BORN to be WILD
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A Snowy Egret Soars into the morning sun at Bolsa Chica Wetlands.
Among the most elegant of the herons, the slender Snowy Egret sets off immaculate white plumage with black legs and brilliant yellow feet. Those feet seem to play a role in stirring up or herding small aquatic animals as the egret forages. Breeding Snowy Egrets grow filmy, curving plumes that once fetched astronomical prices in the fashion industry, endangering the species. Early conservationists rallied to protect egrets by the early twentieth century, and this species is once again a common sight in shallow coastal wetlands.
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!
Twop like a TwitterBunny
Kat and I visited Backdrop City on Sunday...cool place...so many backdrops to choose from! We had a lot of fun and some exercise! :)
Lyrics
I'd give my heart to this place
I'd give my soul or whatever it takes, never run away
I've got enough angels to storm the gates, I'm not afraid
And behold the brave, not have it no other away
I miss the emergence and these moments of you
The mere reflection of me, that mirror can't change its view
So until those rivers run out, it runs through me
Wherever you are, I'll bе there
We carry on
Born again
I'd give my heart to this place
I'd give my whole soul and whatever it takes, never run away
And I'd relive this just to see your face again
I know that you'd do the same, born again
Just tell me what I need to do
I'd die and come back just to love you
Just tell me, I'm begging you
Just tell me what I need to do
...mine is the morning.
Born of the one light, Eden saw play.
Praise with elation, praise every morning -
God's recreation of the new day.
(Eleanor Farjeon)
Heute habe ich mich früh aufgemacht und die Sonne in den Wäldern gesucht. Kann mich gar nicht entscheiden, welches der Bilder mir am besten gefällt...
•Hair: Stealthic - Plush
•Outfit: Addams Exclusive // Etta & Kristal Outfit // LIMITED EDITION
•Pose: Lyrium. Nova Static & Breathing
•Head: LeLUTKA Lake
•Body: Maitreya Lara
- shanghai - Hava Earring - Blue/Pink
•taikou / lovesick backdrop
Don't let nobody try to dampen your flame
Try to cool you down
Try to make you change
Try to steal your heat
Or mock your desire
Take your flames to the street
Cause you were born on fire ♫
Thank you Rie (Wetcat) for making the pose ♥
And many thanks to Memo Opaque for being patient while I took forever taking this pic lol. Much appreciated!
" Happiness is strange;
it comes ... when you are not
seeking it.
When you are not making an
effort to be happy, ... then
.... unexpectedly, .... mysteriously,
...... Happiness is there, .....
born of purity, ...of loveliness of being. "
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
pose: [west end] poses - Ohhh sh... (bento female fatpack)
"Drive boy dive boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy"
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May 30, 2019 was a good day at our house, I came home from work and discovered this new born by our driveway. A few hours later and twins were born in the backyard.
“Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.”
― Amy E. Reichert
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Hair, necklace and petals in hair are free group gifts at the Cosmopolitan Event! Dress, pose and the cute tiny bunny are also free! Taken at Poughkeepsie.
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I get pretty excited with anticipation when I see her in the chute because I know its going to be good every time, this ain't her first rodeo. I'm not on the right side of the buck but I felt I had to showcase her anyway. It is like she's going to buck herself right off the screen.
My favourite, catchy tune right now called "First Rodeo"
Love to dance to this song even when I'm by myself. The words could have been written about me back in the day. lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ItjGhVhoM
(the cows like it in the cow barn too, their heads bob up and down to it)
My 'Just Joey' hybrid tea-rose.
Always grooving.
Here's the legend of 'Smooth Jazz', Euge Groove, with his delicious saxophone tune: 'Born 2 Groove':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjHit9gpfAw
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF f/2.8L Macro IS USM.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Portugal
ou monument géodésique est un repère permanent marquant très exactement l'emplacement d'un point géodésique, point dont la position sur la Terre a été déterminée précisément grâce à la géodésie, en utilisant la triangulation (longitude-latitude-altitude).
Taken At Sunny's Studio
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Wearing:
Elegance Boutique - Isabel - Dress Coat - Black
RAWR! - Oxidized Horns
RAWR! Coil ELF EvoX Earrings
Doux - Joya Hairstyle
Knife Party // Cursed // Makeup Set // Evo X
Knife Party // Savage Eye Makeup // Evo X
:H: Enigma Eyes (LeL + BOM)
This is the first of two catbird young ones to hatch. The nest is in a hedge near my office. I have been checking the progress of the nest since I first discovered it. Curiously, about 10 days ago I discovered 3 eggs in the nest. The following day there were 5. The day after that there were only 2. My ID guide says they usually lay 4 eggs so I'm not really sure what's up with the missing eggs. This little fellow is just a few hours old. There were two eggs last night. I am being as careful as I can to be considerate of the parents who seem not particularly concerned with me taking a quick peak every now and then. If I felt I was stressing them I would just leave them be. The parents feed daily at the suet feeder at my office window.
For cardinals, their bright red color is highly dependent on their diets. Cardinals get carotenoids from the seeds and fruits they eat. In cardinals, carotenoids can accumulate in the cell of growing feathers and depending on a few factors, will appear as a bright red color in the plumage of a male cardinal.
Taken in our garden at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex this Spring.
Crocus (plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family comprising 90 species of perennials growing from corms. Many are cultivated for their flowers appearing in autumn, winter, or spring. Crocuses are native to woodland, scrub, and meadows from sea level to alpine tundra in central and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, on the islands of the Aegean, and across Central Asia to western China.
The name of the genus is derived from the Greek κρόκος (krokos). This, in turn, is probably a loan word from a Semitic language, related to Hebrew כרכום karkōm, Aramaic ܟܟܘܪܟܟܡܡܐ kurkama, and Arabic كركم kurkum, which mean "saffron" ( Crocus sativus), "saffron yellow" or turmeric (see Curcuma). The English name is a learned 16th-century adoption from the Latin, but Old English already had croh "saffron". The Classical Sanskrit कुङ्कुमं kunkumam "saffron" (Sushruta Samhita) is presumably also from the Semitic word.
Cultivation and harvesting of Crocus sativus for saffron was first documented in the Mediterranean, notably on the island of Crete. Frescos showing them are found at the Knossos site on Crete, as well as from the comparably aged Akrotiri site on Santorini.
The first crocus seen in the Netherlands, where crocus species are not native, were from corms brought back in the 1560s from Constantinople by the Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. A few corms were forwarded to Carolus Clusius at the botanical garden in Leiden. By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's painting (illustration, below), new garden varieties had been developed, such as the cream-colored crocus feathered with bronze at the base of the bouquet, similar to varieties still on the market. Bosschaert, working from a preparatory drawing to paint his composed piece spanning the whole of spring, exaggerated the crocus so that it passes for a tulip, but its narrow, grass-like leaves give it away.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus
Technically, I guess they're hatched to run. Regardless, the greater roadrunner is aptly named. They can run at quite a pace. We've seen them in the deep desert or suburban parks like this one. Their tails and crest seem to be quite dynamic - always raising and lowering. Cool birds.
♫♪♩♬ Born for this - Royal Deluxe ♫♪♩♬
POSE: -DNC- Born for this - Bento Pose
MARKETPLACE: -DNC- Do Not Cross BENTO poses
DECO by NatG loving the light. Check it here.