Now the march begins on the long road to healing....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI8ZCyzDotQ

Under the Double Eagle, Wagner

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my dear friends, I will be away for sometime... on vacation wooohoooo!!!!

I'll see you when I get back, will miss you!!

We'll be back soon.....Hooray.

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Memories... ;-)

I was so lucky to spend a wonderful day in Nice at the Parc Phoenix , visit the exhibition of Philippe www.flickr.com/photos/pilou/ and Arnaud www.flickr.com/photos/nokianakronik/ here: www.festimago.com and meet a lot of nice, interesting and charming people - thank you all, I really enjoyed this day! Hope to see you again... on flickr and/or in other places...

e.g. la Côte d'Azur...

“Their flight was interesting…calm, even rowing of the Phainopepla….occasionally the bird flew in an undecided way, still high and even, but changing their direction but changing their direction in sudden jerks.”

Nesting Habits of Phainopepla Nitens in California 1896. By Florence A. Merriam

I wonder if Florence got a boot-full of Foxtails (hitchhiker grass seeds) chasing the peplas?

ebird.org/view/checklist/S56026008

Hope all is well with my flickr friends.......... I've missed you and look forward to catching up.

Have a wonderful week!

We're ready for summer, are you?

Welcome back

I keep a rabbits' tail

I'll take you up on a dare

Anytime, anywhere

Name the place, I'll be there

Bungee jumping, I don't care

Life, oh life! (will open in a new window)

See you around. Missed you. ~xoxo~

HBW!!!

"Seek the strongest color effect possible.. the content is of no importance." (Henri Matisse)

Explore #227, June 23

for this time

I think that it was him that invented the sentence

"I'll be back!"

taken with 100 mm f 2.8 Canon lens, plus teleconverter

for barbara, aka barbera*

...but what's the plan now?

But I always seem to come back ♥

Explore September 15 - #163 when I saw it. Thank you everyone :-)

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"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Texture by darkrose ~ thank you.

I'm back from beautiful Oregon. I had an amazing time shooting the Columbia River Gorge with Adrian Klein and Kevin McNeal. They do an awesome job with their workshop!

nwphototours.com/

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Kris Kros Photography

Rusty me. I need practice. More practice. ^_^

Sunset

View On Black

I have missed this place terribly while pursuing a bit of business. Missing as much the people as their images (or maybe i don't make that much a distinction); but either way, i am so glad to be a part of flickr...

even if i am only a shadow

It has been five months now since Ruthie passed over the rainbow bridge. She was my best friend and companion on all of my adventures for photography. Life has just not been the same. But... time marches on, and we must get back up, dust off ourselves, and wipe away our tears. Ruthie lives in spirit and memory, and she would want us to keep going. Mamma loves you and misses you, Baby Girl. This is for you. Back to the drawing board (dark room). November 1, 2022

Ruthie Grace Renshaw

October 18, 2008 - May 23, 2022

This is Ruthie last year at this time, on one of our nature/photography walks at the lake.

وأنا طلابه ..

Welcome Back MYBro. =D

Lisboa

Dundee welcomes back shoppers

alive and kickin'

thank you deeply and dearly my friends for all your warm support in the past several weeks.

so, lets get back to the business of photography and flickrin'! there's a whole world out there to shoot.

i choose this one to start with because i originally shot it a year ago when i got my camera - what a difference a year makes. i remember a few weeks back looking in a motel mirror at 3am under cold florescent lights thinking that i looked 10 years older but felt 10 years younger. everything evens out over time i guess.

so lets catch up. i found a place to rent for a few months. 2 rooms, hardwood floors, white walls, simple. the neighbors are a trip.

my first morning there baron samedi and i were outside having a smoke when this woman walks up to me and asks to use my cell phone. np me thinks. she takes my cell and walks back into her house for 10 minutes. grrr. when she comes back out i get my phone back. the lcd says emergency so i flip it open and its flashing for a 911 call. i look up at her - 'did you call 911?'

'yeah, i did'

'is everything ok? do you need help?'

'oh no, everything's fine.' and she walks back into the house.

5 minutes later a patrol car pulls into the cul de sac and a cop jumps out. i walk over to tell him where the lady who called was. the cop stops and pulls his service 9mm

'take your hands out of your jacket, sir!' he orders.

i stop cold and show my paws. im wide awake now.

'ummmm....yeah. no. see, i was just going to show you where the lady lives that called you. she borrowed my cell phone.'

'was she calling about you?' he asked.

'no, i just let her use my phone.'

'we got a domestic violence call. she said her husband had a gun and was threatening to shoot her. you see anything?'

nice... i shook my head and pointed at her house. he went to the door, gun still drawn. baron and i looked at each other and shook our heads.

welcome to the ghetto.

so the cop drags out this guy from the house, frisks him down while he screams and shouts that he has no gun and what the hell and what not. his wife comes out and tells the cops to arrest him for the weekend, take him away. another cop shows up and detains the husband while the first cop clears the house. a few minutes later she comes out with a bundle of things, stops at her husband's car, knifes his tires, gets into her car and drives off. baron and i shake our heads again and go back inside and laugh.

an hour or so later we go back outside to get something from my car. the husband is out on his stoop. 'hey! hey! i bet you want to know what that was all about.'

'no i dont, none of my business.'

'nah nah its cool.' he comes over - dirty silver denim pants, karl kani tshirt - 'man! that was some craziness huh? my girl calling the cops on me, telling em i was gonna shoot her, trying to get me arrested while she cleared out...'

'like i said, none of my business...'

'i cant believe she'd play me like that. nah, i can believe it. she was trying to get me arrested so she could find my cash. i got it hidden so good, she'd never find it.' he pulls out a roll of 20s and 100s the size of a fist. 'bitch...try to take my money... well this is a shitty way to meet. I'm KT. you guys seem cool, i'd like to take you out for some drinks, chill, get to know ya...'

'there's a bad idea.' i thought to myself and turned around and went back in the house, muttering something about 'good luck to ya.' baron stayed out with KT and talked a few more minutes. KT goes on to tell him that he has like $100 grand stashed away in his place and he offered baron a $100 to drive him downtown (since his car was decommissioned). sagely baron said hell no. great, me thinks. i live next to a dealer... time to break my lease.

... every little bit helps.

This summer the forest fires caused us not to see the blue sky for over a month. Finally, we are getting blue skies and puffy clouds.

Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission.

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Having been stored in Madrid since November 2022, British Airways 'BEA Retro' liveried Airbus A319-131 G-EUPJ has returned to service and is pictured at Heathrow on it's ferry flight from Madrid.

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Much Better On Black

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Furillen

many thanks dear friends for the warm welcome and awesome comments!!! you are all great and wonderful!!! :D

View On Black

listening to:

youtube.com/watch?v=f2-ukV8IHUg

A Field for the British Isles - Antony Gormley (1993)

Firstsite Gallery for the Visual Arts

The pubs and restaurants are getting excited

i am back now

last few days i wansnt feeling very well

so not very active on Flickr.

7beeeeebtii nmoooooooooooor

ya 8llbiii antii

ya 3mrrrri

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klll 3am o antttti b2alllf 5eeer ya a7llla nmooor

O sorrrry wallah adrii mta5rah bs shaswii knt fe uae O maefta7 al.flickr

anyway happy b-day sweeet 19 luvch = ***

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btw am back to q6r =D

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Pic taken by: Dala3 [Baby D}

Ya a7la oo a6yab sis fee el dnya i missed you moot & thanks for everything.

I L O V E Y O U

At last i decided to come back on Flickr!

I missed it Alot walla.

Happy New Years to You All & I missed ya.....

I want a warm welcome ;;

Taranto, monumento ai marinai presso il Canale Navigabile

ماهو بكفو الوقت حبك يمحيه

يالي تخاف اصروف الايام تمحاه

ارتاح دام المواصــــل يقويـــــــه

انت انت وانا انا وقلبي ويـــــــاه

حتى ولو بتغيب ذكراك تكفيـــه

ياواحدآ تكفي عن الناس ذكراه

حبك على رملت خفوقي مواطيه

وارياح عذلي عنك ماتمسح اخطاه

اخفيه يابلفيت والحـــال يمديـــــه

ادنات واحد ينظر الحــــال يقــراه

مخفيه فيه ومعتنمبه وخافيــــه

عن كل عين ودها تنزل احمــاه

قلب يحبك والهوا الذرب ماليــه

كانك مكذبني بعينــــك تحــــلاه

all by me

Godwit/grutto, die gelukkig uit de plas( die veel te ver weg was)opvloog om op zijn gemak in het weiland te struinen. Dat was mijn geluk en ondanks de bewolking en het slechte licht kon ik er ook nog plaatjes van schieten.

Historic Salt Lake City signage alphabet by Paul Heath go to his website, or check his flickr account.

Still soldiering on veteran English Electric 31233 made a welcome return to test train duties. It is pictured entering Sheffield working 3Q24 Grimsby Town to Derby RTC via Lincoln, Sheffield and Retford. How long these elderly locos will remain in service remains to be seen.