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Yeats made a prophecy in this poem over 100 years ago after World War I
....sadly our world is headed in this direction.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
WB Yeats
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) from 20K north of Hawker, South Australia. A single 10 second shot during astro twilight blended with a 60 second shot for the foreground. Edit: Satellites removed!!
A second visit to Alners Gorse for another look at Brown Hairstreak. This photo was taken three days after the one linked below.
This flower was actually taken in SL awhile ago...it was taken at one of Cica Ghost's sims...this exhibition is gone now as she has opened a new one (maybe even two) since. But her genius and incredible imagination are alway so extraordinary. I do try to get over there when I can get in world....
This was taken of a single flower there....and as per always "this is what my mind saw!!!" 😊
Celebrating Pride this month! *shake ya bootie*!!
Visit this location at Second Pride Park East in Second Life
Washington series: Second Beach, Olympic National Park.
We spent a couple of days at Forks, waiting for a dramatic sunset with burning clouds, but all we got were cloudless blue skies, so we had to make the best of it.
Braking waves on Second Coast near Laide. Weather was constantly changing but the view from here is stunning over to Gruinard Bay and upwards towards Suilven.
This was one of the locations that I truly wanted to see, if I won a permit to visit the Wave. My only regret is that I didn't wait until sunset to get the setting golden hour light. However, as you can see though this picture there are some spectacular lines. To learn about this image visit my website to read the expose post article.
Oyasumi’s new main store is now open at the Shijima sim.
Each store on the sim will have Lucky Board items for the opening. This is my Lucky Board item for the opening.
Make sure to join the /oyasumi/ group to receive your Lucky Board item.
To keep updated with Shijima, be sure to join our Subscribo Machines as well, located near the Landing point.
Enjoy the sim and I look forward to your visit!
So, you might ask, as I asked myself, what is this picture about? Am I supposed to look at the graceful lines of the stem and leaves that occupy about half of the frame, or the crunchy details of the blossom? My answer is both; what's yours?
The result of a multi-image focus stack, this image should reward relatively close examination. It was taken on the top of my dining room table.
My wife has been wanting to come out with me to see some Owls. Our days off coincided today and we ventured out. At first we had no luck but a second try at one venue paid off and I spotted this Short-eared Owl on a post. I was just about to press the shutter when two motorbikes screamed past and spooked it but we sat for a while, hoping and it gave us a second chance!
This is a piece of artwork that i wanted to shoot and process in my own style - I loved the general layout of the picture but wanted to change the composition, light and add a mono conversion to see what i could come up with.
This Photo I shot today during a Nature Fotowalk with Metti. It`s a Try: I put it Upside down, just showing the Reflection in the Water. In the Sky Part you can find some Pieces of Ice (right upper Part). Or does it look more like a Painting??
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On a portion of Fadi BouKaram's great, cross-country adventure, www.facebook.com/lebanonsusa/ in his Minnie Winnie Warrior (house on wheels). Check out his interview on NPR/BBC's show, The World. www.npr.org/podcasts/381444246/pri-s-the-world Episode: Nov 24, 2016.