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

What makes you thrive?

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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.

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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...

“Fan the inner flame that shows us

More and more of our true home

Revealed in our children

To embrace each as our own

There is no race or color

That separates the soul

For we are all a family

And in unity are whole

There is no one religion

That can claim authority

All true Masters love each other

And continue within me

No more hate and no more hunger.

No more weapons of despair.

No more “I” and “mine” takes over

Or is spoken anywhere

Every child who lives among us

Has the right to run their course

To behold the flame within them

And to know its very Source”

Ganga Fondan, 2009

Children are such a target for all the anxious ways that we have not grasped who we are in relation to the Universe. This posting is dedicated to the Vision that we may discover clearer pathways for ourselves and thus enable our children to be powerful leaders to carry on regeneration of the world. It is meant to depict that we do not carry the light but are made from the light itself The following awe-inspiring quote is the source of the passion of this posting tonight:

"You are the spark of the blaze and the spark has all the power of the blaze to create the same blaze." - Tulshi Sen, "Ancient Secrets of Success for Today's World"

Have some fun with Juan Luis Guerra...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcP6pJDZkBE

Saturday Night Sunset - The Light Between The Lights.

...meaning: slow internet connection ;-)

Lotus Flower, specifically the Sacred Lotus or Nelumbo nucifera. Also commonly referred to as a Water Lily, Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA. This was taken in 2007, one of the last blooms of the original planting decades ago. The Lotus Flowers completely died out in Echo Park Lake in 2008 for unknown reasons. There were no blooms in 2008. The city is working on plans to plant them again under more favorable conditions.

These were the best lotus flowers I have seen and I am looking forward to the replacement plants.

Here is a shot of another lotus from the same lake that surprsed me with the mystical inner light they seem to posess...

www.flickr.com/photos/14176959@N05/2540037842/

Wishing all of you a wonderful sunday and Mothers' Day as well

I will be back with you tonight!

It was an amazing sunny and windy morning today........

let the flowers dance....... I liked the blur that came out.....

showing their movement in the wind.

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