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We had it confirmed yesterday that our dear Flickr friend, Gérard had left us. I say confirmed because I had noticed he had not reappeared as he always did and the days of his absence were increasingly disturbing. I thought about him often of late...his loyalty, consistent presence and most of all his humor. He is the only one I've ever known who I could really hear laugh when he wrote "LOL."
It's funny how this medium can actually develop what can only be defined as real friendships when one anticipates and looks forward to daily interactions and comments. I recall the shock I felt when he informed us of his condition...and clearly recall also the shock he himself felt in just those few dramatic words. I eagerly awaited his return to Flickr from his treatments and, when he did, marveled at his spirit during this impossibly difficult time.
Gérard and I shared musical tastes and frequently exchanged YouTube links we thought appropriate to an image or an expressed thought. In many ways, we were on the same "wave length" and we discussed and mourned the losses in the musical arena this year. And now he has joined them. It has indeed been a year of loss.
So adieu, mon ami. You will be missed deeply by many, as myself, who have never met or even spoken to you...a tribute indeed. Oh, and I can tell that's you captured in this image by the white head...;-)
And one more link to carry you onward...
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Because your heart loves who it chooses, without any doubt or reasoning...
The world is full of love that goes unspoken. It doesn’t mean that it is felt less deeply… its beauty and its pain are in its silence.
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Why don't you stay
I'm down on my knees
I'm so tired of being lonely
Don't I give you what you need
When she calls you will go
There is one thing you should know
We don't have to live this way
Baby why don't you stay
Because you are our first grandchild, that's why! Robin William Collis is the first child of our daughter, Tanya Vincenza Collis, and her husband Nick.
Photograph by Tanya Collis.
Wish you all a lovely Wednesday! Being a bit off and on at the moment because of vacation.
Have a lovely week!
and because there's nowhere to go but everywhere, and keep rolling under the stars:-)
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), On the Road
Logan canyon national scenic byway, utah
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There goes my heart beating
Because you are the reason
I'm losing my sleep
Please come back now
There goes my mind racing
And you are the reason
That I'm still breathing
I'm hopeless now
I'd climb every mountain
And swim every ocean
Just to be with you
And fix what I've broken
Oh, because I need you to see
That you are the reason
There goes my hands shaking
Because you are the reason
My heart keeps bleeding
And I need you now
If I could turn back the clock
I'd make sure the light defeated the dark
I'd spend every hour, of every day
Keeping you safe
I'd climb every mountain
And swim every ocean
Just to be with you
And fix what I've broken
Oh, because I need you to see
That you are the reason
You are the reason
Yeah, yeah...
I'd climb every mountain.
And swim every ocean
Just to be with you
And fix what I've broken
Oh, because I need you to see
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slowly but surely
becoming the me
I have always
dreamed of being.
-Tyler Knott Gregson
Because of the government shutdown in early October 2013, we could not visit the Great Sand Dunes National Park. So unfortunately remained just the view from a distance (from the Great Sand Dunes Lodge) with a telephoto lens.
Wegen des Government shutdown Anfang Oktober 2013 konnten wir den Great Sand Dunes National Park nicht besuchen. So blieb leider nur der Blick aus der Ferne (von der Great Sand Dunes Lodge aus) mit dem Teleobjektiv.
that's the day i was born and hence, i had a birthday on april 9th, 2009! AHHHH!
it was a fun day. though it ended with bloatedness after drinking a soy chai at a restaurant. it was the powder mix chai, which, from experience, tends to be laden with dairy... Oh NOES! . . .
in any case, it was still fun. a guy gave me a HUGE purple cellophane wrapped basket of homemade peanut butter cookies he made himself, pretty white roses, funny balloons, and a card about BOOTYBUTTS (the card i received at work was about a toilet and poo... ironic much?)! his mom got me a to-die-for gift card to starbuck's (i whole-heartedly support the local coffee and tea shops, but sometimes, they just aren't around when you need 'em the most!)
then he and i went out to breakfast/lunch/brunch/whatever you wanna call it at T.C. Eggington's. they have great vegetarian choices... "portobellini"... yum! on the way to breakfast, we saw a mother and her tiny baby ducks by the freeway in the puddle-y canal/gutter/whatever you wanna call that. it was cool because it was my birthday and they were cute, yet odd because it was by a freeway and not in a park, or in my school's irrigation or something. them duckies must be suffering economically too, eh?
so after that, i contemplated going back home to work on a commedia dell'arte mask for theatre class, but decided to just veg and hang with this guy at his apartment (i find vegging out, doing nothing a bit difficult to do sometimes).
later on, we met up with my parents to eat dinner at the Euro Cafe in Gilbert, AZ. a great foodsie greeky place. and that's where, you know, *ahem*... the soy-chai-laden-with-dairy-omg-why-did-i-order-this fiasco happened. so after dinner, with all of us feeling like cows (even though i hardly ate anything and they ate like contestants in a hotdog eating contest), we went to Wal-Mart of all places. i'm particularly NOT a Wal-Mart fan, but since i was at Wal-Mart and it might be cheaper than at other places, i bought vanilla soy ice cream because i was magnetized/hankering for some.
we finally headed home around 11pm, after which i quickly shoved this guy out the door and kissed him goodbye, so i could heat up some of those peanut butter cookies and WHAM BAM!... inhale hot cookies n' ice cream. mmmmmmmmmm... no cake this year. and i wanted it that way. no one even sang to me either i noticed, but that's perfectly ok. it's not a crime. wait wait...i take that back: he played the weird al birthday song... so essentially, i was sung to in mp3 format. :)
oh yeah, and at work today for my 'employee birthday'... i made up fruit, granola, & yogurt parfaits for everyone. someone bought all the ingredients (i requested it instead of birthday cake), and i went right to work -- whipping up those babies during my lunch break. i was so amazed some people didn't know what a parfait was or how to make them.
well, now they know :)
suffice to say, i'm on a parfait kick now. i hadn't had one in a year before that day. soy yogurt though. yes, please. :)
p.s. thanks dude for taking these kickity arse photos!
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“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Music: Marooned by Pink Floyd
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Taken @ Chesapeake Bay
Porque se levantó temprano
Californian Sea Lion
León Marino de California
Lleó Marí de Califòrnia
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Be happy, not because everything is good, but because you can see the good in everything. – Unknown
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Because I'm in a stadium of blossom and flower photography I want to raise the ante with this rose slumbering on my hard-disk for qite a while waiting for being published.
Da ich gerade in einer Phase von Blumen- und Blütenbildern bin möchte ich hier noch eine Rose nachlegen, welche schon eine Weile auf meiner Festplatte auf Veröffentlichung wartet.
The Ana Kai Tangata cave is of note because in the back left wall cave paintings depicting birds, mainly manutaras, can be seen. The paintings were drawn using natural earth pigments and animal fat, but the high humidity of the cave has harmed them almost to the point of erasing them.
"Die Zukunft steht fest, lieber Herr Kappus, wir aber bewegen uns im unendlichen Raume."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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icm image of a forest friend.
one of the things I love about getting to know a forest
is recognising individual trees.
I've photographed this tree before.
but it went missing after it's leaves fell...
and then late autumn this year, it reappeared ;-)
the same and yet different...
taller, stronger, a more supple dancer.
and for those inclined Daan Park from Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra:www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fb05_-ttas :-)
If you never had friends...
you never lived life....
My bus to the wonderland.... my rare gatcha i dont think i will ever manage to find the right words buddy... but you know already... lovs u CAS x
Because I'd just climbed over it. I was having a really weird and unpleasant day health-wise and hadn't intended to take a photograph at all, but saw this and nipped over the fence on the track to a farm building and snapped it with my phone. Then I painted it, of course ! Things are a bit better now, so here we are !
A bit late for Fence Friday but never mind, there are no fences in my picture LOL. Happy Fence Friday and all the days ahead everyone !
Many thanks for your visits and comments, faves etc. I would prefer not to receive multiple invites - thank you !
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Manchmal überwältigend. Elemente des Wassers.
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For me it is – and I think it's the same for most of you – every time I stand, walk, run on a wide beach, feel the wind, smell the salt and hear the sound of the waves ...
And you probably also know this: "Clouds arise because the sun evaporates water from seas, lakes, rivers or streams and rises as water vapor. It's colder up there and the water vapor then turns into tiny water droplets that are so light that they can float." Smart sentences ... Sometimes you just want to float away with the elements :-)
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Für mich ist es jedenfalls so – und ich denke, für die meisten trifft das zu – jedes Mal, wenn ich auf einem weiten Strand stehe, gehe, laufe, den Wind spüre, das Salz rieche und das Rauschen der Wellen höre ...
Und das hier wisst Ihr sicher auch: "Wolken entstehen, weil durch die Sonne aus Meeren, Seen, Flüssen oder Bächen Wasser verdunstet und als Wasserdampf nach oben steigt. Dort oben ist es kälter und aus dem Wasserdampf werden dann winzigste Wassertröpfchen, die so leicht sind, dass sie schweben können." Kluge Sätze ... Manchmal möchte man einfach nur mit den Elementen davonschweben :-)
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Behind clever sentences / AnnenMayKantereit
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... And unfortunately I am rarely on the coast
I miss so much
Because everything is different on the beach
And I have endless wanderlust
Wanderlust for the foreign ...
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Hinter klugen Sätzen / AnnenMayKantereit
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... Und ich bin leider selten an der Küste
Die ich so sehr vermisse
Weil alles anders ist am Strand
Und ich habe Fernweh ohne Ende
Fernweh für das Fremde ...
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Schlagschatten / Album:
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#SmileOnSaturday / #Clouds
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Graal-Müritz / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Ostsee
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Sunset on the endless flat plains of outback South Australia. This shot taken at Coober Pedy, a town 846 Km north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The town is sometimes referred to as the "opal capital of the world" because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground residences, called "dugouts", where most of the population live due to the scorching daytime temperatures.
Never really scared to show you what I feel inside
Everything laid out on the table, baby, you and I
I find myself living it up, making this dream come true
Everything I see in my head is all because of you, you
Because it represents ‘23 - 2 dimes and 3 pennies, little buddy!….
Both of these duckies were gifts from my SIL who knows how much I love macros and duckies— perfect, right? The tiny ducky fits on a dime— there’s a size verification shot and a set-up shot for this posting in my photostream.
for the first Macro Monday theme of the new year, on 1/1/23, of “new”
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North Queensferry is a village in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth, between the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge, and 10 miles (16.1 km) from Edinburgh.
Nowadays especially known, because of the beautiful Forth bridge. The bridge was designed by Sir John Fowler and opened in 1890.
Submitted: 16/10/2015
Accepted: 28/10/2015
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- Telegraph Media Group Limited (United Kingdom (Great Britain)) 05-Jul-2019