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Wishing all my Flickr friends a magical Christmas and if Christmas isn't your celebration ... may you enjoy the festivities of the days you hold dear to your heart.
All the very best to you and your families.
Peace, love and happiness
Merry Christmas
Christie
Merry Christmas from our home to yours! Every year I dig out the cross star filter I bought about 40 years ago and use it for my Christmas tree photo. I had to hold it in front of my lens with my fingers since it didn't fit. And of course you see squirrels LOL.
This will be another quiet Christmas except for some times spent with our grandsons who liven things up. Hope you are all staying healthy and safe. Thanks for all the inspiring photos over the years. :-)
Travel Day, 12/18/2021, Baltimore, MD
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 3.99mm f/1.8
ƒ/1.8 4.0 mm 1/40 25
With record snowfall up and down the east coast this weekend and many areas in the south experienceing a rare, "White Christmas," nothing says "Pure Joy" for a snowman than lots of snow.
I hope everyone had a very merry everything!
Macro Mondays - "Pure Joy" Theme
@ Second life, @ Winter Ice Christmas Festival 2016; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/REBEL%20YELL%20CONCERTS/47...
🎶 Santa baby, slip a country house under the tree, for me,
Lagom’s holiday charm is all I need! 🎁✨
With cozy vibes and festive cheer,
It’s the perfect home for this time of year! 🎄🏡
Unwrap Lagom’s Country Holiday House inside MadPea’s Advent Calendar and make your season merry and bright! 🌟🎉
👉 Grab yours here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MadPea%20Base/206/136/34
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. ~Frederick W. Robertson
I had been thinking of what to do for this weeks SP and after all my traveling this year a Christmas & home theme seemed perfect. Maybe cheating a bit to have an "extra" in this SP, but I thought it was worth it. Hope you all like it.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.
Shot with the Nikkor 50mm 1.4 and no flash used.
So, what's up with the green, or anything here, actually? Um, I'm not sure. This was at the end of a roll being shot through a simple single-use cam (Lomolito), and the conditions were beautiful late afternoon sun (you can of course see the sun close to setting). As far as I know, the back of the cam didn't pop open... In any case, I like the freakish color, and it's subsequently a sort of complement with regard to the next posted image.
Hmmm. A weird, almost menacing silhouette for Christmas? Why not. There is (or certainly has been for us again this year) a significant amount of stress present this time of year, something that will, hopefully, be resolved soon. Well, I hope that things are going well (wonderful) for you & yours as you read this! Happy Holidays! Prost! ^_^
Travel Day, 12/18/2021, Cleveland, OH
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 3.99mm f/1.8
ƒ/1.8 4.0 mm 1/25 40
to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri
People have the false impression that I'm put together. In reality, I'm just as lost as everybody else.
But I guess I'm rambling...or whining. Feel free to flickr slap me the next time I whine. Whining is so unproductive!
EDIT: deleted the long description because this is getting a lot of traffic and I didn't want to bare my soul to a lot of people, most of whom I don't really know.
Anyways, on a lighter note, I really like how this picture turned out. I usually use one major picture and layer little elements of other pictures into it. This, on the other hand, is made from 4 major pictures, not including the butterflies.
Inspired! Check out the rest of her stream, she's amazing! :D
Camera: Zero Image 2000
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Exposure Time: 10 minutes
Location: Everett, Washington
The last in my three part series of photographs I took in and around my parent’s house on Christmas Eve. I was really tempted to title this one ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ considering it’s a shot of an old family photo taken during the holidays. I am not sure the exact date of the photo but if I had to guess I’d say somewhere between 1987-1989. I’m the smiley redheaded kid on the bottom right.
Besides being a phenomenal photographer, my Dad is an incredibly talented guitarist. I grew up hearing songs like Sunshine on My Shoulders and Rocky Mountain High. My dad used to love to take us camping as kids. Looking back I have no idea how my parents had the energy to pack up NINE kids in the van and go TENT camping. for fun?! but they did... I have the fondest of memories, so dear and nostalgic to my heart that even listening to John Denver brings tears to my eyes - I can close my eyes and picture my Dad sitting at the campfire, guitar in his lap, the sounds of laughter and busy chatter around me, the smell of the smoke curing 'round my shoulders like a throw blanket on a chilly night. The sun is still out but it is darker than it should be because the sun is hidden behind the forests of trees and is has sunk into the shadow of the mountain. My Dad's eyes are focused on the fire really without seeing though as he sings and plays his music. I remember him going through a few of the Joh Denver classics, specifically Sunshine on my Shoulders. All is safe, all is well in my flashback to being a child sitting at the fire. I was loved, I was surrounded by all of the things I loved best, set up against the backdrop of the fierce yet oddly comforting mountains.
I miss this place, my beautiful Colorado. But even if I were to go back it wouldn't be the same - would it?
There are people who have carved and imprinted memories with me in those mountains who are no longer here, life is different, I am different and I know this is how it must be. Although at times I impulsively wish it wasn't so. But it is so - and there are many things about present life that bring me joy and happiness including my own children and the memories we have made and will make together. I'll stop rambling for tonight and leave you with a few of my favorite parts of Rocky Mountain High (I know many of you know and love John Denver and probably know the words better than I ;)
Thank you for listening to me, I love you all xx
#Rachel
#But the Colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabye
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
#Now he walks in quiet solitude the forest and the streams
Seeking grace in every step he takes
His sight has turned inside himself to try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake
And the Colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
Talk to God and listen to the casual reply
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
Rocky mountain high (Colorado)
After giving it careful thought, we realized our home felt too empty without a kitty, and Little Burrito was depressed. Last week we went to a shelter and looked at all the cats. I was especially taken with Domino (who was named Raspberry at the shelter) but the moment wasn't quite right so we went home and thought about it.
Yesterday morning Jim said let's go find a cat. We had considered a younger cat but when I called he was reserved. I decided we should go and take another look at Raspberry. When I went into the Senior Cat Room, she came right up to me and purred, and when i sat on the floor, she climbed up on my lap so decision made -- I wanted to bring her home with us.
She's had an interesting life. She was adopted from the shelter as a kitten back in 2009. In 2014 she was returned as her family had moved to a home which did not allow pets. She was adopted again in 2015, but in August of this year once again her family had to move and she was returned. (And no negative comments please about someone moving to a no-pet place -- the rental housing market is very tight in this area and it is extremely difficult to find a rental which will take pets. I give both her former families credit for returning her to the shelter rather than just abandoning her.)
Our application was approved, we paid her bail money and made a donation to the shelter, and brought her home with us. On the way home Jim said if we were going to change her name we'd better do it quickly, and I realized her markings reminded me of Ruth's beloved Domino and so we named her in honor of him.
A fun thing is that the local newspaper has a Friday Pet of the Week column, for which the various shelters are allowed to post a photo and information about two of their adoptable pets. They have to provide this information by Wednesday. Raspberry and a little dog named Millie were planned to be this shelter's featured Adoptable Pets, but yesterday, both got their Home for the Holidays. Yay!!!
Macro Monday: Theme - December Holidays/My Family's Tradition
Heading out of town to spend the holidays with family is our tradition. I especially love sitting by the fireplace where it's nice and toasty.
HMM!
Travel Day, 12/18/2021, Baltimore, MD
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 6.6mm f/2.8
ƒ/2.8 6.6 mm 1/60 160