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For those who may have lost someone recently to Covid-19 or some other disease, or who are facing death themselves, I hope you'll find comfort in this story.
Discovering Heaven
~ Adapted from the BBC series, Rev
“It’s very difficult to know what to say in times like this. … Some people don’t believe in Heaven, but I do. I don’t know exactly what it is, but I do know a story which gives me an idea. It’s a story about a lot of little bugs that lived at the bottom of a river. And every now and then one of the bugs would crawl up a plant through the water and into the light. And it would never be seen again by his friends. One day, one special little bug felt that she wanted to crawl up the plant, too. So she did. Crawled up the plant through the water into the air. And she turned into an amazing, colourful dragonfly. And she flew around the air. She was the happiest she’d ever been! But when she tried to fly back down into the water to tell her bug friends how wonderful it was she found she couldn’t. Couldn’t get down into the water anymore because she wasn’t a bug anymore. She was a dragonfly. And this upset her until she remembered that one day all her friends would crawl up the plant, too, and join her in the sun.”
The Look
Head Lelutka Simone
Head Applier Glam Affair Kiara @ C88
Hair Nani Zel @ Enchantment May 13 - 31
Dress The Annex Rapunzel's Tears @ Enchantment May 13 - 31
Shoes ChicChica Etierre Shoes @ Enchantment May 13 - 31
Pose EvoLove Repunzel Series @ Enchantment May 13 - 31
This is an island called Belle Isle is not so considered as very exclusive although there are very nice houses and even a very elegant hotel called The Standard Spa, Miami Beach.
These are neighborhoods that are attached to the water and where the patio of the house is integrated into the sea, of course this piece of sea is yours.
“Stories of imagination
tend to upset those
without one.”
(Terry Pratchett)
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(Dedicated to C.F. (ILYWAMHASAM)
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"As far as my eyes can see
There are shadows approaching me
And to those I left behind
I wanted you to know
You've always shared my deepest thoughts
You follow where I go
And oh, when I'm old and wise
Bitter words mean little to me
Autumn Winds will blow right through me
And someday in the mist of time
When they asked me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine
And the sadness would be lifted from my eyes
Oh when I'm old and wise
As far as my eyes can see
There are shadows surrounding me
And to those I leave behind
I want you all to know
You've always shared my darkest hours
I'll miss you when I go
And oh, when I'm old and wise
Heavy words that tossed and blew me
Like Autumn winds will blow right through me
And someday in the mist of time
When they ask you if you knew me
Remember that you were a friend of mine
As the final curtain falls before my eyes
Oh when I'm old and wise
As far as my eyes can see"
Alan Parsons Project
Old and Wise
I love her green eyes.
Dushara Cathal Caithlin (Somali cat), 19.01.2025
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
The Falklands have 2 Steamer Duck, "the Falkland Steamer Duck" and the "Flying Steamer duck". This is the Female Steamer duck and the next image is the male Steamer Duck.... both are "Falkland Steamer" and they do not fly. They are very common ducks and I have seen large flock of them floating at a distance on the ocean, especially when we visited Sea Lion Island. It is very difficult to distinguish the one who can fly from the other one when they are on the water. Robin Woods tells us that "the best distinguishing features are the shape and colour of the bill. Both male and female have slightly longer, more slender and concave bills." We have seen and photograph both species of "Steamer" ducks but I find it hard to distinguish which is which even when examining the pictures closely.... I only know that we saw both type of "Steamer" because we saw them flying. Local names for the non-flying duck is "Logger" or "Loggerhead"
Even though it is technically a falcon, the Crested Caracara is much slower than the rest of the falcon family, and mostly live off carrion.
Cobalt-winged parakeets and an orange-cheeked parrot enjoy the "spa" (water and clay lick) in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
I always enjoy those minutes just before the sun peeps over the horizon and a new day begins.
Taken from the jetty at Beachport, South Australia.
"Through the Veil "
High up in the wilderness of the Wicklow Mountains, the first light of dawn moves along the horizon, on the first day of January, 2017.
Taken from the slopes of Tonelagee Mtn at 600m.
Pat.
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Update 9/1/ 17
You will notice that I havent written my usual stuff with this photo. I think its beyond that for me. You would have to go up there and seen it happening to comprehend what it does to your senses. { Er....I changed my mind...again!!! }
I took this photo at dawn from the side of Tonalgee { " Ass to the wind" } Mountain at 600m. A wild, boggy and isolated place but with its own unique beauty which draws some of us crazy people like a magnet!
I think the shape of the light flaring out from the sun behind the ridge line which was changing by the second, is something to behold. I did wonder, as I looked at it if there was a place between the light and the dark where you could stand and. what would it do to your mind.
Then I realised I was standing, up to my knees in freezing bog water and I could hear the red grouse calling out to one another in the darkness and probably saying " Whose yer man with the camera. Bejaysus wouldnt you imagine he`d get sense and go home! { They were Irish red grouses obviously! Lol! } Anyway, I ended up breaking into a fit of laughter at the thought of it so the moment was gone and I got quickly out of there.
Im very pleased with it as I think its very different but my honest friends on Flickr have ways of letting me know whether they like it like I do! Pat.
UPDATE 1/1 2017
AS it is New Year, I just wanted to remember our two good friends that we lost during 2017. Firstly my good friend, the Birdman, Steve-h from Dublin who took such amazing bird studies in St Stephens Green. A master and a true gentlemen who still inspires me and I keep all his wonderful stories with me always! Heres to you Steve!
And secondly but by no means in that order, our larger than life friend Richard Gregory. A wonderful photographer wth a zany sense of humor who took the P out of me constantly and me out of him. How many people can you actually do that with without causing offence? Very few and only those that you truly like and admire. Gone but not forgotten "and no I dont want to hear your latest Irish joke, Richard!! Oh! ok then, seeing as its yerself but Ill get you later!!! "
If you scroll down the page they are both on it here
and with all of us too!
P@t
Quiet reflections always allows for remembering and cherishing those moments.
"Be a reflection of what you’d like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want truth, be truthful. What you give out will always return.” Kristen Butler
"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” Maya Angleou
🎼: Weightless ~ Five for Fighting~
✈️ : Lost Lagoon
I'm 45 for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life
15, there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose yourself within a morning star
15, I'm alright with you
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you've only got a hundred years to live
Half time goes by, suddenly you're wise
Another blink of an eye, 67 is gone
The sun is getting high
We're moving on
I'm 99 for a moment
And dying for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
15, there's still time for you
22, I feel her too
33, you're on your way
Every day's a new day
This is Lake Josephine there in Glacier National Park. Along some of the shore section there you can find these amazing colored rocks there under the water. My wife and I were enjoying the pretty day and hike there along the lake. Had this whole area pretty much to ourselves for about 45 minutes, which was nice! Liked this view with the shadow of the tree leading out to the clouds there in the sky.
they sure love their salmon! LOL
Love the 2 gulls waiting patiently in the background for the leftovers.
Of course I love everything about Tofu but I admit that when I first saw him I immediately fell in love with his big baby blue eyes. In the comments I add another photo of him showing his fluffy paws. :)
Posted for the Happy Caturday theme "Best Asset".
Every statue has a grace and every sculpture an appeal, yet they can only be revealed to those who seek, and only those who seek - appreciate
Every week at school we get a board assignment. Basically we come up with a photograph relating to the theme given for that week, we print a 8x10 of it, put it up in the school, and the staff have green dots they put next to the photos they like for the week. At the end of the year the photographer with the most green dots gets some sort of prize. This weeks theme is Season Change. I actually really like how it turned out. Wish me luck for those green dots ;)
This was one of those nights when I had zero plans to shoot — the rain had been relentless for days. But I always keep a list of bookmarked spots ready, just in case the weather plays nice.
Earlier that day, I noticed a 3-hour window of clear sky over Lake Ninan — a place I’d just visited recently but hadn't removed from my bookmarked list yet. I didn’t think much of it, assuming the forecast would snap right back to factory setting: clouds and more rain.
But to my surprise, it held up. So before bed, I pulled out all my gear and set my alarm for midnight. By 2 AM, I was standing by the lake under a perfectly clear sky, no wind at all — the water was a flawless mirror again.
So here I am, a few days later, sharing this shot — standing on that glassy lake while messaging my partner, who couldn’t sleep that night.
Another beautiful night under the stars — until the fog rolled in and wrapped everything in dew. Worth every cold, damp second.
Nikon D5500 (modded)
Nikon 50mm f/1.8
Star Adventurer 2i
Hoya UV/IR Cut
"To those who think as we do, all things themselves are dancing: they come and offer their hands and laugh and flee- and come back. Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same house of being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There, The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity." ...
"A long twilight limped before me, a sadness, weary to death, drunken with death speaking with a yawning mouth. 'Eternally recurs the man of whom you are weary, the small man' - thus yawned my sadness and dragged its feet and could not go to sleep. Man's earth turned into a cave for me, its chest sunken; all that is living became human mold and bones and musty paste to me. My sighing sat on all human tombs and could not longer get up; my sighing and questioning croaked and gagged and gnawed and wailed by day and night: 'Alas, man recurs eternally! The small man recurs eternally!'"
In the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales.
That is the actual James Bond Aston Martin DB5 as first seen in Goldfinger in 1965. Probably the most iconic and famous car in the world and likely priceless too. If you google that licence registration BMT216A, it will confirm that it also appeared in Thunderball, Golden Eye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die. Or you can see the registration here -
www.007.com/the-vehicles/aston-martin-db5/
And now here it is on the Flickr page of old Magoo - who’d have thunk! A scoop or what? Here it has its latest modification to its front bumper - a guy in.a luminous orange jacket trying to take a photograph.
So how did old Magoo bumbling around with his white stick and who can’t tell a farmers truck from a pedal cycle happen to bump into it in the back of beyond on the Brecon Beacons, how did he know what it was and more importantly, is that the real James Bond behind the wheel?
So there I was on a very quiet mountain road in the middle of nowhere when I hear the throaty roar of a vehicle coming up behind me. The road isn’t wide enough for man and car so I step off to allow it through, but it pulls to a halt alongside.…
“You’re looking very official by the side of the road” Says James Bond. It puzzles me for a second and I realise he must be referring to my luminous coat. (I later realise he must have been looking for the camera crew and thought I was with them).
“Oh the jacket” I say “It’s so I can be seen by cars because I can’t see them” and I hold up my white stick. And then, listening to the sweet purr of the engine I say “That’s a beautiful sounding car you have there, what is it?
“An Aston Martin DB5” Bond says.
“Wow” says I “How old?”
“59 years” replies 007 without hesitation because if anyone would know he would, right? “It’s the James Bond car” he adds.
I wrongly presume he means ‘like the James Bond car’ not the actual car itself and so like an idiot I ask - “How long have you had it?”
“We are actually filming here for a couple of days” says James by way of explanation.
“Are you James Bond then?” I ask with a wry grin.
“Well, sort of “ he replies with a chuckle. I expect he was being covert. I’m stood there close enough to touch the car and am wondering whether or not this is Daniel Craig or the new Bond guy driving - I certainly can’t tell, the car is just a fuzzy haze to me and the driver non existent, when he politely excuses himself and drives off. I’m left wondering whether he was pulling old Magoo’s leg or whether this really was the real Bond car and then feel more than a little disappointed that I didn’t get a photo. Wouldn’t you?? Let’s face it, it’s not the sort of thing you expect is it?
I continue on my deflated way when after about half a mile I pass a group of people by the side of the road. There is absolutely never anyone here and even though I cannot see their equipment I presume it must be the film crew. I wander on thinking they must be waiting for me to walk on through so they can do the take, which means the Licence to Kill and his car must be up ahead somewhere - and sure enough, a couple hundred yards on I catch that sweet throaty purr again.
“Would you mind if I take a photograph of your car Mr Bond, so I can see it on the big screen when I get home?”
“Be my guest” says James. Realising I was probably holding things up and I would have only time for one shot I quickly took it and wandered up to his window and showed him the back of the camera and asked if it looked okay?
“Haha” Laughs the Licence 2 Kill “It’s right in the middle”. Well, that was good enough for me, a crackshot secret agent with such an eye for the ladies and who bumps off global super villains for fun should be able to judge a photo right? And after thanks, I wanders on me way, and when I was clear he must have got the ‘camera - action’ instruction because the pedal hit the metal and it leapt away towards the cameras with a glorious roar.
So was that the real James Bond, or another actor filling in for him? I have absolutely no idea, couldn’t see him at all - but I’ll go this far……it wasn’t Sean Connery or Roger Moore, I would have recognised those voices for sure…….
A big thanks to the photography gods for causing James Bond to stop and talk, because if he hadn’t I would have had no idea there was filming taking place and wouldn’t have got the shot - and a double big thanks to 007 for being sociable and letting me take the photo! If you see a tramp in a bright orange coat cluttering up the movie - that’ll be old Magoo……
Kookaburra enjoying some late afternoon winter sunshine on the roof 🐦
Lightly textured and framed in SPE
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