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The glasswing butterfly , a baseball-size flier that lives throughout Central and South America, is one of hundreds of butterfly species with transparant wings. Thus rare adaptation helps it evade potential predators.

Butterflies have long been considered symbols of positive transfromation. The Glasswing butterfly is native to Mexico and central Americam , with transparant wings that represent our organizations's commitment to transparancy, Just like the butterfly effect, we believe one small act act can achieve great things.

How many glasswing butterflies are there?

The study specifally focused on Ithomini or glasswing butterfliesm a larg group with nearly 400 species that occur throughout nuch of Central and South America

You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.

 

There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.

 

-- Bill Bryson

for now our children are being fashioned into commodities, if you don't believe me, just search the terms, "human capital"

If you see a married couple still in love through the

years, you may think how lucky they are.

 

But in marital relations, there is no such thing as

luck.

 

They made many compromises, they overlooked each others faults.

 

They forgave many mistakes, and endured many problems.

 

They spent years learning to understand one another.

 

Love has never been a matter of luck, its a mutual giving

compromise, shared dreams, care, respect, mercy and patience.

 

*Thank you Adrian for sticking with this bag of bones for decades....I love the new home, I love the beautiful gardens you masterfully set down, and I love you.

 

*No landmark, taken at our new beautiful home!

Pose is from Ardent Poses

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*Back Ground Texture from ANNA LEIBMAN

Autumn in the Jardin de Luxembourg

This is again an attempt to photograph people and daily life in Paris in a way that keep the anonymity of the person. I will post soon some examples where people are recognizable. Here I was fascinated by the light on the chairs and his way of raking the leaves

my cousin and his lovely wife

There are only two options regarding commitment.

You're either in or out.

There's no such thing as a life in-between.

 

{ Pat Riley }

 

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Will catch up on your streams later. Need to finish some work. =)

 

Texture by Ishkamina.

Mute Swan pair on a small pond along the American River

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May 7, 2016 - Hwy 365 North / North of Wray Colorado

 

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It has been an excellent start to the 2016 chase Season. Bonus was, that I had the day off and no commitments except for storm chasing. I was set for an Epic Day!

 

I ended up with well over 700 pic from this storm chasing event, but I've skimmed it down to about 100+. Truly this will become some of my best severe weather photography to date...

 

I was seriously late the game on this storm. But I was never out of the game. I had now positioned myself just to the North of Wray Colorado.

 

Strategically, you want to be to the south east, southwest for the best light... It's all about timing, and I thought it wouldn't produce till it was well west of my location. Giving me that perfect view of the backside rotation of the storm.

 

In my opinion, I found a perfect view, looking due south southeast. I ended up on the northwest side of the rotation. Dangerous yes...but this will eventually give me one excellent view of this tornado and all her glory.

 

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Avatars: Chart Man & Fog by Meilo Minotaur and Capcat Ragu

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True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it's safer. It's a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are.

Dr. Brené Brown

 

Belongingness entails an unwavering commitment to not simply tolerating and respecting difference, but to ensuring that all people are welcome and feel that they belong.

John A. Powell

 

Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Theresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta

 

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, update their status on the internet, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories

Paulo Coelho

 

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, ‘It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

Fred Rogers

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

 

When we choose to wonder about people we don’t know, when we imagine their lives and listen for their stories, we begin to expand the circle of those we see as part of us.

Valarie Kaur

 

We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference. We can never be too generous or too kind.

Marc Bekoff

 

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life — whoever you are, whatever our differences.

John Denver

 

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️

Golden Native Drone Fly (Eristalinus (Lathyrophthalmus) punctulatus)

 

Have a happy FriYay and a ripper weekend everyone.

 

Due to other commitments I have not had much time today, I will catch up soon.

Wedding Ring

1 1/8", 36 mm extension

Sometimes I get lucky. This pair did not notice me standing with my tripod. They swam up close, completely undisturbed. Their gift presentation was also a gift to me; Clark's Grebes; Aechmophorus clarkii; Santa Margarita Lake; CA; USA

Particular entity

Existence affirmed

Web of belief

   

The image's aesthetic qualities—its colors, textures, and composition—are part of one set of beliefs, while the flower's biological properties—its species, its life cycle—are part of another.

 

"To be is to be the value of a bound variable." - Willard van Orman Quine

 

Nikon Nikkor 55mm f1.2 Reversed

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MEUTE - Solidarity Streaming Concert

 

Solidarity Streaming Concert for supporting the culture scene and civil society commitment in Hamburg, Germany.

 

About the concert:

MEUTE recorded a concert on the rooftop of fux eG

By joining the stream, you can watch the show and support Hamburg’s culture scene and civil society commitment.

MEUTE will donate all the income from the ticket sales to the non-profit music club SLOT and the cooperative urban space FUX eG.

 

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Get your solidarity ticket: www.slot-hh.org

 

Streaming Date: SA, 12.09.2020, 06:00 pm (CET) - SO, 13.09.2020, 11:59

 

MEUTE

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FUX

www.fux-eg.org/

 

Welcome to Helnan Palestine Hotel at Montaza Park, in Alexandria, Egypt.

 

The civic & social center of Alexandria, known for its commitment to excellence in service & hospitality, Helnan Palestine hotel is a five star deluxe hotel, situated in a unique location and embracing the Mediterranean and providing harmonious scenery.

 

The vast magnificent gifts of nature, 350 acres of gardens and golden sandy beaches surround its bay.

 

The hotel faces one of the most famous historical landmarks in Alexandria, "Montaza Royal Palace" which was once the site where the late Egyptian royal family vacationed.

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THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

 

—James Lee Burke

Some family commitments involving a trip upt’ North stopped me posting over the weekend, so to prevent another Flickr blockage I made sure I did photoshop editing on my return to keep things loose, so to speak. However, when I thought this LE seascape was going to be a gas, I was wrong. It turned out a bit lumpier than I expected and I had a lot of cleaning up to do. Overconfidence can lead to embarrassing mistakes. That’s all I’m going to say about that.

Palace Theatre London The Commitments Musical

 

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The humanly side of photography contains at least three elements:

subjectivity

creativity

human initiative

If you going to purchase a camera and lenses you should try to be a photographer; however, for some (photographers?) laziness replaces human initiative.

Dedicated Laysan albatross mates alternate parental duties taking turns sitting on the nest and foraging for food. Tending the nest can mean a commitment of up to two weeks or more before swapping duties and heading out to sea to feed. This Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) nest site was in the shade of a naio shrub on the sand dunes of Ka’ena Point.

This farmer stood there for hours, on the side of the highway, braving dust and pollution, to offer free food and sweets to the passing traffic.

 

I salute him !

Listening to people talk about the print publishing market is a bit like listening to people describe Rorschach inkblots – they see what they want to see. Some people view every newspaper or magazine closure as yet another coffin nail for the print sector. Others use every launch as an excuse to shout about a new ‘Golden Age’ of print.

 

The reality is much less black and white.

A complicated picture

 

There’s no disputing that mass market print is suffering, and for news suffering an inexorable decline. That’s why the biggest UK newspapers have abandoned the ABC circulation audit’s ‘negative narrative of decline’. And why even the Guardian with its “long-standing commitment to print” made its print circulation figures private this year.

 

For those UK national newsbrands still publicly audited, double digit circulation drops are more common than not.

 

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Bongeunsa Temple

Gangnam

Seoul, South Korea

California scrub jay, Avila Beach, CA, USA

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