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In the summertime when the weather is hot you can stretch right up and touch the sky
NOT A.I.
(listen below and get your 1970's groove on with Mungo Jerry)
This is basically an overlay of one of my photos (grass covered in melted hoarfrost in the sunlight) with a digitally created image (T2D, DDG) I have decided to texture it since I liked the patterns of light on the face originating from the photo but wanted to soften them for better balance.
...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.
Dean Koontz
For Smile on Saturday - gemstones
~ previously posted in colour as 'close encounter' .. something about this particular image fills my heart with joy. I love images that express freedom.
~ look at it on black.
La primavera ha sparso forme e volumi quasi casualmente in questo paesaggio umanizzato della collina. Oggetti, superfici e volumi colorati con tonalità delicate di giallo, di verde nuovo o di bianco. Ne è scaturito un armonioso disordine, che proprio per il fatto di essere armonioso è solo apparentemente un disordine. Perché la Natura ama il disordine, ma lo coniuga sempre con l'armonia ..... ..
...That’s why I’d Love to Hang my Hat in Tennessee.
A bit of a twist of the lyrics from George Strait’s 1987 Country Hit Recording : )
Last October, the Mrs. and I enjoyed a week in the Beautiful State of Tennessee. In addition to visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a Bucket List item) we had a delightful day at the gorgeous Cumberland Mountain State Park located in Crossville Tennessee.
The Byrd Creek Bridge is the centerpiece of the Cumberland Mountain State Park. The seven span bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Cumberland Homesteads Historic District. The Byrd Creek Dam is the largest masonry structure ever built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Men of the Civilian Conservation Corps built this unsuspended bridge between 1935 and 1940, for a 30-acre impoundment of Byrd's Creek. Three thousand five hundred and fifty cubic yards of dirt and rock were excavated and the core, containing 8,000 tons of concrete, is faced with Crab Orchard stone for the 319-foot span. Seven spillways, rising 28 feet above the stream bed, carry the 18-foot wide roadway approximately, which is 16 feet above water level.
Cumberland Mountain State Park began as part of the greater Cumberland Homesteads Project, a New Deal-era initiative by the Resettlement Administration that helped relocate poverty-stricken families on the Cumberland Plateau to small farms centered on what is now the Cumberland Homestead community. The 1,720-acre park was acquired in 1938 to provide a recreational area for some 250 families selected to homestead on the Cumberland Plateau.
(Nikon Z6, 14-30 lens @ 14 mm, 1/100 @ f/22, ISO 500, edited to taste)
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is an orange day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Crazy Tuesday is : In the middle. Mr. Teddy Bear is with us in order to celebrate Happy Teddy Bear Tuesdays. And it is a very strange coincidence, since Mr. Teddy Bear is in the middle of a very, very interesting book. It is a criminal and international intrigue and Mr. Teddy Bear loves it. He decided to take a picture when he will be exactly in the middle of his book, and that is the picture you see today.
And not only, Mr. Teddy Bear is in the middle of his book, he is also in the middle of this picture ! Isn’t that awesome ?
Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! Have a beautiful day !
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!
Play of light on the surface of the burn (stream).
For Richard 💙 Good night, sweet prince.
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
From my archives; cropped and screen shot from iPad.
“In restless dreams, I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone…
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you;
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence…”
🎼 “The Sound of Silence” - Simon & Garfunkel
Olympus OMD-EM1
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a purple or pink day at Color my world Daily and we have an awesome theme at Smile on Saturday: in spooky company. So basically we celebrate Halloween which is tomorrow ! Is there something more spooky than objects levitating around your house ? Well, if you are me: spiders would be an answer ! So here we go: a levitating egg in spooky compagnie of spiders !
If you are celebrating: happy Halloween my friends !! And don’t eat too much candies !!
See you later ! Mucho, mucho amor for you all !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!
In Messina, Sicily, there is a church tower with a mechanical carillon dating from 1933. The tower is almost 50 metres high and can be climbed. From the top you have an interesting view of the church square. I took three pictures of a man crossing the square and superimposed them.
And this was our second last evening in Iceland and we already started feeling intense sadness for having to depart soon. more so after spending the evening at such a splendid spot: Kirkjufellsfoss waterfall, where we camped nearby at night to enjoy this place to the maximum.
The first time Timmy and Snoop met, 6 days after Timmy moved in with me.
Little Timmy and Gentleman Snoop checking each other
In loving memory of wonderful Snoop (5/2005 - 16.10.2020)
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Happy Caturday 24.1.2026 "Visitors"
Sorry, I didn't have the time (pensioner stress 😁) or opportunity to take any new photos this week. So I had to dig into the archives.
over ten years have gone by
we can't rewind, we're locked in time
but you're still mine
♡ Simple Things - mommy & me planter
@ Hello Tuesday sale TODAY, mainstore 50L, run hurry, get one!
Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful pedestrian streets in the historical center of Moscow.
The street got its modern - and at the same time historical - name thanks to the Kuznetsky Bridge across the Neglinnaya River. Today, Kuznetsky Most Street attracts citizens with its high-quality landscaping, an abundance of architectural monuments and an unusual relief: due to the significant difference in heights between Petrovka and Rozhdestvenka, the city landscape looks especially picturesque.
Kuznetskaya Sloboda on the high bank of the Neglinnaya River - Neglinnaya Upper - appeared in the 12th century, but its heyday came only at the end of the 15th, when the Cannon Yard was built in the vicinity, and the Moscow prince Ivan III ordered to settle in it blacksmiths and grooms who served new production. At the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, Novgorod and Pskov were annexed to the Moscow principality, and craftsmen of various professions from these cities were moved to the Neglinny Upper.
In 1737, the street burned out during the Trinity fire, but rather quickly new buildings were built on it, in which foreign shops began to be located. Gradually, the street turned into the abode of foreign trade: the French showed particular zeal, opening fashion and haberdashery shops here, thanks to which Kuznetsky Most became the main shopping street in Moscow. During World War II and the fire of 1812, it practically did not suffer from the fire, since the French guard took over the protection of the business of compatriots. After the war, trade flourished again, and many fashionable shops were opened on it (almost all of them were foreign, most of them were French). The abundance of foreign shops made Kuznetsky Most the most fashionable and aristocratic street in Moscow, which it remained until the 1917 Revolution.
During the Soviet era, the street lost part of the historical buildings, many buildings were rebuilt, and the street gradually took on a modern look.
After the reconstruction carried out in 2012, the Kuznetsky Most section from Bolshaya Dmitrovka to Rozhdestvenka became pedestrian.
Today Kuznetsky Most Street is a well-maintained pedestrian zone, where city holidays and festivals are often held.
Despite the losses of the Soviet years, a large number of architectural monuments have been preserved on it: tenement houses, partially preserved city estates and passages. Among them are famous Moscow sights: the building of the Moscow International Trade Bank, Khomyakov's trading house and others.
In a moment of warmth, the lovely, mellow sun of September peaked through the rain clouds to smile on the beauty of the University and the River Kelvin in Glasgow. I love the light and the plants persistently growing between the bricks/stones on the bridge :)
Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile."
~ John Howard Bryant
Swirling images in her head ... belief in promises made, hope not forgotten, and finding peace within, at the Clubhouse.
Shoutout to "Adventures in Second Life" Clubhouse ♥
*Süntelbuche im Herbst*
Last Wednesday I drove to the northern Eifel to catch a few autumn moods. Fortunately, the over 200 year old dwarf beech tree on a Celtic burial mound near Blankenheim still had a few autumn-colored leaves ... and occasionally the sun came out.
Letzte Mittwoch fuhr ich in die Nordeifel, um ein paar herbstliche Stimmungen einzufangen. Die über 200 Jahre alte Süntelbuche auf einem keltischen Grabhügel bei Blankenheim hatte zum Glück noch ein paar herbstlich gefärbte Blätter...und gelegentlich zeigte sich auch die Sonne.
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Today I took, wait for it 1,098 photos. 98% of them were leaf floaters like this. I LUV this one so very much. I've posted before I have even viewed the rest. I had a feeling it was going to be good. My camera screen is really small, hard for me to actually see if it is good, but I could see I liked the colours. It really do like thisone. I have several of this leave, as it moved closer and closer. Nothing was touched. The water was perfect again. I guess the high winds have blown debris to the shores. It was difficult to shoot as this wasn't my usual spot. I had to squat and capture inbetween fence posts. You might have to put up with me and my floaters considering I took amost 2,000 and if this is any indication I am goung to have heck of a time deleting. Thanks in advance to all who take the time to comment and for the kind words (hopefully) and for any fave. Have a super day. 🙋♀️🍁
Il sole ha scavalcato i profili rocciosi che chiudono la valle verso est ed ora la luce dilaga sul versante. La temperatura cancella il velo di brina dai prati e fa risplendere il bosco spoglio di carpino nero. Nel contempo la dissimmetria climatica con il versante oposto raggiunge i massimi livelli. Su quello in luce è quasi primavera; su quello in ombra è inverno profondo e senza neve ..... ..
So far March has been quite dull, windy and rainy in East Westphalia. Time to have a look at the days to come soon.
My #1 target species in Sandestin this week - Amanda's pennants - were in good numbers but only in one stretch of one freshwater pond at Santa Rosa Beach. Not a pennant we have in North Georgia, so these were lifers for me a year ago down there. I've popped in & out of Flickr this week - so will be around to catch up! If I missed a shot you really want me to see - just drop me a note so I don't miss it. Hope everybody is good!
One from May..!! Think this maybe a type of 'Hawkweek'.. but by no means sure.. Best viewed in lightbox
HBW..!! Thanks for stopping by.. have a splendid day..
Three seedpods of the “devil in the bush”, I love that name :)
This is almost 5cm.
Happy Macro Monday.
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♂ Aeshna mixta was flying this morning over the Peñarroya chimney pond in the Cartagena seaport. (5% Crop and backlight!)
It was -25 and (according to the internet it felt like -35). We had left Calgary at a little after 7:30 and trekked into the canyons. I’ve hiked to these falls numerous times before in the winter and found them completely frozen so I had been praying that they would still be running – thank full my prayers had been answered.
This was my ideal scenario, ice with the water rushing behind it. The combination of the two was something I haven’t seen a lot of before and in a week from now these falls will likely be frozen solid so luck was certainly on my side.
View large and, as always, thanks for looking!