My first attempt with HDR...

Without your Light shining

What would these hollow eyes see?

Without your Voice sounding

Would these ears be of use to me?

Without your Hand guiding

I don’t know where I’d be…

Without your Love flowing

Endlessly

Without your Words of courage

This passion would be gone

Without your Songs of comfort

This ache would linger on

Without your Joy and Wonder

There’s no desire to be be free

Or pass on this Flame

Burning within me…

©Ganga Fondan, 2003

I've been following many of the news stories of the frustration and unrest in so many countries...people standing up for a better world for all of us. Until we all realize who we are and live from the center of Knowing, our journey must continue as it is. I used to sing this song to conquer so many hard moments and now it gives me so much joy because I realize that without deep sustaining connection to our true Power, we must struggle the hard way with our illusions of security through possessiveness and entitlement. Now is the time to stay connected and solidly remind each other while many others run blindly after profit and selfish motives. Deep within, beyond personality of identification, beyond the body, we are all One.

I know I am repeating my models...... but I just head to take some more photographs of this wonderful cozy seedlings.

New texture, for my Mystic set.

If you use this texture, please credit me with a link back to this page and a sample of your work (small size) in the comments. Thank you!

Please, do not claim nor redistribute as your own.

Taken during a foggy morning with the sun suddenly emerging out of the fog in an enourmous size...

This is the bud of a wonderful hydrangea kind: "Hydrangea macrophylla"

She grows really high up (more than 2 meters by now).

...changing my morning walk into a morning run. There`s not much light left any more...

so the camera has to stay at home and Sulaika is so happy to go out for a run with me :)

We had lots of fun this morning...

Of us is expressing there....

Without going out of your door

You can know all things of earth

With out looking out of your window

You could know the ways of heaven

The farther one travels

The less one knows

The less one really knows

(hear the beatles song)

The beatles knew nothing but the truth!!!!!

The temp, at sunrise, was 1ºF when I took this.

This is part III of my latest Helleborus Series

Here is some Folclore out of Wikipedia:

Several legends surround the hellebore; in witchcraft it is believed to have ties to summoning demons. Helleborus niger is commonly called the Christmas rose, due to an old legend that it sprouted in the snow from the tears of a young girl who had no gift to give the Christ child in Bethlehem. In Greek mythology, Melampus of Pylos used hellebore to save the daughters of the king of Argos from a madness, induced by Dionysus.

During the Siege of Kirrha in 585 BC, hellebore was reportedly used by the Greek besiegers to poison the city's water supply. The defenders were subsequently so weakened by diarrhea that they were unable to defend the city from assault.

Some historians believe that Alexander the Great died because of a hellebore overdose, when he took it as medication.

Every living thing has some type of inner light that make it thrive.

What makes you thrive?

Best

Viewed On Black

NOTE: I'm off to NYC today so I'll be back tonight to comment on all your lovely photos.

Thanks for the support, darling flickr people!! xoxo

A jellyfish in motion, glowing from the inside out.

I see the beauty in every human being.

I feel the love.

I understand the dreams.

I'm grateful for the moment.

We're all on this journey together.

St. Joseph Inner and Outer Range Lights.

... taken with a Nikon (my usual camera is a Canon)

...but they are just to look at, don't eat them.......

they are poisonous!!! LOL (poison ivy)

Thank you Denise and Bonnie for the title...

My adoration spreads wings

When thou commandest me to sing

it seems that my heart would break with pride;

and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes.

All that is harsh and dissonant in my life

melts into one sweet harmony -

and my adoration spreads wings

like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.

I know thou takest pleasure in my singing.

I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence.

I touch by the edge of the far-spreading wing of my song

thy feet which I could never aspire to reach.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself

and call thee friend who art my lord

GITANJALI

Songofferings

by Rabindranath Tagore

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 young vineleaf is growing on the house wall right outside my window.

The early morning sun was hitting it so strongly I first thought these shots might

not turn out. The brick wall in the back let it look rather pale so I changed my angle

until I had the red downspout behind. It is then when I thought... wow, great reds!

Here are two of the shootings.

Bokeh of dancing colours

Many bees on flickr these days... here is mine ;)

The beginning of the Memorial Day weekend, 2017.

Based on my calculations, this was taken 1.2 miles away from the lighthouses.

Best viewed on black...

Last nights sunset was so stunningly beautiful...

I missed the best... until I had the camera out and

ran up the stairs... but there was still some dramatic

beauty left.

This magnolia stellata is in dedication to my little niece: Stella for her first birthday!

...Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

But you are life and you are the veil.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

But you are eternity and you are the mirror *

* Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)

For the real experience: much better on large!

I know... quite a jump from the fragile spring beauties to these winter photographs... I am just working with my laptop and found a file with some of my winter photography...