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Dear ulya (my friend), about your idea of making a shimmering waterfall... I failed at attempting to make it happen. I will try again, nonethless! :D
*sigh* I'm so sorry I haven't been a good contact recently. I'll try my best to catch up with your streams now -- though I can't promise you on that..
Frustrated. That's how I feel right now, in this minute. I want to pull my hair out of my head and whisper to myself that everything will be all fine. But, when I closed my eyes to escape from pain and urge to crash the plates...
I opened them and realized I'll be stuck in reality. I can't run away.
AAAA I'm so cheesy.
Tarn Hows is an area of the Lake District National Park, containing a picturesque tarn, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Coniston and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Hawkshead. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the area with over half a million visitors per year in the 1970s and is managed by the National Trust.
Tarn Hows is fed at its northern end by a series of valley and basin mires and is drained by Tom Gill which cascades down over several small waterfalls to Glen Mary bridge: named by John Ruskin who felt that Tom Gill required a more picturesque name and so gave the area the title 'Glen Mary'.
The Tarn Hows area originally contained three much smaller tarns, Low Tarn, Middle Tarn and High Tarn.
Wordsworth's Guide Through the District of the Lakes (1835 edition) recommends walkers to come this way but passes the tarns without mention.
Until 1862 much of the Tarn Hows area was part of the open common grazing of Hawkshead parish. The remaining enclosed land and many of the local farms and quarries were owned by the Marshall family of Monk Coniston Hall (known as Waterhead House at the time). James Garth Marshall (1802–1873) who was the Member of Parliament for Leeds (1847–1852) and third son of the industrialist John Marshall, gained full possession of all of the land after an enclosure act of 1862 and embarked on a series of landscape improvements in the area including expanding the spruce, larch and pine plantations around the tarns; demolition of the Water Head Inn at Coniston; and the construction of a dam at Low Tarn that created the larger tarn that is there today.
By 1899 Tarn Hows was already an important beauty spot. H.S. Cowper mentions "Tarn Hows, beloved by skaters in winter and picnic parties in summer. Here comes every day at least one charabanc load of sightseers from Ambleside or Windermere". A wooden boat house that was still standing in the 1950s at the south east corner of the tarn probably dated from this period. In 1913 G.D. Abraham said "Tarn Hows is set wildly among larches and heather slopes, more like a highland lake than the other waters in Lakeland... more suitable for pedestrians than motorists".
In 1930 the Marshall family sold 4,000 acres (16 km2) of their land to Beatrix Heelis of Sawrey (better known as Beatrix Potter) for £15000. She then sold the half of this land containing the tarn to the National Trust and bequeathed the other half to them in her will.
Tarn Hows was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1965.
The National Trust have made a number of more recent changes to the area including moving the car parks to a less obtrusive place in the 1960s and general footpath and road improvements to minimize the damage caused by the visitors. In May 2008 a building designed to harmonise with the landscape was opened, providing toilets and an information display under a sedum roof.
My Bulldog which I uploaded a couple of days ago, it got around 450 views, so this is how to make it. It's really simple and most people will have the parts needed to make it.
At the end of a long day behind a plow and horse, it's good to know one can park the plow and plug into the nearest telephone pole.
My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
Wake me up inside (save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark (wake me up)
Bid my blood to run (I can't wake up)
Before I come undone (save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become
Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life
I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside
Bring me to life
Frozen inside without your touch
Without your love, darling
Only you are the life among the dead
All this time, I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark, but you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
I've got to open my eyes to everything
How long ARE YOU A (E) PASSIONATE (E) OF PHOTOGRAPHY
DEPUIS COMBIEN D'ANNÉES ÊTES VOUS UN(E) PASSIONNÉ(E) DE PHOTOGRAPHIE
How's this for entertainment?
We could hardly stop laughing when he started these antics of racing along this log as if marching to an unheard band. Left ,right left and then - halt.
You could not make it up so we really hope you can enjoy what we witnessed tucked away in a tiny canvas hide.
These images alone would have made our day and to think that they were almost deleted from the memory card before uploading.
Must be older than I thought and getting even more forgetful!!
Ever look around and wonder to yourself "How the hell did I end up here?" I think about that when I look others pictures on Flickr. How did I end up here? Why do I put these up? I am way out of my league! But everyday I post some new images and share with the world how I see the world.
I got up insanely early last Saturday to go to the Adirondack Balloon Festival in Glens Falls, NY. It should have taken me about 50 minutes to get there, and I gave myself plenty of extra time, as I wanted to be there for the sunrise when the balloons started lifting off. Unfortunately, no one told me that apparently everyone on the East Coast goes to this balloon festival, so it took about 1.5 hours to go the last 2 miles. I couldn't believe how many people there were!
Shortly after I took this picture, that bank of fog in the background rolled in and most of the balloons that were going to take off shut down again. It was a fun time, but if you plan on going, you'd better leave early!
Pseudo HDR from one exposure, tonemapped in Photomatix.
..... wonderful it was to find this single 7-spot ladybird yesterday during my lunch hour! Only time I've been out (so far) this week...
Didn't get out last Sunday, and this weekend's not looking good either... there'll be plenty more delving in those archives!!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
A quote from George Carlin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin
a drawing from me (textured)and then worked on in fotosketcher while thinking about the thruth.....
More on the blog
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Some time ago I read that accordingly to Google's zeitgeist the top searches around the world starting with "How to" were:
* How to kiss
* How to cook rice
* How to lose weight
In nearly every country, those were among the top ten searches.
Not to mention "How to become a vampire" in some european countries...
It was a rainy day, chilly for Spain, and the sea was very flat and still, but incredibly cold. But we'd alredy got changed into our swimming things, so we had to go in
As a photographer you don't always get the respect you deserve from your subject.
We had spent several days in the Highlands searching for a wild rut. And this was the response I got when we were finally successful.
Red Deer - Cervus Elaphus
Highlands - Scotland
Many thanks to all those who take the time to comment on my photos. It is truly appreciated.
Two dogs quietly waiting for their owner, or maybe owners?
Think the owner is probably shopping, but it was a nice image for a photo.
Not going to say where this is, have deleted the GPS info as there are too many dog thefts already.
Is this love a waiting game? series
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I would give up all my money
I would trade all of my gold
To spend a little time with you honey
Just to know that we'll grow old
If I could only see the future
Or if I could travel through time
If I could see how this will end
If I could know that you'll be mine
Tell me what you feel like
Tell me is it real, love
Tell me do you feel the same
Tell me what you feel like
Do you feel what I feel
Is this love a waiting game
If I could only find a way
If I could get some kind of tell
If I could see beneath the waves
If I could have a wishing well
If I just could feel a little less
Of this uncertainty
I am longing for a kiss
That lets me know that you want me
Tell me what you feel like
Tell me is it real, love
Tell me do you feel the same
Tell me what you feel like
Do you feel what I feel
Is this love a waiting game
Tell me what you feel like
Tell me is it real, love
Tell me do you feel the same
Tell me what you feel like
Do you feel what I feel
Is this love a waiting game
(Is This Love a Waiting Game, The Big Let Down, 2020)
when I hold you
in my arms, love
something changes
It's the strangest feeling
the things that used to matter
they don't matter to me
when I see you
and you're smiling
how my heart aches
so full it is, about to break
you make me believe in love
(238/365; January 19, 2011)
Poor Vidalia longs to cuddle, but Cumin wants nothing of it. Thankfully, Vidalia regularly cuddles with Curio and Mr. Grigsby.
[SOOC, f/2.2, ISO 100, shutter speed 1/500]
Having dropped off 1108 at Lithgow, 1107 and 1106 continue West, as they head into Tarana with a 12 hour late running 9865 empty ore train, bound for Blayney to load.
Climbing the Blue Mountains near Bell, 1108 suffered a collapsed axel, causing the train to be stopped and requiring immediate repairs. The bearings were subsequently held up with blocks of wood and the train was moved at 5km/h until Lithgow, where the locomotive was finally detached from the lead and put into a siding.
The 1100 class typically only leads with the cab facing forward, however on this occasion, with no turning facilities available, the train continued on "long end leading" at a top speed of 50km/h to Blayney.
Sunday 5th May 2019