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The widowers tale -
“Late at night when all the world is sleeping, I stay up and think of you. And I wish you were still here.
So, VersaEmerge had some technical difficulties at their SXSW Purevolume show. Blake's 9 volt battery died, and no one had another one.
Kinda funny how you can't play an electric/acoustic without a battery.
But since no one had another battery available, they just decided to get down to our level, and play a zero electricity involved song, in the crowd, less than a foot away from me.
:))))
Thank you VersaEmerge, for giving me one of the best concert experiences in a long time.
The Relief [art.,geog.] of Emotions - no Light without Shadow - more Light than Shadow - lay down - relax - abandon it to heaven -
Windows of Opportunity" have been on my mind a lot. We are tentatively scheduled to take a May tour of Bryce & Zion canyons with Road Scholar in May of 2022. The COVID numbers are rising. If I were in my 40's , I would wait and say that there would be other opportunities "when life becomes more normal (safe)". I am in my mid-70's and healthy. There is still the thought in the back of my mind as to how many windows of opportunity will be in my future. We will decide as the time draws nearer.
I am reflecting, not complaining. We have weathered the pandemic well and our living situation is comfortable. I have also had many opportunities in the past to experience other places. The Irish rover in my genes still longs for a look beyond my present horizon, however, and it's a nagging feeling.
There will be one other post in this "windows of opportunity" series.
beauty of nature
Nature. The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
At my brothers home, one of the 10 oldest in the town, built 1750, was formerly a stage coach stop. The house is decorated throughout in period fashion.
NOT A.I.
The song of the Sedge warbler is varied, rushed and chattering, with sweeter phrases and some mimicry, typical of the Acrocephalus warblers. It is composed of phrases in random order, so that it is never the same. Male sedge warblers which have the widest repertoire mate with the largest number of females. (Wikipedia)
rietzanger - sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Drops of rain by KrystynaMaria Postawa
Drops of rain behind the window,
tears in my eyes...
A dark sky,
a lonely heart...
A lot of grey, sad days -
these are days without you...
Somewhere blossoms the azalea -
not for me, not for me.
The sun will shine again,
when you will appear here.
The flowers will smell again,
when you will stand near...
You will smile at me,
you will cuddle me,
you will hold by my hand
and take with into your dream...
Drops of rain behind the window,
tears in my eyes...
I found this beauty this morning coming in the door to my house. She was calling me over...I felt honored to capture her!
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This is what happens when I try to take a shortcut home to make it in time for dinner and end up choosing the least safe route. Sammy and I almost became dinner ourselves!
I'm wearing:
MadPea Shark Bite Hat
MONTANA Tee by Cold-Ash
CHINO Shorts by Cold-Ash
[P.0.E] - Messenger Bag (Demo) Crate
REBELLION = "ELLISON" SANDALS
Props:
Synnergy Flooded Room Backdrop (dismantled and altered for my scene)
Dock piling (2 Prim) by Kagehi Kohn
My lovely pet ♥
JIAN Pets Splashy Spaniels / Brit. Gold
The bitey sharks:
JIAN Sharks
Background was taken at Fruit Islands Surf beach (Frozen Banana)
~ Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ~
Sea of Love by Robert Plant
Here it is on black and oh so nice -
Hundreds of freight trains stranded. Thousands of passengers left with nowhere to go. This was the scene as a series of unprecedented rail blockades saw the wheels of Canada's economy screeching to a halt. But in the middle of it all, the tough town of Englehart and the Ontario Northland Railway stepped up to keep it all on track.
Here, both Canadian National and Ontario Northland EMDs are congregated under the stars at Englehart after battling the elements of Northern Ontario.
Sky over the Nature Preserve
Captured w/Apple iPhone 8 Plus back dual camera 6.6mm f/2.8
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Iridescences of Light.
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I did not see such costumes in Russia ... to my question: who are you? the girls answered that they are messengers of love. And it was appropriate at the festival "Gift Day", we make presents with love :)
beautiful girl with a phone - it's not me :)
Sunrise at Onrusstrand - South Africa. The direction of the light might be a bit confusing to you due to an orange light on the beach shining from behind me, It is probably to protect the beach from poachers. I was a bit disappointed by its presence, but I figured, if you can't beat it join it. It was anyways too late to go somewhere else. So I tried to create some interesting effects making use of it.
F11....30sec exposure -0,3 EV at ISO100 17mm
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Traigh Niosaboist on the Isle of Harris, looking out across the Sound of Taransay towards the peaks of Beinn Dubh, Beinn Losgaintir, and Ceann Reamhair. Catching a wave breaking in 3 places at the same time, in line with the mountains... that's as close as I got to the mark.
Wall of wood , long and wide
Masking the lake, that does hide
Behind the trunks of freezing brown
That now form a winter town
Where the birds sing a song
As they dive and fly along
The wall of wood , stretching wide
In front of the wild blue found inside
More than a year ago already I posted an imago of a romantic couple posing on the rim of the Charyn Canyon (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/49239492492/in/datepo...), a wonderful spot in the far east of Kazakhstan (and the most eastern point that I ended up during this journey, ca 100 kilometer close to the border with China).
After that shot we walked down into the canyon, along a very rough but also scenic path. We ended in this lovely oasis where the river the Charyn has carved its way through the rock formations with all those intense red and purple rocks. And where water is, arid landscapes turn green.
If you want to sleep in this place, there is a campsite and cabins to stay for the night.
20 September 2019 I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
Remember the days of Netscape, dialups and Internet Cafes? Oh. And cassette tapes? LOL
Structure: ✤Garage Shop – Mugen
Balloons, part of ‘dreamers vehicle/cloud express’ RARE – vespertine @ The Dreamers Factory || Ace table – Breno || Zoe Chair – Pine Blue – LISP || iFall (Early 2014) Media Edition – Apple Fall || breeze. (tripod fan red-with sound) – *Art Dummy! || Factory Lamp – Five Minutes After || Rug-O-Rama Gacha ‘cassette tape’ & joystick (RARE) – Bokeh || windows & doors set, white – oyasumi || City Walk Linocut Prints – DIGS
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I am in such a terrible mood this afternoon. My daughter has been so clingy lately. She has been enjoying her ballet lessons for the last couple of weeks but today she absolutely refused to let me go and wouldn't join her class. I am beside myself. To calm myself down, I took this photo but I'm not really happy with it. Or maybe I'm not happy with the way I handled things today.
Highlights of dawn - An early start to catch sunrise on a clear late May morning, with the first light of dawn highlighting a hint of dew on the young spring grass underneath a silhouetted copse of trees
Eshton, Yorkshire Dales
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SENSE OF WONDER
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
God forbid love ever leaves you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance....
I hope you dance,
---Lee Ann Womack
@Bev Zuerlein
Totentrompete, Totentrichterling, Herbsttrompete
[Craterellus cornucopioides]
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dof focus stack of 15 captures
lense used: Sigma 105mm 2.8 Makro
f=4 1/60 sec ISO=100
software used: Helicon Focus 5
Views taken from beyond the Monastery in the ancient City of Petra, Jordan. Captured on the walk from Little Petra to the main site. Captured on the walk from Little Petra to the main site.
Some of you may not recognize the political reference, but when coming upon this remarkable scene, I was immediately reminded of Hillary Clinton's words referencing the "irredeemable half of Trump supporters" mentioned last Friday in a speech to a group of wealthy, sniggering donors. This translates to literally millions of voters and real people. (I found it particularly appropriate that this group was orange in Trump-like fashion.)
While this is not meant to express a personal position, it is meant to point out the unbelievable malaise with our politics as expressed in this election and the words and tactics BOTH sides are now using. As one who has been a close observer of the US democracy for over 50 years, there has never been anything remotely like it and presents a sorry commentary indeed. Whatever the result, the country will be even more severely divided and angry with little hope for compromise on any level whatsoever.
Mkinvarstveri is the peak, which attracts attention among every kind of persons. You don’t need to be a mountaineer, or climber, to stand your foot on that majestic peak. Everyone can conquer Mkinvarstveri, if there are enough desire, effort, right time and essential equipment, and of course, experienced team.
Let’s start with the technical details: Mkinvartsveri is situated on the border of Kazbegi municipality, in Khokh Range. According to many different sources, it is 5033 meters in the sea level. Supposedly, in Winter as the snow covers the mountain, it “becomes” higher. From Mkinvartsveri descends several glaciers: Suatisi, Mna, Ortsveri, Devdaraki and others. From here outflows the river Tergi. Mkinvartsveri is the third highest glacier in Georgia, it is just 150 meters lower, than the highest point- Shkhara in the nation of Georgia.
The summit is covered with snow constantly, does not matter, if it’s Summer or Winter. Here you will come across boundless crevasses, which, unfortunately, absorbed lives of many people. You can get there at any time, but in Winter and Spring it is an extremely dangereuses zone, as there are many avalanches here. Also, in Winter the temperature is sharply low, and one needs special preparation and equipment. For those, who can’t dare to come against such complexity, should get there in the half of Summer, till the last days of September. This is the best time for Mkinvartsveri. During this period the sun shines constantly on those cold slopes of Mkinvartsveri. It is the reason, why snow melts down, so it’s easier to walk and also, it becomes less risky. In the first half of September, the snow reaches the lowest stage, and the risk of falling in crevice is minimal, as the main problem- snow covered crevices are rare at this time. Also, the rain and windstorm “visits” the bride of the ravine more seldom. So, most of the tourists prefer to get there during this period- the beginning of September.
But, reaching for the peak of Mkinvartsveri is not easy at all. You should be really very serious. It’s a sad story, but I have to remind you, that many people, inexperienced, as well as experienced ones, left their lives here, on its white slopes. The biggest enemy here is holes/crevasses, which you can’t notice while walking on the snow, and you never know, when it opens the doors of his heart and cuddle you forever. To avoid such things, hikers use special ropes, where is tied every person of the team. They are walking some distance away from each other, as if one of them falls through the hole, others will be able to rescue the unlucky one. During that dangerous journey you will meet many signs, which warns you not to walk alone, as the Mkinvartsveri “does not like” alone souls, and advise us to walk with our team, roped (!). Another very serious hazard thing is the thunder! Can you believe it? Well, here many lives have been vanished because of thunder. During bad weather, the heavenly powers send affluent energies to the Bride the range. So, if you see, that there are clouds gathering, or it’s about to start raining soon, don’t take a step forward and just go back, somewhere in a safe place. Don’t hurry up! The Bride of the ravine is not going elsewhere. So, just wait for the spectacular, perfect time, chose the best weather, the group, its members and try to avoid the bad things, which you can.
As for the equipment, to walk there, you must have: warm and waterproof jacket, trousers, gloves, special, mountain shoes, mountain-climbers girdle, crampon (climbing iron to ice), adze (walking stick with sharp steel tip for ice-picking), rope and carbine. These equipment one can hire in Kazbegi, or at Meteo Station.
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Suzhou (/suːˈdʒoʊ/; Chinese: 苏州), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the most populous city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Administratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 6,715,559 in the city proper, and a total resident population of 12,748,262 as of the 2020 census in its administrative area.
The city's canals, stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens have contributed to its status as one of the top tourist attractions and liveable cities in China. The Classical Gardens of Suzhou were added to the list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1997 and 2000. Suzhou is often dubbed the "Venice of the East" or "Venice of China".
Suzhou (/suːˈdʒoʊ/; chino: 苏州), también romanizada como Soochow, es una importante ciudad del sur de la provincia de Jiangsu, en el este de China. Suzhou es la ciudad más poblada de Jiangsu y un importante centro económico y foco de comercio. Administrativamente, Suzhou es una ciudad a nivel de prefectura con una población de 6.715.559 habitantes en la ciudad propiamente dicha, y una población residente total de 12.748.262 habitantes según el censo de 2020 en su área administrativa.
Los canales, puentes de piedra, pagodas y jardines meticulosamente diseñados de la ciudad han contribuido a su estatus como una de las principales atracciones turísticas y ciudades habitables de China. Los Jardines Clásicos de Suzhou se incluyeron en la lista de Patrimonio de la Humanidad de la UNESCO en 1997 y 2000. Suzhou es apodada a menudo la "Venecia de Oriente" o la "Venecia de China".