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Underwater moment of proud father & daughter learning to swim, taken on a test run using a GoPro Hero 3 and then colours amped up slightly using Photoshop.
The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life… - C. S. Lewis
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A Local’s Insight: 5 Marvelous Floating Markets near Bangkok
Original photo credit: Emphyrio
Life Lessons Personal Kanban 2012 edition. This is the wallpaper on my computer(s) for 2012.
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Today's post is a very special one to me. It's an image of a truly amazing bird, the arctic tern, feeding it's young. these birds are amazing for they accomplish a feat that seems almost unbelievable.... for they travel from their arctic breeding grounds in Alaska to Antarctica and back each year. That's about a 40,000 mi trek each year. Over the course of their lifetime, they fly over 1 million miles. That to me, is absolutely amazing.
In this image, an arctic tern parent takes care of its young, by offering up a freshly caught fish to the newbie. It's such a touching moment to watch, as the young one sits patiently waiting for the parent to return - mouth open, calling out, and anxiously accepting the fish "transfer".
That pretty much sums up this image - at least on the surface - but today this image represents so much more.
See, I recently was informed that, Klaus Peter, a very special member of our flickr world has passed away. He was a tremendously talented photographer in his own right. To me though, he had so much more going for him as well. He was a special friend and a kind soul who always was there to help you out and offer lots of advice and yes, had TONS of fun along the way. He will be sorely missed by anyone who had the fortune to have had their paths cross in life. He was truly one in a million!
So, for me, this image reminds me of Klaus. For he was the guiding force behind many of us and like this parent tern, was always there to lend a helping hand to anyone who needed it.
While many of us close to Klaus are trying to imagine life without him, we know that he'll forever be etched in our memories and we'll smile at the way that he lived life to the fullest.
I wanted to share a quote that a friend of our shared with us recently on facebook - for nothing could be more appropriate at times like this.......
"There are 5 things in life you cannot recover: A stone...after it's thrown. A word...after it is said. An occasion...after it's missed. The time...after it's gone. A person...after they die. Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile..."
Thank you for being part of my life Klaus. I will miss you! RIP, my friend! (May you find your ever-elusive coots - LOL).
Please feel free to look through his amazing work, if you're unaware of Klaus, for I'm sure that you'll be glad that you did. www.flickr.com/photos/kjpweb/
Kendi and mom each picked different colors from a huge box of Crayola markers to draw a rainbow, then we compared our rainbows. This is Kendi's Rainbow Horse!
Too much whiskey: I have a problem.
No more whiskey: I have a different problem.
So much whiskey: I have NO problem.
Tarot and castles inspire my mind to separate and joint ventures. Historically the two may not have mixed together that much, but the cards popular in Italy and France did make it over to Scotland and availability in print of the cards and the opening of castles to tourist has arrived at the right time for me to join the two historic inspirations to tell stories and to suggest paths that I might like to ponder at leisure. The early and maybe the original cards that still survive are elaborately hand painted scenes displaying figures showing their worldly station in life and the role they play in society. The cards offer up a pictorial Bildungsroman, or educational story, as they reveal a coming-of-age adventure as the central characters are presented with rites of passage and encounters through which they transform in old terms morally and spiritually. Whilst those terms still apply to this day the development of perception, philosophy and education gives us ideas of the Tarot images allowing us to gain psychological insights of developing ourselves through symbolic cultural awareness of the world we all live in. Some have suggested that Tarot cards might have been popular around betrothals, or weddings in Italy with 15 partial sets of cards named Visconti-Sforza being dated from the middle of the 15 century. If they are such the intricate designs were expensive artworks commissioned for noble families.
Some sources have the cards being brought into Europe as gaming and gambling items from Mamluk sources once in Egypt and later warring their way through Turkey. This for some fulfils ideas of Gypsy Tarot being from Egyptian roots and the Gypsy bloodline being from Egypt via the Ottoman and Hungarian Empires. Other sources see the Aleph Bet, the 22 Hebrew letters and can find a route for such thoughts and symbols to come out of the Levant, where from the translation of the French name of ‘the rising of the Sun’ a radiant journey can be traced through Southern France and Spain which helps to bring Qabalah into Tarot. Sure footed and well founded as castles are they are well set to stand in comparison to the vagaries of potential Tarot histories.
Tarot and castles can be linked as the former preserve of nobility whose patronage has left us strong ruins and delicate relics giving us a history in which the majority were included and to which we can now join in and adapt if we wish to do so. The cards shown here are from The Mythic Tarot conceived by Liz Greene and Juliet Sharman-Burke with illustrations by Tricia Newell. First published in 1989 the 78 cards feature images of goddesses, gods, demigods, heroes and the others from the mythology of Ancient Greek. The castle shown is Tantallon built and remodelled over several stages hosting Queens, Kings, noble ladies and valiant knights with heroes and the others amongst their ranks. The castle is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland and is available to visitors with opening times being available through the link below.
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Tantallon Castle Near North Berwick, East Lothian, EH39 5PN
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What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life. - Neale Donald Walsch
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20 Romantic Thailand Resorts for Honeymooners and Couples
Original photo credit: yogabelloso
The folks from Yo Gabba Gabba passed through Tacoma on their nationwide tour to entertain children of all-ages.
Kids growing up today are subject to much more then they need, from violent television shows to the convenience of divorce because it's the easy way out, Yes I know sometimes divorce is the better of two evils but don't use children to serve your needs. Once you have children your only need should be to raise the best possible children you can. As an adult and parent you are not only responsible for raising your children to be the best they can be but you also need to guide the children in your neighborhood. I am not saying you need to punish other peoples children but maybe alert their parents to their misdoings. As a parent I would be pissed off if my neighbor didn't try to correct my child's bad behavior or bring it to my attention so I can fix his behavior and actions.
With out the proper guidance your child will go from a bottle of baby formula to drugs and alcohol before you have a chance to correct them.
You can spend all your free time with your kids teaching them and it's still not enough.
You only get one chance to raise your children so please do it right.
"the only thing wasted in this picture was expired baby formula"