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touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. And when you leave, don't forget why you came...”
Oksana Rus.
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, or simply lotus, is one of two species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. The Linnaean binomial Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.) is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been classified under the former names, Nelumbium speciosum (Willd.) and Nymphaea nelumbo, among others. (These names are obsolete synonyms and should be avoided in current works.) This plant is an aquatic perennial. Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1,300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.
Native to Tropical Asia and Queensland, Australia, it is commonly cultivated in water gardens. It is also the national flower of India and Vietnam.
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, or simply lotus, is one of two species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. The Linnaean binomial Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.) is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been classified under the former names, Nelumbium speciosum (Willd.) and Nymphaea nelumbo, among others. (These names are obsolete synonyms and should be avoided in current works.) This plant is an aquatic perennial. Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1,300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.
Native to Tropical Asia and Queensland, Australia, it is commonly cultivated in water gardens. It is also the national flower of India and Vietnam.
The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. San Marino. California.
The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. San Marino. California.
Black-shouldered Kite
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This is a juvenile Black-shouldered Kite most of its rich orange baby feathers have now faded. Just a tinge or two left. It was willing to show of those hard working wing feathers in full display.
spotted this Sister selling EENY EYEWEAR--up in Harlem. She suggested this pair for me--what do you think?
Her shades--she termed "Third-Eye"
Should have warned you which way I would go
Took me years just to flow like I flow
Give me progress that can't be delayed
Got me thinking that's all I can say
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Under The Influence Of Giants - "Ah Ha" (Listen to it here)
I've been tagged by my Flickr friend songglod! So here, in no particular order or direction, is a bit more about me:
For those of you who missed my first tagging by flickrfanmk2007 please see:
1 - I love anything to do with nature, a gift I inherited from my mother who was an avid rockhound.
2 - I'd rather hike the high deserts of Utah searching for dinosaur bone than spend the day shopping for diamonds in Tiffanys.
3 - In my 63 years of life, I've never travelled off the North American continent; there's just so much to do here. But I do feel a strong pull towards Mongolia.....
4 - I've been addicted to Diet Coke since..... Does anyone remember NoCal?
5 - I enjoy eating slightly melted cherry vanilla ice cream, but can never wait unitl it softens.
6 - ♪ Five foot two, eyes of blue, but oh, what those five feet could do.... cootchie-cootchie-cootchie coo... ♪
In my next life I intend to be 5'8" which will give an entirely different perspective to my photographs.
7 - My first camera was a Kodak Brownie. Wish I still had it! It was made of black plastic and had the coolest flash attachment. I loved popping the bulbs out of the flash, it made such a great sound! And the bulbs themselves..... loaded with blue bubbles on the tip and lined with black gunpowder on the inside! LOL!! Well, it looked like gunpowder to an eight year old.
8 - I sleep the sleep of the innocent.
9 - I still foolishly believe that kindness is the route to true happiness..... well, me and the Dalai Lama (or is that the Dalai Lama and I).
10 - I'm an EXPLORE junkie! So FAV, FAV, FAV!
Tomorrow..... drama!!
Should have uploaded this during the Christmas season, I guess. But let's pretend that time is still with us.
Thank you for looking. Isn't God a great artist?
We should have arrived in Australia today. My son tested positive for Covid-19 2 days before departure and we are household contacts. We are isolating at home. Sorry Oz, we will be late. The photo shows my wife at an overnight stop along the Nullarbor Plain on our last trip to Australia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn0lwGk4u9o
Hazel sitting on an almost vertically grown branch looking at me. It was not very high, maybe a meter or so above me, and it looks like as if she's actually calculating the flight parameters to jump on to my lens. She really likes sitting there (Squirrels-2019-8294.jpg)
Or should that title be climbing the Stairway to heaven.
By the end of 2021 l'm determined to finally climb it from sea level....(not like most people who start climbing it from Nant Peris half way up it or taking the Train...Ahhhhhh.)
l think 365 days should be enough time to complete the task in hand...however, it would more helpful if next year where a leap year, as that extra day would be very useful to have just in case of mishaps.
That tear is only there because of the wind that was blowing straight into my eyes. But I do like how it came out.
This is taken on the same day as the previous photo, when I went out on my bicycle in the awful weather....the weather just made better pictures though. :)
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You Should Know How the Whole of Humanity Has Developed to the Present Day (Part Two)
Introduction
Almighty God says, "All of His work is the most actual work. He carries out His work according to the development of the times, and He carries out His most actual work according to the changes of things. For Him, carrying out work is akin to administering medicine to an illness; He observes while doing His work; He works according to His observations. In every stage of His work, He is capable of expressing His ample wisdom and expressing His ample ability; He reveals His ample wisdom and ample authority according to the work of that particular age and allows any of those people brought back by Him during those ages to see His entire disposition. He supplies people’s needs and carries out the work He should do according to the work that must be done in each age; He supplies people’s needs according to the degree to which Satan has corrupted them."
"Nasty Marbles", an Apple tree we grew from a seed of 'Granny Smith' about 17 years ago. It makes the most bitter tiny fruit, but it produces thousands, and when it flowers, it's one of the most spectacular shrubs on the farm. Too bad about its horrible fruit.
Photographed on Ilford FP4+, rated at 64 ASA and developed in home-made Mytol (Xtol ascorbate clone), undiluted for 6.5 minutes (which I found to be overdeveloped: 5.5 minutes should be plenty, next time)
Rolleiflex 2.8E, Planar.
I should make a postcard of this....
In order to reach any of the other villages by land, residents had to take the strenuous route over mountains more than 400 metres high. This isolation explains why the village population had decreased.
In 2004 the Gásadalstunnilin tunnel was blasted through the rock, and it became possible to drive through by car. The residents hope this will mean that the village population will increase again. While the population increased briefly and reached a peak of 23 in 2010 it has only decreased since then and is at only 14 as of 2020.
As you can see, There are good opportunities for farming (Faroese standards).
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“Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Should've left you a long time ago
All my niggas done told me so
But my niggas don't hold me tight
When I'm sleeping in my bed at night, only you
On Saturday I gave a Composition in the Field Class in San Francisco. We passed along a bar on the street side of the Ferry Building. It has a nice wall of beer cans. We learned about patterns, and a photo gets more interesting if there is something that disrupts a pattern, here the water container.
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a JPG exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/8.0, 50 mm, 1/90 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95, HDR, 1 JPG exposure, _DSC2686_hdr1bal1pho1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Black-shouldered Kite
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A returning pair were doing a few laps of the paddocks in a "getting to know you" synchronised flying display.
A good stiff breeze was blowing so there was very little wing flapping as they sailed along together.
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“The cost of housing migrants in Britain has tripled to £4 million (€4.7 million) a day, according to The Telegraph.”
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The Bible says that the antichrists kingdom will be a mixture of people who will not remain united. What we are seeing in Europe is Bible prophecy in action. The Bible also says that God will send the people a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie. Definitely, there are a lot of zombie-like people walking around these days.
Luke 14:28 “For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?”
The tower of multiculturalism was sold to Canada by whom?
“Trudeau (Justin Trudeau’s daddy) claimed that there was no official Canadian culture and that no ethnic group should take precedence.” –Maclean’s
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” (Justin) Trudeau said, concluding that he sees Canada as “the first post-national state.” –Toronto Sun
Under Justin Trudeau’s daddy, Canada became the first country in the world to introduce a multiculturalism policy. This policy laid the groundwork for the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988. “It was the sort of stance that former Tory prime minister John Diefenbaker could embrace, as he did when his government passed the Bill of Rights in 1960.” Later came the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This charter gave judges the power to veto legislation. How democratic! This charter was just a scam to push through a bunch of new world order junk, which under the old system would have taken much more time to push through! Though the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has greatly sped up the demise of Canada, most Canadians praise it.
I had my head out of the window trying to get shots of the juncos and who should fly in but The Mocker.
Why should I care to find my song?
Why should you care to find yours?
Don’t we vibrate in an Ocean of Sound?
Does the dream of reaching ourselves
To finally know who we are
To finally know where we are going
Delight an Answer in limitless queries?
Don’t our bodies soak in possibility
Within the larger symphony of stars and galaxies
Beyond all mathematical perplexity?
Will our shallow throated emissions
Penetrate the shells still dividing us?
From nowhere and everywhere
This paradoxical quest holds the Tune
We are each an aspect of its vital Harmony
We find our journey waiting and singing to us
To invoke a much deeper throated response
Until we feel ourselves to be Home
© Ganga Fondan, 2010
The quest to find Truth showers its songs upon my life and it is the only way I know to find meaning. We each have a connection to the Poetry of Life. Immersed in this we are invincible. My Blog
Breath, should I take a deep?
Faith, should I take a leap?
Taste, what a bittersweet
All my, all my life
Let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
Oh, let me face, let me face, let me face my fears
Won't be long, won't be long, I'm almost here
Watch me cry all my tears
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Name: Espura (sometimes Esper)
Species: Psychic and Arcane Purple dragon
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Hobbies: collects magical items and hangs out with Lilura and the witch. Does tarot and enjoys tea.
Occupation: she's a seer and also ensures everyone behaves themselves. Keeping the peace while trying to keep her sanity.
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You should sit in meditation 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.
Japanese Gardens at the Irish National Stud and Gardens.
County Kildare, Ireland.
(Should hummingbirds have noses!!-))
A sprinkling of spring delivers raindrops on an immature Rufous Hummingbird near Walla Walla, Washington.
Sebastian Stan should have won best actor for The Apprentice, all you fucking cowards at The Academy. He nailed his performance of the young Trump so well that I had to watch the whole damn movie through my fingers.
(Yeah I originally had a different blurb for this but I have The Oscars on in the background and just got super mad.)
TF0105 hair by Wings, Yoko glasses by sacredsquare. Irulta shorts by Hopium, Hook In Shirt by Gild, Richyannick watch by Gutchi, Garter socks by Hotdog, Chelsea boots by Hoorenbeek. Raw and unedited straight from SL.
so.... I tried paddle-boarding for the first time. Where else would be more perfect? I mean, it's Bora Bora after all. Beautiful setting, calm clear waters.... so relaxing.
Here is the result :))) I am such an athlete. I think Otemanu had a good chuckle.
Check back to my album 2016 Australia, New Zealand and French Polynesia -- should be posting more ( almost) daily