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Thank you to all those who inquired about my coming back to Flickr. So many friendly messages, I really appreciate them all. Thank you also to those who commented on my last post and a special thanks to those who told me to get off my butt as the were tired of looking at that King Eider picture which was posted before Christmas. .... that was enough to entice me to post something new and ....come out of the shadow....the future is brighter .... I hope anyway.... lol
A rainy day◾ Cancelled a bus tour for today◾ I lost the $ of the prepaid ticket◾ Safe, cozy and warm at home watching the rain fall◾ Autumn foliage will have to wait again◾ No regrets◾
I just hope that after the rain the mushrooms 🍄 start coming out again. This is "Toad", a mushroom boy from the Super Mario games. Days ago I took him with me to the park for this photo...just for fun!
Thank you very much for your visit and taking the time to comment! Really appreciated!
La mobilité n'est pas qu'une question de pétrole au coût exorbitant. Pour se déplacer, une canne peut se révéler cent fois plus libératrice que nos chars à explosions qui, bien souvent, nous enferment dans une routine presque mortifère...
IMPORTANT NOTE / NOTE IMPORTANTE :
Rien à voir avec cette image, mais je vous annonce :
Je suis une femme trans. Cela fait 3 ans que je l'ai compris mais à peine quelques jours que j'arrive à l'assumer publiquement.
Je souhaite que vous preniez soin de me genrer au féminin.
L'erreur est humaine, bien sûre, tant que chacun et chacune accepte d'être de bonne volonté.
De la bonne volonté, c'est tout ce que je peux vous demander... Mais rappelez-vous : la fonction "Editer le message" existe si vous vous rappelez en dernière minute de ce changement.
J'ai conscience que ce n'est pas un switch facile à faire.
Mais c'est ma vie, et elle s'améliore vraiment depuis que je l'assume ainsi.
Quoi que vous pensiez des personnes trans, le fait est là : mon corps lui-même approuve ce choix. S'il n'y avait qu'une raison pour laquelle je serais censée agir en ce sens, ma santé physique se retrouverait vite en tête des choix possibles.
Et j'abonde, en ce 31 mars, jour annuel de la visibilité trans :
Trans rights are human rights
Les droits des personnes trans sont des droits humains.
Sachez que ceux qui s'attaquent à nous ont une liste bien plus longue des personnes à qui retirer des droits humains.
Nous sommes juste en tête de leur liste. D'autres trinqueront.
7th April 2018:
A very quick photo I took this morning, a snail blowing bubbles on our garden table, as well as coming out of its shell.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.
I'll catch up with everyone tomorrow, a bit busy this evening. :O)
One of 'my' adorable male red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) emerging into the world, after chewing a 'window' in his cocoon, in spring this year.
I have various bee 'hotels' and observation boxes around the garden (and am always adding more), and I'm loving watching how they are being used (for nesting and shelter) by various species of solitary bee and wasp. Last summer a female patchwork leafcutter bee (Megachile centuncularis) started her nest in a tunnel where a female red mason bee had finished hers; thus, the red mason bees, which emerge earlier, would have been trapped behind the leafcutter cocoons, so I opened my observation box, harvested all of the cocoons and kept them safe over winter. In spring this year, I was excited to hear them munching through their cocoons, and it was such a privilege to see them emerge!
Part of the Amaryllis pictures from December 2024
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May 15, 2022 - Super Flower Blood Moon at Shoreline Village, with the Eclipse phases from Totality to Full Moon. Thanking God for the clear skies, which made watching and photographing the Lunar Eclipse possible!
My indoor plant…
Pls view in light box- press L or click on the image
My Photoblog- My Third Eye...!
This is our third collaboration,(View it on Black and Large) because i miss this girl so muchh, as usual haha. So we decided to work together on another picture.
Today I woke up and I was decided to use framming in my 365 days picture, so now I feell satisfied hahah.
I love you paula, very very much, and everyday i realize that more and moree (sounds impossible, i know haha.) <3 :D
October 11th is National Coming Out Day. I usually don't get all sentimental about things like this, but I actually came out to most people in my life on this day in 1992.
Today you would have to be headless to not know that I'm a big Mo. Since I don't really have anyone in my life that doesn't know, I'm coming out to you guys on Flickr.
Even though most of you probably know already, but that's beside the point.
So, if you have anyone in your life that is gay and might be having a rough time of it, give them a call today and tell them you're glad to have them in your life. A niece or nephew. A coworker. A cousin. An old friend who never had the courage to tell you, even though you already know.
If your gay, tell someone who might not know. Personal relationships are the best way to make people change their minds about how they feel. If your family doesn't know, tell them. If a friend doesn't know, tell them.
Closets are for clothes!!!
God, I wish I had a Don't Panic shirt to put on right now.
While at Palm Springs Thousand Trails, we paid a visit to The Living Desert, which is partly in Palm Desert and partly in Indian Wells. It is both a zoo and a botanical garden, specializing in the plants and animals found throughout the deserts of the world. (10-03-01-6948)
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Part of a series of images from an October 2005 chalking campaign by Swarthmore College gay/lesbian/bi students. I've always been interested in the social history of the Swarthmore chalking tradition. This campaign became a matter of mild controversy on campus, as reported in the campus weekly, The Phoenix.
Part of a series of images from an October 2005 chalking campaign by Swarthmore College gay/lesbian/bi students. I've always been interested in the social history of the Swarthmore chalking tradition.
With just cause, we interrupt this program to announce saffron's coming out. It's not before time. We all knew she would, or at least hoped. It's for the best. Now all of the tension has gone and we can just get on with what ever it was we were doing.
Today's gold price is ca. USD3300. If you still think that saffron is more expensive than gold, do get in touch. I can do you a good deal on a Harbour Bridge, or perhaps an Opera House is more to your taste…
one of my little puffins emerging from the grass to come and see me (well i like to think he was!)
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
LEGO invited me to participate in their amazing #AtoZofAwesome campaign for Pride Month where each contributor could choose a letter in the alphabet, build a 16x16 vignette, and write a paragraph about what that means to us in relation to diversity. I asked for the letter C.
Coming Out
"Discovering your identity is a lifelong process, and coming out can be a defining moment. In this build, I've tried to capture the feeling of coming out--the moment of tranquility when I finally accepted who I was. To me, coming out represents a new beginning to a beautiful journey, stepping forward into a more colorful world full of possibilities." - Dave, New York
Check out more stories and AtoZofAwesome builds at LEGO: www.lego.com/.../rebuild-the-world/a-to-z-of-awesome and more GayFOLs Pride builds using the #gayfolspride2022 hashtag.
My other butterflies have all eclosed early in the morning and I've missed it, either because I was too late or just got distracted. I was a little worried about this one because the chrysalis was turning dark the day before, right on schedule, and was all black when I got up at 6. But then it was still black at 7, 8, and 9. About 9:30 AM I could see hints of orange wings and then watched the chrysalis become more translucent until it was almost totally clear. And then it began about 11:20. This shot was about 60 seconds into the process. I have so many more pictures; the whole process was very well documented. :) About four hours later he finally flew away. I'm so happy that this one waited until mid day and I had good light!
Solitary parasitic wasps in the family Crabronidae leaving and returning to burrows in log, shortened sequences
There will be a hidden message about a [girl] that loves a girl.
- Box Car Racer
So for the past week I've tried several times to come out to my mom. She knows I want to talk to her about something and she keeps bugging my to tell her what it is. Every time I try I either freeze up and chicken out and say "We'll talk about it later" and make some excuse why we can't talk about it now and change the subject. Or I'll get to "...I..." and then I start crying and run away. Me and my mom have such great, close relationship and I really didn't think it was going to be this hard. I finally just wrote it all down in a letter. I've decided it would be easier to give it to her and let her read it and then let her talk to me when she's ready to talk about it. I feel like such a coward but I don't know how else to do it. I'm still really proud of the fact that I AM doing it though. It's not an easy thing to look into your mothers eyes and say "I'm Gay."
Anyway. In just a few hours she'll know. And I'll wake up terrified and nervous. And relieved.
I just hope she wants to talk about it. I WANT to talk about it. I'm afraid she'll try to avoid me or ignore it. It's just a stupid irrational fear though, because I know my mom and she's not like that.
It's funny, just a few hours ago I got scared and was being a baby and went crying to her. I told her I felt bad because I was being a baby. She said "What are moms for? You're my child." And I said "But I'm an adult. I should be able to handle these things by myself." She said "You're my child and you'll always be my child. And I'll always love you."
I just hope she remembers that tomorrow when she's reading my letter.
Hopefully these beauties made it through the frost last night. I covered nearly everything I could, but this tree is one I could not cover because of its' size.
Have a great Tuesday everyone!
As a male to female cross-dresser I have to admit that over the years I do want to tell certain people in my life about it. I am very secretive about this aspect of myself despite knowing it is a major part of who I am. I have come out to people in the past and had never really found a good way of telling someone. I used to get fearful and handle my admission of being transgender very clumsily due to being nervous.
As I find it liberating to chat openly on camera I had an idea to make a coming out video I could show to the people I wanted to reveal my trans self to. I’m posting the video I put together, which I edited from various recordings I had made while cross-dressed during two sessions prior to the Covid pandemic. It was one year into the pandemic when I compiled this video. There was a section, my first bit of dialogue in which I appeared as my male self as this was a coming out video. I started with a short montage of photos of myself dressed as a woman then my male appearance explaining I had a story to tell. The reveal then came when it cut back to me dressed as woman and I began talking.
Obviously, that is going to work with the people that know me as the realisation the woman is me was the surprise, something the performer in me rathe enjoyed. However, I’m definitely fearful of revealing my male self on the Web so the video has only been seen by a few people I’ve come out to since April 2021. As I am currently consumed with a burning desire to spend time as my female self I found myself going through my archive of pictures and videos of myself appearing as my female persona. I am keen to talk openly about my transgender feelings so I thought I would tweak the video slightly and post it Flickr. The act of posting publicly somehow makes me feel alive as a woman. I have no idea if what I post and write about is of any interest to anyone, it is that moment of daring to post that gives my female self life.
The tweak I made to the video, which I do feel causes a bit of confusion, due to it worked better when my male self was talking, was to cover the section with a few more pictures of myself appearing as a woman. I extends the opening photo montage a bit but my fear of being outed publicly caused me to go for this compromise.
Bearing in mind, my original purpose was to come out to people I trust in my life and wanted to share my transgendered self with, I tried to use moments from my videos where I was , hopefully, being honest and open about my experiences and feelings. I would have preferred to record a new video to post on Flickr but as I am not able to cross-dress I have fallen back on my usual recycling of older material.
I have to say, using the video as my coming out method has worked incredibly well, much nicer and calmer than my previous inept coning out moments. I suppose I am posting the video to share my enthusiasm for being transgender and cross-dressing with others who share similar feelings and because I do need to express myself badly today and resorted to recycling an older recording. Also, I do hope that for some people, they may consider recording their own coming out videos. In many ways the video is more than a coming out video, it is also a celebration of my female self.