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Taken on the morning of August 27. Though it had not rained for long and plants had appeared to be lacking water, I was surprised to find that rice plant had dewdrops on their leaves. I could feel vital energies of nature
What a Christmas that was! Here in the south of the UK we have had pretty much four days of fog over the festive period, unheard of conditions and a blessing for us woodland photographers. I have the most supportive of partners and when I looked out of my window on Christmas morning and espied the fog she saw the excitement in my eyes and like a dog owner recognizing the muddy puddle was pure unadulterated joy she uttered the words "go on then". I was out the door faster than a knife fight in a telephone box and whipped over to my local woodland. I stopped on the way to finally get a shot of a stand of Beech trees I had been after for a couple of years and finally had the right light and conditions to make it work. I only spent an hour in the woods as I felt it would be taking the mickey to stay more than that and was back home in time to carve the ham for our traditional Christmas morning breakfast of ham and eggs. The next day I was amazed to see that the fog hadn't shifted at all and was, if anything, thicker than yesterday. I was feeling the effects of all the food I had eaten the day before and it took me a while to gather the motivation to grab the gear and head out again. This time I decided to head further afield and drove the 30 miles to a woodland near to Lyme Regis which is full of the most sinister looking beeches. I rocked up about midday and was surprised to see loads of cars in the car park. A popular local spot for dog walkers it turned out! I spent a good few hours wandering among the slumbering giants, occasionally being interrupted by a friendly dog and its accompanying curious owners. A few were confused as to why I would be attempting to photograph wildlife in such poor conditions and its always amusing when I correct their assumption by declaring its the trees I am after. The look of confusion that crosses their faces makes me inwardly chuckle every time. However once I pull out my phone and show them a couple of previous images the penny drops.
I was particularly pleased with this image as the sun was trying to burn through the fog at this point adding a warm glow to the light streming in from the left. I also like the two flanking trees being more typically straight, highlighting just how gnarly their companion is between them.
The following day I paid a return visit to Dartmoors famous Wistmans wood and once again had a beautifully foggy day among the twisted little oaks and boulders.
I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and I hope 2025 brings you much joy and success!
Toodles.
Title: Summer Blessings
Year: 2015
Location:Tulka, Eyre Peninsula,South Australia.
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'Unto us a child is born' (Isaiah 9:6)
The photograph is taken from an enbossed plague I once bought in a beautiful church while visiting Cyprus. I hope you like it.
May I wish you a happy Christmas and a healthy New Year with all the blessings that go with it!
The little angel that I have bought ( for very little money ) at the market yesterday.
I hope He brings blessings for all of us
Happy St. Patrick's Day! It may be yellow week, but today I had to add a bit o'green! May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness, come through your door!
on this day
there are angels to your left and angels to your right,
angels in front of you and angels behind you,
there are angels above you and angels below you ~
open your heart
to all living things
may myself
may this world
may all living things
be blessed on this precious day
thank you for the beautiful angel TheKaykat-Stock
texture angel orbs )º(
Built in 1847, The Man Mo Temple is a picturesque tribute to the God of Literature (Man) and the God of War (Mo), both of whom were worshipped by ambitious students looking to succeed in the civil examinations of Imperial China. These involved rigorous systems aimed at finding the best administrative officials for the state.
These coil incense were "lighted" by worshipers whose names were written on a red tag hanging from the incense. It is believed lighting these incense will make one's wishes come true.
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1/64 @14mm w/ attached diffuser held 3' over feather
Nikon D7200
Nikkor 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR
If it weren't for the plastic mount of my Nikon kit lens getting chipped I may not have realized the need for a better wide angle. That 18-55mm is just BRUTAL around the edges.
On the eve of getting a NEW wide angle this weekend, maybe I'll go back and do this photo right.
The Blessing Bishop, St. Nicholas of Bari. at the Cloisters of Met Museum of NY.
Poplar with paint and gilding.
Italian, probably Umbria, ca. 1350 - 75
From the parish church of St. Nicola di Bari at Monticchio near L' Aguila.
This sadhu is a fixture at Dasashwamedh ghat and he uses his appearance to earn money modelling for photogs!
A ranch In Lillooet BC irrigating water from the Fraser river to grow hay, probably their third crop...heading there for Easter with this blessing in mind. May the Sun bring you new energy by day. May the Moon softly restore you by night. May the Rain wash away your worries. May the Breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. —Apache Blessing
Many birds, such as wild geese, swans, ducks, etc. visit for wintering in "Pond Kabukuri" in Miyagi prefecture. Miyagi In November, the swans who came across the sea for overwintering, in the beautiful evening, Two birds in love, At dusk Lovely time, The time of two birds in love went by. A lot of wild goose cries crying.It was like a blessing two birds.
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Before setting out on his travel to the colonies, Gideon Saulse de Bothnia does what every sensible Oleander should do before traveling the seas which is to seek the blessing of Poseidon over his enterprise. An offering of different kinds of food must surely please the Ruler of the Seas!
Built for Brethren of the Brick Seas on Eurobricks
For if it were not for the things that knock me down, I would not have learned to grow and overcome~ ~Me~
There are those wonderful and perfect dragonfly's that we find.. but every once in awhile I find one that is special and blesses with it's strength. No Pity...there is a reason for everything even if it is just to grow in wisdom and strength.
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~ Irish Blessings quotes.
Fig. 51 (p. 134) - A representation of the art of dying in Savonarola’s book ‘Predica dell’arte del bene morire’ (Firenze, 1504). The two-division of life and death is superimposed on a four-division of heaven and earth.
Pp. 267 - 268 in: Vision of Four Notions - Marten Kuilman (unpublished). 'Visions of Four Notions' is the second book of a quadrilogue by Marten Kuilman. The book deals primarily with the theoretical aspects of quadralectic thinking. It was completed in November 2001:
The introduction of das Geviert (the four-fold), in the later works of Martin Heidegger (Vorträge und Aufsätze, 1954), pointed to the interplay of heaven and earth, the holy and the mortal. He saw these four entities as the main constituencies in the creation of space and Being. His visualisation of the four-fold, as a meeting place for man and nature, is a strong reminder to the picture of the ‘art of dying’ in Girolamo Savonarola’s book ‘Predica dell’arte del bene morire’ (see p. 134; fig. 51). This symmetrical woodcut – shaped at the Pivotal Point of the European cultural history (Chapter 6.1; fig. 66; p. 188) – has exactly the components, which Heidegger saw as the ‘world’ (das bauende Hervorbringen).
The boundary between heaven and earth is right in the middle. The Death emphasizes the opposition by pointing his arms to the signs quasu (now written as quassu, an (Italian) adverb meaning ‘up here’ or ‘on high’) and quagiu (now quaggiu, translated as ‘down here’, on earth). The contrast between holy and mortal is envisaged in God and the angels, in the upper half, and Satan (as the fallen angel Lucifer) and the devils in the lower half. These two oppositional pairs (heaven-earth and holy-mortal) represent the basic qualities of any communication in place and time (or in their operational disguises as division and movement).
Heidegger’s Geviert has, although covered in a blanket of hard-to-under-stand terms (‘penetrating the thickets of Heidegger’s terminological jungle’), a strong analogy with Savonarola’s ‘art of dying’. Both renderings try to construct, despite a time gap of 450 years, a ‘life-monument’, which is able to surpass the black-and-white setting of life (and death). The composition of (four) quadrants gives room for a broader picture of reality-itself:
1. God sits in heaven, in a circle of clouds. The blessing figure, surrounded by nine angels (the muses?) amidst stars, is framed in a mandorla with four angels. This holy place bears all the characteristics of the First Quadrant, the invisible invisibility of the quadralectic mind.
2. The holy circle shines its light into a rather empty sky. Only two angels populate this part of the picture, floating on a cloud. Their gestures indicate an invitation to the mortals below. The symmetry of the figures is probably a reference to the First Division, in this case a two-division. They form, together with God in heaven, a trinity in quasu. The invisible visibility of the division-environment is characteristic for the Second Quadrant.
3. The dualism of Life and Death reaches its zenith in the world of the mortal. The richly dressed nobleman, with his purse strapped to his belt, has an encounter with Death. The man tries to plea his innocence, but death is merciless pointing to heaven. It is time to leave the quagui. Two devils are ready to assist the departure of this earth. They form, together with the mortal and the death, a curious quaternity in quagiu. The visible visibility of the Third Quadrant is a place of limitations.
4. The sad cry of victory by a troubled Lucifer, roaring in the half-circle of the earth, represents the opposite face (of power) in the lower quarter of the picture. Four devils surround the Devil, while he is crushing two unlucky mortals. It seems as if there is no mercy in this place of darkness. A comparison with the visible invisibility of the quadralectic Fourth Quadrant might be appropriate here, but it should be noted, that the emphasis is very much on the oppositional aspects.
I've been wondering to post this but decided it was most worth posting. Every morning before we start work we always start the day off with a quick prayer. Things like "Thank you for the day, weather, Help us enjoy the day and working together, thanks for providing us work" and always "Keep us safe with the equipment" the other day John didn't want to take a lunch so he decided to start a lawn while Steve and myself took a half hour. For the last week I've rented a commercial mower as one of my main mowers blew a gasket and I've been waiting for parts. So John was using the rental mower while we took our lunch. Not too familiar with it as it's a grade lower than the ones I own. So he put his hand into the shoot after removing the bag and his hand was hit by the still spinning blade. Also to note I had just put a brand new sharpened blade on that mower... super sharp. All I heard was a scream. Amazingly he pulled his glove off and there wasn't a mark on his fingers. He said "I should have lost two of my fingers" He was expecting to see blood gushing out of his glove when it took it off. We both said it was a pure blessing that he wasn't injured and how thankful we were that he wasn't seriously injured. At the end of the day he had a slightly purple finger from a bruise where the blade hit is hand. God is so good and definitely answered that prayer of safety. I am just so thankful. A true miracle. I thought I'd share this story with my Flickr friends today.
Again I was hoping on being back on Flickr tonight but I spent all day doing my April invoicing and paperwork. Took me from the time I got up till after 10 pm tonight. I'll definitely be back on this week though. I always enjoy reading everyones comments so I want to thank you for taking time to fav and comment on my photos. Have a happy Monday everyone. :D
Title - Blessing
Location - Tsiller, Athens, Greece
Artist - Wild Drawing (WD)
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Once every year or two, the rising sun ray shines along the Catholicon and the Rotunda into the entrance to the Aedicule, which contains the Sepulcher itself, for about 15 minutes and illuminate the inner rooms of the Aedicule. This alignment is too precise to be widely considered to be formed by chance since, it only happens during the holy week of Pascha/Easter. In this photo a newly positioned Armenian bishop in Jerusalem was blessed with the holy light in his back, and in way to intensify it is usually customary to blend the light with smoke from incense burners. It was a very special moment for either believers or non-believers alike.
Our oldest blessing, our son, and his beautiful wife, with their son and his new bride along with their sweet pet Otis, and their daughter with her special friend, our incredible grandblessings, on a glorious Saturday celebrating our Christmas together near Georgetown in Texas. Truly a joyous occasion for me!!! We did our gift exchange early as Ty is a fireman and will be working the Christmas weekend!! It was such a joy to be together with all of them and to just be a part of their day... they were busy planting trees and transplanting roses at Ty & Ellie's wonderful home in the country... he did the fence behind us too. The two of them are amazing together!!! What is just out of the photo is the new white cross my grandblessing made and placed on the side of their red barn... it is a really special statement at their lovely place!!! Taken on what would have been my beloved Larry and mine's 50th Wedding Anniversary!!!
The simple pleasures are life's truest treasures Wishing you an abundance of blessings. Happy Thanksgiving!!! ~ Kathy Davis
This display was set up at the botanical garden when I visited last month, and I thought it would be perfect to post for Thanksgiving. To all my American friends, have a safe, enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday. As usual, we will be spending our day, cooking, eating, eating some more, and enjoying a little football :-) As always, I appreciate your visits and comments!!!!
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States. It is a time we gather and remember all that we are grateful for, like those who settled this country did in the very beginning. Back then, the colonists feasted peacefully with Native American Indians, and put aside their differences to give thanks for all the blessings that God had provided for them, including help from those who were unlike themselves, who taught them how to live in a place that was foreign to them.
Here we are in 2018. People are still giving thanks, though most are only enjoying a big meal with people they seldom get to see. Like most traditions, the original meaning has been lost to time for the majority of Americans. Our nation has grown to be one of the most powerful on earth. We are a melting pot of cultures and beliefs. Few truly give thanks to God for the blessings they have in this country, and that is a sad thing. We're happy we can have a big bird for dinner, and fall asleep in front of the TV, satiated and content.
Only a couple of days ago, people here in Florida were at each other's throats over politics. We seem to display more hatred towards those who differ from us than ever before. This goes for Democrats as well as Republicans! Just for one day, America should unite and be grateful to God for the blessings He's bestowed upon all of us, for whether we are rich or poor, black or white, red or yellow, liberal or conservative, we are Americans and we are better off here than most places in this world. A special kind of gratitude should come from that.
The first Thanksgiving gave thanks to God for His blessings. May this last, most recent Thanksgiving be the same! Whether you live in the U.S., England, China, or India, may God bless you and give you peace today and always! Happy Thanksgiving!
"God does rain down upon all His children all the blessings He can—all the blessings that love and law and justice and mercy will permit. And He commands us to be likewise generous...Nevertheless, God’s greater blessings are conditioned on obedience."
— Elder D. Todd Christofferson, "Abide in My Love", October 2016
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