... and rain can be as beautiful

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Then why do you always SEEK outside? If you are so understanding why don't you borrow a lamp from me and search inside?

1. Seeds of light waiting to be born, 2. It rained today!, 3. Buds, 4. Feathered

Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/claudio_alvarado/ I know now for sure that this is a kind of Mimosa, " Albizzia lophanta "

Some men see things as they are and say why...

I dream of things that never were and say why not.

"George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah"

Day 8 - I made it hrough the week :)

All I have to do now is another 357 days and 357 different ideas. No problemo!

Started proper plans for my trip to india today too. I now know how expensive it will be. I am going to have to get used to living on trains too! but it will be totally worth it. India, nepal, cambodia, vietnam and thailand. If i dont get good pictures from that I am taking out my eye!

A local surf shop in Pensacola Beach, FL. Taken with an iPhone 5.

I eat the crumbs of God

"Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes in all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

— Saint Paul

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves."

Mondnacht

Es war, als hätt’ der Himmel

Die Erde still geküßt,

Daß sie im Blütenschimmer

Von ihm nun träumen müßt'.

Die Luft ging durch die Felder,

Die Ähren wogten sacht,

Es rauschten leis die Wälder,

So sternklar war die Nacht.

Und meine Seele spannte

Weit ihre Flügel aus,

Flog durch die stillen Lande,

Als flöge sie nach Haus*

[The night of the moon

It was as though the sky

had silently kissed the earth,

so that it now had to dream of sky

in shimmers of flowers.

The air went through the fields,

the corn-ears leaned heavy down

the woods swished softly—

so clear with stars was the night

And my soul stretched

its wings out wide,

flew through the silent lands

as though it were flying home]

*Joseph von Eichendorff

This is in dedication to my Grandmother... it's one of her

favourite poems. She is 93 years old and in the process

of leaving this earth.

"God has put us who bear his Message on stage in a theater in which no one wants to buy a ticket. - 1 Corinthians 4:9 (The Message)"

— Saint Paul

The healing power of Linden flowers...

Linden grows in temperate climates of Europe, Asia, and North America. There are many different species of linden that are used medicinally. Regardless of species, the flower of the plant is the part that is most frequently used in medical preparations. While sometimes referred to as a lime flower, linden is not related to the lime fruit. Linden has been used in European folk medicine for centuries for a wide range of health conditions.

Created by Dorothy L McCuller

This is the combination of two photographs: on original and the same just mirrored... then stiched together. The original is taken with open shutter moved over colored materials.

The beauty of childhood. Pure love. This is my best friend Heidi's son, Michael. I have loved him since he was just something Heidi and I imagined happening down the line in her life at some point. He has always been a pure joy for me.

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven."

— Saint Paul

This clematis montana has the most delicious

babypowder scent. She climbs up on our house

on the afternoonsunny side...

One of my favourite english roses in my garden. She has heart-shaped petals

and a wonderful rose scent.

I have lots, lots of work waiting... so I will be back with you tonight

to enjoy your photographs! Have a wonderful day everybody!

1. Before the world was made… the innerlight of Sarah.K was!!! :))), 2. The Apples, 3. Friday Harbor - Outbound Tune Session, 4. Dunnigan Hills, 5. Repertory Fan, 6. Hendrick's, 7. The last rest / El último descanso, 8. La Tarte au Citron, 9. the author looms above his page (365-195), 10. Dreaming............., 11. bookish, 12. bluegarter

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

This is a game by cast on cast off.

The rules:

Using fd’s Flickr Toys,

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?

2. What is your favorite food?

3. What high school did you go to?

4. What is your favorite color?

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

6. Favorite drink?

7. Dream vacation?

8. Favorite dessert?

9. What you want to be when you grow up?

10. What do you love most in life?

11. One Word to describe you.

12. Your flickr name.

Tag yourself if you want to play!

Hybrid Tea rose Marilyn Monroe. Captured in the garden.

Real prayer can only be yours

When you have staked and gambled yourself away

No photoshop!!! This was the real color of the sea!

This pic belongs to my series "LightWorlds".

I love to work with symmentries: this is the combination of two photographs: on original and the same just mirrored. The original photo (left half) was photographed with the camera - slow shutter - moved over colored materials.

Fouramjava... you are right with the title!!! It has to be this one.

Flämmchen (little flame, the children called her this way because of the flame on her front). She is proudly posing on top of our car... one of her favorite sunny places.

The last of six sessions with my DSLR photography class for Tomaree Community College - this one at "Inner Light" - Little Beach, Nelson Bay. Shot taken by one of the students with my camera.

Was trying out some flickrtoys... I kept this one: I like the focus on the leaves edge...

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

The Inner Light is a historic lighthouse - now museum - with annex a cafe with a million dollar view.

A moment of happiness,

you and I sitting on the verandah,

apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,

you and I, with the garden's beauty

and the birds singing.

The stars will be watching us,

and we will show them

what it is to be a thin crescent moon.

You and I unselfed, will be together,

indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.

The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar

as we laugh together, you and I.

In one form upon this earth,

and in another form in a timeless sweet land.*

*RUMI