1. Sailboats On The Charles, 2. Orchid On The Moon, 3. Red and Gray, 4. Sunday Cannas Sky Dawn, 5. Rain Man, 6. Cityscape Reflection, 7. Hunter’s Waxing Gibbous Moon-97% Illumination, 8. Nested Stars Of David,

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A baby American Oystercatcher receives the last morsel of the mollusk and starts to run for it.

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Random Goodness for Working towards a Better World

Ignore the moire patterns. They're due to the pixels on the computer screen.

Zoom, a modern miracle, makes it possible for me to have long weekly talks on Friday evening, erev Shabbat, with my son in Jerusalem, Israel. It's a high point of my week and it makes me very happy.

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It has been five days since my last.....Explore photo.

Maybe this one, maybe not! Who knows! Who cares? I do!!!! What do they want from me? Don't I have interesting tags?

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Shabbat is the holiest day in the Jewish Calendar, aside from Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur. And, it is a delightful party that occurs each and every week. We are so lucky to have Shabbat! It is a great gift from HaShem!!

'Treasure Of Shabbat' was written by my firstborn son, Jonathan. I am very proud of him. It was a labor of love that took decades to complete to his satisfaction.

I have been giving copies to friends and residents at Handmaker Jewish Social Services In Tucson.

For my Christian friends, this book is the service that the Jewish Rabbi Jesus conducted each Friday night at his Shabbat Table... Jesus is a Latinized version likely of Yoshua = Joshua or Yishaya = Isaiah,)

This book, which takes you step-by-step through the complete Shabbat Meal on Friday night, is a delight. It tells stories and gives reasons for each step. It is gentle and humorous.

And, It is available on Amazon. Please tell your friends...;-)

Kol Ha'Kavod, Yonaton! All honors to you my dear Jonathon!!! You are the apple of my eye, and you have made me very proud and humble at the same time...

Treasure Of Shabbat is available on Amazon.com

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Shabbat by Jonathan Bressel

The adult American Oystercatcher pushes its beak deep down into the root of this beach plant and removes it. There was a beetle that the parent fed the baby.

Never saw this happen before.

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Our 2008 firstborn enjoying a whole new world with Mum

It is my firstborn's birthday today - Happy Birthday Samantha.

We have been having some beautiful Autumn days with temperatures around 25 C (77F). Our Autumn is almost over - another three weeks and we will be into Winter. It is a relief to have cooler weather after our extreme Summer, but Autumn is so short here in Australia sadly.

This is a bee that I spotted flying around the Ribbon Bush in my garden. I didn't see many during Summer as it is probably too hot even for bees LOL.

Finally our baby has arrived! 8 days late & we are delighted to announce his dramatic but safe arrival. Theo Walter Hackney weighing 8lb. Arrived by emergency c-section after 2 days of labour at 2:45 pm on the 8th June. He is just perfect I'm in love with our precious baba. 😍😍😍

Treasure of Shabbat: An Illuminated Guide to the Shabbat Table Experience

This exciting, thrilling, and joyous book was recently published by my firstborn son, Jonathan. Of course, that makes me very happy. I find it wonderful as a Father. In addition, I am amazed that a book of such beauty is such a fabulous tool for revealing to the reader a hidden world of delight and joy. Ever since I was a child, I have enjoyed the opening a book to a random page and experiencing the unexpected. This guide makes that marvelously fun and exciting. I always get new insight into a magical world of pleasure, imagination, and thought. It gives me unexpected revelations into my own psyche and world-view. I never fail to discover something new that surprises and delights me.

Kol Ha'Kavod, Yonaton! All honors to you my dear Jonathon!!! You are the apple of my eye, and you have made me very proud and humble at the same time...

Treasure Of Shabbat is available on Amazon.com

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Gorgeous family on the way. Beginning with this happy firstborn.

I got me a new camera and I'm soooo happy! ;__; So I tried it with the first thing standing next to me: Martin, who's Morten's firstborn <3

My firstborn Son and my Daughter In Law wishing me a happy birthday from Jerusalem via Zoom.

40 years ago today I gave birth to my firstborn. Samantha has grown up to be a beautiful young woman and is the busy Mum to four wonderful children and a little angel baby who is watching over us all. We spent the day together and had lunch with some of her friends.

Vincenzo, this was the firstborn!

Today my firstborn grandchild turns 18 years old. It doesn't feel like 18 years since we welcomed him into the family. I was struggling with what to buy him to keep as a memento of this special birthday, as the normal presents that we received for our special birthdays didn't seem to fit in with today's lifestyle. My son suggested a printout of the Mills family history, so I had it printed and bound into a lovely book. I also made this photo book by printing out all the family history photos and added them to a black album in which I also wrote lots of quotations about family. I hope he likes it - Happy 18th Birthday Ethan.

The photo is in the book (not on the cover) and is a photo of my mother and father, my brother and me taken many moons ago.

Mozes and the Firstborn- Stroomhuis (Eindhoven) 10/03/2015.

Henry having a snooze on the boppy pillow mid nursing. I'm trying to get to grips with breastfeeding. As a newbie Mummy this is kind of challenging. I know that this is normal but it's still something that can have both Henry and I in tears at the same time. It is getting better though and he seems to get so relaxed he just doses off ☺ Another phone pic. I think with the amount of phone pics I take of him I could nearly do a 365...if I were that crazy! Lol

Candlemas, also called Presentation of the Lord or Presentation of Christ in the Temple or Hypapante, Christian festival on February 2 commemorating the occasion when the Virgin Mary, in obedience to Jewish law, went to the Temple in Jerusalem both to be purified 40 days after the birth of her son, Jesus, and to present him to God as her firstborn

Mexico City Mexico

These ‘portraits’ were shot during last Friday’s Zoom conversation with my firstborn son in Jerusalem. Two of his grandchildren we’re staying with him and his wife. I shot them with my iPhone 13 Pro Max. The resolution and clarity of Zoom sessions is not great, and I had to do a lot of cropping.

Still, I captured a memory that was very meaningful to me. She bears a strong resemblance to her mom who is my first granddaughter. And she has her vivacious charm😍

Pomegranate

Item No. AA773

card

1,000 pieces with three missing

25 x 20 in

63.5 x 50.8 cm

From the box:

Firstborn son of Pieter Brueghel the elder, a renowned sixteenth-century painter of landscapes, rustic scenes, and peasant life, Pieter Brueghel the younger adopted a style similar to that of his father, who died when Pieter was five years old. Young Pieter's formal art training probably began with his maternal grandmother, Mayken Verhulst van Aelst, an accomplished miniaturist, and continued with the landscape painter Gillis van Coninxloo in Antwerp, where in 1585 Pieter was registered as an independent master in the Guild of St Luke. Although known as a superb copyist of his father's paintings, which were much in demand, Pieter Brueghel the younger created a number of notable original genre and religious scenes. His 1632 painting 'A Village Festival, with a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St Anthony', reproduced for this puzzle, is among the most popular of these works.

A very dark Brueghel puzzle, only saved by its being a Pomegranate.

Sadly with three pieces missing; I should have realised there might be a problem when I found 2 totally unrelated pieces while sorting.

Since my recent cataract surgery I have lost my extreme near vision - I could read tiny print while holding it inches from my face - but now I only need specs for watching TV and other distance work. So this means I struggle to see the fine detail on some of the puzzle pieces especially if they're dark like this one.

However, I persevered and got there in the end.

Definitely a puzzle I'll be glad to see the back of!

waking up in the morning to a whole 'nother page of favorites -- it must be polaroid week!

1. this was on a monday. 3/6 {sx70}, 2. Firstborn - Part 2, 3. Buschwerk am Strand/ Bush - I shot film, 4. Touching the Sky, 5. Mari, 6. Paris in blue., 7. Surf's up, 8. Untitled, 9. Central Park, on water, 10. Innocence of the Eye, 11. Where My Heart Belongs, 12. Polaroid collage, 13. Untitled, 14. let's go to where the land meets the sea and sky, 15. trees/four, 16. flickr.com/photos/71622581@N02/34074434666/, 17. Spring Roid Week 2017, 18. nesting, 19. nesting, 20. Ubud memories ..., 21. Forest Walk, 22. Frost 1, 23. Balance, 24. Cherry Blossom, 25. the view whilst washing up, 26. 'Roid Week Day 3, 27. sunset, 28. Leave the dead ones at their feet., 29. Bodie#3, 30. L'histoire d'une vie, part II: S'ouvrir (Life story, part II: Opening), 31. :, 32. The day before Spring, 33. It´s spring!, 34. Listen to the silence2, 35. Untitled, 36. Untitled

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Mom watches her babies drink at the local pond. These 4 goslings seemed to manage very well. Two families, 4 goslings in one, 10 in the other, both join together when outside.

My brother Geert with his firstborn, Matthias.

Fast of the Firstborn

Fast day in Judaism, preceding Passover

Fast of the Firstborn (Hebrew: תענית בכורות, Ta'anit B'khorot or תענית בכורים, Ta'anit B'khorim) is a unique fast day in Judaism which usually falls on the day before Passover (i.e., the fourteenth day of Nisan, a month in the Jewish calendar; Passover begins on the fifteenth of Nisan). In modern times, the fast is usually broken at a siyum celebration (typically made at the conclusion of the morning services), which, according to prevailing custom, creates an atmosphere of rejoicing that overrides the requirement to continue the fast (see Breaking the fast below). Unlike all other Jewish fast days, only firstborn children are required to fast on the Fast of the Firstborn.

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This fast commemorates the salvation of the Israelite firstborns during the Plague of the Firstborn (according to the Book of Exodus, the tenth of the ten plagues wrought upon Ancient Egypt prior to the Exodus of the Children of Israel), when, according to Exodus (12:29): "...God struck every firstborn in the Land of Mitzrayim (Ancient Egypt)...."

Origins

The primary source quoted for this custom is Tractate Soferim 21:3, where it is stated that firstborns fast "in commemoration of the miracle that they were saved from the Plague of the Firstborn". Asher ben Jehiel and Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen quotes the Jerusalem Talmud as an additional source for the fast, though the same passage can also be understood to mean that firstborns do not fast.

The Shulchan Aruch records the custom of fasting. However, Moses Isserles records that some people instead "redeem" the fast. Later commentaries suggest that this redemption could be done by holding a siyum or by giving charity. Yosef Eliyahu Henkin suggested that since the custom is absent from the Babylonian Talmud, it is not universally binding but rather depends on current practice, allowing the current practice of replacing the fast with a siyum or charity (Henkin preferred charity).

Meaning of the fast

Fasts in Judaism can have a number of purposes, including atonement for sins; commemorative mourning, and commemorative gratitude (see Ta'anit).

The Fast of the Firstborn incorporates commemorative gratitude for salvation from the Plague of the Firstborn, as detailed above.

According to Rabbi Jacob Emden, the Fast of the Firstborn also commemorates the salvation of the Jews from the plot of Haman. This is because Haman advanced his plot on the thirteenth of Nisan, and Esther reacted by instructing all Jews of Susa to undertake a three-day fast beginning the next day, the fourteenth of Nisan. For this reason, even some non-firstborns maintain the custom of fasting on the fourteenth of Nisan.[citation needed]

According to Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, the Fast of the Firstborn also includes an aspect of mourning: firstborns fast to mourn the loss of their priestly status which had initially been granted them on the fourteenth of Nisan. Furthermore, during the Temple period, this loss was most profoundly felt on the fourteenth of Nisan, which was the busiest day of the year for the kohenim and Levites.

Yehuda Grünwald, the rabbi of Satu Mare and student of Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, suggests that the firstborn Israelites fasted in trepidation in advance of the Plague of the Firstborn; despite a divine guarantee of safety, they felt a need to fast in repentance to achieve greater divine protection. Grunwald thus posits that this was the precedent for the Fast of the Firstborn.

Qualifications for fasting

There is disagreement among the early halakhic authorities (authoritative scholars of Jewish law) as to who qualifies as a firstborn for purposes of the Fast of the Firstborn. All authorities agree, however, to the conditions of halakhic adulthood (generally speaking, this is 12 years for a female and 13 years for a male) and sanity, preconditions for all positive mitzvot, to obligate one to fast. (Other rare conditions, such as deaf-muteness, also exempt one from positive mitzvot).[citation needed]

According to Joel Sirkis, Alexander Suslin, and arguably Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, both men and women are obligated to fast. This is based upon the midrash, which states that both men and women among the firstborn Egyptians perished in the plague. Following a precedent common in Jewish commemorative rituals, the above authorities ruled that all those who were miraculously saved should participate in commemoration (see also Pesahim 108b). Since both men and women died from the plague, all firstborn Jewish men and women alive at that time are considered to have been miraculously saved. Moses Isserles and the Vilna Gaon rule that women are exempt from the fast. As the Book of Exodus (13:12–15) mentions the biblical commandment of Redemption of the Firstborn as commemorative of the salvation of Jewish firstborns in Egypt, and as this command only applies to firstborn males, Isserlies and the Vilna Gaon rule similarly that only males are obligated to fast. Common practice is that only males fast.[citation needed]

While a firstborn to both parents, or a firstborn to only the mother, must fast according to all authorities, there is a dispute among the early halakhic authorities regarding the status of a firstborn to only the father. The Shulchan Aruch codifies that a firstborn to only the father is obligated to fast, while most printings of the Arba'ah Turim indicate that such a person would be exempt. Common practice follows the Shulchan Aruch.[citation needed]

Typically, if the oldest in the family died, the next oldest is not required to fast. However, if the oldest child had died within 30 days of birth, the next oldest is required to fast. Yechezkel Landau maintains that this only applies if the oldest child had been born prematurely or was not born viable.[citation needed]

Many authorities, including Isserlies, note the custom that the father of a firstborn should fast on his child's behalf until the child reaches halakhic adulthood. The Rema rules that if the father is a firstborn himself, the mother should fast on behalf of the child. The Mateh Moshe and Yaakov ben Moshe dispute this and rule in such a scenario that the mother need not fast. Avraham Gombiner ruled that it is appropriate to follow the lenient opinion if fasting causes the mother excessive discomfort or if she is pregnant or nursing, but he adds that a mother who begins following the former opinion must maintain that custom and fast in subsequent years.[citation needed]

Jacob ben Joseph Reischer ruled that the above-cited custom of the father fasting for the child goes into effect as soon as the child is born, except where the child is born after chatzot ha'laila (halakhic midnight, which generally corresponds to solar midnight) on the 14th of Nisan of that year. (Since the child had not yet been born by the equivalent time that the Plague of the Firstborn had occurred in Egypt, the father need not fast for his child until the following year) Nathaniel Weil disagreed. He wrote that the custom only goes into effect from the time the child is 30 days old. This relates, again, to the command to redeem the firstborn, which does not go into effect until the child is 30 days old.[citation needed]

There is some discussion among the posqim (halakhic authorities) regarding whether a firstborn born through caesarean section is required to observe this fast, given that he is not obligated in the Redemption of the Firstborn. Jacob Reischer (470:2) suggests that such a firstborn may be required to fast, while Yaakov Chaim Sofer (470:3) rules that he need not fast. To circumvent this question, as well as a dispute regarding a firstborn proselyte, Yosef Shalom Elyashiv suggests that such firstborns participate in a seudat mitzvah.

Duration of the fast

As with most Jewish fast days, the fast begins at dawn. The common practice is that it is subsequently broken in the morning at a seudat mitzvah (celebratory meal) following a siyum. If the fast is not broken at a seudat mitzvah, there is a dispute among halakhic authorities regarding the duration of the fast. Normally, all Jewish fasts continue until nightfall (most authorities rule that this is somewhere between 20 and 40 minutes after sunset, but varies by location and time of year). However, the presence of a fast immediately before a holiday presents a unique quandary. Normally, one may not enter a Shabbat (Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath) or Yom Tov (festival) in a state of fasting. The Talmud (Eruvin 41a) discusses what one should do when a formal fast day (other than Yom Kippur) falls directly before Shabbat or Yom Tov. The sages of the Talmud are divided over two options: Either one should break the fast shortly before sundown, or one should fast through nightfall, regardless. Since the Talmud arrives at no clear conclusion, disagreement arose among halakhic authorities. The Maharil rules that the fast continues until nightfall, while others rule that it should be broken before sundown.[citation needed]

Breaking the fast

In modern times, however, this fast is rarely observed, as most firstborns opt to attend a siyum (festive meal celebrating the completion of a tractate of the Talmud) instead. This is considered a legitimate form of "breaking" the fast, and therefore the firstborn may eat during the rest of the day.

The Mishnah Berurah quotes three opinions regarding circumstances in which the fast may be broken. According to the first, a healthy individual must fast if he can sustain the fast without undue suffering and without any subsequent weakening that would affect his ability or inclination to heartily partake of his Passover Seder meal (and specifically the matzah). (If one is obligated to partake of a festive meal that day, such as if he is the father of an infant on the day of circumcision, this opinion requires him to undertake a reciprocal fast at the soonest opportunity.) According to the second custom (quoted by the Magen Avraham in the name of the Maharash Levi), the fast may be broken at any festive meal celebrating a circumcision or a redemption of the firstborn. According to the third custom, based upon the Maharshal, the fast may even be broken at a seudat mitzvah for a siyum celebrating the completion of study of a tractate of Talmud. The latter custom is commonly observed.

If a firstborn attending a siyum does not hear the completion of the tractate, or if he does not understand what he hears, or if he is in the shiva period of mourning and is thus forbidden from listening to the Torah material being taught, some authorities rule that subsequent eating would not qualify as a seudat mitzvah and he would therefore be forbidden to break his fast. Other authorities allow a firstborn to break his fast under such circumstances. The Minchas Yitzchak (ibid.) suggests that a firstborn in such a position should at least try to contribute to the siyum in some way, such as by sponsoring or helping to prepare the meal.[citation needed]

In order to break one's fast on a seudat mitzvah, many authorities rule that one must partake of at least a kotevet of food (around 1.5 to 2 oz.) or a melo lugmav of liquid (at least around 1.7 oz.) at the seudah. Other authorities rule that a firstborn need not eat anything at the siyum itself, and that he may break his fast anytime after the siyum.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein extends the possibility of breaking the fast to include even breaking it at a festive meal celebrating the completion of any mitzvah that required regular, continual involvement. According to these authorities, such a meal would be considered a seudat mitzvah of adequate caliber to exempt one from continuing the fast.[citation needed]

Additionally, the Mordechai quotes the ruling of his father-in-law Rabbeinu Yechiel that firstborns need not fast at all on the day before Passover; firstborns need only limit their diet to snacks. (The Bigdei Yesha commentary suggests the rationale behind this ruling was to avoid holding a fast during the month of Nisan, which is generally prohibited.) The Mishnah Berurah states that it is appropriate for a weak individual to follow this ruling.[citation needed]

Nevertheless, there are communities, including many North African communities and the Sephardic community in Amsterdam, where the firstborns do fast.

When Passover begins after Shabbat

If the eve of Passover is on Shabbat, many authorities rule that the fast is not observed at all, which is common practice in Sephardic communities. Others fast on the previous Thursday, which is common practice in Ashkenazi communities. This is because it is forbidden to fast on Shabbat except when Yom Kippur falls on it, and fasts are preferably not set for Friday.

In such a scenario, the ritual of Bedikat Chametz (the formal search for forbidden leaven that is conducted before Passover) is set for Thursday night. Normally, it is forbidden to eat (starting from nightfall) before conducting the Bedikat Chametz. However, for a firstborn who is fatigued or uncomfortable from the fast, the Mateh Moshe and Yaakov Moelin rule that some food may be eaten before the search or that another person may be appointed to perform the search on behalf of the firstborn.[citation needed]

Moshe Feinstein (OC 4:69:4) raises the possibility, based on Isserlies that one who breaks the adjusted Thursday fast might be required to fast on Friday, as perhaps the fast is considered to have been moved to whichever earlier day is more appropriate, and not to Thursday specifically. Since many opinions dispute Isserlies, Feinstein wrote that practically speaking, one should not fast on Friday in such circumstances. This rationale may be based on Nathaniel Weil, who wrote that excessive strictures regarding keeping the Fast of the Firstborn should not come at the expense of possibly fasting unnecessarily during the month of Nisan.[citation needed]

The above halakhic quandary is avoided completely if a firstborn fasts the entire day on Thursday. However, Rabbi Feinstein makes no mention of this requirement. For a firstborn who eats on Thursday to comply with the ruling of Issserlies, the Piskei T'shuvot suggests participating in a second siyum on Friday, while Tzvi Pesach Frank suggests partaking on Friday of leftovers from the previous day's siyum.

Status of the fast

In halakha, there are two general types of fast: the communal fast and the individual fast. Among other differences between the two, a special prayer is added by the hazzan or prayer leader on communal fasts whenever both ten fasting individuals congregate and the hazzan is fasting. While Avraham Gombiner treats the fast as an individual's fast, the Chaim Benveniste, Hezekiah da Silva, and Isaac ben Moses of Vienna view it as a communal fast. To avoid the practical implications of the controversy, the Mishnah Berurah suggests that a firstborn should not serve as Chazzan on the day of the fast.

Additionally, this fast differs from many other fasts established in the Jewish calendar in that this fast is not indicated in the Tanakh. This lessens the severity of the fast, and someone who experiences significant discomfort as a result of fasting may break his fast (Mishnah Berurah, based on Isserlies).

Modern practice

The custom of the Fast of the Firstborn is today observed nearly universally throughout Orthodox Ashkenazic communities. However, some Sefardic and Mizrahi communities have not fully adopted the custom.[citation needed] It is not traditionally observed by Yemenite Jews and its practice was discouraged by Moroccan-Israeli rabbi Joseph Messas.

Amongst Conservative Jews, the custom is endorsed by various communities and cited positively in their response.

Jacob Petuchowski at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, taught that Tsom B'chorot was the clearest example of a fast with a moral, social action message. Concern for life, even the lives of enemies and oppressors, is the reason for the fast.[citation needed]

Brand New Norfolk Southern ET44AC 3617 has just completed a testing run to Valley View, TX and back and is being put back into the plant grounds for finishing touches based on test results. As soon as firstborn NS 3600 clears emissions testing in San Antonio a whole batch of black and white ET44AC's will hit the road to report for work at the Thoroughbred.

Several other units can be seen in the background in various states of readiness.

I took that image @ "Santa's Enchanted Forest"

Miami, Florida, USA.

December 26th/2009

How solemnly this brings out the world's estimate of the Savior!

(Arthur Pink, "Why Four Gospels?" 1921)

"And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a feeding-trough, because there was no room for them in the inn." Luke 2:7

Why was it that the Father allowed His blessed Son, now incarnate, to be born in a stable? Why were the cattle of the field, His first companions? What spiritual lesson are we intended to learn from His being placed in a feeding-trough? Weighty questions!

He was laid in a feeding-trough because there was no room in the inn. How solemnly this brings out the world's estimate of the Savior! There was no appreciation of His amazing condescension.

He was not wanted!

It is so still. There is no room for Him in the schools, in society, in the business world, among the great throngs of pleasure seekers, in the political realm, in the newspapers, nor in many of the churches. It is only history repeating itself.

All that the world gave the Savior, was . . .

a feeding-trough for His cradle,

a cross on which to die, and

a borrowed grave to receive His murdered body.

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The pictures are numbered from left to right in each row, from the top row to the bottom row.

1. Harlow Gardens' Unique Owl Looks Me Right In The Eye!, 2. Fog Droplets on Riparian Plants, Plus Water In One Of Sabino Canyon's Ponds Explored, 3. Orangya Glad To See Me?, 4. Orange Peek-A-Boo Berries, 5. I Miss Boston!!!! Dusty Button In The Boston Ballet Company Class Part of Boston Ballet Company's 50th Anniversary Alumni Reunion Onstage At The Boston Opera House , 6. Expression of Delight Firstborn Son Of A Firstborn Son^4 My Grandson And Great Grandson, 7. Red Over Red, 8. Timeless Front Door Light Fixture >><< Two Out Of Four Still Light Time For Autumn Cleaning And Maintenance,

9. Wow It's Raining!, 10. Katydid Nymph Sitting Pretty..., 11. Amazing Length Of My First White Torch Cactus Flower of 2014, 12. My Nighttime Prayer Watchman, What Of The Night? What Would We Do If...?, 13. Stylized Night Vision Long Wavelength Infrared My Prayer, 14. An Evolving Algorithm's Picks Of My Photos Why These? Some I Might Have Picked :: Others Not so Much De Gustabus Non Disputandum Est My Explored Photos In Big Huge Lab's Scout App, 15. *•. ♪♫•* Beginning Adults & Moving-Up Pre-Teens Onstage Performing "For A Dancer" - Écarté Front, 16. Winged Victory Rosebud By The Dawn's Early Light,

17. The Balletmobile, 18. Wary Tortie's Safe Place, 19. Wary Tortie, 20. Best Friends Forever (BFF) Fifty Years and Counting A Vignette, 21. Jacob And The Angel (Revival), 22. Miss Cecily's Drizzly Afternoon Whirling And Twirling With Hollyhocks And Figs, 23. Peeking Inside A Torch Cactus Flower In The Dawn's Golden Hour, 24. Almost A Bow,

25. Blue Skies Smiling At Me, 26. Wild and Surreal Hair Clip and Car Freshener Adapter , 27. Light and Shadows Rolling Over Tucson's Catalina Mountains, 28. A Pink and Creamy Rose Is Still Blooming In Tucson's Winter, 29. A Pink and Creamy Rose Is Still Blooming In Tucson's Winter, 30. I Can't Hand Hold The Moon!, 31. Last Look :: Close-up View Into This Morning's White Cactus Flower, 32. By The Dawn's Early Light,

33. Deep In The Heart, 34. I Am Springing Forth Said The Pink Dianthus To the Purple Pansies... How About You?, 35. Texture - Bright, 36. Buy Me A Rose, 37. My Heart Is In The Clouds...;)), 38. Southwestern Autumn Color Against Clouds and Sky, 39. Applying Mr. Doob's Hypnotic FX Tool On Flickr's Picnik :: Mosaic :: Polar Snow Cap On Planet Rose, 40. MIT's Frank Gehry Affecting Tucson? Hmmm... Makes you wonder!,

41. ♥ Young Ballet Dancers In Studio ~~ Having Fun ~~ Mugging For The Camera, 42. Mandelbrot Fractal Meets Escher Tesselation "Hands-On" In a Dimensional Distortion Field The Uncertainty of How We Should Or Must View Dimensionality Itself , 43. Karina Ballerina Airborne-01 - A Picture Within A Picture - Student and Teacher, 44. Unnamed Melody ~~ Last White Summer Flower of 2011 In Tucson? ~~ Garlic vs Rose~~, 45. Stablized Shadow ^_^ Without Wall Fixture ^_^ - {Explored July 15th}, 46. 100_7052- Heart Healthy Breakfast, 47. "The Sacred Path" :: The Shaman and The Guardian Spirit of The Eagle, 48. Norman Walker's "The Sacred Path",

49. My Cardiac Surgery - News Update #3, 50. 100_6270 Gobi Desert Beauty :: First White Hollyhock of 2011, 51. Cup of Rose Tea, 52. Bokeh Bubbles, 53. Cholla Cactus Trunk and Arms Remain Standing, 54. First Perennial Pollen of 2011 - Into The Heart Of Darkness, 55. ~~ Racked and Stacked ~~, 56. Inspecting Tutus With Multi-Spectral Lights,

57. White Winter Rose, 58. Red Bird In Paradise Finds No Free Lunch, 59. Bee's Dream, 60. Young Ballet Dancers - IMG_1747_2, 61. Shadow Falls On First Yellow Canna Blooming In 2010, 62. ~ Sophie Dancing ~ Monday Ballet Class Waltz, 63. Jacaranda Blossoms Herald Spring 2010, 64. Hosed Keyholed Posed Cajoled Rosed,

65. Evolution ~A Dancer's Progress or ~Ascent Of Ballerinas, 66. The Last Japanese Iris Flower of 2009? - Yes Really, 67. Barnes and Noble al fresco :: iPhone does Starbucks, 68. Desert Sunrise With Sodium Lamp, 69. A Shot At The Barre, 70. a perfect dose of sunshine, 71. Posing With Silly Faces, 72. Fabric at SAS

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Hey everyone. Whew, it's been a while since I've uploaded something on here.

Glad to see so many of my fav photographers still posting and thriving.

I've been pretty sick the past year or so and haven't been much into my photography like I used to be.

Life comes at you fast lol

And on top of it, I was pregnant! This shot here was taken by my mother just a few weeks ago. I gave birth to a healthy baby boy just last week. We are so blessed.

I hope every one is doing well and continuing on capturing all this world has to offer. I don't know when will be the next time that I pick up my camera but ya'll continue to inspire me ♥

I’ve begun digitizing my slide collection.

Today marks my first successful slide scans using the Slide Scan app on my iPhone.