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Taken at Bogor Safari Park, West Java - Indonesia,

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Macro Mondays: Stone

Belated good wishes for the New Year to all my contacts!

I'm now back in the world of broadband and hope to catch up with you all later on today!

Snow may look very pretty but I hate it all around me - Matti and Pushkin are not enthusiastic either!

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Would you swear that you'll always be mine?

Or would you lie?

Would you run and hide?

Am I in too deep?

Have I lost my mind?

I don't care, you're here tonight

I can be your hero, baby

I can kiss away the pain

I will stand by you forever

You can take my breath away

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Taxi

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Taxi

Hidden Citizens - Too Far Gone

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGGpZncmRU

Keechelus Lake, Washington

"Nope, still too deep", was my thought as I gingerly stepped off the main trail to test the snow again and promptly felt my snowshoes sink until I was well over knee deep in the fluffy whiteness, completely unable to maneuver. As I laboriously extracted my feet and turned around to once again return to the packed snow of the main trail, I was lamenting the depth and soft consistency of the snow.

I had been lured to the mountains by the massive amounts of new snow and the chance to do my first snowshoeing of the season during a brief break in the weather after two weeks of seemingly endless storms. Usually snowshoes offer the ability and advantage of being able to walk on top of the snow and venture off trail much more easily. But on this day, even with the addition of flotation tails, they were no match for the deep, soft snow, so my explorations (and photography angles) were limited to following the established path that others before me had trod.

With avalanche risk levels rated high in the backcountry that day, I made sure to choose a trail away from steep slopes and known avalanche terrain, one which winds its way through a lovely forest of snow-laden evergreen trees to the shore of Lake Keechelus on the eastern slopes of Snoqualmie Pass. When I arrived at the parking area and headed out on the trail, the landscape was shrouded in fog, obscuring the mountains in a thick layer of mist. But as I snowshoed through the hushed world of white, glimmers of light soon started to appear and by the time I was approaching the first views of the lake (depicted in this image), the clouds began to lift and the sky lightened, eventually clearing to a brilliant shade of blue.

The air was chilly by the lake as the wind blew off the freezing water and the layer of ice that had formed along the shore. But few others had ventured all the way to the lake so for most of the time I spent there I was alone in the expanse of a dazzling snowscape.

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Creative work on a sunset shot that I wasn't too happy with.

Ir demasiado rápido es a veces un paso atrás... Valencia, mi ciudad, no pasará todavía a la siguiente fase de desconfinamiento.

Going too fast is sometimes a step back ... Valencia, my city, will not pass on to the next deconfinement stage yet.

♫ Mo-Do - "Eins Zwei Polizei"

♫ The Byrds - "I Wasn't Born To Follow" (Paco)

♫ Fire Inc. - "Nowhere Fast" (Mick)

It was one crispy November morning, but it arrived a little early. Wish you a wonderful weekend.

Paquetá Island/ Rio de Janeiro

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Featuring:

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GOS Hailee Tassel Sandals - available at Uber through 22-Aug

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Yummy Serena Layered Necklace & Earrings - available at The Fifty through 20-Aug

Taken at Missing Melody

Full details at Grumpy Kitten.

female muntjac

(Veduta dalla vetta del monte Resegone)

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Genesis, MANY TOO MANY.........

My place, probably like everybody's, is full of paper. I didn't know where to start and took hours to come up with anything at all (since all the cool and beautiful things were done already by other people).

In the end I settled on this: Two lavender coloured envelopes on top of purple paper which I found looks like fabric close up. I had made a card some time ago and I found it again like this, with two envelope flaps covering the front.

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Dew...

Pentacon 50 1.8, extension ring.

Credits: tinisideas.blogspot.gr/2017/10/too-purple.html

Most often you need lots of lens to capture good wildlife images, trying to get close without disturbing the subject. But occasionally the bird surprises you and comes too close. We were trying to photograph this secretive Least Bittern at some distance, while it hid in the tall grass. It suddenly flew towards us and landed in a nearby tree. As a hardened photographer I should have removed my teleconverter, but alas I panicked and only got a head shot. I'll take it though.

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A chipmunk snacks of some sunflowers.

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

― Pablo Neruda

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtfHk2hSlqA

WICKED GAME by CHRIS ISAAK

FIREWORKS IN MY MIND

I feel that I could lose myself

within the warm fold of your arms

the intensity you feel for me

ignites fireworks in my mind

within the recess of my heart

where past love left a void

there's a burning river running through

lighting fireworks in my mind

it's scorching everything I touch

and coursing through my veins

I close my eyes and try to breathe

but still see fireworks in my mind

I feel myself falling deep

in the garden of my dreams

this burning love; intense white heat

creates fireworks in my mind

I walk along my empty beach

and try to stem the flow

I don't want to feel this way

with fireworks in my mind

it feels too much; explosive love

it consumes me with it's madness

somehow you got beneath my skin

caused fireworks in my mind

I'm weakening now as you grow close

but I'm less when you're not here

the coldness that ached and broke my bones

is gone with fireworks in my mind

I need to choose; to do things right

but it's harder when you're here

you took my heart and made it yours

lit fireworks in my mind

If I could choose and have it all

I'd tell you not to go

don't make me choose between the moon and you

with fireworks in my mind

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My artwork is a compilation of 3 of my photographs

Approaching Bridlington Harbour, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.

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