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For Poetography, week # 160. My word is Excellence.
"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them." --John W. Gardner
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Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. ~Dr. SunWolf
I think this one represents the color of the blooms a bit better...I really hard a hard time getting the image to look as vibrant on flickr as it does in camera and on my computer..first ones I posted were really dull on flickr...so hope this looks OK ...I know all screens are different.
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Castle Mountain (Blackfoot: Miistukskoowa) is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over the younger rocks forming its base. The mountain's castellated, or castle-like, appearance is a result of erosive processes acting at different rates on the peak's alternating layers of softer shale and harder limestone, dolomite and quartzite.
The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its castle-like appearance. Wikipedia
I have this really hard time with B/W photos.Although I like them, I never get to do them... I miss colour!
So this one is almost a B/W photo! But the flower was already white, so that was an easy one for me!
Elle a pour nom celui d’une femme physicienne par deux fois Prix Nobel, Marie Curie, une excellence !
We have several Bougainvillea plants and I love to take their pictures. Hope you frickr friends do not get bore with them yet.
On Explore #235.
The excellence being the detailed brick arch and Victorian signalling at Par rather than the approaching (and currently disgraced after the mass fleet withdrawal) Hitachi set.
Little has changed in the signalling world west of Liskeard (maybe only Penzance losing its semaphores in 1982) since I was travelling behind class 50s in the late seventies and early eighties. Even earlier than that with the Westerns and Warships and Castles & Halls, the ever-present bridges and signals have seen them all come and go.
The train has been kept in the background in the scene, as it's the other older things such as the old ground signal paraffin holder and spiky finial atop the up home signal that catch the eye.
The service was 1C76 1004 Paddington to Penzance formed of 802004 & 802001 on 5th May 2021.
Always a thrilling display, Aerosuperbatics have been doing this for decades. I think their 'Excellence in Wingwalking' slogan is fairly recent, and it does raise the question as to whether any other standard of wingwalking would be survivable. 'Mediocre at wingwalking - but not for long!'
Apparently, anyone can have a go at this for a small fee (you pay them, not the other way round!). If you are interested, let me know and I'll book a slot for you. Don't all rush at once.....
One of the wingwalkers in the picture was interviewed befiore the show and said she got the job by applying to an advertisment. I imagine turning up for the interview was enough to secure the position....
The aircraft are Boeing Stearmans, if anyone is interested - very noisy as they have a similar engine and propeller to the T6. Texan/Harvard.
vain·glo·ry - NOUN: Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities.
Vain, ostentatious display.
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Migraine ....
just aa quick upload to wishh you all a good weeekend!!!!!
What you can do:
You can criticise silence,
You can ignore silence.
What you cannot do:
You cannot sit even one fleeting minute
In silence.
Yet one day
It is you and you alone
Who will marry silence
And become inseparably one
With silence-sky.
Sri Chinmoy
Explored Sept. 20, 2011 #145
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Nikon F100
50mm Nikkor f/1.4
Astrum 64
Rodinal (1:50) 11 mins
Saw Palmetto, Okeeheelee Park, FL
“The fact is, that people cannot come to heartily like Florida till they accept certain deficiencies as the necessary shadow to certain excellences."
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
A number of you have questioned how Star is doing with the extended bleak weather which has been plaguing the area. I reckon this photo pretty much provides the answer, as a glowering cat sits glaring out the window, dejected and despondent at the continuing wintry mix, chagrined at her inability to spend any time outside at all, limited only to a few brief minutes on the deck. Her seasonal clock is clearly working quite well, as her mournful whining at the door would attest, but provided the opportunity of an exit, she immediately slaps at the sudden chill with her paw, sniffs the air, gazes about briefly and returns, albeit sullenly, to the comfort of the indoors. Clearly, an advanced case of cabin fever has taken hold...and is destined to continue for awhile with up to 12 inches of new snow forecast over the next two days and temps remaining 10-15 degrees below seasonal norms. A winter to remember. However, on a positive note, the weatherman has optimistically called for the arrival of spring-like conditions in a few weeks...which you will note would coincide with the start of May. Better late than never. In the meantime, one member of the household remains doubtful, wistful, and petulant...as does Star.