Poppies in bloom in any manner they fancied.

Have a great week ahead, friends.

In a manner of speaking

Semantics won't do

In this life that we live

We only make do

And the way that we feel

Might have to be sacrificed... Nouvelle Vague

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhLFb34nz4&list=RDzXhLFb34nz...

Just returned from a visit to the Maasai Mara where I had the privilege to photograph Tira the rare spotted Zebra foal.He was named Tira after the guide who originally found him( Anthony Tira). This is a very rare occurrence and is the first recorded in the Mara.As I left there are reports that Tira has gone missing with speculation around the manner of his disappearance.

This Male Baltimore Oriole is thoroughly enjoying his grape jelly. I just love watching them eat it - some go about it in a calm, dainty manner while others look like they are shoveling it in as fast as they can. Since their arrival on May 8th, they have already eaten three 32 oz. jars of it!

...hitzefest.

MelodieDreams - Call Of Nature

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwj76Wm8yus&list=OLAK5uy_lked...

wenn ich in meinem Minigarten, sprich Balkon, sitze ist die Kamera immer schussbereit...

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allen Besuchern und Freunden meines Fotostreams ein herzliches Dankeschön für eure Kommentare und Kritiken, Einladungen und Favoriten. all visitors and friends of my photostream, a heartfelt thank you for your comments and reviews, invitations and favorites

...wilde Kerle.

Nothing fancy today

Hope you're all having a marvellous Monday... is that an oxymoron??

Love

xo

not for the sake of being different, but because the individual is different and the individual express himself :-)

Harry Callahan

Science Matters!

prunus mume, white japanese flowering apricot, 'Big Joe', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

...wie hinter Glas.

...erdverbunden.

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This was taken when we were returning from Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico.

From my archives. Large view is better

Many thanks to all those who view, fav or comment my pictures. It is much appreciated.

(ich schreibe sie dennoch klein)

...manchmal ratlos.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place

Henry John Temple

...Schlafwandler.

...ein Schatten ihrer selbst.

One Republic - Wild Life

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAG_SpfUVs

I'm staring at these sudden waterfalls

Tears that don't make sense to me at all

This life's what happens when you're making plans

Don't know what happens next or where I stand

Wanna live this wild life wild every day, woo

Wanna say the things people never say, woo-ooh

I'll take all the love and all the pain, eh

Wanna live this wild life wild today, oh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Give me all your love and all your pain

Gon' live this wild life wild today, oh

I'm staring at these faded signs ahead

But all these turns just fill me up with dread

But life's what happens when you're making plans, woo

Dive or step right in but please don't stand, oh

Wanna live this wild life wild every day, woo

Wanna say the things people never say, woo-ooh

I'll take all the love and all the pain, eh

Wanna live this wild life wild today, oh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Give me all your love and all your pain

Gon' live this wild life wild today, oh

Itapirubá

...gern außer Haus

Cubura Jasmin Pants for Jake Legacy Enzo Kario

Cubura Mainstore

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pure%20Love/126/115/23

Group tag 30% off

Cubura Flickr Group

Hongdae Event, opens at 26th maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hongdae%20District/117/128/23

Dr Dog _ The Breeze

www.youtube.com/watch?v=atV-wZrBDkw

Are you moving much too fast?

And the good times that just don't last

If you're always on the go

Make an angel in the snow

And freeze

Do you feel like you're stuck in time?

Forever waiting on that line

If nothing ever moves

Put that needle to the groove

And sing

Is it a dream keeping you awake?

Is it the stillness that makes you shake?

If you need to know for sure

What's on the ocean's floor

You'll sink

Do you like things the way they seem?

Or are you looking behind the scenes?

Well, if you've gotta know

What it takes to make it sow

Just believe

Are there dark parts to your mind?

Hidden secrets left behind?

Where no one ever goes

But everybody knows

It's all right

Do you get dizzy on the ground?

It must be something going 'round

What blows us here today

It'll blow us all away,

The breeze

Ahh, will blow us all away

The breeze

Ahh, will blow us all away

The breeze

Diane Warren, Rita Ora, Sofía Reyes, Reik - Seaside

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rnRRjiH7M

Yeah, oh, uh

All the worries, worries

I'm gonna leave them behind

Leave 'em in the city, city, uh

Leave 'em on somebody else's mind

Gonna get up, get out, yeah

I'm gonna jump on a plane

Leave my troubles all a million miles away

Well, you can live your life

Stuck at a traffic light

Walking down crowded streets I'll be

I'll be seaside

Sitting on the sand drinking a mai tai

Waking up and soaking up the sunlight

Sunlight

I'll be seaside

Watching all the seagulls flying so high

Looking at our future looking so bright

So bright

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

If you're looking for me

I'll be busy, be busy, nah

Busy doing nothing all day

Y bailando con toda mi gente

Veo que no me dejas de ver

Mientras la música suene

Aquí pegaditos al mar

No me pienso mover a otro lugar (na, na, no, no)

Well, you can live your life

Stuck at a traffic light

Walking down crowded streets

We'll be

We'll be seaside

Sitting on the sand driking a mai tai

Waking up and soaking up the sunlight

Sunlight

We'll be seaside watching seagulls flying so high

Looking at our future looking so bright

So bright

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

If you're looking for me

(Hermoso es pa'llevarte)

(A la playa con una medalla)

(Tu cuerpo sobre el mío, ese combo no falla)

(Que tu me digas tus fantasías)

(Y yo las mías)

(Cuanto extrañaba como lo hacías)

(Flotando en el aire) aire

(Como hacen las aves, eh)

(Brillando con highlighter)

(Como dicen Rosalía y José)

I'll be seaside

Sitting on the sand drinking a mai tai

Waking up and soaking up the sunlight

Sunlight (sunlight, sunlight)

I'll be seaside

Watching all the seagulls flying so high

Looking at our future looking so bright

So bright

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

If you're looking for me

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

I'll be seaside (woah-oh-oh)

If you're looking for me

I'll be seaside

(Diane Warren)

...gentlemanlike.

...nachdenklich

This is a capture of a Great Egret with mating plumage. Great egrets develop long, ornamental plumes on the back during the breeding season and spread them (in a fan-shaped manner) like peacocks during the courtship.They are just incredible to see during this period.

...dort, wo oben ist.

...tänzerisch.

Foto: Petra Wruck

Blondie - Call Me (Alon Cohen Remix)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i-MB41MTwk

Colour me your colour, baby

Colour me your car

Colour me your colour, darling

I know who you are

Come up off your colour chart

I know where you're comin' from

Call me (call me) on the line

Call me, call me any, anytime

Call me (call me) my love

You can call me any day or night

Call me

Cover me with kisses, baby

Cover me with love

Roll me in designer sheets

I'll never get enough

Emotions come, I don't know why

Cover up love's alibi

Call me (call me) on the line

Call me, call me any, anytime

Call me (call me) oh my love

When you're ready we can share the wine

Call me

Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo, he speaks the languages of love

Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo, amore, chiamami, chiamami

Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo, appelle-moi mon cherie, appelle-moi

Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any way

Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any day-ay

Call me (call me) my love

Call me, call me any, anytime

Call me (call me) for a ride

Call me, call me for some overtime

Call me (call me) my love

Call me, call me in a sweet design

Call me (call me), call me for your lover's lover's alibi

Call me (call me) on the line

Call me, call me any, anytime

Call me (call me)

Oh, call me, oo-hoo-hah

Call me (call me) my love

Call me, call me any, anytime

[fade]

...ganz nah dran.

...immer gerade aus.

Rio de Janeiro

... still vergnügt.

Having fun fiddling with a Macro!!!

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Rio de Janeiro

Late day light filtering through the clouds from the west bathes the land ... while stormy skies in the east bear down in a threatening manner ... it would soon be pouring down.

...ganz bei sich.

...eingezwängt.

(Hier: Olaf Scholz und sein Alptraum

vom 87. Corona-Nachtrags-Haushalt.)

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Do not use without permission.

The top of an Etruscan cinerary urn, showing the deceased man reclining comfortably in a banquet-style manner, leaning on some cushions. His torso is bare, but he is wearing a wreath. The round thing he is holding is a libation bowl.

The urn is made of alabaster, comes from Chiusi, Italy, and dates to the second century B.C. The name of the man is written on the lower part of the urn. On display at British Museum. (Calling this an urn can sometimes give people the wrong impression - it is a vessel meant to keep the ashes of the deceased, but it is much, much, much bigger than a modern funerary urn. The measures for this one (including the bottom part) is: height ca 105 cm, length 85 cm, and width a little over 40 cm.)

Schönes Wochenende!

brauchen nur 3 Dinge 😊😊😊

...formbar.

...anlehnungsbedürftig.

Rollei 35 SE

Fuji Sensia 100 Dia

Deutscher Färbertag in Friedrichshafen/Bodensee 1990

This is a recent photo that I will never be able to take again, as the Central Park Conservancy in its great wisdom has cut down this and the sole neighboring tree. Swallows used to perch here after their furiously fast flight. The Swallows and I will have to find another tree… At the Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York.

The Heddal Stave church (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/30679417426/) is one of the biggest stav churches in Norway, and dates back from the 13th century. It has been restorated several times, and not always in the correct manner. But this sanctuary part is IMO quite nice, and in a way gives you the feeling stepping back in time! It was the first time I had to use an ISO setting of 2500. Normally I would never do that, because it is not the strongest point of Sony camera's. But I had no choice, it was almost dark inside and I didn't bring my tripod with me.

With some help of Lightroom and different denoise filters I was able to come up with this. It could have been worse.

Lovely valleys, bare mountains and cold winds, snow packs, glaciers, beautiful lakes, and then there are the enchanting fjords that never stop to amaze. The most beautiful country of Europe, for me no doubt about that, with only one minor aspect, which is the weather. During my month of traveling I only had 4 really nice days, the rest of the time clouds, rain, and very changeable! Still no regret, and I will go back to make even more than the 3500 pictures that I took this time.

Another very active vacation that took me to the south west up to Trondheim in a sort of triangle between Oslo- Trondheim and Bergen with the whole route visible here (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153668247101759&set...).