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an instinct inherited from our nomadic forebears or by those local conditions which so frequently make travel advisable, it is certain that once the desire is temporarily gratified the disease becomes permanent :-)
Mark Daniels, "The Sequoia National Park," in American Forestry, 1916
HGGT!!
wellsville mountains, little bear river, cutler marsh, cache valley, logan, utah
'Let me tell you what I'm gonna be,
Cause I don't know if you are gonna see.
Let me tell you what I am gonna do,
Cause I don't know if you will still be you.
We take a chance,
A lifelong tribulation,
Break away from human nature.
I forget myself, forget my limitations,
Be with me, be my conversation.'
Eve Petlyakov's version/story:
Part 1 - www.flickr.com/photos/140454188@N05/52645165187/in/pool-1...
Part 2 - www.flickr.com/photos/140454188@N05/52645675571/in/pool-1...
Part 3 - www.flickr.com/photos/140454188@N05/52646109695/in/pool-1...
Prompt Project 2023: www.flickr.com/groups/14773445@N24/
Soundtrack: 'Started Right' by Hot Chip - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ywuu2pKraQ
Taken at the Valmoor: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/230/186/25
I love rain, but seeing sunlight this morning prompted a need to capture little finches in a rhododendron.
Experimented with a subtle, I hope, vignette to lessen the many buds and twigs.
850mm, f/6.7, 1/640, ISO 360
Thanks for looking. Comments mostly off...I'm a tad behind in my own comments.
Prompted by wonderful wishes in Flickr mail from James and Julie, and David's comment this morning on Meidy, this was life on the fence a few yards from my caravan in yesterday's magical morning fog.
I planned to be back here next week, but couldn't hold off any longer. Thank you David :-) And James and Julie :-)
Loads of stuff has occurred.
Missed this place, your photos, stories and you lovely people so much :-(
Can't wait to start catching up tonight. My love and best wishes to you :-)))
'Feel my weight in front,
Following the sound,
Moves away so fast,
Fall down to the ground.
I know there's more to come,
Jump back to my feet,
Now I only see ahead of me,
Chasing down the street.
Gave my love to a shooting star,
But she moves so fast,
That I can't keep up,
I'm chasing.
I'm in love with a shooting star,
But she moves so fast.
When she falls then,
I'll be waiting.'
Eve Petlyakov's version: www.flickr.com/photos/140454188@N05/52696028725/in/datepo...
Prompt Project 2023: www.flickr.com/groups/14773445@N24/
Soundtrack: 'Shooting Stars' by Bag Raiders - www.youtube.com/watch?v=feA64wXhbjo
Taken at the Chamonix City Ski Jump: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Breakaway/13/66/112
Taken in the Dahlia garden, near “De Piepermolen” te Rekken.
Maar hoe is dahliatuin in Rekken ontstaan?
In 2010 tijdens het 100-jarig bestaan van de Vereniging Rekkens Volksfeest was er voor het eerst een dahliatuin bij de Piepermolen in Rekken. Een groep vrijwilligers heeft toen vanwege het 100-jarig jubileum van Vereniging Rekkens Volksfeest een dahliatuin aangelegd met daarin 100 soorten dahlia’s. Unieke soorten die niet verwerkt worden op de (Rekkense) corsowagens. De belangstelling voor de dahliatuin was overweldigend. Een aantal vrijwilligers heeft daarom de koppen weer bij elkaar gestoken om enkele jaren later wederom een dahliatuin te kunnen realiseren. Zo werd er in 2014 voor de tweede keer een dahliatuin aangelegd bij de Piepermolen. Deze dahliatuin was met zijn 160 soorten nog groter dan de die in 2010. Ook nu weer was de dahliatuin aangekleed met diverse accessoires. De belangstelling bij de opening was groot en ook in weken, maanden daarna zijn er vele mensen geweest die een bezoek hebben gebracht aan de dahliatuin. De reacties waren ook nu weer zeer positief, dat zorgde ervoor dat de vrijwilligers toen al besloten dat de dahliatuin ook in de jaren daarna een vervolg zou gaan krijgen. En nu is dat moment aangebroken. De vrijwilligers zijn alweer bezig met de voorbereidingen voor de dahliatuin 2022. Dit jaar zullen er weer vele soorten dahlia’s te bewonderen zijn.
De vrijwilligers zijn ruim een half jaar druk bezig met de aanleg maar vooral met het onderhouden van de dahliatuin, zij houden zich bezig met o.a. het poten van de dahlia’s, het schoffelen, het plukken van de (slechte) bloemen en aan het einde van het seizoen, het uithalen van de knollen. Dit alles is zeer arbeidsintensief, de vrijwilligers zijn hier zeker één middag in de week mee bezig.
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But how did the dahlia garden in Rekken come about?
In 2010, during the centenary celebrations of the Rekken Folk Festival Association (*Vereniging Rekkens Volksfeest*), a dahlia garden was created for the first time at the Piepermolen in Rekken. To mark the association's 100th anniversary, a group of volunteers planted a garden featuring 100 varieties of dahlias—unique types not typically used on the local parade floats. Public interest in the dahlia garden was overwhelming. Consequently, a number of volunteers joined forces again to create another dahlia garden a few years later. Thus, in 2014, a second dahlia garden was established at the Piepermolen. With 160 varieties, this garden was even larger than the one from 2010. Once again, the garden was enhanced with various decorative elements. There was great interest at the opening, and many people visited the garden in the weeks and months that followed. The response was extremely positive, prompting the volunteers to decide right then that the dahlia garden would continue in future years. Now, that time has come again; the volunteers are already busy preparing for the 2022 dahlia garden. This year, many varieties of dahlias will once again be on display.
The volunteers spend more than six months hard at work—not only establishing the garden but, more importantly, maintaining it. Their tasks include planting the dahlias, hoeing, removing spent or damaged blooms, and lifting the tubers at the end of the season. All of this is very labor-intensive; the volunteers certainly spend one afternoon a week on it.
Lieu : The Crow City maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/THE%20CROW/149/131/26
"In Irish when you talk about emotion, you don't say, "I am sad". You'd say, "Sadness is on me" - Tà bròn orm".
And I love that because there's an implication of not identifying yourself with the emotion fully. I am not sad, it's just that sadness is on me for a while. Something else will be on me another time, and that's a good thing to recognise."
- Padraig Ó Tuama
“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”
― Jimmy Buffett
Prompted by seeing a recent photograph of a Capuchin Monkey at Mato Grosso, Brazil, I decided to post some further images of my own encounter with these monkeys which are particularly gifted in their use of tools.
Capuchin Monkeys were given their name in the 15th century when Portugese explorers encountered them in the Americas and thougt their colouring and 'caps' of dark hair resembled the brown hoods worn by friars of Minor Capuchin.
Thank you all for your kind responses.
Prompt Project 2022 : www.flickr.com/groups/14773445@N24/
Lieux : Ravenport Reclamed
“A soldier will return as a hero either with a medal on his chest or a metal in his chest.”
― Suraj Sani
“Or do you mean like she might have some sort of chair-related dysfunction?" Her eyes lit up and she leaned in conspiratorially. "Or maybe the chairs offend her, because all chairs are imperfect shadows of the Platonic ideal of a chair. And so she's disinclined to sit. Philosophically.”
― Casey Matthews, The One Who Eats Monsters
“Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.”
― Jon Krakauer
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller
"Don't pay anyone in advance and don't ride in anything with a Capissen 38 engine. They fall right out of the sky."
- Kaylee Frye, Firefly
Prompt: Tree Glass Palace in Foggy Forest
Dream by Wombo plus some post work with PicLight and Pixelmator Pro.
Loving this AI program! Hope you enjoy as well. Thanks in advance for all your faves, comments and invitations.
There are not many groups that I have found to display Wombo works, so I have created one. Please be patient with me, as I have never done this before. Please check it out!
Wombo World
“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth
“Corporate secrets bouncing around a computer system thats open to the world? Hey, that’s fair game and they deserve the embarrassment of its discovery. But using this knowledge to line your pockets or, worse, using insider knowledge to get the information and then calling that hacking is an affront to any of us who hack for the sake of learning.”
― Emmanuel Goldstein, Dear Hacker: Letters to the Editor of 2600
“The text also just grows increasingly garbled. For instance, here it says that our new subway system will streamline the rush-hour commute, but about halfway down, it's a series of nearly indecipherable glyphs our experts insist hint at "non-Euclidian emotions" and "appeasement" (though we think this may be a euphemism for "fares").”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“Personally I would never want to be a member of any group where you either have to wear a hat, or you can't wear a hat."”
― George Carlin
Visit Hawthorne University.
“Those who come after us will think that they are just fairy tales”
― Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz
You can get your own though... further details *chuckles*
Sometimes a fun item prompts a fun picture ;)
恨みても散りにし花を尋ばや扇ぞ風のやどりなりける
I resent it, yet upon
The fallen blossoms
Would I pay a call;
Within my fan, the breeze
Has made its lodging.
Visit the new Sakura Community Gardens , part of the new Japanese themed neighborhood in Bellesseria!
“In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.”
― Debasish Mridha
Visit Siren's Isle in The Blake Sea
“Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and beauty in the world. Divinity means overcoming the limitations of nature in new ways.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
冬の富士 日星おほらかに 又きびし
Mount Fuji in winter.
The sun and stars are big‐hearted
And strict.
- Iida Dakotsu(1885-1962)
Visit Ahiru
“Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Fun Fact: Roaches give off secretions from their mouths and from glands in their body that can cause nausea and mild vertigo.
“We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
“Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”
― Beverley Nichols
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.”
― William Finnegan
Taken at Friendship Bay South in Elysion