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The last of this years Strawberries having a hug from the Dandelion Seed, I wonder if they are saying goodbye until next time . This was September it feels like we have dived right into winter.
I bought an amaryllis bulb in early December and I was hoping she would be flowering by Christmas but sadly, it was not to be. Fingers crossed though that she will be revealing her beauty in time for the new year
The beginning of a new leaf on the rubber tree
Test 1: "new" old lens
Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Macro Takumar 100mm/f4
“Beginning my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much,
The mere fact, consciousness - these forms - the power of motion, …”
—Walt Whitman
Waiting for the ferry to Vancouver Island, at the beginning of our Canadian Rockies tour.
For a long time I took no photos of clouds. Stieglitz had done it; better to Be Here Now; the experience is better than the memory. One thing I know for sure: tomorrow, the clouds will be beautiful. Then eventually, like Doc Brown, I thought, “Oh, what the hell.”
For the Flickr Lounge Minimalism theme.
Life moves forward.
The old leaves wither,
die and fall away, and
the new growth extends
forward into the light.
(Bryant H. McGill)
This may not be Old San Juan but... - Something new
2DWF - New Beginning
(photo by Freya)
The new leaves of the Ponga Fern Tree unfolding.
The Maori term for this unfolding spiral shape is Koru.
These are an irresistible cliche in this part of the world.
Call it cheesy - I don't care!!! ;-)
f5.7; 1/160; ISO 80; Flash.
A little work with levels.
Dawn points, and another day
Prepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn wind
Wrinkles and slides. I am here
Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
A new beginning requires a need to burn the past
And how we burn the past can be different for every person
Most often you must deal with it in some way
There are no quick fixes
You need to make plans
You need to go through with them
Sometimes you need to change the plans
They didn't work
Perhaps you must take ten steps back and evaluate
Start all over again with new plans
Are there feelings involved
Yes of course
There are always feelings involved
That's why we often don't want to go through with the changes in life, because we know we will hurt others and we will be hurt ourselves
If you feel deep inside that this change is something you must do, then it's your intuition that talks to you - and you are actually listening
Hurray
Keep up the good work
Follow your path
Burn down the past
Do it properly
But in a good way
With your well thought words, I know you have them
Use them
Remember we have a responsibility for our own life
And so do they
Taking responsibility for others must always be done with caution
They have a growth too you know, and you might slow them down if you take too much responsibility
Be Safe
Love you
Always
xxx
It is just about time for the Northern folks to head down here to sunny Florida for the season. The bridge is down, awaiting the traffic to come swirling down into the neighborhood...
Explored #43
"One to another, do You remember me?
I feel so small;
Are You listening tonight?
So temporary, the things that I have seen.
I ran so far,
Will you take me back again?
Entertaining Angels
By the light of my TV screen
24/7, You wait for me.
Entertaining Angels
By the time I fall to my knees
Host of Heaven, sing over me.
One to another, the feelings in between
I won't let go
Of all you taught me, alright.
Close as a brother, the way we used to be
I hold my breath,
And I wait for You to breathe."
-"Entertaining Angels"- The Newsboys
Well, I'm back. The last few weeks have been crazy. I have decided, as much as it pains me to do so, to give up my 366 project. I feel horrible giving up after 124 days...I'd made it so far and I hoped to pick it back up at the end of May, but life happened. My world is changing, and I'm going with it. I certainly hope to continue documenting that journey through my photographs, but I've come to a point in my life where I really just can't keep up with a 366. Sure, I could snap a quick picture each day, but I feel that the quality of my work would be compromised, and that's just not what I want.
But, on the bright side, I will be trying to make my return in the next week or two. This week is finals, but the end is in sight, and perhaps then I will be able to make a new beginning.
Over time I discovered that, with the passage of time, every form of art, whether writing, painting, music, sculpture, becomes simpler by the hand of its author.
It is as if from birth, each of us, self complicates life with restlessness, anger, unhappiness. As if it were so difficult to understand who knows who or who knows what. Then, as a lighting in the mind and, as we age, the words become simple, the linear signs, the stylized figures ... everything takes the essential form ....
But will it be an arrival or a surrender?
Who knows, in any case, if it makes us feel better, let it be....
PS Maybe it's better when I work incessantly and I do not have time to think : ))
I find the piece of music I found very beautiful, I do not know, I think I started from this piece, and then I get to this image, I hope you like it as a beginning for a new year together.
Good new beginning to all of you
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A heavy UP manifest with 3 in the front and 1 in the middle, slowly climbs the 2.2% grade of cajon pass rounding the horseshoe shaped Sullivan's curve. The tracks in the foreground are the former SP now UP Palmdale cutoff.
E/B UP Mixed Freight
UP 7689 / UP 5404 / UP 6389 / UP 8310
BNSF Cajon Sub
The start of a new day on the beach at Stonehaven, Scotland.
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● Rokinon/Samyang 12mm
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January 3, 2021
Our hike begins at the top of a high sand embankment. Trodden paths lead down on both North and South sides. It's our first beach hike of the New Year, on a New beach for us. A New Beginning.
EXPLORED: January 9. 2021
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Longnook Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Truro, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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the start of this season's fall colours...
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