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taken 24 february 2026
polaroid 600se
mamiya 127mm/4.7
polaroid 669
expired 02.1996
| humble greatness |
i wear around my neck a single mustard seed.
it reminds me of you
and the day we found it at
a neighbor's garage sale.
how pleased you were -
14K mixed in with someone's junk.
i wear this mustard seed to honor you
and the Bible's parable,
from the smallest of things
excellence can grow.
sprouting and fruiting along its tall branches -
feeding and housing the winter wrens and cinnamon sparrows.
i wear this white mustard seed
to remember the story of Buddha
and Kisa Gotami in her greatest sorrow
going door to door
to learn that grief is universal
and acceptance is the way,
that death unites us all
as a part of the living.
i wear this tiny seed
i have kept for forty and some odd years.
while its meaning may change
throughout my time
something magical surrounds it,
something touched by greatness
all in a humble mustard seed.
No matter when I come by, it seems Oak Hill is always closed. At best, I can wedge my lens through the wrought iron fence to catch a glimpse of what lies beyond.
**hope for the future**
Makasih Blih Sheko and family
Makasih Mbok Mar...
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Edwards Coaches entered the local bus market in April 2010 in a competitive strike against an ailing Veolia Transport Cymru on the former Bebb Travel corridors. The initial fleet was a number of former Ulsterbus Wright Crusader-bodied Dennis Darts and a handful of second-hand MCV Evolution-bodied MAN 14.220s. A pair of former Cardiff Bus Alexander Dash-bodied Dennis Darts - N25 & 28 OBO - were also added.
The Cardiff Darts initially operated in all-over 'safe yellow', though N28 OBO subsequently received the powder blue scheme.
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Both were usually to be found operating Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC contracted Service 18 (Pontypridd-Treforest-Taffs Well-Ty Rhiw).
This is illustrated in this shot from June 2010 of N25 OBO emerging from Chapel Street in Pontypridd. The permanent destination display must have caused some confusion when she was not in service !
Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't the time -
and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Dress: Lowen โ Aurora Longsleeve Dress (Pastels) at @Shiny Shabby
Hair: Navy&Copper โ Darcy Hair at @Shiny Shabby
Necklace & Earrings: [ kunst ] โ Olivia Set at @Kustom 9
Pose: Diversion โ Humble at @Pose Fair
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โLife is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.โ โ William Butler Yeats
I always wanted to come here to take a photo of this humble, and a little worn-out, spiral staircase, hiding amidst the glamorous skyscrapers in the CBD, but somehow never had the chance. Now I finally did, and I was happy.
Taken in Chater Garden, Central, Hong Kong
Explore #04 (2025-01-31) - Thank you for stopping by and for your words of encouragement and favorites!
Scenario: shot in fading light of day in nearby wetlands; concentrating on this I missed a white tailed deer bounding away from nearby......groan.....
Guess what this might be?
Hint: something you do NOT want in your grass!! (Ok....no one hazarding a guess....it's....yes...crabgrass; we never let it get to this stage on our lawns if we can help it.)
Thanks for dropping by.....Pat
PS: I'm on/off flickr cuz I'm experiencing some nerve pain in my right arm/shoulder from an old injury.....need to spend shorter times on computer.....and as one of my contacts recently said to me, "You need to give it a rest" and kind of-sort of chided me for not doing so....:):)...I won't say who she is except she lives in Germany:):)
[Sorry if I bore you with all these versions of the same pic... but I like them so I upload them ;-)]
Result of cooperational work by the Fix my Pic group.
Original shot taken by me, post-production is brilliantly made by digikuva. He also gave the title.
Yesterday I uploaded another fixed version of the same pic, in B&W, made by Clearly Ambiguous. I really like that one too, a most dramatic version. But digikuva did a very nice job with the colours here! I thought they were irrecoverable but I was wrong, here they are!
I also like a lot the texture of the rock and the clearness of the human figure on this version.
Thanks a lot!!!
I remember when i took this photo. I was sat on the kitchen floor, the mariotte syphon was taped to a chair, camera remote and flash in one hand, whilst my other hand held a cup under a stream of fast dripping water. To get a clean picture you had to quickly move the cup from under the water, press the shutter and then the flash in a split second. I know it was a nice collision because you concentrated so hard and they were so hard to get. Not like today when all you have to do is press a few buttons and bobs your uncle....a collision picture. The original of this has had over 4000 views.
I wonder how many people with the electronic triggers actually know the the speed water has to drip to get a collision......There we go a challenge...build a marriotte syphon and manually capture a collision using only one flash and no triggers.
Anyway i received my last few bits in the post from Japan....just need to bolt them to the new setup. Its nothing fancy....i'll post a pic when its done....for you all to laugh at...lol
Iowa Interstate. Still only nine years young in this photo taken a few miles west of Anita, Iowa with hardly a notion of big things to come down the line in the future. It's October of 1993 and this is one of two daily trains on the mainline, but several of them could be found on line at once due to the slow track speeds to get from one end of the railroad to the other. This is BICB(Blue Island-Concil Bluffs). It's counterpart would be CBBI. And that's what made up the Interstate during the early years. Big long local drag freights stopping at every town to switch. There may be two BICB's behind this one that will show up 24 and 48 hours later respectively. Oh, and just to let you know that aren't seeing things, yes, there are 7 Paducah geeps for power. Seven. Humble Beginnings, indeed.
We had a SEO recon mission to Cossington Meadows(!) didn't see any (or much else for that matter). So here's a low-light Robin, higher iso than I'd like, but needs must...
At the top of the Kavanaugh Ridge 4x4 trail. A short hike from the end of the trail. The vehicles gives a since of scale.
I had a wonderful few hours at my friend Lillian's garden hide so there are a number of images uploaded to populate her Flickr Group so please don't feel obliged to look at them all.
There were equal amounts of exhausted parents and young visiting and the summer light was rather harsh at times but I always manage to come home with a selection of garden birds with my favourite bokeh backgrounds. Please feel free to dip in and out, enjoy!