Each day brings a new feeling, thought and belief. Every day you learn something new, if not, then you are no longer breathing.

As I progress through life and look at my past and how it has molded me, I have realized, I have to see each day like a new canvas. So some of the quotes below made me smile, just like sitting by this brazen bird did.

"Teach me to color and paint,

To sculpt and weave and create.

Teach me to sway and dance,

To tap and leap and twirl.

Teach me to laugh and giggle,

To tickle and play and pretend.

Teach me that life is beautiful.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

― Maya Angelou

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

― Maya Angelou

🎼: Beautiful Day~ U2 ~

✈️ : Frogmore

For those that sent out their prayers and well wishes... thank you! Fires continue to burn (over 400 in this province and over 150 of them out of control) But we are safe at this time. So again ... Thank you xo ♥♥

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Credit goes to Beyond Originals

for the beautiful outfit that I am wearing in this pic <333

Link to the clothes: .:Beyond:. Shyla

To visit their in world store: Beyond Originals in world store

Rizvaniye Mosque is located in the city of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey. The city is famous for its Abrahamic sites. Rizvaniye Mosque is built on the north side of Balıklıgöl (Sacred Fish Lake). This pool like lake is believed by Muslims to be the place where Prophet Abraham was thrown into the fire by Nimrod. According to Muslim belief Prophet Abraham's nickname is “Halil-ur Rahman.” This means “the person who does not want help from someone other than Allah and who only wants friendship of Allah.”

This is an archive photo which I shot in 2011.

Margerethenkapelle on top of the Wiehengebirge. One of my special places since I visited a concert on a Winter evening here many years ago. October waved goodby with sunshine and warm tempereratures and we used the perfect weather for an extended hiking tour on the Wittedindsweg, a crest trail on the Wiehengebirge from Porta Westfalica in the East to the Osnabrück area in the West. Before the sun went down we visited the most interesting spots of the Eastern part of the trail.

Macro Mondays "Junk"

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# wild salvia ..on bokehlicious flowers background

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All work done in MidJourney and Photoshop Beta23 .

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of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. :-)

Robert Brault

HMM!!

tulip, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north caroina

”Shakkin’ Briggie” (St Devenick’s Bridge) over the River Dee from Ardoe to Cults, Aberdeen - opened in 1837. Funded by Rev Dr George Morison to give 700 parishioners on the north bank access to his church on the south bank (they were crossing the river by boat). You would need more than a prayer to cross on it now!

So many thoughts run through my mind right now, so many people I want to thank for their unconditional love and support, for the inspiration and the life lessons, the good advice and tips, their friendship, their encouragement, their belief in me!

My amazing loyal Friends of old and my new wonderful Friends (you know who you are), Thank You All so much for being who you are and for taking this long and beautiful journey called Photography along with me :)))

I've sent you all my very best wishes for the New Year already, so now let me wish us all another Fantastic year of creative and inspired imagery!!!

Happy New Year 2016!!!

cemetery Agia Galini 2022 - 1/2

Minolta MD 50mm 1.7

San Francisco dream cityscape about our strongly held beliefs and paradigm shifts.

Art Prints and Image Rights StacyYoungArt.com

For the past week and a half, I've been in Kenosha. I walked through smoke and drove by fire. I saw friends. I saw people die on streams. Politicians came and politicians went, bringing their agendas: helpful and not. I don't hold a great deal of belief in community, never have and stepping back, the anger is palpable.

I am confident that while things have calmed in that town, there has also been no resolution, there or across this country.

I am equally confident more fires will come.

Zen is an olive flower hanging from a spider's silken thread

Amethyst

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz.

The name comes from the Koine Greek ἀμέθυστος amethystos from ἀ- a-, "not" and μεθύσκω methysko / μεθύω methyo, "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness. The ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.

Amethyst is a semiprecious stone often used in jewelry and is the traditional birthstone for February.

[Source: wikipedia]

Wishing everyone, whatever your beliefs, a merry & warm Winter Solstice and love, luck, and peace for the new year!

East of the Sun & West of the Moon - from the Nordic folk tale www.pitt.edu/~dash/norway034.html

Picture part of the Christmas Showcase at The Lost Unicorn Gallery

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Darkroom print on ilford rc new, dodge and burn, selenium, selective bleaching agfa brown.

hp5 in d76

RZ67, 90mm lens

seeing and recording are almost simultaneous. His output is limited only by his ability to see. For this reason it has always been my belief that an experienced photographer, given the means to devote himself entirely to creative expression, should be able to produce a tremendous amount of valuable work.

Edward Weston

HPPT! Kindness Matters!

cercis, smooth redbud, 'Celestial Plum', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

General Watkins Conservation Area

Scott County Missouri

Photo taken on October 22, 2020

The sun is hiding were I’m standing but at the top of the hill it's brilliant beyond belief. I want to walk to the top of this hill and let this stunning sunshine rain down on me and be baptized in its brilliance.

Barbed-wire in Belfast, segregating the Protestant and Catholic communities. Religion has a lot to answer for in the suffering of people throughout the world.

Seeing artist Barbara Kruger's installation at MoMA yesterday reminded me that I had seen her work installed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC in 2016.

From the museum's website: "Large areas of the installation are devoted to open-ended questions (“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO SPEAKS? WHO IS SILENT?”), while the section occupying the bookstore explores themes of desire and consumption. At once addressing the individual, the museum, and, symbolically, the country, Kruger’s penetrating examination of the public sphere transforms one of the Hirshhorn’s key public spaces."

The Saint Ignatios Monastery. Kalloni. Lesbos. Greece.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB-Yxy5BTGQ

How does it balance here ?

Wikipedia: Luangpho Yai (Thai: หลวงพ่อใหญ่), also known as Phra Phutta Rattana Mongkhol Maha Munee and The Great Buddha of Roi Et, is the fourth-tallest statue in Thailand.

Located in the Wat Bhurapha Phiram temple in Roi Et Province, this statue stands 59.2 meters (194 ft) tall (or 67.55 meters (221.6 ft) tall, including the base). Construction was completed in 1973. It is covered with mosaic and made of concrete. The sculptor was believed to be a local sculptor. The overview of the Buddha was criticized as "not to the ratio" of any ordinary Buddha. It's assumed that the local sculpture focused on his faithful belief rather than the outside beauty.

The statue depicts the Gautama Buddha in a standing pose. The statue stands as the province's landmark, as being cited in the province's official quote; Leu nam phra yai (ลือนามพระใหญ่, lit. 'famed for its colossal Buddha'). The statue was built by the order of the 5th abbot of the Wat Bhurapha Piram temple, Phra Ratcha Preechayana Munee over the course of 8 years at a cost of approximately 7,000,000 baht.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luangpho_Yai

He thought about the fact that he was a burning lamp, and the more he felt that, the more he felt a weakening, a quenching of the divine light of truth burning within him.

Lev N. Tolstoy - "Father Serge"

Believe in the fire between us.

Fire art installation at the Lux Helsinki 2020 light arts festival in Kaisaniemenpuisto, Helsinki, Finland.

The helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) is a very large bird in the hornbill family. It is found on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand and Myanmar. The casque (helmetlike structure on the head) accounts for some 11% of its 3 kg weight. Unlike any other hornbill, the casque is almost solid, and is used in head-to-head combat among males. It is a belief among the Punan Bah that a large helmeted hornbill guards the river between life and death

The reds in Japanese Blood Grass shine in the autumn. In this photo, taken in September, the early afternoon sun is behind the grass highlighting both the red and green tones.

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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India; his profound spirituality and belief in justice inspired the world.

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