After a long rainy day the sky cleared up in the evening. I went on a walk into the vinyards (you see them at the very left corner)... For a change to all my macros I started to take some skyscapes ... and the sunset which will follow tomorrow... I really have to go to bed now :))

A note: I think I am getting inspired by all the beautiful skies from Helmut Gondim... so Helmut, this one is for you :)

www.flickr.com/photos/helmutgondim/

... a wonderful and lightfilled friday to all of you!!!

... dancing with the wind!

We had a fantastic Ipernity/Flickr meetup on Saturday...

visiting the "Museum Insel Hombroich"

Here you'll find some more about this meetup:

www.ipernity.com/home/lightspectral

This is one of my favourite summer flowers! I absolute love the combination of the rich yellow petals with the warm red/brown centre! And: the buds have an amazing arquitecture. I decided to do my "tipical" approach... leaving the "main subject" in a a dreamy bokeh - focusing on the bud.

...for the little beauties alongside your path!

I will be back this afternoon/evening to go through your wonderful

photographs & comment......... the weather outside is so

incredible warm and sunny: I just have to go outside! See you...

Yes, I know, this is nothing but thy love,

O beloved of my heart -- this golden light

that dances upon the leaves,

these idle clouds sailing across the sky,

this passing breeze leaving its coolness upon my forehead.

and my heart has touched thy feet. *

*Rabindranath Tagore

Holy Light

Holy light

Cast away

In cold worlds

Of material form

Locked away

For ages

Waiting in darkness

It strives

To burst its bonds

Of material force

But being opened

By divine will

The smallest foramen

Will suffice the light

To emanate

Holy light

Whirling around

Embracing the form

Bestowing its gift

Of color and warmth

Melting her away

To merge

Into One

Being now

Holy form

(c) 2007 M.R. Schulze-Vorberg

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A "sambucus nigra" leaf. Behind you see the very late afternoon sun glowing in the autumnal coloured leaves of another plant.

Rose in my container garden

Both light and shadow

are the dance of Love.

Love has no cause;

it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets.

Lover and Loving are inseparable

and timeless.

Although I may try to describe Love

when I experience it I am speechless.

Although I may try to write about Love

I am rendered helpless;

my pen breaks and the paper slips away

at the ineffable place

where Lover, Loving and Loved are one.

Every moment is made glorious

by the light of Love.

~ Rumi ~

While looking for wonderful drops to photograph I found this

mosquito (don't know which kind it really is...) seemingly holding

up the leaf with the big drop. When it flew away... the drop came down.

It had such a meditative attitude...

I wonder

Spirit dreaming duality

Spirit dreaming reality

Spirit dreaming vision

Spirit dreaming itself

I wonder

HKD

Und der Rinpoche flüsterte: Wachzustand und Traumzustand haben eine und dieselbe Quelle: die Seele oder das Selbst.

After the frigid cold winter, Daffodils and Jonquils (narcissus) have spread everywhere, their bulbs secretly multiplying in the icy cold ground. I have never been so happy to see spring!!

These little flowerbuds passed a long time covered up... waiting to be free

and expand their little heads... now, they are free at last!

We had a wonderful sunny sunday... spring temperatures! I worked in my garden today. Before cutting away all dry flowers I had to take some last pictures of them... glowing in the sun.

She carried her truth like light.

There’s power in stillness, and in this image, she holds it fully — poised, unflinching, and seen.

This is one of the few portraits I have of her, and perhaps the most revealing. Not because of what it shows, but because of what it dares to say:

“This is me.”

My daughter Maya Magdalena is going to her first holy communion today.

So this beautiful flower goes in dedication to her and her special day...

This is also the reason for my flickr abstinence for today...

... first signs of spring

I think a lot about who I used to be and the mistakes that I have made. It’s as if I am afraid to move forward out of fear of being pulled back. Temptation is everywhere… waiting. It waits for you to make a misstep and fall into the deep, dark, cycles of comfort. There is no comfort in growth.

www.adbrucephotos.com/in-fear-there-is-temptation/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/adbrucephotos/

The Inner Me, the Outta Me, something in between, something in the middle, it's above and beyond, but it's all inside me. It's just an idea, an idea of my soul, of my outta me and my inner me, something bigger than that, but never too far. It's near enough, but not touching. It's kind of controlling me. Controlling who? Yes, that's the right question. finally. Ripped and eviscerated.