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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

   

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

- Victor Hugo

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.

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.

Such an elegant bloomer! She is a lovely Aquillegia/Columbine.

The excellent painter is Jan Veth (1864-1925).

On display at a large exhibition of Dordrechts Museum.

 

More of Jan Veth in my blog at: johanphoto.blogspot.com/2023/06/jan-veth.html

 

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.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

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(Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond - You Don't Bring Me Flowers)

 

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"- This is where mechanical excellence and one-thousand four-hundred horsepower pays off. "

 

(Lost Highway - 1997)

 

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Somewhere in Berlin. At night.

 

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Noctilux

...yes it is a datura!

aka angels trumpet!

Parc Floral de Nantes

most probably a geometrid member caught from silent valley natioanl park, palghat, kerala, India

 

Chalciope mygdon . Noctuidae, Catocalinae

 

Thank you Ryan Brooks for the ID

Lorien Foote, associate professor of history at UCA, was recently given the university's Teaching Excellence award.

Explore! #318, 11/15/2007

Have a great weekend!

Selby Botanical Gardens,

Sarasota, Florida

from our small garden

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