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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
This made Explore
( WOW! my highest ever Explore #70 Thank you all so much my wonderful Flickr Friends)
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
Look Ma, I can do the swing!...Orangutans are the only exclusively Asian living genus of great ape. They are among the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools, also making sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage. They are generally not aggressive and live a mostly solitary life foraging for food. They are the largest living arboreal animals with longer arms than other great apes. Their hair is typically reddish-brown, instead of the brown or black hair typical of other great apes.
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Nikon D90 + Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D + Kenko 2X Teleconversion Lens + Handheld
This road leads to sunrise... Happy weekend everyone and thank you kindly for your comments, awards and visits....They are very much appreciated...Take care...
Nikon D700 + Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 + Handheld
When the rain stops...Wishing you all a nice week ahead and thank you so much for your visit...
Nikon D700 + Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D + Kenko 2X Teleconversion Lens + Handheld
They say the best place to take flower pictures is at your local nursery. I agree. We didn't buy any of these flowers, but aren't they spectacular?
Someday when I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow
Just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
Odonates (Odonata), or odonatoptères are an order of insects with elongated body, with two pairs of membranous wings generally transparent, and whose large compound eyes and usually allow them to hunt their prey efficiently. They are terrestrial and aquatic as adults in the larval stage. They are predators that may be encountered occasionally in all types of natural environment, but which are found more frequently around areas of fresh water to brackish, stagnant low current, they need to reproduce.
My favorite photo of all time. Why? Because of its simplicity and how this simple picture conveys a deeper emotion. A simple yet intricately entertwined hands says as if this is FOREVER. This is LOVE.
Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, make up a large family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera distributed worldwide.
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Nikon D700 Nikon AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED Lens + Ringflash + Handheld
Returned today from a two-day/two-night hospital stay. Severe asthma attack, apparently almost died. But I'm still here - so there!
Where is love?
Does it fall from skies above?
Is it underneat the willow tree
That I've been dream of?
Where is she?
Who I close my eyes to see?
Will I ever know the sweet "hello"
That's only meant for me?
Forever was shorter than what i was thinkin,
Now all we have left is yesterday,
i guess i wasnt what you wanted,
til u saw me turn and walk away,
be stil u had me feelin small, when im six foot four
fed up with you always comin up short,
tired of all the games you play,
funny how now, you've got so much to say
to say...but you never
We all have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
- Christiane Collange
Il faut admirer tout pour s'exalter soi-même
Et se dresser plus haut que ceux qui ont vécu
De coupable souffrance et de désirs vaincus :
L'âpre réalité formidable et suprême
Distille une assez rouge et tonique liqueur
Pour s'en griser la tête et s'en brûler le coeur.
Oh clair et pur froment d'où l'on chasse l'ivraie !
Flamme nette, choisie entre mille flambeaux
D'un légendaire éclat, mais d'un prestige faux !
Dites, marquer son pas dans l'existence vraie,
Par un chemin ardu vers un lointain accueil,
N'ayant d'autre arme au front que son lucide orgueil !
Marcher dans sa fierté et dans sa confiance,
Droit à l'obstacle, avec l'espoir très entêté
De le réduire, à coup précis de volonté,
D'intelligence prompte ou d'ample patience
Et de sentir croître et grandir le sentiment
D'être, de jour en jour, plus fort, superbement.
Aimer avec ferveur soi-même en tous les autres
Qui s'exaltent de même en de mêmes combats
Vers le même avenir dont on entend le pas ;
Aimer leur coeur et leur cerveau pareils aux vôtres
Parce qu'ils ont souffert, en des jours noirs et fous,
Même angoisse, même affre et même deuil que nous.
Et s'enivrer si fort de l'humaine bataille
- Pâle et flottant reflet des monstrueux assauts
Ou des groupements d'or des étoiles, là-haut -
Qu'on vit en tout ce qui agit, lutte ou tressaille
Et qu'on accepte avidement, le coeur ouvert,
L'âpre et terrible loi qui régit l'univers.
"LA VIE"
---------EMILE VERHAEREN---------------
True predation... Adults of both sexes frequently drink flower nectar, but they stock their nests with spiders, which serve as food for their offspring. Mud daubers cram as many as two dozen small spiders into a nest cell.
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Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 90mm + Ringflash + Handheld.