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A couple snuggling together on the bench overlooking Lake Huron. No words spoken ,just enjoying the view and each other.
This is near the Goderich Lighthouse up on the hill.
Godercih,Ontario.
Canada.
Sorry, but unexpected KCS M train from Kansas City + sunny day = another gratuitous Arch shot. Won't last forever, as we all know, and time has taken its toll on that paint already.
The KCS MKCVN (or MGOESJ on UP) closes in on East St. Louis yard at Sauget, Illinois with the usual city scene in the background.
friends that blaze together stay together xD .. we may have taken that out of context
Photo by : Raye Raye
Have a beautiful Soft Monday My friends
Evergreen
Barbra Streisand
Love, soft as an easy chair
Love, fresh as the morning air
One love that is shared by two
I have found with you
Like a rose under the April snow
I was always certain love would grow
Love, ageless and evergreen
Seldom seen by two
You and I will make each night the first
Everyday a beginning
Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
They warm and excite us
'Cause we have the brightest love
Two lights that shine as one
Morning glory and
The midnight sun
Time, we've learned to sail above
Time, won't change the meaning of one love
Muskrat grooming for his photoshoot after breaking through the ice. Series of 3 pix.
Canon 1DXII, F4, 1/1250 ISO 800
This coyote with its catch was the first thing of note I saw on my way through Yellowstone en route to the Tetons. The coyote seems to be delighted with its catch, which is a vole or other small, relatively short-tailed rodent.
It's typical for all the rodent-eating predators (coyotes, foxes, owls and hawks, even house cats, etc.) to grab them by the head and to then clamp down, thus killing them, and then chew a little to get them into position for swallowing whole.
Taken from my car with a long lens, and heavily cropped, so although it looks like the coyote was looking right at me from a very short distance, it most likely didn't actually notice me or see me as a disturbance. Yellowstone National Park
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Nick Cave is a phenomenal artist for several reasons. One thing that I loved about this exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is that there were audio pieces explaining some of the works. The main work the couple are viewing is called Speak Louder but the work above it is one of a few in his Tondo series. When Nick Cave started making Soundsuits, it was right after he heard about the police brutality and the Rodney King beatings. I posted a shot of his Soundsuits here:
www.flickr.com/photos/kirstiecat/52075785831/in/dateposted/
When he speaks about Tondo, he speaks about the effects of inner city violence on children. This is something that is a dear issue to me as I work with kids with disabilities in the public schools in Chicago. At one school I work at, kids come all over the city and 97% must be drawn from the highest poverty areas of the city according to the last census. So, when a parent is concerned because of a child's lack of attention or behavior and a nurse asks, "How much sleep does your child get each night?" and the parent replies "None because there are constantly gunshots and police sirens going off," you know something needs to change in this world.
As many of you know, I believe in proactive means to building better communities. As we continue to put more budgets into funding police, we actually have more crime because less is going into quality education, libraries, mental health facilities, preventing food deserts, equitable employment and low income housing. As our policing has increased, it means that there is also less of a viable public transportation system as well, at the same time that many families earning lower incomes cannot afford these astronomical gas prices and we all need to take an active role when it comes to climate change.
In my 21 years of working with children at Chicago Public Schools, I've worked at a few different schools. In 2003, I had the great honor of working with kids in the Cabrini Green neighborhood before re gentrification and racism (profit over people time and time again) unfortunately forced many people out. I've worked on the West side and lately on the North side. I love children all over the city. When I bike to the far South side to see art, some ask me if it's safe. Wherever children go, we should be willing to go. And, if we are not wiling to go there, we need to think about making it safer there. Chicago is a microcasm of the whole world in that respect. We have the ability to make a world where everyone has a basic level of human rights and a higher quality of life. We don't need little boys getting to go to space again. We don't need billionaires who have 10 homes. We need sustainability.
In all my years at Chicago Public Schools and in the hundreds upon thousands of children I've met (and hopeful helped), not one of them has ever told me he/she/they want to rob or kill people for a living. However, there was an eight year old girl who told a Speech Therapist I worked with that she wanted to be a cop "because they get away with murder." We need to be better.
I am an active voter and donate money to charity and some politicians. I wish I had more power. I wish I could also create something as beautiful as Nick Cave does when he falls into despair. Some people ask me what protesting does. Others ask me what making art does. Still, others ask me what voting does. I'll tell you I don't have all the answers (or any some days) but I can tell you this much, if we were ALL trying to make the world a better place. If we were all making decisions based on trying to be more kind, just, and human, this world would in fact change.
So, if you're kind, Speak Louder. If you're a fan of human rights, Speak Louder. If you want children of all races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds to grow up in a better world, Speak Louder. If you want Environmental Justice, speak louder. If you want immigration rights and body autonomy, speak louder. If you want those in the LGBTQ+ community to have the same quality of life as those who are cis gendered and/or heterosexual, speak louder. If you want an end to the For Profit Prison Industrial Complex, speak louder.
Speak Louder.
mcachicago.org/exhibitions/2022/nick-cave-forothermore
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Those that know me know how much I love my current church. Leaving it is truly the biggest regret I have about moving. But God speaks louder outside. At least for me. And I’ve never seen a mountain range that didn’t thrill my heart. So here I go.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
21mm
F8@1/25
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©Don Brown 2021
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"There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting."
~ Maranatha
~ My Easter cactus flowers are blooming on my balcony...
~ the original photo is displayed in the first comment below...
Thanks for stopping by
and God Bless,
hugs, Chris
This was one of those "stop the car and run for your life" moments … ended up with pretty dirty boots, but … :)
Juvenile Little Blue Heron, Egretta caerulea, carrying a big stick. Little Blues are born white, gaining safety by associating with more numerous Snowy Herons and Cattle Egrets. This one is in the first stages of the change to deep blue (with some red tints). Can’t imagine why this bird carries that stick.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
A little out of my comfort zone, but I like it.
This is a friend called Paula Bailey who is Auntie P in Flickr. The look on her face is mostly annoyance for snapping her whilst she was eating, hence the hand in front of the mouth.
Sorry
I don't have ambiguously emotional phrases as a description
I won't tell you to listen to a song
I don't go out in the golden hour among endless fields
But
Words can never do justice - and I suck at it anyway
The soft hum of the computer can be deafening - or whatever music you have on is just fine
And I live in a college town and it's freaking cold outside.
Its hard to see cuz the scanner was too small and cut off my double mounting, but there is a black board beneath the white one. I'm not sure where the streaks came from because the print is streak-free so maybe i just need to clean the scanner. Anyway i'm not sure what i recieved on this project yet . . . it's my first in studio portrait.
the speaking stone, pretty point formation, the nature foundation sa's hiltaba nature reserve, northern eyre peninsula, south australia
Speak no evil
My very cute chipmunk posing in my backyard in Chester County, PA.
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