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I chose tulips for this week's Sliders Sunday image as to me, they represent new beginnings.
I know that hundreds of thousands of people in the southern United States have been profoundly impacted by Hurricane Ian and just before that, Hurricane Fiona devastated the Maritime provinces of Canada. I wish each of the affected people well as you begin to re-build and make sense of the world around you. Please take good care and know that those of us in Flickrland are thinking of you.
Edited with an addition of an impressionism filter in Topaz Studio. HSS!
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May everyday of the New Year glow with great cheer,happiness and healthy. For you and your family ! Happy New Year 2021 / 迎接晨光，希望與心願。點亮人生，走向健康與光明。2021 新年快樂。
Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Buddha
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
― Seneca
"You can't start your next chapter in life if you keep reading the last one."
Explore - Elvion
... with FULL Flower Power!
Hopefully there will be no 'back to normal' in this year
but the beginning of a BIG CHANGE to the better!
Otherwise global warming, the loss of biodiversity, new pandemics and the destruction of all our vital, natural resources will proceed far too fast ...
An immediate measure would be if the price of every product also included the cost of its ecological impact during production and transport.
This would put the brakes on excessive consumerism and all producers would have to think about more environmentally friendly and fairer production methods if they still want to sell anything.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Red Cactus Dahlia / Dahlie
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
An overview of all my flower pictures during the years you can find in my Plant Collection.
"For last year's words belong to last year's language,
And next year's words await another voice.
........
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from."
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
As the year comes to a close, I want to offer a heartfelt thank you and abundant gratitude to all of my Flickr friends for helping me find my voice in my first year here. Your kind and generous comments about my photos and my writing, your thoughtful feedback, your support and encouragement, and your friendship, truly mean a lot to me.
And as a new year begins, I wish for each of you a year that brings good health, great joy, many moments of beauty, and days full of light and hope.
"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring." - Truman Capote
“Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.”
― J.R. Rim
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“Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.”
Marianne Williamson
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... to look a lot like Christmas.
I love this house with all the Christmas lights in different colours. :)
The rapeseed blossom is over, now the grain ears are beginning to glow yellow in the evening light. There are a few days a year when the sun slides down the Lilienstein as it sets - like here.
Die Rapsblüte ist vorüber, jetzt beginnen die Getreideähren im Abendlicht gelb zu leuchten. Es gibt wenige Tage im Jahr, da rutscht die Sonne beim Untergang am Lilienstein den Rücken hinunter - so wie hier.
This is at the beginning of the Coastal Track in the Royal National Park. The views are magnificent.
April is National Poetry Month, a celebration of poets and poetry that's been in place for 25 years.
Last month, as the U.S. grieved over attacks against Asian Americans, NPR's Morning Edition collected poems on how people grapple with the increased violence and discrimination.
Over 500 listeners shared powerful, poignant poems — in the form of a list beginning with the word "today." They showcased fear, anger, empathy and motivation to make the world a better place.
NPR's resident poet Kwame Alexander took lines from the submissions to create a community poem, "Today, I Am A Witness To Change."
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To quote just a few:
Today I hesitate
for the first time, I wonder if I should stay home and not walk the neighborhood.
it's not the weather or the virus — the day is beautiful
Today
I'm frozen
Terrified.
I cannot hide
This skin
This hair
These eyes.
I see the punch, punch, punch of a community at war.
Today I am a witness.
I rush past the jeering white boys that say I brought corona to America.
My soul is wary.
Today, a video call full of empty boxes
Stares at me, apprehensively.
Students locked behind a screen
Their hearts and minds
Severed
From one another.
Today, the headlines say March Madness
Today, I don't watch basketball.
The madness is in the streets.
In broad daylight.
On the concrete sidewalks of New York.
In the silence of bystanders.
It's in the textbooks. The classrooms. The family dinners. The lies we tell.
Today the rain falls
and falls
and falls
and falls.
a silent tear from a weeping woman.
Today, I will say their names
I will cancel class and try again tomorrow.
That's a scary thought to commute to NYC nowadays for me, even I'm FULLY inoculated. :-(((
a cold beginning for January, the dove was puffed up to stay warm, this year my 100X project will be black and white shots, so starting it off with a peaceful dove.
Patience is a virtue I often say. Having the patience of a saint is truly sometimes a burden.
Discovering this amazing Stonehedge with the sun setting in just the right way totally made my night.
My tour guide was amazing and such a perfect gentleman.
Lots to explore on this wonderful relaxing area. Truly the music, the ambience is perfect.
Change your mind
'Cause I wasn't thinking right
We can begin at the top
Am I waking you up?
Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright
Ooh
This is your life
Does everything look alright?
We can begin at the top
Am I waking you up?
Strolling the flower gardens at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, we came across this plant growing in the center of one of the beds. As meticulous as their gardens are, we felt it had to be a flower of some sort. It has since been identified by Plantaholic Sheila (below) as "Eryngium sp".
As the new year starts its pace we have some hopes, dreams and wishes. It's always a new beginning. Human's wish of happiness lives forever.
Here's the photo of the first minutes of the new day. One of the best days of recent summer that we spent on the shores of Baikal lake in Siberia.
I wish you all the best in 2022, good trips, beautiful photos and peace inside.
Thank you for all the comments and faves, my friends.
The new year means a new beginning, like this group of young beech trees in the middle of a spruce forest.
There was a time when my homeland was covered with huge old beech forests. Forests that had grown over thousands of years. Not only were they the defining habitat, also for my ancestors, they were also an important part of our culture. My ancestors, the Germanic tribes, lived in these forests. The Romans can sing a song about how well adapted we were to this habitat.
The massive trunks of trees were the pillars of our cathedrals and our high priests read the signs from small sticks of beech wood (the beech stick formed later the the german word for letter).
But then came the industrial revolution and with it the insatiable hunger for fuel and fast-growing building materials and with it the invention of the spruce monoculture.
The forest fires and the bark beetle have been showing us how successful this grandiose idea was for several years. Human history is full of such overwhelming ideas and as you can currently see we are not through with them yet.
I'm all the happier when I see something like this. Young beeches, which establish their own biotope in the middle of the spruces and are getting ready to restore the old stable condition of the forest.
Unfortunately, this process will take another two or three hundred years and it will be difficult for me to photograph the final end result.
Das neue Jahr steht für einen Neuanfang, so wie diese Gruppe aus jungen Buchen mitten in einem Fichtenwald.
Es gab eine Zeit, da war meine Heimat bedeckt von riesigen alten Buchenwäldern. Wälder, die über tausende Jahre gewachsen waren. Sie waren nicht nur der bestimmenden Lebensraum, auch für meine Vorfahren, sie waren auch ein wichtiger Bestandteil unserer Kultur. In diesen Wäldern lebten meine Vorfahren, die germanischen Stämme. Die Römer können ein Lied davon singen, wie gut wir an diesen Lebensraum angepasst waren.
Die massiven Baumstämme waren die Säulen unserer Kathedralen und unsere hohen Priester lasen die Zeichen aus kleinen Stäben aus Buchenholz (daher schreiben wir mit Buchstaben - Buchen Stäbe).
Doch dann kam die industrielle Revolution und mit ihr der unstillbare Hunger nach Brennstoff und schnell wachsendem Baumaterial und mit ihm die Erfindung der Fichtenmonokultur.
Wie erfolgreich diese grandiose Idee war beweissen uns seit einigen Jahren die Waldbrände und der Borkenkäfer. Die menschliche Geschichte in voll von solchen überwältigenden Ideen und wie man gerade sieht, sind wir damit auch bis heute noch nicht durch.
Um so mehr freue ich mich, wenn ich so etwas sehe. Junge Buchen, die in Mitten der Fichten ein eigene Biotop begründen und sich bereit machen, den alten stabilen Zustand des Waldes wieder herzustellen.
Bedauerlicherweise wird dieser Prozess noch zwei-, dreihundert Jahre dauern und es wird schwer für mich das finale Endergebnis zu fotografieren.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catrch.de
… I think I run away sometimes
Whenever I get too vulnerable
That's not your fault (Yeah)
… See I wanna stay the whole night
I wanna lay with you 'til the sun's up
I wanna let you inside
Oh, heaven knows I've tried
… I wish that I could I let you love
Wish that I could let you love me
sorry...but i need color today...at this grey and windy day..
enjoy it....like me;)
lens: samyang 8mm f2,8
song: röyksopp and robin - "Monument"
During my sunrise photoshoot at the open air park Zaanse Schans all at a sudden the fog came in high speed. There was no time to think, just shoot. It was fascinating to experience that everything was 'gone' in the mist. By the way, do you see the 2 ducks in the foreground at the right side? Zaan area, 2020.
Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!
It's the most fantastic thing
To be high
On life
The joy
Being alive
Thrive
Explore the world
Spring
It's all about a New Beginning
Yesyes, it's only grass you might say
Lol, I haven't seen grass in months and I still have 1.5 meters with snow in my garden
So yes
This grass makes me high
And I haven't even tasted it yet
I won't take a photo after I tasted it either, hehe