Silence is golden, but my eyes still see.......... ♪♫

Quiet golden hour

Pitt Meadows, BC

Canada

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Flores de Santa Gemite - 091621-4

There is this small park between the bus stop and my house. In January 2026 it will be covered in snow and offers an exciting play of the three colors blue, white and orange. The Polar Express could also stop here at Christmas.

it is said, in our family lore, that we are descended from citizens of every country that claims stubbornness as a trait ~grin~.. but oddly enough, given my name, not switzerland

HMM - "printed word"

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The Granite Dells is a geological feature north of Prescott, Arizona. The Dells consist of exposed bedrock and large boulders of granite that have eroded into an unusual lumpy, rippled appearance. The Granite Dells are 1.4 billion years old. Lake Watson is a manmade lake near Prescott Arizona. The combination of the Dells and the lake make for some very interesting scenery.

I processed this picture with Photoshop and a little help from Dynamic Auto Painter. I used three textures, each of which had to be modified in Photoshop to make them useable.

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This is me coming back. Never again will I allow someone to make me feel less. To tell me my face is to manly, my body doesn't look right, and my skin is not light enough....that I wear to many tattoos and piercings. My own insecurities are enough...never will another man add to them...Take me as I am, or keep walking. This is me finding me again.....this is me coming back.

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is there anything more peaceful than a mom duck with her ducklings?

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Gibt es etwas friedlicheres als eine Entenmutter mit ihren Küken?

THIS PERFECT WORLD is the topic for Wed April 27 2022, Group Our Daily Challenge

He is going through a molt (you can see all of his pin feathers on his gorget). He is going to be a real beauty once his feathers come in.

This is a classic place, "world famous" in all of Gothenburg :) Also, my Flickr queue is growing and this is already a couple of months old, so ... snow!

My husband is going for surgery today, his shoulder.

Hope he will heal and have no more pain.

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends." ― Lamartine

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Richter

"Music is an outburst of the soul." ― Delius

♡

This is the one of the busiest junction of the city but the light trails of the cars make it looks beautiful. Even the traffic makes a photographers feel happy. One can easily figure out the right moving ways by the color of the lights. :-)

Is summer over already?

Evening at Pywells Lock, Grand Union Canal, Leicestershire around sunset on 18 August

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Osteospermum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Calenduleae, one of the smaller tribes of the sunflower/daisy family Asteraceae. They are known as the daisybushes or African daisies. It has been given several common names: African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy. Osteospermum used to belong to the genus Dimorphotheca, but only the annual species remain in that genus; the perennials belong to Osteospermum. It has been given several common names: African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy. There are about 50 species, native to Africa, 35 species in southern Africa, and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula. They are half-hardy perennials or sub-shrubs. 35951

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

~ Leo Nikolaevich

Took this shot of the giraffe at Mapumgubwe, peeping at us before it went down to the waterhole to drink. I couldn't help but be amused by the expression on its face. We were in a hide but clearly it knew we were there despite the fact we were silent.

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La Cappella del Barolo is a never-consecrated building located in La Morra, in the Langhe region. It was reinterpreted in 1999 by the artists Sol LeWitt and David Tremlett.

The building was originally built around 1914 by some farmers working in the surrounding countryside and vineyards as a place of refuge and temporary shelter in case of storms or other weather.

In 1971 the building was bought, together with the surrounding land, by the Ceretto family. After falling into disuse and years of neglect, in 1999 the Ceretto family entrusted a modernist reinterpretation to the genius of artists Sol LeWitt, who did the external renovation, and David Tremlett, who repainted the entire interior.

On the outside, the building is characterized by geometric shapes in strong, vivid colors designed by Sol LeWitt, a master of conceptual art.

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For Crazy Tuesday : Guess what it is

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The Aurora is a very strange phenomenon that gives you very little warning that it's about to light up the night sky in a rather spectacular way.

An hour or so earlier that night we'd be treated to a fleeting glimpse of green dancing across the sky but that had soon faded along with our hopes of a getting a memorable photo.

So at midnight i trundled off to bed feeling slightly deflated that the famous Icelandic light show had been ever so meagre but now I realise patience is the key where the Aurora is concerned.

30 or so minutes had passed but as i lay on the bed trying to sleep I noticed the window behind the thin curtain had a strange glow about it.

With that I was up, I threw on a coat grabbed the camera and raced outside giving Dom a shout on the way.

Yep spectacular, amazing, jaw dropping - the sky bright green and full of dancing light in every direction. I'm so glad I didn't nod off to sleep!

The stairway to heaven is out of order

This is a hybrid iris, developed from species native to Portugal, Spain, and North Africa.

Photo taken while on my visit to the Tower Hill Botanical Gardens, Boylston, Ma. June 8, 2023.

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One of the most common and widespread sparrows in North America. Fairly large with a long, rounded tail. Overall coarsely patterned with gray and brown, usually with more reddish-brown wings and tail. Look especially for thick brown streaks on the underparts and a broad dark mustache stripe. Significant variation in plumage geographically: relatively pale and rusty in the southwestern U.S.; blacker streaking in California; overall dusky in the Pacific Northwest. Larger, longer-tailed and usually more rusty than Savannah Sparrow. Found in a variety of scrubby habitats both near and far from human development, especially edges of fields, often near water. Listen for husky "chimp" calls and melodic song with chips and trills. (eBird)

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Always happy to see a Song Sparrow. This one is in fresh breeding plumage and looks great against the pale grey background of the Ottawa River.

Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. May 2024.

The legend of this fruit: The 'Crab Apple' got its name many many years ago. Infact it was shortly just after the wheel was invented sometime around my birth date. A farmer was sitting on a bale of hay when suddenly from out of the heavens a bright light caught his eye. He followed it to earth only to discover a 'Space Crab' perched on a tiny apple in his orchard. From that day to this the little apple is known as a 'Crab Apple' ..... or so the legend says :)

Taken Macro 1:1 for the group #MacroMondays theme: #Fruit

Drifting back into reality these are 'Crab Apple's', very small wild apple fruits, the largest apple is about 3/4 of an inch, beloved by Blackbirds especially and too sour for us humans to eat from the tree so is usually made into a jelly or a drink. Here they are on heavy textured paper illuminated from above and below using diffused LED lights.

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Happy Macro Monday!

Winter is here. White, beautiful, cold and with amazing scenes all around, winter is a favorite season to be on that hill near the town and take some pictures.

Life is beautiful, celebrate it.

For someone with a smile so bright, may you’ve just sunny days and happy ideas in your life. Wish you an amazing year ahead.

It took the damselfly about 5 minutes to shed its skin and emerge into its final form. The stubby wings take another 10 mins or so to inflate and the damselfly will rest for a few more minutes before taking its first feeble flight. At this stage, it is very vulnerable to birds and was hiding deep in the foliage. Over the next few days it will develop its colours. Having spent a year or two underwater growing from a deposited egg, it will only live a few weeks as an adult. hopefully surviving long enough to breed. The empty skin shell is called an exuvium. Hundreds of exuvia were visible in the reed beds.

Fall is here obviously :D

Op 30 december 2019 was de fraaie 1618 van Captrain onderweg met een beladen LPG-trein als trein 51053 vanuit de Sloehaven. Anno 2023 staat de 1618 in Amersfoort terzijde, rijdt deze trein bij DB Cargo en is de fraaie bomenrij in de achtergrond gekapt.

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Happy Truck Thursday

This is yr wyddfa just popping in the back on a sunny day end of July.

What is the meaning of Yr Wyddfa?

According to the park authority, the Welsh name Yr Wyddfa (pronounced Uhr-with-va) means grave and myth has it that the giant Rhita Gawr was buried on the mountain after a battle with King Arthur. It says Snowdon comes from the Saxon snow dune, meaning snow hill.

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Should it be more subtle?

Should I be more subtle?

Was that the sound of us?

Lets call it our language. The moon language.

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