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I had a sunrise upload earlier, accidentally deleted it. I was whining about dropping my lens. Now I'm whining about spring ... or the lack of spring. I just wish it would get here! At least it is in the 40s today. However, 'they' are calling for snow on Friday :(
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
Happy Ostara/Spring Equinox to y'all!
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Sadie's weather forecast is right on for today! Whahoo!
And Jim's home.
He arrived into town last night and Sadie just brought out her first sock from his bag....LOL...and a toque just now....
(you have to read the tags in Sadie's weather forecast to know what i'm talking about).
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Thankfully, today is the first day of Spring. If I didn't know any better I would say it's the first day of Summer. It's so warm today! I went outside to try and get some shots, but the harsh light was too much. So, I came inside and tried some natural lighting. And I couldn't choose between the black and white, and color. So I chose both! This week, while hectic has been great. I'm happier, feeling more accomplished and actually look forward to each day. It's painful to look back a few months ago and see how much I was hurting. And, part of me still struggles with the why and how, but it doesn't matter as much anymore. I've always tried to understand the meaning behind the chaos, in all aspects of my life. I'm truly starting to understand I may never know. And even if I do know, it doesn't matter anyway. Here's to brighter days...
**I did another edit of this where the color was closer to the window and it faded into black and white, but I didn't really like it as much. I guess for me, I feel like I'm coming into the light and the other one had more of a "I'm fading away feel." If anyone REALLY wants me too I'll post it too =)
I just realized this pic had made explore, thanks guys! It's definitely one of my favorites =)
Today is my birthday,I was born march 20th 1963...the first day of spring. =)
I did a "Michael Orton's effect" with this portrait of myself .
It's the first day of Spring! Finally, it's finally Springtime!!
Oh, and it's been forever since I've done one, but Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
March 20, 2021 - Foggy Morning at Chino Hills State Park. Photo Shoot with Ayla Qureshi, Leticia Hernandez, and Andrea Parsons.
It was the official spring day in Australia...and the day could not have been more relevant - There was a palpable romance in the air - and in the Royal Melbourne Botanic Gardens - someone found the wings to fly. Well, cut the crap - but the flower indeed has got wings to fly
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another
(Henry Van Dyke)
Location : Crans-Montana, Switzerland
March 20, 2021 - California Poppies and Wildflowers at Chino Hills State Park. Photo Shoot with Ayla Qureshi, Leticia Hernandez, and Andrea Parsons.
The bees love these. I went on a walk today but didn't have to go far, these were right along the side of the house.
Thank you for stopping by and seeing my nonsense :)
SPRING by Antonio Vivaldi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFWQgxXM_b8
Wishing you all a HAPPY First Weekend of SPRING!
Thank you so much for looking for your kind comments! They are very much appreciated!
First day of Spring, 2020, at Cherry Beach. Downtown Toronto. Only people missing from a perfect day. Of course just above freezing and Lake Ontario really really cold
This beautiful little Blue Tit posed so nicely for me yesterday afternoon - we had some sunshine and it really hi-lighted his head feathers :)
Anyway, with the sunshine, Mum and I thought we'd go for a walk..... we should have stayed in the house... the snow started... and I've woken up this morning to a beautiful layer of white over everything!!
Hopefully it will last a wee while and I'll get a couple of photos... off now to clear the car and head to work!
Have a lovely Monday everyone!
Thank you so much for the comments on yesterday's Chaffinch :)
First day of Spring - up comes the sun - Hooray!!!!! Taken short time ago, sunrise 1st Sept - as taken........
One of the first flower this year....
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One of the bridges that takes you across the lake. Taken on the first day of spring, the trees are mostly bare, just beginning to wake up. In a few months this view will look vastly different.
Dauset Trails Nature Center.
3/20/2022 © Mike Orazzi
Justing taking the 850 out on the first day of Spring. Giving it a break from photographing sports.
March 20, 2021 - Chino Hills State Park. Photo Shoot with Ayla Qureshi, Leticia Hernandez, and Andrea Parsons.
This photo, was taken as the sun was setting at 6:50 pm, just before the the storms seen in the next photo. The thunderstorm photo was taken at 7:49 pm, just fifty-nine minutes later. It is approximately nine-mile drive form here to my house, and that is when the reports of severe weather and large hail were reported in the Fort Worth area and north.
As glorious as yesterday's sunrise was, the same view today was a cold, gray and snowy mess. Welcome to spring Calgary!
Saw a branch in the laneyway, dragged it up on the deck as I knew I wanted to photograph the life that was growing on it. Seen here is what I found on the web to be Letharia vulpina, wolf lichen which grows like a multiple-branched tuft or leafless mini-shrub, so it has a fruticose growth form.
I appreciate each and every visit, comment and fave here on my little corner of the world as seen through my lens.
I'm sure it happens to us all, but yesterday I struggled to take my photo for the day. Today was even worse and not helped by the fact that it feels more like the first day of Winter here than Spring.
I wondered if it wasn't like marathon runners when they "hit the wall" and feel they can't go on.
As it's not in my character to give up on something I've started, even if it takes me ages, I shall go on, but can't take the ages like I'd usually do. Tomorrow is another day and the sun may even shine ... I won't hold my breath!
In the end I resorted to the one thing I knew we'd be having, Sunday lunch. Plus it was the second treat of the week, we don't often have lamb, so scallops and lamb in one week; cor, it's back to bread and dripping tomorrow!!
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Abscond ruminations, you autumn clouds!
For tis springtime, agleam with gold!
Shall in grief and wailing for ill-fortune
All the tale of my young years be told?
No, I want to smile through tears and weeping,
Sing my songs where evil holds its sway,
Without hope, indeed keep on dreaming,
I want to live! Thoughts of grief, go away!
On poor sad fallow land unused to tilling
I’ll sow blossoms, brilliant in hue,
I’ll sow blossoms where the frost lies, chilling,
I’ll pour bitter tears on them as due.
And those hot tears shall loosen
All that mighty crust of ice away.
Maybe flowers shall sprout and herald
A happy springtime for me, some day.
Lesya Ukrainka
Гетьте, думи, ви хмари осінні!
То ж тепера весна золота!
Чи то так у жалю, в голосінні
Проминуть молодії літа?
Ні, я хочу крізь сльози сміятись,
Серед лиха співати пісні,
Без надії таки сподіватись,
Жити хочу! Геть, думи сумні!
Я на вбогім сумнім перелозі
Буду сіять барвисті квітки,
Буду сіять квітки на морозі,
Буду лить на них сльози гіркі.
І від сліз тих гарячих розтане
Та кора льодовая, міцна,
Може, квіти зійдуть – і настане
Ще й для мене весела весна.
Я на гору круту крем’яную
Буду камінь важкий підіймать
І, несучи вагу ту страшную,
Буду пісню веселу співать.
В довгу, темную нічку невидну
Не стулю ні на хвильку очей –
Все шукатиму зірку провідну,
Ясну владарку темних ночей.
Так! я буду крізь сльози сміятись,
Серед лиха співати пісні,
Без надії таки сподіватись,
Буду жити! Геть, думи сумні!
Ukrainka, Lesia [Ukrajinka, Lesja] (pseud of Larysa Kosach-Kvitka), b 25 February 1871 in Zviahel (now Novohrad-Volynskyi), Volhynia gubernia, d 1 August 1913 in Surami, Georgia. Poet and playwright; daughter of Olha Kosach-Drahomanova (Olena Pchilka); wife of Klyment Kvitka. Lesia Ukrainka spent her childhood in Volhynia in the towns of Zviahel, Lutsk, and Kolodiazhne and then moved to Kyiv. Her views were particularly influenced by her mother's brother, Mykhailo Drahomanov. Lesia Ukrainka achieved a broad education by self-tuition. She knew all of the major Western European languages as well as Greek and Latin and the Slavic languages (Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, and others). She was equally familiar with world history and at 19 wrote a textbook for her sisters, published in 1918 as Starodavnia istoriia skhidnykh narodiv (Ancient History of the Eastern Peoples). Lesia Ukrainka translated a great deal (eg, Nikolai Gogol, Adam Mickiewicz, Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, Homer). Suffering from tuberculosis, she traveled to Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Egypt, and, several times, the Caucasia in search of a cure. Travel exposed her to new enriching experiences and broadened her horizons. Lesia Ukrainka began writing poetry at a very early age. At the age of nine she wrote the poem ‘Nadiia’ (Hope), and her first published poems, ‘Konvaliia’ (Lily of the Valley) and ‘Safo’ (Sappho), appeared in the journal Zoria (Lviv) in 1884. 1885 saw the appearance of her collection of translations of Gogol, which she prepared together with her brother, Mykhailo Kosach.
As a kid I went crazy over her poems & life story. Her museum is in my birth town. Above poem was my fav from Ukrainian literature class. I still can recite it as if it was yesterday.
Her birthplace place. My town is unesco site.
...........what a nice surprise when I got home from work on the first day of spring yesterday.....photo taken with my phone cam. I went on last night after dark with a torch, there were about 20 frogs all gathered around the spawn....so many frogs in a little pond !!
we are on countdown now, two more days till Jacks trip..we are all getting so excited !!
Le 20 mars 2018:
Le français est une langue officielle dans 29 pays sur cinq continents différents, dont la plupart sont membres de l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), la communauté de 84 pays qui partagent l'utilisation ou l'enseignement officiel du français. Il est parlé comme première langue (dans l'ordre décroissant du nombre de locuteurs) en France, provinces canadiennes du Québec et du Nouveau-Brunswick ainsi que dans les autres régions francophones, Belgique (Wallonie et Bruxelles), Suisse occidentale (cantons de Berne, Fribourg, Genève, Jura, Neuchâtel, Vaud, Valais), Monaco, certaines parties des États-Unis (Louisiane, Maine, New Hampshire et Vermont), et par diverses communautés ailleurs. En 2015, environ 40% de la population francophone (dont L2 et locuteurs partiels) vivait en Europe, 35% en Afrique subsaharienne, 15% en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient, 8% dans les Amériques et 1% en Asie et Océanie. Le français est la quatrième langue maternelle la plus parlée dans l'Union européenne. Parmi les Européens qui parlent nativement d'autres langues, environ un cinquième sont capables de parler le français comme langue seconde. Le français est la deuxième langue étrangère la plus enseignée dans l'UE. Le français est également la sixième langue la plus parlée au monde, derrière le chinois mandarin, l'anglais, l'hindi, l'espagnol et l'arabe, et est la deuxième langue la plus étudiée au monde (environ 120 millions d'apprenants actuels).
Aussi la journée internationale du bonheur et le premier jour du printemps.
The English translation if needed for the main text:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
The last part says it's also The International Day of Happiness and the 1st day of Spring.
The two books in the photo are grammar books and 'bibles' for learners and everyone else.
The French language has 14 tenses as does English, however unlike in British English where you need to use them all (or you should do)! The French on average use about 3 to 4/5 at the most. There is a lot being done at the moment to try and reintroduce those that are almost now lost in France. Other French speaking countries may in fact speak more correct French now than the French do.
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