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After crawling from his Winter mud home, this painted turtle came out to smell Spring.
(double image day)
I hope that everyone is having a great Tuesday and I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to share a little of Mother Nature's colour & glory.
500mm telephoto /macro @ 2.5 meters
I use the lens for novelty shots because it's a non electronics lens and mounts to my camera with a home made adapted lens mount. (plastic body cap)
It doesn't do to bad and it's just a little something to play with and make work.
Maybe if someone fills my Summer wish list in my profile, I'll get a bunch of new lenses. (Any lotto winners yet?)
as always
BIG HELLO from Ottawa, Canada
Kallithea Springs are located at the bay of Kallithea, just 9km from the City of Rhodes. Known since antiquity for their therapeutic properties, the thermal springs of Kallithea were utilized by the Italians, in the early 20th century, being very popular and attracting visitors from all over the world. Nowadays the renovated, majestic premises of Kallithea Springs completely restored and tastefully refurbished are welcoming once again hundreds of visitors per day, being one of the most popular attractions on the island of Rhodes.
1. Blue Scattered Flowers Pincushion, 2. Bloomingville: Spring/Summer 2010, 3. Vintage Aqua Birdies, 4. easter 022, 5. Girls Spring Tote and Bunny, 6. my favorite, 7. Take Off your Hat ~ Let your Hair Down, 8. 100% handstitched/painted "paper mache rabbits" and a "patchling", 9. ♥ It's SPRING!, 10. Sunday Afternoons in the Spring * beautiful clothesline *, 11. Indigo Spires, 12. I heard a bird sing
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed and gazed but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
(by William Wordsworth)
Whenever they bloom, I remember my high school days. My English teacher loved daffodils very much and everyone in the class had to learn to recite this poem.
I have fewer of them this year than usual, the strong March frosts have damaged them a lot.
Zelenci Springs is a nature reserve near the town of Kranjska Gora, in the far northwestern corner of Slovenia. It is the source of the Sava Dolinka River. At Zelenci Springs, water from underground Nadiža Creek (originating in the Planica Valley) re-emerges through the porous bottom of a 2 m deep lake, whose waters are noted for their deep, brilliant green. The spring and its surrounding area are named after this colour (Zelenci is a deadjectival plural noun from Slovene zelen 'green'.)
dedicated to Richard S Warner
Happy belated birthday Richard (17 Sept!)
Primavera Brasil 21 09 2016
Thank you all for the nice comments, awards and invites.
Much appreciated.
"Cause you know,
I don't do sadness
Not even a little bit.
Just don't need it in my life
Don't want any part of it.
I don't do sadness,
Hey, I've done my time
Looking back on it all
Man, it blows my mind,
I don't do sadness
So been there.
Don't do sadness
Just don't care."
— Moritz Stiefel- Spring Awakening
a wide view of the valley of the dee near glndyfrdwy with early signs of spring beginning to show --in the middle distance the noon carrog -llangollen stopper approaches behind standard 2-6-4t 80072
''Treat This'' 242 ~ Kreative People group
Thanks to jus tt for fun for the source image which you can see in the first comment box below or here: flic.kr/p/2iAhu1b
Bird: Public Domain
Quote is from T S Eliot's poem, Four Quartets - Burnt Norton
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
- Rachel Carson (The Sense of Wonder)