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Every year on March 17, the Irish and the Irish-at-heart
around the world observe St. Patrick’s Day. What began
as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has
become an international festival celebrating Irish culture
with parades, dancing, special foods and a whole lot of
green. Some communities even go so far as to dye rivers
or streams green, in Texas this is done in San Antonio,
where the San Antonio River which meanders along the
Riverwalk is turned green for the day with eco-friendly dye!
In my area we celebrate on Sunday March 15, 2015 at 2pm.
The 37th Annual FM 1960 St. Patrick’s Day Parade proceeds
down FM 1960 from Champion Forest Drive to Kuykendahl.
Last year 150,000 spectators attended the parade, one of
the largest community events in the Houston area! contact
281-378-0800. The parade benefits Cypress Creek EMS
Education Scholarship, raised over $100,000 over the last
5 years! CCEMS is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit with all contributions
tax deductible. This year I was at the hospital and unable to
attend but the Irish part of my heart was there celebrating!!!
Who is St. Patrick.....
Saint Patrick is the patron saint and national apostle of
Ireland. St Patrick is credited with bringing Christianity to
Ireland. Most of what is known about him comes from his
two works; the Confessio, a spiritual autobiography, and
his Epistola, a denunciation of British mistreatment of Irish
Christians. According to different versions of his life story
it is said that he was born in Britain, around 385 AD. His
parents Calpurnius and Conchessa were Roman citizens
living in either Scotland or Wales. As a boy of 14 he was
captured and taken to Ireland where he spent six years
in slavery herding sheep. He returned to Ireland in his
30's as a missionary among the Celtic pagans. Saint Patrick
described himself as a “most humble-minded man, pouring
forth a continuous paean of thanks to his Maker for having
chosen him as the instrument whereby multitudes who had
worshiped idols and unclean things had become the people
of God.” Many folk ask the question ‘Why is the Shamrock
the National Flower of Ireland?’ The reason is that St. Patrick
used it to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagans. St. Patrick
used a shamrock to visualize the mystery of the Trinity,
how a single plant with three leaves is analogous to the
one Triune God with three separate and distinct Persons,
God, the Father, God, the son, and God, the Holy Spirit!!!
My fave Irish song... enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFDGknbIUvs
and a wonderful Irish medley:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KmYHaf58Q
Find your fave Irish song:
So if anyone has noticed by now, I have a weakness for sunsets, their stunning beauty gets me every time and when I miss one I sure am disappointed. So today I had some time to kill between classes, since today is the first day and we don't have any HW yet I figured I might as well have some fun with my photos. This is a single shot exposure run through mainly Nik Color Efex, I was trying to see what I can pull out of a shot so it may be a little pushed in terms of processing but its all for fun!
Please don't hesitate to tell me what you think, comments and constructive criticism are welcome and appreciated! :)
*Explored on March 26, 2012 #278! Thanks everyone! :)
So I went out and took some senior pictures this weekend! This is something that I came up with and I decided to make it more of a conceptual photo than a senior portrait so I have my client likes it! I think they will! Anyways I'm moving to California in 2 days and I'm really excited for all the photo opportunities on my way out there!! If you live in LA we should shoot together!!
Every October, the large Peruvian population of Buenos Aires assembles to celebrate Lima's patron saint: "El Señor de los Milagros".
Dozens of street vendors open shop on the streets and sell traditional Peruvian food.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.~Elbert Hubbard
Every year I try to do something nice with the lovely cards we receive.
This year i framed the cards I liked most, it's on our wall near the dining table till new year!
I wanted to paint the wooden frame in silver, but ran out of time...:-(
quelque chose qui me fait rire : mes filles en train de faire une bataille d'eau, aujourd'hui!
Something that makes me laugh: my daughters doing a water battle, today !
Every time I see it, CSXT caboose No. 900433 has increasing amounts of graffiti. I guess that I should be happy that it even survived the Hunter Harrison era. The B&OCT cab is seen here on the Whiting Sub, on November 23, 2018.
Every Christmas I like to go out and photograph the sunrise. This year, with lots of clouds(agian) I ended up just going for an early morning walk in downtown Radford.
model is Helo Willemann
this photo is a bit similar to one of my latest uploads, but I like this one so much better ♥
Thanks for this original image:
frozen-photo.deviantart.com/art/--433550587
Thanks to Adrian for the smoke:
Every now and then I just dip randomly into my archives. All my images are in dated folders, and of course I forgot exactly what I was doing on March 7th of last year... What a delight to pull up some dramatic images from Sedona that are tucked away in those archives. We had intended to find a short hike to take on this day, but the threatening skies turned that into a drive around the Red Rock loop instead of a hike. I jumped out of the car at every possible vista point to enjoy the changing skies.
For some reason I chose to focus on the foreground rather than the background, which was probably just a mistake, but I rather like the dreamy, misty effect - sort of like looking thru a plate glass window.
424. Man’s origin is essentially not natural, which can also be said about nature itself.
133. The aim of man’s activity in life can be the Absolutum or nothingness.
138. Sticking to the only-human leads not to remaining in the human sphere but to becoming sub-human. For persisting in something is to loose it: to loose that which was intended to be retained.
140. If superhuman principles does not stand behind man’s intention of changing himself then he will not remain in the human state but descend to a subhuman condition.
142. The one who is not able to live his life as a constant ascension, which attains its perfection in the period right before death, but from a certain age starts to descend, in reality abuses his life.
143. He who does not strive upwards, descends.
144. He who lets himself be taken by the current, is certain to follow the wrong path.
179. Resignation to one’s fate as well as revolt against one’s fate are lunar attitudes. A truly spiritual attitude aims at transcending fate: one does not resign and does not revolt, but by depriving fate from its importance transcends it.
188. Concerning metaphysical realisation every »must« refers only to the man who wants to do something with himself. The one who does not intend to do anything with himself, does not have to do anything.
190. In times past, one school, one sacred book, even one sentence of such a book was enough: through that everything could be reached. Today, if one wants to get back to the spirit, one has to surround oneself with several traditions, schools and trends.
191. The spiritual path even two thousand years ago was called the »narrow path«, or was compared to the edge of a sword. However, this path is not simply narrow, but is also getting narrower and more impassable. The »wide path«, on the contrary, which many people follow quite happily, is indeed a wayless way; a wide path, which is not a real path: it leads nowhere, to nothing, to death...
194. Whatever a man wants to reach he reaches. If it should not happen, it is because he is unable to want it.
195. He who wants to awake, awakes.
196. Not gaining initiation is never due to the fact that a man could not find an appropriate initiatory centre, but because he is not mature enough for initiation.
203. Every true ascent from below is an ascent controlled from above. I want to get higher for what is higher in me »calles for« what is lower in me.
204. The adequate and legitimate way of getting back to Heaven is well symbolized by the ladder of Jacob: getting back to Heaven is only possible by climbing up the ladder which descends from Heaven. The inadequate and illegitimate way is the story of the Tower of Babel: the ascent from the Earth necessarily leads to collapse and confusion of mind.
218. He who wants the Goal, should also want the means that lead to the Goal. For if he does not want the means leading to the Goal, he certainly does not want the Goal.
224. Man should not ensure reservations of darkness in his life.
244. By gaining power over consciousness man gains power over being.
245. While I do not have control over my circumstances I should at least try not to let circumstances have control over me.
293. Knowledge of the origin, knowledge of the path, knowledge of the all-transcending, ultimate goal: this is metaphysical realisation.
294. Tradition springs forth from the eternal, points at the eternal, and in the human modality of being represents the aspiration towards the eternal.
376. One has to accommodate himself to the modern world so that his powers will not wear him out - but not in the sense of bending and assimilating to it, but as a kind of acclimatisation; for he who gets acclimatised will not »serve« the climate but resists the climate.
424. Man’s origin is essentially not natural, which can also be said about nature itself.
513. Essentially each epoch is a state of consciousness - as is the Dark Age. They are historical periods only in the second place.
553. Though religion has developed in the period of Kali-yuga, it cannot be considered as the product of a darkening process, but rather as the reaction to it. Since prior to Kali-yuga man had lived in a circum-spiritual state, there was no necessity for a particular religion or rite.
567. The under-valuation of any religion entails the undermining of all religions including one’s own.
660. There is no hierarchy in the Centre and from the Centre; but this is much more the case with the realisation of the Centre.
661. The grades in the sphere of beings are the grades of the withdrawal from the centre of being and the grades of the returning to the centre of being.
673. Quantitative aspects have no value at all, because value is, essentially, attached to quality.
676. Quantity is by the side of chaos.
755. The past has the strongest connection with neglecting. There is past because man continuously misses opportunities, he fails to collect and hold together the totality of being.
756. There is past because the presence of man in the present is not sufficient.
757. We have temporality because our experience of the present is not intense enough. If it were completely intense, there would be no temporality, the temporal present would absorb both past and future, and Time itself too.
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Metaphysical aphorisms by András László
www.tradicio.org/english/solumipsum.htm
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Basel Minster cathedral portal sculptures by medieval artist - Christ with the wise and foolish virgins
Every summer, public buildings in Helsinki are wrapped up. I'm convinced it's a hidden art project - you never seen any work being done, and when they unwrap it, the building looks the same as before.
St. John's church, Helsinki
To be an aps film, this is sharp for me. Around f/8 with the zeiss 28mm.
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I never had an aps film camera in the 90s, but my friends had. So better late than never .. And this year it's the 25th Anniversary for this short life system =)
I only shoot it at the "H" mode which is in 9:16 aspect ratio.
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Contax Tix mit Zeiss Sonnar 28mm f/2.8 and Voigtländer Vxg 200 exp*
July 2021
There was Gingko Biloba for sure, Acer, I think, and I don't know what else! All were Autumn trees growing or blowing every which direction. I don't drink. When trying to prepare this for Flickr, I decided the trees in the background were the most straight.
I noticed sometimes the fact that I gave it a light sharpening technique doesn't seem to show until you enlarge it a bit and give a few extra seconds to load.
(DSCN8064AutumnTreesRot8BlkBordSatLtShrpInitFlickr111621)
Welcome to PEDIM
'Photograph Every Day In May'
I'm going to be uploading every single day in May. Now, these will not be brand new picture every day; by which I mean, some will be old un-uploaded pictures!
Please join me if this is something that you think you would enjoy!
// Yesterday we went to Hunstanton, I didn't sleep much the night before because of all the anxiety whirling round in my head about going. But I'm so pleased we did, so pleased I over came that fear. We went to a car boot (I spent far too much money), spent money on slot machines and ate the biggest ice creams I've ever seen!
We stopped on the side of a busy road to take this shot. Dad stood nearby for me as cars were rushing past at 60+mph!
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A fellow hiker met on the trail who agreed to let me get a photo of her.
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Like every saturday morning, I want to wake up slowly, but then my little daughter comes screaming into the bedroom: IT SNOWS!! Within a second me and my daughter were dressed and ready to go to the Posbank. While making a snowman and losing the snowball fights, I also had time to make a panorama of the Posbank covered by snow. I turned it into B&W as it was a already a grey, but beautiful morning. Panorama was made using the nikor 105mm macro and consists of 11 pictures.
Every now and then I am lucky to watch some amusing moments with birds. This was one of those moments when a Sanderling spend some time gussy itself up. Cheers everyone.
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Every site in Egypt was more breathtaking than the last!
Even more amazing than the original structures that make up the Temple of Isis on the Nile – also known as the Philae Temples - is that fact that the historic buildings were moved to save them from inundation by the floodwaters resulting from Egypt’s High Dam project.
Transport around the area s over water.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/the-sacred-temple-of-...
Every mountain deserves a closeup, and here's one for my day three's objective Mount Redoubt, taken from the summit of Mount Custer the day before.
...Hang the laundry out to dry, and rain is sure to come. Maybe we ought to get everyone in our drought stricken region to hang out their laundry instead of using their dryers...
This is a composite I put together for Down Under Challenge #787, starting with a challenge image by Frank Bernard (see it in the first comment below). I got the rain from Google Images.
Also for Sliders Sunday
The Bridges branded Enviro500 deckers have recently had their branding updated to included the missing destinations removed to allow window vents to be fitted shortly after branding first time round. While the route branding may once again be accurate the frequency is not as since the August changes the frequency between the 1&2 is now 6 & 9 minutes rather than the even 7/8 minutes of old. This is impacting on the 2 which is picking up the bigger loads coming in from Bridge of Don due to the nine minute gap in front of it while the 1 gains due to the shorter gap leading to bunching.
However, the branding is irrelevant as the buses are commonly used on the 11, 18 and 8/9/X40 instead. Understand the issue is that unlike the 3 and 23, the controller has not been given a list of of what buses are branded (and its seemingly too difficult for someone to look out the depot window and check them) so they are allocated all over the network.
Showing off the Bridges branding is 38222 which has arrived into Dubford as an 8 and will then leave 21 minutes later as a X40 (although the layover is actually much smaller as it will normally arrive late from Heathryfold. Seen here at the misnamed "Dubford Termnus".