Made from a shot of a pewter heart, my own.

 

For:

Challenge 20. ~ VIVID RED ~ Vivid Art ~

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The flower is tiny and looks like a Teddy bear:-)

 

HSS!

 

For my "One of a kind" flower images project.

 

Ajuga has been used as a natural remedy for cough, respiratory disorders, hormonal disorders, nosebleeds, heavy menstrual bleeding, anxiety, sleeplessness, hyperthyroidism, tuberculosis, and heart palpitations.

It was their clothing which caught my eye.

two steps back, smile and ... in walks Mr. Checkered shirt - click.

a singular moment which brings photographer's palpitations.

have a great day my fine Flickr friends ---

♬ Pink - Bridge of LIght

 

Inspiration from The Grove Country Club Estates

 

Just when you think hope is lost

And giving up is all you got

And blue turns black, your confidence is cracked

There seems no turning back from here

 

Sometimes there isn't an obvious explanation

Why the holiest hearts can feel the strongest palpitations

 

That's when you can build a bridge of light

That's what turns the wrong so right

That's when you can't give up the fight

That's when love turns night-time into day

That's when loneliness goes away

That's why you got to be strong tonight

Only love can build us a bridge of light

 

(from "Happy Feet Two" soundtrack)

  

… says, Little Billy! ; 0) Last year I put the decorations away in a hurry. This year I decided to be more organised and sort them out properly in boxes and these festive zip-up bags, but Little Billy had other ideas! : 0))

 

“Let love and humour sweep away the fanfare and drama of your life.” - AP

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBY722rb2M

YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE – LeANN RIMES

 

Simplicity

live simply

inhale breath deeply

hold fast to your beliefs

exhale; breathe slowly

slow down the palpitations

find the truest rhythm of your heart

muffle your innermost screams

quieten your mind

feel at one with your surroundings

open eyes wide

really see past all the fanfare

that deafens you and blinds you to the simple truth

clear the space

smudge and burn

erase the painful memories

store the precious ones within your heart

let your soul rejoice in what is now

a little cat who found himself a home

who rescued you and made you whole

this moment is complete within itself

the brokeness you felt before he came

dims and melds with fleeting shadows

dissipates like wisps of smoke

the light shines brighter now that he is here

Little Billy bless him for he is ma joie de vivre

 

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Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission

 

May every day be filled with the spirit of Christmas <3

“Disembodied, my mind takes over

and takes me far beyond my imagination

where Unicorns play and day by day

the rainbows grow ever brighter.” - AP

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMzwguj_5Gs

WHY WORRY - DIRE STRAITS

 

Hello everyone. I hope you are all well. I am 11 days into my self-isolation. I am doing fine. Had some pain in my left lung for a couple of days and some palpitations, but have been singing trying to clear it and seems to be working. Slept much better last night and actually had a day without dozing off, filled with sunshine, cats and an overwhelming feeling of gratitude for all the blessings bestowed on me. Thanking God for all the people who are looking out for me. I don't feel alone or lonely. How can I be lonely with 8 cats surrounding me with love anyway! : 0) I spend a lot of time in solitude, retreating from the world in times of illness and/or mental anguish (the two seem often to go hand in hand). This is my norm. The clocks have sprung forward 1 hour, so it is actually still sunny daylight out there, but a freezing cold wind has whipped up from the North, so I came indoors. Take care everyone. I recorded a song today and am playing around with snippets of video taken in my gardens. Hope to upload it soon. Love to you all. Stay hopeful, my friends xxxxx

 

Paint a Rainbow with your smile

let Hope form wings and let it fly

help each other; the extra mile

may save a life not let one die

colour the world with good not bad

keep your distance but deep inside

hold those you love close to your heart

to keep them safe we must abide

the birds still sing and so do I

blessed are my gardens; a heaven outside

safely cloistered behind these walls

the world in chaos; let peace reside

in our hearts and souls as one

minds in unison; wheels within wheels

since this crisis first begun

Clap for Carers; the ones who heal

eight o'clock every night

stand outside and smile and wave

clap hands together and set the world alight

for kindred spirits and the brave

our world has changed beyond recognition

we must adapt so we survive

let our plans come to fruition

beat this disease so we can thrive

I've never seen so many neighbours

in the village there is a Hub

caring for others their selfless labours

include me in their beautiful club

a lot of them don't even know me

but still they ask me what I need

I'm on the inside but they are free

I hope one day I will be freed

at the moment it's not so bad

I have my cats, my gardens and you

I try very hard not to be sad

but I miss my friends and family too

It's not the same to virtually see them

I cannot get a hug or kiss

I know it's not just me that is condemned

to live this new way, but still I miss

the freedom and the privilege

of walking to the shops

all those things we take for granted

I was living in a bubble but now it's popped

but I still have oodles of imagination

can paint a rainbow with my smile

I hope you like my funky creation

Unicorns will never EVER go out of style! ; 0)

 

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Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission

 

Bridge of Light_Pink_Happy Feet

  

Just when you think

Hope is lost

And giving up

Is all you got,

Blue turns black,

Your confidence is cracked,

There seems no turning back from here

 

Sometimes there isn't an obvious explanation

Why the holiest hearts can feel the strongest palpitations

 

That's when you can build a bridge of light,

That's what turns the wrongs all right

That's when you can't give up the fight

 

Songwriters: Alecia Moore / Billy Mann

 

Taken @ Cherishville

 

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I grew up in Missouri, land of rolling green hills decorated with broad Oaks above endless corn and wheat fields fed by the broad Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

I remember moving up here and seeing my first volcano, Hood, and having to pull over it was so amazing and then arriving here and having Rainier 50 miles away, you can't always see it, but you know it's there. 'the mountain's out' is a thing here, it's not just me, but if you are tired, beleaguered, or, I don't know, totally freaked out by the way the world is right now.....just look UP, you are not alone and the world is a wonderful place.

Persist as such

Distinguish qualities

Color succeeds to color

 

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Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.0.1

 

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Taft Point is one of the most dangerous locales in Yosemite National Park. As you can see there is a railing....around a 5' section!

 

The fissures here drop directly to the Yosemite Valley, about a 1000' below. For a guy who doesn't feel comfortable beyond the third rung of a ladder, this place induces non-stop heart palpitations.

 

Still, it is undeniably worth the hike and worth photographing. My wife and I spent about an hour exploring this area and watching other people do some crazy things along the edges.

 

If you get to Yosemite NP, this is a worthwhile hike, because it's fairly easy and along the Glacier Point road. The views are stunning, and the experience is something that will stay with you a lifetime.

Maitreya+Genus

 

Skin - Glam Affair Polly Applier [Genus ] Gacha 005 - 08

Eyes - ::Pharmacist:: Inspirited Eyes - #6 HEIR, #7 SERVANT

Hair - TRUTH Poetry

 

Outfit - Insomnia Angel . houndstooth stovepipe hat [pure]; houndstooth ouji lolita

Boots - Addams // Piper Heeled Boots //

Earrings - [ADN] PALPITATION

© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved

 

Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

 

On my way into Glasgow yesterday I collapsed at the bus station. I suddenly felt faint, noticed my heart rate had halved to 30 beats per minute, felt my blood pressure drop as I checked my pulse, pins and needles in my hands and my vision closing in. Fortunately I lowered myself to the floor before I passed out completely.

 

An ambulance ride, pin cushion arms (that will soon resemble a paint by numbers) and several hours in the hospital later, I am at home pending an outpatient 72 hour ECG test.

 

Finally, however, my ectopic palpitations, arrhythmia and bradycardia have been noticed by the right people. Since Covid I have suffered these episodes where I get a cluster of symptoms for a week or two and then I am fine for a few weeks. Seemingly at random. Hopefully by the time I get the ECG test it will capture an episode of the arrhythmia as my previous 24 hour ECG didn't see anything.

 

Trying to push through and get into Glasgow yesterday was a mistake but I did feel fine when I left home. Lesson learned and I am now resting, a lot.

 

I hope that you are all having a great weekend and are able to enjoy some photography. I shall get my vicarious enjoyment through your images here on Flickr. Take care.

Fab Free, your home for the best deals and gifts across the grid! Today I've got a Spookzilla prize from CryBunBun, hurry!

 

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"Stay Hungry" by The Talking Heads

 

Stay hungry, stay hungry, stay hungry

Move a muscle, move a muscle, move a muscle

Make a motion, make a motion, make a motion

Pull it tighter, pull it tighter, pull it tighter

Double beating, double beating, double beating

Double beating, double beating, double beating

Palpitation, palpitation, palpitation

Stay hungry, stay hungry, stay hungry

© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved

 

Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

 

I hope that you are all well. I am continuing to rest with horrible periods of ectopic arrhythmic palpitations that can last anywhere from a few minutes up to an hour or more.

 

Sleep is good however. More needed.

 

I am sure that Glasgow will still be there when I am fit enough to get back out with my camera.

 

Take care and take photos my friends.

Anything but kissed awake. No, caught by - 12 degrees. Due to climate change, some trees have buds far too early. The small icicles are like a shimmering kaleidoscope. One of the 5 days when it was winter here. Unfortunately, because I love winter. The old, wise owl, as always, sat on the roof of an old, simple house, probably her castle, because the roof looks like the battlements of an old castle. The bench next to the house was empty. I am sure that the owl witnesses many love stories and heart palpitations. I wonder what it would be like, if she could tell one of them? However, definitely not on this cold winter morning, because her moustache was frozen. I wish I had brought a longer lens.

 

Nice weekend, ya all!

 

For a little more warmth I used NIK Collection -Colour Effex-Pastel!

 

The Riverwalk building, Pimlico.

La infancia es una época de luz, de inocencia , de inquietud, de aprendizaje. Los niños pueden despertar la parte más sensible, cálida y divertida de los que les rodean, es lo que consiguió este pequeño al que conocí en mi último viaje en tren. Él solo consiguió aliviar las tediosas horas, nos relacionó a los adultos, revolucionó el vagón y nos arrancó un montón de sonrisas y palpitaciones.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4sShxhE38&list=RD7x4sShxhE3...

Para aquellos que "meten la pata", buscan formas de arreglarlo y lo consiguen... más o menos;)

.............

Childhood is a time of light, of innocence, of restlessness, of learning. Children can awaken the most sensitive, warm and fun of what they surround, is what got this little one that I met on my last trip on the train. He just got the tedious hours, he made to interact the adults between them, he revolutionized the car and he fixed us a lot of smiles and palpitations.

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FAVES

ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK

 

Passiebloem, goed voor het hart

Hartkloppingen worden door fytotherapeuten behandeld met passiebloem, tenminste dat is één van de medicijnen tegen deze aandoening. Daarnaast wordt te hoge bloeddruk tegen gegaan met deze mooie bloem. Dat is voornamelijk als de verhoogde bloeddruk wordt veroorzaakt door stress. De ontspannende werking brengt het hart tot rust.

 

Passiebloem, goed tegen stress

De kalmeringseffecten van passiebloem komen het best tot uiting in de behandelingen tegen stress. Stress kan migraine triggeren, maag- en darmklachten veroorzaken, verhoogde schildklierwerking als gevolg hebben en diverse andere symptomen zoals nervositeit en concentratiemoeilijkheden opwekken. Door gebruik te maken van passiebloem, als medicijn worden al deze stressgerelateerde ziektebeelden sterk verminderd. Een fytotherapeut zal passiebloem geven aan een patiënt die meerdere indicaties van het bovengenoemde rijtje met zich meedraagt.

 

Passiebloem tegen ontwenningsverschijnselen

Veel van de werkingen van passiebloem betreffen psychische indicaties. Een bijzondere indicatie is het hebben van ontwenningsverschijnselen na een verslaving. Iemand die gerookt heeft of wil stoppen met blowen, drinken of zelfs harddrugs zoals cocaïne en heroïne gebruiken zal zijn ontwenningsverschijnselen beter kunnen verdragen en minder groot zien worden door passiebloem te gebruiken. Dit middel harmoniseert het centrale zenuwstelsel. Een persoon die verslaafd is aan alcohol leidt vaak aan slaapstoornissen. Deze worden met passiebloemthee of andere verwerkingsvormen tegen gegaan.

 

Niet alleen alcoholisten kunnen slaapproblemen krijgen, ook vrouwen in de overgang lijden hier dikwijls aan. Soms word je door voortdurende ongerustheid ´s nachts veelvuldig wakker. De meeste angstdempende medicijnen van de farmaceutische industrie veroorzaken sufheid, maar niet de passiebloem. Het bloemetje neemt angsten en beklemmende gevoelens weg. Overdreven bezorgdheid, paniekaanvallen en insomnia worden op natuurlijke wijze genezen door passiebloem te gebruiken.

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Passion flower, good for the heart

Heart palpitations are treated by phytotherapists with passion flower, at least that is one of the medicines for this condition. In addition, high blood pressure is counteracted with this beautiful flower. This is mainly when the high blood pressure is caused by stress. The relaxing effect calms the heart.

 

Passion flower, good against stress

The calming effects of passion flower are best expressed in treatments against stress. Stress can trigger migraines, cause stomach and intestinal complaints, result in increased thyroid function and induce various other symptoms such as nervousness and concentration difficulties. By using passion flower as a medicine, all these stress-related symptoms are greatly reduced. A phytotherapist will give passion flower to a patient who carries several indications from the above list.

 

Passion flower against withdrawal symptoms

Many of the effects of passion flower concern psychological indications. A special indication is having withdrawal symptoms after an addiction. Someone who has smoked or wants to quit smoking weed, drinking or even using hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin will be able to tolerate their withdrawal symptoms better and see them become less severe by using passion flower. This drug harmonizes the central nervous system. A person who is addicted to alcohol often suffers from sleep disorders. These are counteracted with passion flower tea or other forms of processing.

 

Not only alcoholics can have sleep problems, women in menopause also often suffer from this. Sometimes you wake up frequently at night due to constant anxiety. Most anxiety-reducing medicines from the pharmaceutical industry cause drowsiness, but not passion flower. The flower takes away anxiety and oppressive feelings. Excessive worry, panic attacks and insomnia are naturally cured by using passion flower.

Sometimes the successful timing of a photograph can be measured by mere milliseconds; and such was certainly the case for this image, which flirted dangerously close to a one-way trip to the trash bin. Let me explain.

 

See, the afternoon run of North Bay to Englehart train no. 113 on the Ontario Northland Railway doesn't offer too many options for photographic purists chasing the "perfect light" that so many of us desire. The sun is mostly behind or to the side of the train, save a few locations on the north end for most of the run. But truthfully, none of this concerns me all that much anyhow. And for what may be lacking in ideal sun angles, opportunities to get creative and explore the rich lineside character of the railway abound. One of the signature locations along the line is the town of Latchford, Ontario, with its endowment of natural beauty and, evidently, some humorous residents. When you enter the town, the entrance sign proclaims: "The Best Little Town by a Dam Site!"

 

So, in an effort to put their slogan to the test, I found myself set up beside the Latchford Dam and the handsome Sgt. Aubrey Cosens VC Memorial Bridge. Anticipation of the approaching train ran high as the fast-moving waters of the Montreal River flowed by while the minutes ticked away. The highway was abnormally quiet, I thought, as I waited, with not a single car passing by.

 

Moments later, the familiar sound of an approaching train filled the quiet northern air. Just as the headlights of a tractor-trailer and a single pickup truck appeared on the horizon, seemingly pacing alongside the train. "Oh no," I thought, as I ran some quick mental calculations on whether I'd walk away empty-handed, or if the timing would work. It was a roll of the dice. As the train cleared the first span (at 40 MPH), the RAM 1500 that had trailed close behind the transport, and induced momentary heart palpitations, was centre frame. By the time the train hit the next span, the 1500's tailpipe had exited frame left, not a second prior. PHEW, was that ever close!

 

Anyhow, there's seldom a dull moment on the photographic trail, and these are the experiences that sometimes break, but usually one way or another, make the photo.

“Tú, lector, palpitas de vida y orgullo y amor, como yo.

Para tí son, pues, estos cantos”

 

Walt Whitman

 

—

 

“You, reader, pulsate with life and pride and love, like me.

 

For you, they are, then, these songs.”

 

Walt Whitman

 

—

 

“Vous, lecteur, palpitations de vie et de fierté et d’amour, comme moi.

 

Pour vous, ce sont donc ces chants”

 

Walt Whitman

The well known start of Striding Edge, which can cause palpitations!

© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved

 

Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.

 

A previously unpublished shot from June 2018 with an anonymised subject that is perfect to answer the oft asked question: Why am I not currently doing street photography?

 

I have CPTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Disorder) and have suffered with it for 20 years.

 

I managed to live through the technicolour nightmares, flashbacks, intrusive memories and triggered hypervigilance with a number of coping strategies but the Covid pandemic interuppted those and my symptoms worsened greatly. Over the past 3 years my CPTSD became unmanageable and I became really very ill.

 

I have recently finished a year of intensive trauma therapy which has been a great help but the road to recovery is a long process. Most days I am still unable to even leave the house and face people, and this explains why I haven't even touched my camera for the past 5 months.

 

I am making progress and am proud of what I have acheived to overcome these difficulties but the road ahead will be rocky, and may take some time and intense effort. I do fully intend to return to my beloved 'people photography' as soon as I am able to do so.

 

This is why your continued support while I have been uploading older unpublished shots and re-edits has been invaluable. I am grateful beyond measure for your kind words, favourites and support and it has, at times, kept me going and determined to pick up my camera once again.

 

I recently read someone else's words on CPTSD that sum up the difficulties quite well. I'll leave this here to give you an idea of what I am up against and am determined to beat. Thank you all so very, very much.

 

PTSD is a living hell but I am determined to not let those that did this to me, win.

 

Take care everyone.

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PTSD isn't just flashbacks and memories.

It's not feeling safe when there is no logical reason for it.

It's intrusive thoughts that change your whole mood in a heartbeat.

It's hypervigilance, seeing threats everywhere.

It's not being able to trust your own instincts because you don't know what is a real threat or what is just in your mind.

It's poor sleep because if you close your eyes you know you will see it all again.

It's not being able to function day to day because you are broken and exhausted.

It's feeling like a failure, feeling like you deserve it and feeling like you will be like this forever.

It's feeling like you can't trust anyone so you would rather be alone.

It's constantly dealing with physical symptoms like headaches, nausea and palpitations.

It's like living in a prison made from your own mind beacuse of what someone else did to you.

It's living with the consequences of someone else's actions and the anger that can bring too.

It's getting triggered into a traumatised state by sometimes seemingly random things.

It's being unable to cope with even the slightest thing that goes wrong.

It's blaming yourself and hating yourself for 'failing' to stand up against those who caused the trauma.

Palpitations as the smallest fox kit in the litter of 6 followed her mother halfway across the road, hesitated, sat down in the middle of the road, then lost courage and legged it back to the original den. I was ready to leap out and stop traffic if need be.

  

 

This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.

 

Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.

Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.

 

The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food. Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.[citation needed] However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.

 

It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!

 

Thank you for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)

 

For more: www.indigo2photography.com

Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

  

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In des Wonnemeeres

wogendem Schwall,

in der Duft-Wellen

tönendem Schall,

in des Weltatems

wehendem All –

ertrinken – versinken –

unbewußt – höchste Lust!

 

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Dans le flot ondoyant

De la mer des délices,

Dans le fracas sonore

De vagues parfumées,

Dans la mouvante unité

De la palpitation universelle

S'engloutir - s'enfouir

En pleine inconscience - Suprême volupté !

 

Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie/La Naissance de la Tragédie

 

Bridge Of Light

Pink

 

Just when you think

Hope is lost

And giving up

Is all you got,

Blue turns black,

Your confidence is cracked,

There seems no turning back from here

 

Sometimes there isn't an obvious explanation

Why the holiest hearts can feel the strongest palpitations

 

That's when you can build a bridge of light,

That's what turns the wrongs all right

That's when you can't give up the fight

 

That's when love turns nighttime into day,

That's when loneliness goes away,

That's why you gotta be strong tonight,

Only love can build us a bridge of light

 

When your feet are made of stone

You're convinced that you're all alone

Look at the stars instead of the dark

You'll find your heart shines like the sun

  

Went up to Koolewong this morning to shoot Paddy’s Oysters shed and jetty at sunrise. Timed the trip perfectly.

Stepped out of the car, walked 10m onto the jetty, and shot this within 5 minutes.

One of the easiest shoots I’ve done in a long time.

 

Hope you like “Bridge Of Light”

Cheers, Mike

L'extérieur vu de l'intérieur

This is about as close to a turkey vulture as I ever wish to be. I had been driving along a country road in spring and spotted this fellow as he was perched on the beam sticking out of the top of an abandoned barn. I really wasn't sure what kind of bird he was until I got closer and had a better look at that "face only a mother could love."

 

He tolerated my being there for a few minutes and was probably amused as I stumbled over the old farm rubble trying to get close enough for a picture and I don't for one minute believe he was more afraid of me than I was of him--not with that beak! Quite honestly though, I'm not sure what put me into a bigger state of palpitation: his predatory appearance or whether I'd got a reasonably clear shot of His Nibs. :-D

 

It was a grey and damp day so the sky was as white as paper which is why he's a Textured Turkey.

 

Thank you all so much for your kind comments on my Adora and Shiloh photos and the warm welcome back. :-)

 

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FR : Le 8 Juin 2014, Structure Supercellulaire de type LP ( Low Precipitation) au dessus des terres du Calvados et qui terminera sa course en pleine mer.

 

ENG : 8 th June 2014, Supercellular structure, and an LP one (Low Precipitation) over the Calvados and finished her run over the sea.

 

Calvados / Basse-Normandie / France.

#AbFav_MAY_💐

 

This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.

Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.

Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.

The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food.

Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.

However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.

It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!

 

Thank you for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)

 

For more: www.indigo2photography.com

Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

 

Aquilegia, Granny's-bonnet, Golden-columbine, curvy, "conceptual art", design, flower, bud, purple, mauve, blueish, white, studio, black-background, colour, square, NikonD7000, "Magda indigo"

#AbFav_MAY_💐

 

This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.

Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.

Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.

The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food.

Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.

However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.

It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!

 

Thank you for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)

 

For more: www.indigo2photography.com

Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

 

Aquilegia, Granny's-bonnet, Golden-columbine, curvy, "conceptual art", design, flower, bud, purple, mauve, blueish, white, studio, black-background, colour, square, NikonD7000, "Magda indigo"

Glencoe, Scotland

 

Lagangarbh Hut is situated north of Buachaille Etive Mor near the River Coupall. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and has been occupied and maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club since 1946. It was extensively refurbished in 1994.

 

The hut was originally a crofting home, typically with central entrance hall and stairs ahead, two rooms up and down, left and right. The roofing is still the local Ballachulish slate which covered much of Scottish housing. The walls are of thick stone, built to withstand the battering of gales. The Club planted a shelter belt of trees to the west, from whence roar in the prevailing south-westerlies.

 

That's the factual bit done... now here's the back story (and no laughing in the ranks please!). This was our(my) third location stop on the grand cliché tour of Scotland. I knew parking here could be a bit iffy and that turned out to be the understatement of the day... nay the holiday!. Northbound on the A82, which is a ridiculously fast road with lunatics overtaking from six cars back, and on blind summits and bends, there is only a pitiful piece of wasteland that is boulder strewn, potholed and boggy at best. I could have attempted to park on the nicely tarmacked strip on the southbound side by indicating to cross the oncoming lunatics as well as the speed demons on my tail didn't seem the best option, besides it was full that day... bloody tourists!

 

So I gingerly pulled onto the wasteland in the hope of finding a space... big mistake... huge mistake! Now, I'm heading down the abyss when suddenly a shagged out old lorry that I hadn't noticed decides he's coming up. What he was doing down there I don't know and this is where the nightmare begins... Nice front-wheel drive cars with wide low-profile tyres are not meant to go off-roading... especially in reverse! Coupled with the fact, I'm a townie at heart with no experience of bouncing around the landscape like I've just mastered the lunar-rover. Even while writing this, I'm having flashbacks and heart palpitations... slipping, sliding, wheel-spinning, one wheel stuck behind a big rock, another in a pothole, engine revving... you've got the picture by now. Eventually, I made it out and found a gravel lay-by some 100 yards further down the road. My only consolation - at least I wasn't followed down by a Chinese tourist coach.

 

It's only when I got out of the car could I smell the burning - an all too obvious sign. So annoyed, with getting myself into that situation, I only took eight shots, all without tripod or photographic due care and attention since my mind was preoccupied with the thought of a massive repair bill!. It's the best of the bunch and the moody shot I was after, but the quality sucks!

 

Since that event, this place shall forever be known in the Rousehold as "clutchgate" and as Forrest Gump said - That's all I've got to say about that!

Coprinus

 

Pick them under pines, before their shaggy caps have blotched themselves to ink,

Blooming from the needled ground, where pungent horses’ turds have mouldered,

And the long stems have risen like corporeal ghosts, bruised by your fingers.

 

I like them seethed in milk, as my father cooked them once, when I was small,

And I ate them with relish, then spat into my sleeve, compulsively, in fear

Of poison. I remember them so well, still sizzling in their buttered bath,

In a white dish, and the way their pink-white flesh slithered through my lips,

A paroxysm of sense. The melting in the mouth of my first initiation.

 

Source material: The Shaggy Cap, Coprinus comatus, is quite delectable, and never poisonous, although it should always be eaten before the cap begins to wither and the spores are released. Its near relative, the Ink Cap, C. atramentarius, is also edible, but should never be consumed in combination with alcohol, as this causes alarming symptoms, including nausea and palpitations.

 

Recording from my poetry reading at Longstone Heritage Centre, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, 17th August 2006.

  

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Over 470 plants botanically described and classified by diseases.

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Plants for the eyes

 

The ___, raw or in juices is very good for the sight and for the skin in infusions and poultices.

 

Plants for the nervous system

 

___: The flowers and the leaves of this plant taken in infusions help to control and heal stress, insomnia, depressions, alcoholism, and drug addiction.

 

___: This plant also calms the nerves, beautifies the skin and protects the heart, using its flowers in infusions, or adding an infusion of it to bath water is very effective for insomnia or nervousness. Steam baths of its flowers also soften and beautify the skin.

 

Plants for the throat

 

___: Its flowers and its leaves in infusions, mouth rinse, mouth gargles and compresses are medicine for tonsillitis, pharyngitis and laryngitis.

 

___: Anti-inflammatory and astringent, the decoction of ___ or crushed ___, may be applied in any of the following ways:

 

Mouth rinses and gargles for ailments of the mouth and the throat.

 

Eye washes or blocked up noses

 

Vaginal irrigations

 

Sitz baths, for ailments of the anus or rectum

 

Arm baths, for chilblains

 

Plants for the heart

 

___: In infusions and under medical supervision, all the parts of this plant have properties to strengthen the heart, increase the strength of the cardiac contractions and to fight angina pectoris.

 

___: The infusion of its flowers and also its fruit are very effective for the treatment of palpitations, hypertension and other nervous cardio circulatory ailments.

 

Plants for the arteries

 

____: The decoction of the leaves of this plant is a powerful vasodilator of the arteries to the brain, to fight senile ailments, ageing and memory loss. ____ that is extracted from this prodigious plant is one of the most frequently used drugs today in the treatment of failure of the blood supply to the brain, migraines, hemorrhages, etc.

 

____: In mexico, and many other parts of the world, infusions of ____ and their young stems are used for bronchial colds and respiratory ailments. The oil from its seeds is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, as well as in vitamin E, A, and B. Therefore, it is particularly indicated for reducing the cholesterol levels in the blood, as well as for diabetes, kidneys and skin diseases.

 

Plants for the veins

 

___: A decoction of ____ nuts or wood is indicated to fight varicose veins, hemorrhoids and the disorders of menopause, using it in decoctions. In sitz baths it also alleviates urination disorders, pertaining to the prostate syndrome, cystitis or urinary incontinence. Likewise, it can be highly advisable for cases of hemorrhoids.

 

____: The oil of this plant is recommended for oily skin and for cases of acne. A decoction of the bark of the young branches and the leaves is used as a medicine in the case of heavy legs, varicose veins, phlebitis, in tisanes, compresses, hip baths and friction massages.

 

Plants for the respiratory system

 

____: The decoction of the leaves and the flowers has extraordinary properties, using it in infusions or essences to calm coughs, respiratory and digestive ailments. In baths, rinses, gargles, compresses and friction massages, it heals mouth and anal ailments, rheumatism and headaches, depression, asthenia and exhaustion.

 

____: Infusions of the dried leaves and flowers, used in tisanes give results in the cases of voice loss, acute bronchitis, bronco-pneumonia, asthma, and emphysema. ____ is also very helpful when stopping smoking, since it cleans the bronchial tubes of secretions, encouraging their elimination.

 

Plants for the digestive system

 

____: The infusions and essences of this plant are very appropriate for digestive ailments, colic's, flatulence, etc. Compresses, washes and friction massages are highly indicated for rheumatism, healing of wounds and eye washes.

 

____: Infusions of its leaves and flowered tops have properties to calm pain, they are invigorating and aphrodisiacs. It is recommended in cases of dyspepsia, intestinal wind, digestive spasms and colic, gastric atonia, hepatitis and physical exhaustion.

 

Plants for the stomach

 

____: The juice from this plants leaves heals peptic ulcers. Poultices of the leaves heal skin ulcers. It also improves acne.

 

____: The whole plant in infusions, mouth rinses and cleansing's help digestion increasing the gastric juices, it fights bad breath, it expulses intestinal parasites and calms menstrual pains.

 

Plants for the intestine

 

____: The leaves and seeds are a laxative par excellence, efficient and safe, it stimulates the motility of the large intestine and decreases the permeability of the intestine mucus.

 

____: The leaves and fruit, in infusions, irrigations, gargles, sitz baths and compresses reduce inflammation of the skin and the mucus. It heals digestive disorders, diarrhea, colitis and other ailments of the female genital system.

 

Plants for the anus and the rectum

 

____: All the parts of this vine hold healing properties: The leaves in infusions are medicine for vein circulatory ailments, hemorrhoids, chilblains, varicose veins, and diarrhea. The sap of the vine shoots heals skin irritations and irritated eyes. The ____ cure is very suitable for cleaning the blood. The oil from ____ seeds is highly applicable for excess of cholesterol.

 

____: It improves hemorrhoids taking a sitz bath with the decoction of the leaves and young buds, which also decreases the desire to smoke when chewed slowly. Also in poultices it is very useful to heal wounds, ulcers and boils.

 

Plants for the male sexual organ

 

____: The seeds reduce inflammation of the bladder and the prostate and expel intestinal parasites. The pulp of baked or boiled ____ is ideal for those suffering from digestive problems and kidney ailments.

 

____: This plant is normally presented in pharmaceutical preparations, it invigorates without exciting and without creating dependence increasing the energy production in the cells, therefore it increases sexual capacity and spermatozoid production, invigorating the organism in general.

 

Plants for the metabolism

 

____: infusions of the leaves are very useful in slimming diets due to its diuretic, depurative and anti cholesterol action.

 

____: It fights obesity and cellulite. Its algae have the property of removing the appetite and it is a gentle laxative.

 

Plants for the locomotive system

 

____: Poultices of fresh leaves alleviate rheumatic pain and inflammatory of the joints.

 

____: In infusions, essences, baths, frictions massages, fomentations and compresses it has invigorating properties for exhaustion, kidney colic, and rheumatism.

 

Plants for the skin

 

____: From the pulp of its leaves, the gel or juice is obtained which, when applied locally, in compresses, lotions, creams or pharmaceutical preparations, exercises beneficial effects on: wounds, burns, eczema, psoriasis, acne, fungi and herpes. It beautifies the skin and improves the appearance of scars.

 

____: The leaves and flowers in infusions or oil are an excellent remedy for burns, it moderates the inflammatory reaction, it has a local anesthetic effect, digestive, balancer of the nervous system and antidepressant.

 

Plants for infectious diseases

 

____: All the parts of this plant are natural antibiotics against respiratory and urinary infections. It encourages the functions of the skin. It acts against baldness.

 

____: It is a plant that has multiple anti-infectious properties with healing powers for the nervous system, digestive, respiratory and genital-urinary systems.

 

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Tiger Lily scientifically known as Lilium lancifolium is an introduced herbaceous perennial in the Lily family (Liliaceae). It is an Asian species of lily, native to eastern temperate Asia—China (Anhui, Gansu, Guangxi, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Zhejiang), Japan and Korea. It is widely planted as an ornamental because of its showy orange-and-black flowers and has become naturalized in numerous scattered locations in eastern North America (particularly in New England). It bears the proper common English name tiger lily, but that name has been applied to other species as well. Devil Lily, Easter Lily, Garden Lily, Japanese Show Lily, Kentan, Lance-Leaf Tiger Lily, Martagon, Tiger Lily, Leopard Lily, Pine Lily, Lilium catesbaei, Columbia lily, Oregon Lily, Western Wood Lily, Chalice-Cup Lily, and Western Red Lily are few of the popular common names of the plant.

Tiger lily is regarded as an emerging or potential environmental weed in Victoria. It was first recorded as naturalized in Victoria in 1985, where it was reported to be locally abundant in the Dandenong Ranges. Tiger lily is currently mainly found in cooler highland areas and maybe a potential weed of the alpine and sub-alpine regions of south-eastern Australia. The tiger lily is usually gifted to others as a symbol of friendship. It is, however, also used as a symbol of wealth, pride, and prosperity. Its deep orange color symbolizes passion and love. There are several ancient stories of the tiger lily throughout Asian culture. One of these old myths tells the story of a hermit who found a tiger with an arrow jabbed into his body. The hermit attempted to remove the arrow and save the tiger, but the tiger died. However, the tiger told the grieving hermit that their friendship would survive after its death. Tiger’s body is then converted into the tiger lily flower, becoming an everlasting symbol of their friendship.

Plant Description

Tiger Lily is a hardy, vigorous, bulbous herbaceous, perennial plant that normally grows about 1 to 1.5 meters tall and can reach a width of 30 to 60 centimeters. The plant is found growing in woods, thickets, riverbanks, grassy slopes in lowlands, hillsides and mountains, buildings, cemetery prairies, savannas, abandoned homestead sites, vacant lots in urban areas, roadsides and areas along railroads. The plant grows well in full sun, in a well-drained, humus-rich loamy soil. It is widely cultivated in Asia for its edible bulbs and for medicinal uses. Stems are 0.8–1.5 m, erect, unbranched, light green, purplish green, or purple, terete, and moderately woolly-hairy to glabrous.

 

Bulbs

Bulbs are ovate to spherical, 4–8 cm across, scales broadly ovate, 2 cm long and wide, and are unsegmented. The bulb is occasionally used as a vegetable, like a parsnip. It must be boiled as it can be quite toxic. Its bitterish taste is a lovely companion to stews and other thick dishes. It was grown as a root crop for many years on farms in Asia. The bulb is anti-inflammatory and used as a diuretic in some instances. They are used in Korea to treat coughs, sore throats, and heart palpitations.

 

Leaves

The alternate leaves along the stem are densely distributed in pseudo-whorls and widely spreading. The lower leaves are 4-6 inches long and ½-¾ inches across. They are medium green, linear-lanceolate, smooth along their margins, glabrous, and sessile. The tips of the lower leaves are acute. The upper leaves are 1½-3 inches long and ½-¾ inches across. They are medium green, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, smooth along their margins, and glabrous, clasping the stem at their bases. The tips of the upper leaves are blunt. Leaf venation is parallel. At the bases of upper leaves, there are 1-3 aerial bulblets that are black to dark purple, ovoid in shape, up to ½ inches long, and sessile. Each bulblet consists of a single scale or 2-3 partially merged scales.

Flowers

Each flower consists of 6 strongly recurved tepals that are orange to orange-red, 6 strongly exerted stamens, a strongly exerted style with a tripartite stigma, and an ovary. Tepals are narrowly lanceolate and they have dark purple or maroon spots throughout their anterior (frontal) sides. The tips of the tepals bend back toward the base of the corolla or a little behind the corolla. The style and filaments of the stamens are whitish orange and filiform. Anthers are long, narrow, and dark-colored; their pollen is rust-colored. The blooming period occurs during mid- to late summer, lasting about 1-1½ months. Individual flowers are short-lived, but they are produced in succession. There is little or no floral scent. Because most cultivated and naturalized plants in North America are sterile triploids, usually no seed capsules are produced. Fertile flowers are followed by 3-valved, loculicidal capsule, 3–4 cm across, the margins of valves flat; seeds many, flat, in 2 rows in each cell.

 

The tincture is commonly made from the flower, harvested only in full bloom, and is used to treat congestion and sometimes to help with nausea. Some believe the flower can be used to treat heart disease. In ancient Asia, it was thought to help deal with issues of aggressivity. Somewhat paradoxically, the tiger lily is very toxic to cats, leading to symptoms of lethargy, vomiting, possible kidney failure, and even death. There is no known toxicity to other species.

History

Tiger lily is native to eastern temperate Asia mostly China (Anhui, Gansu, Guangxi, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Zhejiang), Japan and Korea. The species has also naturalized in other temperate regions of the world (e.g. northern and eastern USA, Canada, and New Zealand). It has been introduced and grown as ornamental in subtropical and temperate areas elsewhere.

This species is also a widespread but sporadic garden escape in eastern and north-eastern North America and seems to be naturalized mainly along roadsides in the cooler and wetter regions of this continent. However, there is one very recent report of thousands of tiger lilies growing in large patches in natural vegetation on a mountain-top in North Carolina. It is also a weed of roadsides, waste places, cemeteries, and bush margins in New Zealand.

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This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.

Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.

Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.

The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food.

Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.

However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.

It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!

 

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Discovering My Sister, Gretel

 

Longest night ever, I pray

for her safe return;

can't blink

or she'll be missed.

 

Behind poker-faced searchers,

I bite my lips,

open my eyes wide,

and push aside brambles.

Did she lose the breadcrumb trail?

 

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echo of palpitations

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Saturn’s storm are sights to behold. Unlike other planets in the Solar System, the ringed planet seems to store up huge amounts of energy over multiple Earth decades and then release it all at once in the form of a swirling and chaotic lightning storm.

 

Scientists are unsure why and how the planet behaves this way, but these massive storms occur roughly once every Saturnian year – or once every 30 Earth years – and are known as Great White Spots.

 

The Great White Spot pictured here, also named the Great Northern Storm, was the largest and most intense storm that the international Cassini mission ever observed on Saturn. It began in late 2010 and lasted for months, but affected the clouds, temperatures and composition of the atmosphere for more than three years.

 

This true-colour view from Cassini was taken on 25 February 2011, roughly 12 weeks after the storm began, and shows the turbulent patterns within the storm. There appear to be two bands of storm, one further north and brighter than the other. In fact, the storm has thundered its way around the planet and caught up with itself. Some of the cloud south and west of the storm head can be seen tinged blue as it interacts with other currents in the atmosphere, while the storm head swirls with white and yellow as it heads westward to overtake its subtler tail.

 

It was a lucky coincidence that Cassini happened to be orbiting Saturn during the storm, offering an unprecedented opportunity to study the gas giant’s turbulent weather and climate patterns. Recently, Cassini found this storm to have been so immense and powerful that it was able to disturb the atmosphere at the planet’s equator some tens of thousands of kilometres away.

 

This disruption of the long-term, cyclical, continuing atmospheric patterns at mid-latitudes (dubbed informally by some as the planet’s ‘heartbeat’), is thought to be due ‘teleconnection’, which we also observe on Earth – when distant events within a climate system are somehow connected and can influence one another significantly.

 

This image combines red, green and blue filtered images from Cassini’s wide-angle camera to create a real-colour view. These images were taken at a distance of 2.2 million km from Saturn looking towards the sunlit side of the rings from just above the ring plane, and have a scale of 129 km per pixel.

 

The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and Italy’s ASI space agency. After 13 years of pioneering observations, Cassini ended its mission in spectacular fashion on 15 September 2017, plunging through the planet’s inner rings and atmosphere and breaking contact forever.

 

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

In its freshly ground form (from whole nutmegs), nutmeg contains myristicin, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor and psychoactive substance. Myristicin poisoning can induce convulsions, palpitations, nausea, eventual dehydration, and generalized body pain. Rather disturbingly it was commonly used in the middle ages to induce abortions, although in what quantities is unclear.

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It would have been rude not to attempt at least one of the Statesman workings. Although not feeling in the best of health I made an effort for the return working to York. The usual palpitations with bubbling cloud but luckily it came into view just in time.

This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.

Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.

Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.

The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food.

Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.

However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.

It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!

 

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