While Out and About
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I haven't been on SL in a long time. Figured I'd stop by and take a pic. I couldn't even figure out how to change my WL. :)
Hanging out at Elysion
~~ “For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.” ~~
Quote ― Haruki Murakami
Let's hope, we don't have to wait too lang, before our lifes are getting back to normal again!
while we are enjoying flowers and trees with blossoms , on the mountain it is still winter. I was up there for an afternoon of snowshoeing on April 5. ** I modified the original photo for Sliders Sunday. ** HSS to all and thanks for your comment.
pendant que nous profitons des fleurs et des arbres avec des fleurs, sur la montagne c'est encore l'hiver. J'étais là-haut pour un après-midi de raquettes le 5 avril. ** J'ai modifié la photo originale pour Sliders Sunday. ** Bon dimanche et merci pour votre commentaire.
While hiking in the dense Daintree Rainforest in the rain, I was startled when I came face to face with this huge Green Python snake in a tree.
While driving through Dayton, a small town in Eastern Washington, we saw this tree up on a hill overlooking the town. It was quite moving to me. #TMT
While driving along Highway 1 near Pescadero, CA, we stopped to stroll along the beach. I spotted these 2 guys fishing and wanted to capture the setting. It was cloudy and windy. (Edited in Lightroom, Photoshop and Topaz)
While watering my little plant today, I thought it was sick with mold, mildew, or a fungus! But checking online, I was relieved that it's ok. Those white particles are "trichomes".
"Trichomes are small hairs on the leaves of the the air plants which help them absorb water, airborne minerals, and helps them to regulate their temperature. Trichomes are important since air plants do not grow in soil and have traditional root systems. Trichomes can absorb moisture directly from the air, even without the plant having to get damped by rain, mist, or morning dew."
airplantshop.com/blogs/air-plant-care/what-are-trichomes
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While on my daily walk, I spotted this flower, weed..:), and wanted to test my phone. I actually a little impressed.
While visiting D'Urville Monument off of the Bransfield Strait we had a good bay full of Adelie Penguins.
They were plentiful once again - - I simply sat quietly on a rock and some directly approached me due to their curiosity.
Adelie Penguin - 'D'Urville Monument - Antarctic
While I was away I visited the International Crane Foundation (ICF) in Baraboo, WI. This is a Wattled Crane from Africa. There are only around 8,000 in the world and the population is declining. The ICF commits to a future where all crane species are secure - a future where people cooperate to protect and restore wild populations and their ecosystems. The ICF in Baraboo is the only place where you can see the world's 15 crane species in one location on 225 acres of land. For mor information and the ICF and saving the worlds cranes please visit this site: www.savingcranes.org
While watching the seals porpoise their way to shore, this fur seal stood by keeping a watchful eye.
Fur Seal - Antarctic - D'Urville Monument
It's been a while since I posted a lighthouse photo, and I do have a few more that I feel are worth sharing. This is the Cape Neddick Light, also known as Nubble Light or just the Nubble. Built in 1879, it is located on Nubble island which is just 90 meters off Cape Neddick Point, in Southern Maine. The lighthouse is only 12 meters high but because it sits on top of a steep rocky island, the light is actually 27 meters above sea level. The Nubble is a famous American icon and as such, a picture of it among with pictures from other prominent man made structures (like the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China) was carried by the Voyager Spacecraft, should it fall into the hands of intelligent extraterrestrials. Only the lighthouse keeper has access to the island and as you can imagine the small park at the tip of the cape right across from the lighthouse is almost always crowded with people enjoying the view of this beautiful structure and the rugged shoreline.
Apollo 440 - The machine in the ghost
The Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes was a monastery of Augustinian canons in Soissons, France, southwest of the city center. Only ruins remain, of which the west facade remains one of the more outstanding examples of architecture in the town. It is a listed historic monument.
The abbey was founded on St. John's hill in 1076 by Hughes Le Blanc as a community of Augustinian canons.
Initially built in Romanesque style, the initial buildings were replaced at the end of the 12th century by those extant today. The west facade was begun in the 12th century, but not finished until the 16th. The refectory and cellar date from the 13th century, parts of the cloisters from the end of the 13th century, while other parts are from the 16th century, as is the abbot's lodging.
When the abbey was suppressed during the French Revolution the premises were put to use for military purposes, and an arsenal was added.
The site was acquired by the town of Soissons in the 1970s and the remaining buildings are now occupied by educational and heritage-related organizations.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FAVES
ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK
Wat je al niet tegen komt tijdens het wandelen
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What you don't encounter while walking
While We were crossing the sky, I captured this rainbow above the city of Istanbul! Just a moment of good luck!
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While at the nursery on Hwy #5 across the road are some nice vehicles to shoot. I alway like this firetruck. She looks like she saved some lives back in the day.
Happy Truck tHuRsDay
...from lack of being played.
19:52 - Around the house - what's your favourite little nook or cranny?
I think this is probably cheating for the theme, but I photographed all my nooks and crannies, and they just didn't cut it. But I found the guitar and case in one of those crannies (corner of a closet). So I brought it out for a shoot. And I think it really is weeping from lack of being played. I shot this in the living room and the bokeh is our backyard through the window.
Now, here is some of the best guitar work ever, IMO :) And nothing to do with the title or who sang that song....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjdMLAMbM0
Best viewed large.
While not the biggest of the major glaciers in the “Los Glaciares National Park”, Spegazzini Glacier is an impressive sight beacuse of size of its wall, which can tower as high as 135 metres (440 feet) over the water level.
Although the town “El Chalten” (a true hikers’ paradise) is relatively close, the glacier is only accesible by boat.
As with the other glaciers in the Park, the blue tones in the ice are because of the way it reflects the light, after hundreds of years of compression.
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Pese a no ser uno de los glaciares más grandes del "Parque Nacional Los Glaciares", su vista es impactante debido a la altura de su pared frontal, que se eleva unos 135 metros sobre el nivel del agua.
Aunque El Chaltén (ese pueblo es un paraíso para senderistas) está relativamente cercano, el glaciar es solamente accesible por agua.
Como con los demás glaciares del parque, el tono azul del hielo se debe a la manera en que refleja la luz después de cientos de años de compresión.
While You Were Dreaming
Have a great weekend my friends :)
While you were dreaming,
I gazed upon your brow,
Tucked away from cold of night,
You're lay beside me now,
And as we lie and rest our heads,
On pillows of purest white,
The moon smiled through the window,
And softly bathed you in its light.
~AWB '09
While walking across the dam, always look at the edge of the water for the American Mink. They look for anything to eat. Bucks County PA.
While wandering the endless badlands of an industrial park I came across this sleeping beauty all alone in an expansive lot.
The joy in photography is the unexpected. Here it was the opportunity to meet Matthew. A fine gentleman and owner of this beauty.
texture by Kerstinfrankart
Life in a Love
a poem by Robert Browning
Escape me?
Never
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up to begin again,
So the chase takes up one's life, that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound,
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope drops to ground
Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark,
I shape me
Ever
Removed!
.... while grooming each other.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=093GjYcDg-4
Impressions from my first trip to Helgoland
While strolling through the long and dark passages, I turn around and I was enchanted by this view. Like I got lost in the dark distance. Due to the horrible things happend there, this felt like magic.
Fort Eben-Emael is an inactive Belgian fortress located between Liège and Maastricht, on the Belgian-Dutch border, outside the village of Ében-Émael. It was designed to defend Belgium from a German attack across the narrow belt of Dutch territory in the region. Constructed in 1931–1935, it was reputed to be impregnable and at the time, the largest in the world. The fort was neutralized by glider-borne German troops (85 men) on 10 May 1940 during the WW2. The action cleared the way for German ground forces to enter Belgium, unhindered by fire from Eben-Emael. Still the property of the Belgian Army, the fort has been preserved.
Spied this beautiful moment while hanging out with the darling Samantha Yates and Alison Sparx.
Sam graciously stood still just long enough for me to catch her behaving for a change!
while you go off and shape your own life :-)
Robert Brault
HFF!!
nigella, denver botanic garden, colorado
With all the processing options available today, it seems we become programmed to look at photos and immediately analyze what might be done to tweak them to make them better in some way. I recall when I first began photography 8 or so years ago, I knew nothing about anything and thus deleted at least 90% of my photos upon review, often all of them. Now, even though I still don't know much, I delete none on the basis of being possibly able to do something with them. Sometimes I do with pleasing results. Most of the time I do not and they remain buried in the archives where they will probably never do more than take up space.
When this view of the far north end of the lake (where the turtles bask in the spring and summer but have now already vanished into their hibernational haunts) appeared, now habitual thinking said, "what does this need?" I thought for a while and finally determined that there was really nothing I could do to make this photo better. Different maybe, but not better. Perhaps you agree.
So here you have it...an actual unenhanced SOOC snap shot of my beloved northwoods entering prime time for color. Maybe not too artsy...but still kind of pretty...;-))