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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.”
Mark Twain
Explored - Highest position: #64 on Friday, September 8, 2017
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Blueberries is very healthy all the time :-)
Here we enter the macro world with a bokeh capture of an amarican blueberry in Norway.
Wikipedia:
Blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum) are perennial flowering plants with indigo-colored berries. They are classified in the section Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium. Vaccinium also includes cranberries, bilberries and grouseberries. Commercial "blueberries" are native to North America, and the "highbush" varieties were not introduced into Europe until the 1930s.
Blueberries are usually prostrate shrubs that can vary in size from 10 centimeters (3.9 in) to 4 meters (13 ft) in height. In the commercial production of blueberries, the smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"), while the larger species are known as "highbush blueberries".
The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and 1–8 cm (0.39–3.15 in) long and 0.5–3.5 cm (0.20–1.38 in) broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish. The fruit is a berry 5–16 millimeters (0.20–0.63 in) in diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally dark purple when ripe. They are covered in a protective coating of powdery epicuticular wax, colloquially known as the "bloom". They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit in the middle of the growing season: fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude, so the peak of the crop, in the northern hemisphere, can vary from May to August.
Best position, Explore (Interestingness), 04/09/2011 (#181)
Portugal - Ria de Aveiro - Torreira
Visitez / visit :
Old soldiers never die they only fade away.
But the young ones do not die, no they are cut down instead.
And someone pulled the trigger, gave the order, held the sword,
And some one wrote the advert in the paper that they read.
Thy will be done,
But you won't get your hands on my son.
You can wait till kingdom come.
RMcTell
Tarut Island (Dareen) is second longest island in the Arabian Gulf also referred as Persian Gulf, after the Kingdom of Bahrain also known as "Al Awal Island", which is the biggest island in the Gulf. Tarut is located in a quiet corner six kilometers or 3.72 miles from the coast of the Arabian Gulf at the latitude of 26° north and a longitude of 50° east, approximately, and in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It extends from Ras Tanura in the north to Qatif in the west. It also is connected to Qatif by two causeways.
This morning woke up to something unusual ice all over everything thing in the woods..It was like a dream really something that doesn't happen to often here in East Texas ..I bundled up and took out to see this beautiful ice..It was so beautiful with the ice all over the trees and just about everything you could see..I was cold but had a wonderful time looking at the beauty of it . Even though the plum tree blooms were covered in ice and the thought of no plums you could not help to be in the moment of this different place and beauty..I was all inspired and the cold was secondary as I explored this ice world
Better when L is pressed
Liffey Head bog complex Wicklow
This was taken in 2008 when I had just bought my first DSLR but it did not originally look much like this - shot on auto, jpeg, no real composition, washed out colour.
It has been cropped and re-processed in photoshop (colour, light, de-noise and a few other things) and finally run through RNI Film app on iPhone to have a Technicolor look applied to it.
It is not an image that will appeal to many I suspect but I really like its simplicity in capturing Wicklow in winter - iron hard ground and glacial blue skies.
1. __LAS FLORES DE ADÁN__(MI NIÑO BONITO) __, 2. __FANTASÍA FLORAL__, 3. __ROSAS ROJAS __, 4. __EL CIELO PROTECTOR__, 5. __FERIA DE MUESTRAS__, 6. __RECUERDOS DE DIAS MEJORES__, 7. __MI PATIO NEVADO__
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Thanks Explore (#26). Best position (#58).
Somewhat unusual to see rain streaks so close to my house but the surface humidity was only 51 percent. This almost looks like virga but the rain was reaching the ground just beyond the house. 26 minutes later, a rain/hail downpour that lasted only 4 minutes produced around a quarter of an inch of precipitation and pea size hail that covered the ground: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/40947522454/in/photost....
Corner Pieces Puzzles, imported by TheWorks.co.uk
1000 pieces, used and complete
68x48 cm
At first I thought this puzzle would prove as tricky as the last one, but my fears were unfounded: it was actually very straightforward. Only our second Corner Pieces jigsaw, and the quality is rather good, with solid well-fitting pieces. It's the last of this year's pre-Christmas puzzles, but we do have a beautiful 1,000pc Wentworth to assemble over the actual Christmas period.
2020 piece count: 94188
Puzzle 101
this is how desperate i am:
so my camera just decided to break on me,so i took this with a disposable camera.
i apologize for the crappy quality but i needed a picture and i had no camera:/
im saving up,so hopefully soon i'll have one.
i edited this a lil',obviously.
THANK YOU SARA FOR TELLING ME!
:)
Sorry for two almost identical photos in a row. I received a critique that my previous composition was poor because I didn't include the legs. I find it quite a challenge to compose, focus and zoom as an animal moves towards me. So, here is one with the whole cross fox.
I find white balance with snow is very tricky. I welcome anyone's thoughts on the warmer previous shot and this cooler temp which gives the snow a bluish tint. I've lived all my life in cold climates and even looking outside I am not sure which looks 'right'. I think I prefer the cooler blue, even if it isn't accurate.
Link to a Peter Gabriel classic:
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