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FRONT PAGE Admin Choice "Best of Nature's Gallery Hall of Fame" November 2012
Monarch Butterfly at Rutgers Gardens
This was taken in 2010 in Washington State somewhere in the Sound, I can't recall where. I decided to go back to my old work and post my favorites before posting stuff from this year. I miss the PNW and I am looking forward to exploring the East Coast more.
Sorry for being so MIA on here, flickr! I've had a rotten few weeks, bottom of the barrel type stuff. I could feel the depression dog nipping at my ankles, and for someone who has never experienced truly unrelenting lethargy, hopelessness and constant lack of energy it really has thrown me off guard!!
Luckily my inner self-awareness meerkat has pricked it's ears up and I'm taking care of it, and of myself. I was doing some research on Self Love last night, and had a think and wrote this up:
Last night I realised that
"Self love" isn't blocking pain from entering you
It isn't hissing at the enemy, or drowning in self pity
Or promising yourself to love less, next time
To care less, to allow less to hurt you
Self love is not becoming hard, strong
Self love is allowing yourself to stay soft
Self love is allowing things to come and go as they will
And being peaceful in the knowledge that you will want to restore yourself
Should you become damaged in the process.
Self love is not self protection.
It is self preservation, it is the commitment of gardening and nourishing your own soul, even through the winter
Learning the ability to hold yourself at your weakest
And acknowledging that this is very hard to do.
So, next time your self love involves building a wall
Look at the wall, brick by brick, and take it down with care, not because you don't need walls
but because you owe yourself the view behind it.
177/365
It's 34 degrees today and sticky as hell so as we were out for a walk, and I was shooting sunflowers, my son decided to find some much needed shade. I managed to catch him completely engrossed in a piece of straw or something similar.
I've been in a mind fog lately. Too much planning and organizing and procrastinating and it's left me kind of lacking motivation. Thankfully today I had time to enjoy the setting sun and a walk to clear my mind.
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from a new series, finding horizons | I am posting all 22 images in chronological order and several may be reposts as this is a work in progress.
Carapaces of cuttlefish, 2025, by Dutch artist Anne Geene. Exhibition Out of the Ordinary at Museum De Mesdag Collectie The Hague.
Setting sail in the stillness of the night
Her course steered for the 2nd star on the right
But alas, tis a pity, twas not meant to be
For she was taken down by a dark stormy sea
Shipwrecked she stood in her muddy grave
None survived except two of the brave
Off they swam, both white and so grande
To finish their quest in finding Neverland
©Swinty 2016
312/366
7DWF : Martes: Tema libre / Tuesdays: Free Theme / Crazy Tuesday Theme (08/11/16): "Low Key"
Flickr Lounge weekly theme - A good match - things that complement each other. (insect and flower)
117 in 2017 #25 It sting or bites
July 3rd, 2014: the first time i felt compelled to pull off the road to take a photograph
(Westminster, Maryland)
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.Og Mandino
Horonai, Mikasa, Hokkaido.
FujicaSix, Fujinar 75mm ( of Super FujicaSix ), Acros, exposed as ISO 50, developed with Finedol at 20 Deg.C. for 10 minutes, scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120, edited with GIMP.
from a new series, finding horizons | I am posting all 22 images in chronological order and several may be reposts as this is a work in progress.
19/52
finding where I'm supposed to be
and where i want to be
seem to be matching up lately
and i don't want to think about it
i don't want to do anything about it
because all of what i know
and all of what I'm used to now
will change
I just got back from a Spring walk with the dog, with the sort of light that, as a photographer, makes your heart ache. Add to that the chirping of birds, an all-too-brief encounter with a Hummingbird, and all the blossoms lining the yards, it's going to be hard to get any work done today. So, here's an image, with lots of light, on a morning where I went searching for fog, and found this instead.