mother her husband's rent for the use of a piece of farm lot. She started talking to me, however, after a young relative of hers mentioned my family name within her hearing distance, and this was when I paid a first visit to her son at his home today.
I was totally surprised when she asked me, "How's Ate Rosie?" ("Ate," a Pilipino word, is a common title of respect for an older sister, but is also used for other older non-relative woman.) In answer, I said that my mother has passed away already a decade ago at the age of 84 years old.
Taken in the capital town of Iba, Zambales, Philippines.
Bodnant Garden, Conwy.
Bodnant Garden, Autumn.
Bodnant Garden (Welsh: Gardd Bodnant) is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, in the county borough of Conwy, Wales, situated overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau range of mountains. Founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family, it was gifted to the care of the National Trust in 1949.
The garden’s founder, Henry Davis Pochin, was a Leicestershire-born Victorian industrial chemist who acquired fame and fortune inventing a process for clarifying rosin used in soap, turning it from the traditional brown to white. He became a successful businessman, mayor and JP. Pochin bought the Bodnant estate in 1874 and employed Edward Milner, apprentice to Joseph Paxton, to redesign the land around the existing Georgian mansion house, then just lawns and pasture. Together Pochin and Milner relandscaped the hillside and valley, planting American and Asian conifers on the banks of the River Hiraethlyn to create a Pinetum, and reinforcing stream banks to create a woodland and water garden in the valley, in the style of the garden designer of the day William Robinson in his book The Wild Garden. In the upper garden, Pochin and Milner created the Laburnum Arch and glasshouses, to house exotics. Pochin also built The Poem, the family mausoleum in an area of the Shrub Borders.
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This is Yester Castle darkly, dimly and dramatically figured. It was the stronghold and home of Sir Hugo de Giffard, also Jiffard, a 13th-century Scottish Baron. He is remembered in legend as the, “Wizard of Yester.” Yester Castle was built around 1267 with Sir Hugo acting like a diabolical King Solomon and calling spirits to build his stone works for him. If instead of the diabolical focus Sir Hugo was more inline with the God of Solomon then his demons may have been a gifted labour source for his good works. Some have said that he was in pact with the devil and that his source of amazing conjuring deeds was all infernal. His fortification is noted as being assembled by an army of hobgoblins. The best remains of the castle ruins are named as either Bohall, or Hobgoblin Hall, also The Goblin Ha’. This Goblin Hall may have been constructed by a workforce keen to protect their stone crafting secrets and possibly also French in origin. The language barrier and insular ways could have given rise to the workers been seen as demons doing Sir Hugo’s bidding.
Bohall as an Irish name is said to derive from, “baigell,” which meant, “having profitable pledges,” Sir Hugo seems to have been the embodiment of someone that is noted as having prospered by having profitable pledges. Most likely because it still stands as the only roofed section of Yester Castle it is suggested that the Goblin Ha’ is where Sir Hugo practised dark arts such as necromancy and making pledges, pacts with infernal spirits. The Hall is even stated to have an entrance to Hell. The design of the structure that still exists gives a much clearer indication of the Hall as the place to bring in animals at times of siege in lower section and to have above the animal stalls floors for two legged occupation with the lowest tunnelled into the bedrock being a vital access to water and not an entrance to the underworlds. Magic often features in Legend in ways that can quickly come undone if you look closely at the weave of Folklore, and investigate into the weft as that which is seen as superb for enchanting stories is not the best factual material for histories.
I hope that Sir Hugo being of either Giffard, or Jiffard has no overbearing influence on the Giff versus Jiff debate? That is usually the .gif versus the .jif at least in pronunciation.
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Maas Vlakte 2 Port of Rotterdam
AIS Name EVER GIFTED
Type Container ship
Flag Singapore
IMO 9786827
MMSI 563068900
Callsign 9V5825
Year Built 2018
Length 399 m
Width 59 m
Draught Avg 13.4 m / ...
Speed Max / 24.2 kn
Deadweight 198886 tons
Gross Tonnage 219352
AIS Class A
Cargo Capacity
Capacities
TEU: 20,388 incl 1500 ref C
Early mornings are always nice. What a wonderful view I've had the opportunity to lay my senses upon. From the fresh air to the view. Eyes, lungs, ears, skin... they were all content and happy about it. Proper healing, my friend.
Taken with the Sony A7R3 and viltrox 28mm lens + sunglasses for lens CPL.
Putujem Kato bez tebe, bez konja sablje srebrene,
lako ću ja,
al' kako ćeš ti?
...gazit ću staze nebeske
Pismo je to nepročitano.
Pišem ti ova žalosna slova
neka te ne slomi nevolja ova.
Ni suzu
nemoj im dat'
Da zatru nam ime
urota kreće
ni tebi ni djeci se smilovat neće
Nosi taj križ
k'o barjak pred rat.
Being all alone with the scenes like these is being very therapeutic. The fresh morning air, the branches and flowers from all around... I can't be more thankful (or there actually is that possibility that I'm yet to find) for the sceneries I had the opportunity to lay my senses upon.
Maybe I'm the gifted one to have a chance for it.
No sun yet at the horizon, but it's shyness doesn't bother me at all, hiding behind the dense white morning clouds. This is west view from the island, overlooking in the direction of Italy, so just an ambient light. But still... Birds are singing, so don't worry about anything, if you are. Maybe the stillness of your presemt moment can bring you all that you need. Just try to include a little bit of nature (if you have a chance) and your situation will improve, as you need. Let it go.
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