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Eastern Redbud on a rainy afternoon. Much cooler weather is on tap for the next few days.
Common for the season.
I try to put on a happy face a lot, even if things bother me deep down. I don't ever want to be viewed as the negative one or the one that complains. I want to be the happy one, the inspiring one. Sometimes things happen, whether they happen for a reason or not is irrelevant because they just happen. We plot out our lives, we try to hold onto our dreams what we aspire to be. We get pushed down, tripped, falling forever in this game that we play called life. We try to hold onto the positive to keep us going but sometimes we slip. We fall down a rabbit hole but Wonderland is not always at the end.
Today, I had to close a chapter in my life. A chapter as much as I wanted to be ready to close I wasn't ready. I'm scared, probably more scared then I have ever been in my life. I keep holding onto the fact that I love magic and fairy tales and trying to find some ounce of happiness but instead I just feel this pit in my stomach. This pit that won't go away and it's just filled with so much emotion that I'm not allowing myself to feel. I'm sad, I'm scared, I'm so many things but if you looked at me you would think hey she's fine but honestly right now I'm really not. I feel... off. Not ready, not ready to play life again.
I have to look around and remind myself that I have so much to be thankful for, for the few things in life that pick me up and tell myself to keep going and eventually yes, I'll be okay. I'll prevail, I'm strong I can do this. So many things I have to repeat in my head over and over again to tell myself that I'm strong. I can do this. I can do anything that I put my mind to. As Walt Disney once said; "If you can dream it, you can do it." I dream it. I dream it every day of my life and now I just for once, need some good karma, something good to happen. Something, anything. I don't want to fade.
And with that a chapter closes, another chapter that seemed too short, unfinished but we push on and write a new chapter. Now to just pick myself back up and start that new one.
taken @ Delicatessen Porto
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Living the 'side country' dream on the flanks of the Schermerspitze with the Anwärter aka Powder Pup ☺
White Sands National Monument - a first for me. I live just a few hours from Death Valley, CA and I've been there numerous times clear back to when I was a kid. White Sands is, well, different. Whiter, gypsum heavier. I didn't spend but an afternoon and morning to give it real justice, but it was a place I'd heard of for years, especially from my Space Shuttle launching/landing buddy, way back in the late 70s/early 80s.
Slip face: the lee side of a dune where the slope approximates the angle of rest of loose sand that is generally about 33 degrees...so some sand "slipped" there at the top...
I uploaded a head-on shot of the full sun halo the other day. This was a bit later as the remnant sunk beside the cliffs. You can just make it out.
The Ness headland.. Shaldon.. at the mouth of the river Teign.. as seen from Teignmouth beach..
Have a very happy new year..
No Multi invites please..
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PROCOL HARUM..
"A WHITER SHADE OF PALE"
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI
"We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale
She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed
She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died
If music be the food of love
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed"
South Shore's PFEX1 with NICD 1000 on the point is about to bang the CN diamonds at Stillwell, IN. 11/10/2023
Taken just three days ago (20th Aug 2020), and hard to believe these Common Blues were about to be subjected to gale force winds and rain. The fragility of life in the wild.
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Morning light illuminates the lichen covered rocks and spires in the Needles area of Custer State Park.
With the male drawing attention and female leading, a pair of very wild/wary Wood Ducks on the far side of Hubbard Pond discreetly paddle their way deep into a tangle of old Cattail stalks, then out-of-sight.
JJ Audubon comments:
www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/summer-or-wood-duck
Anyway, as mentioned in an earlier posting, Hubbard Pond and its surroundings are under consideration as the site for a heavy industrial type facility by the Regents of the University of Michigan. If the project goes forward, another piece of the critical natural habitat necessary to sustain these and other vulnerable creatures will be lost forever.
UPDATE: In a 12 March 2016 letter, the President of the University of Michigan indicates the proposed heavy industrial project for this site has been "paused". Plus, all applications for various construction permits are suspended and no construction contracts have been awarded.
While this turn of events appears positive, all it takes is will and a whim to re-activate the project. Until the final determination is STOP, the possibility of this easily preventable man-made disaster remains. Again, Mother Nature needs your voice. Now is the time to stand-up and sound-off !
To learn more, see:
glacierhighlands.org/wp/?p=335
UPDATE: 18 March 2016 - UM President apologizes...
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/03/u-m_presid...
How you can help...
www.change.org/p/boycott-university-of-michigan-s-bus-yar...
Stay thirsty, my friend...
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This is Hadrian's Wall The ancient border between England and Scotland where we had a disappointing day after I slipped over on the muddy track here with my right leg bent underneath me. I had my full camera bag on my back which being heavy probably did not help my balance, thankfully Jane was able to haul me back up but I was not able to go any further due to my knee being so painful.
I wanted to explore this amazing area and to walk along to shoot the Sycamore tree that lies further along the base of the cliffs .
However I did manage to shoot some images before my dunk in the mud so more to come .
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Explore - July 8, 2014
Light glancing off Whiteless Pike in the Lake District, heather blooming across there on the Buttermere ridge of High Stile, dogs enjoying themselves .. what better?
Went mud hunting again yesterday and found some interesting slime as well. Nature has its own paintbrush and paint.
Praa Sands - need to get back here with the P6 + 120 Sonar.
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Nikon D750 / Nikkor 50/1.4
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
Focus on everything better today
All that I needed I never could say
Hold on to people they're slipping away
Hold on to this while it's slipping away
Well another week working at Anna bay up the coast. I take advantage of the afternoons and slip over to the dunes and this week was really windy, but created some wonderful light. Hope your all well...
KN381's two SD60s are about at their limit, fighting wet rail, leaves, and gravity up to Albany. They made this hill, but had to split their train later at Corning. Fall color is starting to really develop along the West Virginia Secondary.