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“Even trained for years as we all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine.”

-- Lois Lowry

 

"There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment."

-- Orison Swett Marden

 

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GLEAM: Oceanic Equilibrium Skirt (Maitreya + Petite)

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KILLJOY Leigh Armbands MAITREYA WITH COLOUR CHANGE HUD

 

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Zibska Aitne Shoulders

 

Zibska Nimue Eyemask

 

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DOUX - Carol Hairstyle [M]

 

::Static:: Fae Embers

 

Lexa - Lima Coffin Nails MAITREYA

 

+ Magical Orb Censer (nebula) + {egosumaii}

60024 Kingfisher leaving Edinburgh Waverley at 9.45am on the up "Elizabethan" on its scheduled non stop run to Kings Cross. 18 July 1961.

Gleam Top – Shine Like Never Before!

 

Available at Marketplace or Mainstore

 

The Gleam Top is a stunning, high-quality mesh diamond top designed for Legacy Classic, Legacy Perky Nipples, Maitreya Lara, Lara Petite, Lara X, Lara X Petite, Reborn, and Reborn Waifus. Crafted with exceptional detail and realistic shine, it brings unmatched luxury to your Second Life wardrobe.

 

With the customizable HUD, you can personalize your look by adjusting diamond, metal, and cup colors separately. Choose from 16 diamond presets, 4 metal shades, and 10 skin tones, or create endless possibilities using the color palette. Add Glow and Full Bright effects for extra brilliance, or keep them low for the most realistic look.

 

For the ultimate sparkle, pair it with Plastic Gemlight, enhancing the diamonds’ radiance with dynamic lighting effects.

 

Dare to shine? The Gleam Top is your perfect statement piece!

First picture from the meet-up this weekend, hosted by Curtis. It was fantastic to see everybody from the Austrian Meetup again, and to meet new, exciting people. Thank you so much for doing this, Curtis!

 

This is the amazing Nikolas. He's been a huge inspiration to me for ages, so it was really exciting to be able to meet him in person. Apart from being a fantastic model, he is a great photographer too, so make sure to check out his beautiful work if you haven't already. (Thank you for actually covering yourself in flour, just for my picture.)

 

Flour-throwing creds to Laura!

 

(There was supposed to be a concept behind this, but I decided to just let it be and post the picture like this. I'll SO be sharing more from this shoot.)

 

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Seattle is the backdrop of Elliott Bay as seen from the beach at Manchester Washington.

A wonderful summer shot to add to our Summer Days Collection. The faint pink flowers on the riverbank soaring above the water with a stream of reflected sunlight stretching down the centre. Trees lining the river are not only rich in colour but make habitats for small birds and squirrels.

 

© 2019 Millettarian Photographic Institute

Another angle on the nesting Eagle pair from the other day

 

Emigrant Lake – Jackson County – Oregon - USA

 

“The Bald Eagle has been the national emblem of the United States since 1782 and a spiritual symbol for native people for far longer than that. These regal birds aren’t really bald, but their white-feathered heads gleam in contrast to their chocolate-brown body and wings. Look for them soaring in solitude, chasing other birds for their food, or gathering by the hundreds in winter. Once endangered by hunting and pesticides, Bald Eagles have flourished under protection. ….. The Bald Eagle dwarfs most other raptors, including the Turkey Vulture and Red-tailed Hawk. It has a heavy body, large head, and long, hooked bill. In flight, a Bald Eagle holds its broad wings flat like a board….. Rather than do their own fishing, Bald Eagles often go after other creatures’ catches. A Bald Eagle will harass a hunting Osprey until the smaller raptor drops its prey in midair, where the eagle swoops it up. A Bald Eagle may even snatch a fish directly out of an Osprey’s talons. Fishing mammals (even people sometimes) can also lose prey to Bald Eagle piracy.”

 

Source : Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Status : Least Concern

 

Happy Blue Monday! ;D

 

(Wait. It is Monday, right?)

Loki - Diana Tank Top & Cardigan

 

♡ FATPACK Includes:

❥ 12 Color Textures for Cardigan & Top

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❥ In FATPACK you can wear Cardigan & Top Separately.

❥ Includes BOM Alpha

 

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Caught the neighborhood barred owl in the warm sunshine as temp rose to almost 60 degrees today.

The sunshine gleams so bright and warm,

The sky is blue and clear.

I run outdoors without a coat,

And spring is almost here.

 

Then before I know it,

Small clouds have blown together,

Till the sun just can't get through them,

And again, it's mitten weather.

A view through the arches of the floral mosaic pillars of the colonnade into the courtyard, towards the domes and one of the minarets of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE. This POV caught my eye because of the many elements in the composition and the women in abayas reflected in the gleaming white Macedonian marble.

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Being a lighthouse keeper on an island somewhere off the coast can be quite a lonely existence.

However it does give you a lot of time to practice your hobbies, like for example speederbiking. And some practice so much, they get invited to the International Maritime Speederbike League!

 

Built for the LSB Contest 2021 - Island Racing Category

M-MNAU heads into Garvin as the sun strikes its last rays on to the front of the ex-CNW SD40-2.

and a small wave

Nikon F4s : 24-120mm AF Nikkor f/3.5-5.6D : Arista EDU Ultra 100 : Spur Acurol-N

WK6HD one of our nightly visitors

Woven Gleams - Metal curved bars form a canopy in an architectural detail of the Light Station in downtown Mesa next to the Mesa Arts Center, New Year’s Day in the early morning.

A walk to the Antiques Market to see Bob and Debbie at their stalls. 04-05-25. Yellow Filter on Camera today. M1011476

"Ever drifting down the stream,

Lingering in the golden gleam,

Life, what is it but a dream?"

 

Lewis Carol

A cow moose with a lovely shiny coat strides across a setting of mixed grass and willows in Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado.

 

The morning sun gets harsh pretty quickly at 10,000 feet, but hadn't reached peak harshness when I took this shot.

 

The first of two moose posts before we head out to find some more of these cool critters.

Walking in the parklands

British Airways 747-4 taxiing to the gate at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

 

☆ GLEAM: Vaporwave Bodycon

 

Taxi: GLEAM

MktPlace: GLEAM

 

Halter top style bodycon mini dress with side cut outs. The Vaporwave Bodycon is HUD operated and comes in 12 vaporwave style patterns. Fitted for Belleza GenX Classic + Curvy, EBody Reborn, Kupra, Legacy + Perky, Erika, and Maitreya + Petite mesh body types.

Elephant - Astro Cruise

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An elephant in the universe,

A sight so strange and rare,

A massive beast in endless space,

Floating without a care.

 

Its trunk reaches for the stars,

Its tusks gleam in cosmic light,

An ancient creature, wise and grand,

Lost in the endless night.

 

Yet still it moves, a gentle giant,

Through the void it gracefully glides,

An elephant in the universe,

A wonder to behold with pride.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall stands as a gleaming symbol of Los Angeles’ artistic soul. In this photograph, its stainless-steel curves catch the morning light, creating a dance of reflections that mimic the fluidity of music itself. Designed by the legendary architect Frank Gehry, the building’s sculptural form contrasts starkly with the geometric rigidity of its downtown surroundings. This image, taken from the corner of 1st Street and Grand Avenue, captures the hall in its most expressive moment—its metallic skin glowing gold and silver under a partly cloudy sky, as if the building is breathing in rhythm with the city.

 

The story behind the concert hall is as dramatic as its appearance. Lillian Disney, the wife of Walt Disney, contributed $50 million in 1987 to initiate the project in memory of her husband’s love for the arts. Yet, the building’s journey was riddled with delays, rising costs, and engineering complexities. Construction didn’t begin until 1999, and it was finally completed in 2003—sixteen years after the original gift. Gehry’s design, once considered too radical, ultimately became a triumph, with the concert hall earning global acclaim not only for its architecture but also for its superb acoustics, engineered in collaboration with Yasuhisa Toyota.

 

This photograph attempts to bridge the hall’s artistic intent with its historical narrative. The vantage point was chosen deliberately to highlight the interplay of surfaces, where reflections of nearby buildings and the sky add a temporal dimension to the architecture. It’s a portrait of ambition and perseverance, set in steel. The Walt Disney Concert Hall is more than a venue—it’s a monument to visionaries, from the Disneys to Gehry, who dared to dream of something timeless in a city that’s constantly reinventing itself.

Leaves they shine, leaves they gleam

Dressing the trunk in robes of green

Ruling their kingdom , high in the sky

Where they blow ,where they fly

 

Through the rays of light they soar

Until they descend to the floor

Which they cover in a cloak of green

Below the tree, where they once did gleam

A selection of photos taken at West Dean house and gardens. The weather during the week had been shocking but an afternoon of sunshine allowed for some changes to capture the amazing flora, fauna and wildlife that is so abundant there.

The Sun was yet to come and light seemed to leak with a delicate gleam onto the pass and fall further still into the deep ravine cut by the stream.

 

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Hardknott Roman Fort English Heritage

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Hardknott Roman Fort

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The Fort at River's Bend

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Roman Lake District Audio Guides

English Heritage Audio Guides

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Hardknott mentioned in this Sonnet.

William Wordsworth

From, The River Duddon, A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. Numbered XVII 17

 

A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew,

Perched on whose top the Danish Raven croaks;

Aloft, the imperial Bird of Rome invokes

Departed ages, shedding where he flew

Loose fragments of wild wailing, that bestrew

The clouds and thrill the chambers of the rocks;

And into silence hush the timorous flocks,

That, calmly couching while the nightly dew

Moistened each fleece, beneath the twinkling stars

Slept amid that lone Camp on Hardknot’s height,

Whose Guardians bent the knee to Jove and Mars:

Or, near that mystic Round of Druid frame

Tardily sinking by its proper weight

Deep into patient Earth, from whose smooth breast it came!

 

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