Magic~*

Have a Wonderful Month!

The anemonas in my garden are in full bloom... I think over the last years I must have taken over 100 photographs of these beautiful garden dancers... still I couldn't withstand this morning... it was difficult to limit myself to upload only four of them ;)

Wishing all of you a wonderful start in the week! I still haven't caught up with all of you after returning from my vacations... there are over 160 flickrMails waiting to be answered oder looked up (those who marked me as a contact). I feel sooo sorry I am this behind. Hopefully when school starts in a week I will have some more time to be with you!

With My Beloved

With my Beloved I alone have been,

When secrets tender than evening airs

Passed, and the Vision blest

Was granted to my prayers,

That crowned me, else obscure, with endless fame;

The while amazed between

His Beauty and His Majesty

I stood in silent ecstasy

Revealing that which o'er my spirit went and came.

Lo, in His face commingled

Is every charm and grace;

The whole of Beauty singled

Into a perfect face

Beholding Him would cry,

'There is no God but He, and He is the most High. *

*Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Quaysiyya , Sufi saint and poet 717-801

For more information on her see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabia_Basri

I was amazed by her tongue ;))

London, one camera ago.

'Coffee shops' were unknown to London when this beautiful place was built (once a tea parlour, perhaps?)... They call it Globalisation.

Published in Pour Me A Heavy Dose Of Nostalgia

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Reblogged by Memoi Memo, Myport and 98 others

Meaning: the "Inner Light", if you are lucky enough to have one, comes from the outside.

What divine drink wouldst thou have, my God, from this overflowing cup of my life?

My poet, is it thy delight to see thy creation through my eyes and to stand at the

portals of my ears silently to listen to thine own eternal harmony?

Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them.

Thou givest thyself to me in love and then feelest thine own entire sweetness in me.

GITANJALI

The offering songs

Rabindranath Tagore

Let the Light Shine Within!

Love is the cure,

for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain

until your eyes constantly exhale love

as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.*

*Rumi

A wonderfull and lightfilled sunday to all of you!!!

Dedicated to my dearest friend S! I am with You!

Special thanks to 'Playingwithbrushes' for the texture!

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The Blue Hour, 30 minutes after sunset.

Series: Details of a red rose II

In dedication to all my wonderful spanish Flickr friends!

Hi dear friends, This is the picture I send to the crestock photo contest entitled "Speed Demon", I would like to ask for your kind support so I could be a possible winner of a Canon professional camera. Also I would like to thank my friend Ilina for the link to this contest... Check out her shot, she won the contest in the second round!

youtu.be/E8jo7DBxaos

View my stream on black with darckr

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Sometimes... I don't feel like seeing crystal clear, too crisp images, just some with light, somewhere, inside. Often, they're clear enough. Why would I want to do something else, then? :)

Let's try on black... :) medium - large

When you are feeling blue

I will watch you through,

The one you can depend

I'm your angel friend.

In your darkest hours

I will bless all flowers,

So they'll blossom for you

With love pure and true.

And if you want me to drop by

I'll be here waiting to fly

Then catapult thru the open sky

To catch you on my first try.

Copyright © 2009- 2015 Tomitheos Self Portrait Photography - All Rights Reserved

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To honour the Ginkgo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the following poem:

GINKGO BILOBA

The leaf of this Eastern tree

Which has been entrusted to my garden

Offers a feast of secret significance,

For the edification of the initiate.

Is it one living thing

That has become divided within itself?

Are these two who have chosen each other,

So that we know them as one?

I think I have found the right answer

To these questions;

Do my songs not make you feel

That I am both one and twain?

(J.W. v. Goethe)

Y en Espanol:

GINKGO BILOBA

Las hojas de este árbol, que del Oriente

a mi jardin venido, lo adorna ahora,

un arcano sentido tienen, que al sabio

de reflexión le brindan materia obvia.

¿ Será este árbol extraño algún ser vivo

que un dia en dos mitades se dividiera?

¿ O dos seres que tanto se comprendieron,

que fundirse en un solo ser decidieran?

La clave de este enigma tan inquietante

Yo dentro de mi mismo creo haberla hallado:

¿ no adivinas tú mismo, por mis canciones,

que soy sencillo y doble como este árbol?

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... serene soul .... serene song

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being"

"Je voudrais pouvoir vous montrer, quand vous êtes seul ou dans les ténèbres, l'étonnante lumière de votre propre être.”

--Hafiz of Persia

and nothing else matters (set)

Because some days are a time for meditation ...

PLEASE !!!! MUCH BETTER IN LIGHTBOX : LARGER and on a REALLY ALL BLACK background (unless you use,as I do, this hack which brings back to the old page)

So CLICK the 2 opposite arrows at the top right corner

or View On Black

(wanting this image to be seen on an absolutely black background , I didn't add a very thin white border, as I usually do . The new grey background does not fit, in my opinion because it is too dark , darker than those of the Adobe softwares , PS / LR , which are perfect )

Portrait of a King Jayavarman VII , king of the Khmer Empire of Angkor

the famous enigmatic smile of Angkor

Musée Guimet . Asian Art , my favourite museum in Paris

Chaillot, Paris, Ile-de-France, FR .

Google Map

Nikon D300 Nikkor 16-85VR

Settings: 1/30 ƒ/4.8 ISO 1000 38 mm Flash (off, did not fire)

processed with SEP2

Cette tête est en grès jaune-rouge , Merci SEP2 pour la conversion , sinon c'est galère !!

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personal favourites on Flickrock ( nice presentation )

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Thank you for taking the time to stop by

Sorry for not being much present , Still busy (and getting tired more and more often and quickly)

Just trying to do ALL I can , see you asap

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Dear Administrators , thank you very much for your kind invitations , much appreciated

I want to apologize, I might be very slow to take them ...... lack of time :((

I wanted also to apologize to my FB contacts ...... I can't visit FB for now, because of an absolute lack of time for all websites.....

Flickr is still my home , the oldest ..... !!!!!

.... Peux pas tout faire , moi :))).

Internet isn't a full-time work !!!

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Happy Sliders Sunday... HSS !!

Wish you serenity at all times. ...

Life is fragile ...we're dust in the wind .....

" Vanité des vanités .... car tout est vanité et poursuite du vent. "

" Vanity of vanity , for all is vanity and chasing after the wind "

(Ecclesiastes 1:14)

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SVP ! PAS d'Invitation dans des Groupes Privés

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