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This elderly gentleman came dressed in period clothing to watch a vintage football game at Douglas Park in Rock Island, IL today. This field was the site of the first NFL game in 1920.
i liked the shadows at this place.
cf. the "drive through" shot a month or two ago.
Come to the flickr party at the Brickhouse Cafe, starting at 7 p.m. on the 31st, and see a hard copy of this shot, along with a bunch of great pictures from other Bay Area flickr people. For more info see the FotO2plus1 group.
- New face-up -
Do you guys remember this little pukifee icis? I used to own her but I sold her in January 2014 to a really nice friend who fell head over heels for her. The butterfly girl is named Tuva-Li and she's been very well taken care of, but as with loved belongings she's been so loved that her face-up started to crumble. So she sent her to me to redo it ^w^
I actually miss having an icis, she and a white skin bonnie is next on my wishlist!
"Give us a kiss, Dad".
Reba our Boxer died one year ago today. Lots of happy memories, even though we only had her for 2.5 years.
Reba came from a Boxer Rescue organisation and had a few issues. She was wary of strangers and very protective of owner, house and car!
We often laugh about some of her antics, especially her strong swimming and her big sticks!
I'll take a picture of you
To remember how good you looked
Like memory it has disappeared
Naked and lonely within my fears
Please sing to me a song Enola/Alone
Please take me on home Enola/Alone
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. The Virginia Beach Fraternal Order of Police hosts this annual memorial service as a tribute to all local law enforcement officers that have died in the line of duty in service to the City of Virginia Beach.
Reminder: Flags should be flown at half-staff on May 15th
This tribute to American law enforcement officers is part of the historic crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. At the request of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Public Law 103-322 designates Peace Officers Memorial Day as one of only two days each year during which government agencies, businesses and residents are to fly their U.S. flags at half-staff.
“Just as we honor those who died in military service each Memorial Day, our nation pauses each May 15th to show its appreciation for the more than 20,000 men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting our communities and safeguarding our democracy here at home,” said Craig W. Floyd, Memorial Fund Chairman and CEO. “Lowering flags to half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day is also a way to remember the family members, friends and colleagues these brave American heroes left behind.”
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Look into those eyes! From an old gravestone at St Andrew's Church in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge. (Grave of Charles Elijah, who died in 1907, and of his wife Johanna Root, who died in 1932.)
The Act of Remembrance
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. We will remember them.
Remembering your scent, wherever I saw a flower,
I smelled it and tears began to pour.
Wherever I saw a cypress in the meadow,
I kissed its feet in memory of you.
– Rumi. ╰☆╮
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds you lay on,
but also those desires that glowed openly
in eyes that looked at you,
trembled for you in the voices—
only some chance obstacle frustrated them.
Now that it’s all finally in the past,
it seems almost as if you gave yourself
to those desires too—how they glowed,
remember, in eyes that looked at you,
remember, body, how they trembled for you in those voices.
Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard
(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)
Θυμήσου, Σώμα...
Σώμα, θυμήσου όχι μόνο το πόσο αγαπήθηκες,
όχι μονάχα τα κρεββάτια όπου πλάγιασες,
αλλά κ’ εκείνες τες επιθυμίες που για σένα
γυάλιζαν μες στα μάτια φανερά,
κ’ ετρέμανε μες στην φωνή — και κάποιο
τυχαίον εμπόδιο τες ματαίωσε.
Τώρα που είναι όλα πια μέσα στο παρελθόν,
μοιάζει σχεδόν και στες επιθυμίες
εκείνες σαν να δόθηκες — πώς γυάλιζαν,
θυμήσου, μες στα μάτια που σε κύτταζαν•
πώς έτρεμαν μες στην φωνή, για σε, θυμήσου, σώμα.
(Από τα Ποιήματα 1897-1933, Ίκαρος 1984)
Another in the series of illustartions for Cavafy Poems
slightly reworked image previously posted in another photostream of mine
Doesn't matter who you are or what you've done, you die defending your country you die with honor. I don't have interest in enlisting, but I deeply respect all who have had the guts to put their lives on the line for our beautiful country. God Bless America.
For those few who do not know, this is the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. On that fateful day in 1941, Japanese bombers heavily damaged many ships, and sunk 3 of them beyond repair, the Arizona being one of them. Thousands of young men trapped in that ship, rescue came too late, and to this day, the ship remains sitting in the shallow water, the bodies of those poor souls still in the rustic hull beneath the monument.
I can't speak very enthusiastically about this place cause 1: I actually couldn't act like my regular self here, rangers asked those to be quiet as it was still a memorial. And 2: It's almost frightening to think that thousands of waterlogged corpses of people who believed in America were just a few feet beneath me. I saw this composition at the last minute on the way out. I was theorizing how I could shoot the US flag flying above the memorial with just the right frame, and nothing worked. All it took to find the right frame was to stand directly underneath it.
That being said, it didn't make it any easier to edit. The position of the bars were still VERY uneven and needed major correction. Part of the reason probably being I couldn't have my tripod out. I was moving around for around 10 minutes to get myself and my camera in an acceptable position. The flag and clouds were the only things in just the right place.
It almost feels weird that in the same vacation I was here at Pearl Harbor, and then a few weeks later I was in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima.
World War 2's crazy man, war never changes.
piles of windowed boxes that made ki monastery, reminded me of the woodcut 'metamorphosis' and other works like 'castle in the air', 'goriano sicoli'..., made by one of my very favourite dutch graphic artist m.c.escher.
set against a backdrop of barren spitian mountains and clinging to the steep sides of windswept hillock, ki gompa is a picture-book example of tibetan architecture and one of himalaya’s most exotic spectacles. from distance it looks like pile of boxes, clustered in a conical fashion.
see other views @ www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=43109416@N00&q=ki+...
Each year the World Trade Center lights come on for a few days in remembrance of 9/11. The lights are eerie yet comforting and the entire area (just for those few days) is just a tad bit quieter than usual. Like a moth drawn to the flame so do these lights attract bugs, birds (b/c of the bugs) and of course tourists and photographers. One of the challenges is framing. You can always take photos of the lights from far away on the backdrop of the cityscape. As you get closer framing disappears. It took me awhile but I was able to find an interesting polygon formed by surrounding buildings to frame the lights.
remember => re-member => we are members of One Body => brothers and sisters of the same Father and Mother
remember => your True Essence => turn your life back to God => repent => re-Unite => be whole
“Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze but as they sway they connect at the roots.”—Jelaluddin Rumi from “Birdsong” and “The Essential Rumi”
Day 138. Spotted on Cannon St, I like the black & white image perhaps from the 50s that this guy is trying to copy.
A tribute to Lower Manhattan, where the rebuilding of Ground Zero is happening before our eyes. Today on t.v, we saw the revealing of the 9/11 memorial- two weeping waterfalls in the exact footprint of the two towers. It's a solemn yet beautiful reminder of the tragic day and all of the lives that were lost. We will never forget.