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Friends;
Has the year been a year where you’ve lost? I mean, have you lost TIME? Or was it an year you have won? Won TIME? Was 2013 a stretch of 365 days you loved more – or did you love less? Have you lost friends? Did you gain one or two friends? And I don’t mean ‘lost friends’ by death or accident, or war or disaster – I mean, loosing friends by not caring enough….
For Hero Husband and me, 2013 wasn’t the very best year, but it wasn’t – by far – the worst either. We therefore shall happily accommodate the New Year with joy, heartfelt thanks for all the good things we experienced and even for the not so good stuff we lived through (and which easily could have been even worse). I also take this opportunity to thank all of you very much for every thought you sent me, for every comment, for each and every smile you sent my way, for the faved uploads; you accorded me, although I did SO little last year, (priorities have shifted due to my discontent with Flickr…) many mails and private notes/letters/incredibly kind gifts/SMS/messages - you offered me so much more than I was able to give to you.
I can’t promise to be more present here but I WILL AND SHALL do more snail-mail because the huge amount of Christmas & New Year letters/cards was so tremendously uplifting that I shall do my best(est!) to accommodate as many personal messages to my beloved ones!
For the New Year 2014 I would like to send you these words of encouragements:
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
(Neil Gaiman)
And for those who are achieving a bit more of good old perfection, just go with Winfrey Oprah, who said Cheers to a New Year and another chance to get it right
For my many French spoken friends I’ve got a real goodie (with a less than adequate translation):
Saluons ensemble cette nouvelle année qui vieillit notre amitié sans vieillir notre coeur.
(Victor Hugo) (Let’s welcome this New Year together, an year to age our friendship without aging our heart.)
Wishing you all A BLESSED & HAPPY NEW YEAR – UNE NOUVELLE ANNEE RICHEMENT BENIE ET PLEIN DE JOIE DE VIVRE – EIN GESEGNETES, GLÜCKLICHES NEUES JAHR
KIKI
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I captured this tree in Winter and purposely waited until the sun was just at the treetop. The B&W conversion was done in ON1 Photo 10 using a few color filters and some dynamic contrast. I really wanted to accent the flare and bring out the detail in the branches.
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Aberyswyth Town Under Snow Ceredigion Wales UK
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Tree marked for halo release - basically required us to remove all competing trees. ww.lastingpsring.co.uk
Street trees along East 34th Avenue provide an snowy canopy of intricate interwoven branches. In two months this monotone of winter will be a riot of pink when the cherry blossoms on these same trees explode.
The first really sunny day of the year so I thought I'd get out for a walk. Starting from Wildboarclough I went round via Macclesfield Forest, up and over Shutlingsloe and back to the car. Spotted this barn roof echoing the colour of the trees and thought it looked a bit nice.
Entryway
This house was the final residence designed for Howe's long time repeat clients, George & Norma Johnson. Situated in the Wintertree Development along the North Shore of Lake Superior, it is immediately adjacent to the Inn at Terrace Point.
(photo via lakesuperiorrentals.com)
We have had some amazing snow here this week, on Monday, Jan 10, we woke up to over 10 inches of snow here in southern Tennessee. The weather report has promised that it would be better as the week went by, so I was looking forward to warmer days. This morning (Jan 14) my husband woke me up early, and said, "I think you need to get some pictures of this!" Everything was coated with ice! We are having an unbelievable winter! Believe it or not, I took a lot of pictures! : )
I posted so many pictures at once, I put them in a set so you can view them more easily, if you would like to, here is the link, I hope you are viewing them from somewhere warm!
The Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries) Carousel through the winter trees.
The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries), is a public garden located between the Louvre Museum and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was eventually opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution.
My sister Pat in Alberta took this full colour, black and white photo with only the red stop sign having any colour - It was not processed to look this way - it's how it actually appeared and I was mistaken - this photo was not taken with her cell phone -- it was taken with her Olympus fe 5000 Digital Camera.