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2024 was one of the hardest years of my life.

I learned so much about myself - strengths and weaknesses.

I broke myself repeatedly to form a more solid me.

I sacrificed true love on an altar of commitment.

I watched generations wither and stepped into the gap.

I gained beautiful flowers in my garden of friends.

I froze in the face of trial and closed within myself.

I created from the depths of my agony.

I screamed in silence for dreams unfulfilled.

I stepped up and made the choice - God over everything else.

I struggled out of the pit of surviving.

I don't know what 2025 holds.

But I know there will be continued pain... continued longing...continued moments of falling and picking myself back up. Moments of showing up for myself in solitude. Moments of nostalgia... and memory... that crush the air from my very chest.

And likely...Grief.

But through it all...

I will continue to persevere as best I can.

I will continue to cry out to God in my confusion and gain clarity.

I will continue to soak up the sun and dance in the rain.

I will continue to find small joys in the birds song.

I will continue to breathe in and out.

I will continue to believe.

I will continue to live.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11

Forever is composed of Nows

Tis not a different time

Except for Infiniteness

And Latitude of Home

~Emily Dickinson

In our earth-lab, a life form has existed randomly, thanks to the reaction of atoms of the ingredients which were already there, in the lab, for the creation of this life form. It has started to develop and expand on the earth, randomly. Later, after billions of years, it got conscious, randomly , but not all life forms have headed to the same direction. The evolution occurred according "the tree of life”.

Speculation:

Big bang has sealed the fate of our future by creating the atom based universe, like all the necessary ingredients were put in a beaker, in a chemical lab, to become the expected ( not randomly) chemical solution.

A life form is the expected result, depending of the time, of the existence and reaction of ingredients in a beaker.

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"La forma di un istante"

Si tratta piuttosto di una metafora poetica o filosofica che suggerisce l'idea che un momento brevissimo e sfuggente (l'istante) possa avere una sua struttura, un suo contenuto o una sua influenza ben precisa.

In un contesto artistico o letterario: potrebbe riferirsi al tentativo di catturare la natura effimera e transitoria di un momento nel tempo, come in una fotografia o in una poesia, per dargli una "forma" eterna o duratura.

"La forma di un istante" è già di per sé un'espressione suggestiva e poetica, che evoca l'idea di catturare l'essenza fugace di un momento.

Nel senso artistico, la "forma di un istante" si può interpretare come la capacità di un'opera di catturare, bloccare e dare forma all'effimero, al fugace e all'invisibile. Questa trasformazione avviene attraverso vari mezzi espressivi, come la linea, la luce, il colore o la composizione, che fissano un momento irripetibile e lo rendono eterno. Si tratta di un'operazione che va oltre la mera rappresentazione, mirando a catturare l'essenza di un attimo, l'emozione che lo pervade o il movimento implicito al suo interno

I pittori impressionisti cercavano di catturare l'impressione visiva di un momento specifico, spesso focalizzandosi sugli effetti della luce e del colore in un determinato istante (ad esempio, Monet e le sue serie sulla Cattedrale di Rouen in diverse ore del giorno).

This scene made me do a double take. Had some alien life form washed ashore? The infrared makes the live matter look ghostly white.

Avec trois vases Ikea et deux bougies.

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Uno strano insetto. ( Acrida ungarica mediterranea (forma verde). )

In a taxi driving into Melbourne form the airport, raining, lots of cars and all that light with the Melbourne star (the giant Ferris wheel) in the distance.

Sweet dreams, form a shade

O'er my lovely infant's head!

Sweet dreams of pleasant streams

By happy, silent, moony beams!

Sweet Sleep, with soft down

Weave thy brows an infant crown

Sweet Sleep, angel mild,

Hover o'er my happy child!

Sweet smiles, in the night

Hover over my delight!

Sweet smiles, mother's smile,

All the livelong night beguile.

Sweet moans, dovelike sighs,

Chase not slumber from thine eyes!

Sweet moan, sweeter smile,

All the dovelike moans beguile.

Sleep, sleep, happy child!

All creation slept and smiled.

Sleep, sleep, happy sleep,

While o'er thee doth mother weep.

Sweet babe, in thy face

Holy image I can trace;

Sweet babe, once like thee

Thy Maker lay, and wept for me:

Wept for me, for thee, for all,

When He was an infant small.

Thou His image ever see,

Heavenly face that smiles on thee!

Smiles on thee, on me, on all,

Who became an infant small;

Infant smiles are his own smiles;

Heaven and earth to peace beguiles.

William Blake

I know this is all a bit yuk to some but I have found this incredibly fascinating. This is the Poplar Hawk Moth Caterpillar becoming a chrysalis, it's head and little feet die off first like you can see here and then within a few hours they are totally brown.

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This is a pair of Common Blue Damselflies 'in the wheel' forming a heart shape. Damselfly sex is complicated, so pay attention!

The (blue) male initiates the reproductive process by depositing some sperm from his primary genitalia near the tip of his tail onto secondary genitalia under the 2nd segment of his abdomen (just below his 'chest') . Grasping a female by the back of her head or 'prothorax', they fly around in tandem until she is ready to collect the sperm, which she does by looping around so she can collect the sperm with her genitalia located near the tip of her tail - which is what is happening in this picture. They can remain like this for a few seconds or a few minutes, and can even fly around conjoined like this. At some point, she will straighten out, and then they fly in tandem to a nearby stretch of slow flowing water where she will deposit her eggs. I believe that the eggs are not fertilized until they are laid, so it is important the male keeps hold of her until the eggs are deposited to prevent other males from mating with her. The damselflies play no role in caring for their offspring and, in fact, only live a matter of weeks in the winged form. The eggs hatch and develop over a few weeks and the nymphs grow, shedding their skins several times over at least one year, some species multiple years, until, when the time is right, the final 'instar' climbs up a plant stem and sheds its skin to emerge as the final, flying adult form - transitioning from water breathing to air breathing in the process. The adult forms only live for a few weeks, spending that time eating and breeding. Odonata (damselflies and dragonflies) are amongst the most successful animals on earth, surviving virtually unchanged (apart from size) for hundreds of millions of years, being found in fossil records. No species has evolved from them - it seems any mutation makes them less successful.

All these mentions of sex, mating, copulation, sperm and genitals will get lots of hits by people searching for porn on Flickr!

This is one of the most ancient botanical forms of Holly

Information from the Australian Native Plants Society

Graptophyllum ilicifolium

Family:Acanthaceae

Distribution:Known to occur only in the Eungella region to the west of Mackay, Queensland.

Common Name:Holly-leaved fuchsia

Derivation of Name:Graptophyllum...from Greek graptos, written on, and phyllon, a leaf, referring to the markings on the leaf (especially noticeable on G.ilicifolium)

ilicifolium...from Latin ilex, holly and folium, leaves, referring to the appearance of the foliage.

Conservation Status:Listed as Vulnerable under the EPBC Act* (ie. facing a high risk of extinction in the medium-term future, as determined in accordance with prescribed criteria). Classified as 3VC- under the ROTAP * system.

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I`m off for a week...

Enjoy yourselves, give life a smile...

I will miss all of you - `hope you are fine...

Toronto

The red handle of this can opener is reflected on its shiny surface.

Form, light, shade and aesthetic purity coalesce in the historic tenth century royal palace in Seville. Formerly the site of the Islamic era citadel of the city, the citadel was developed into a larger palace complex by the Abbadid dynasty and Almohads through the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. A difficult image to capture.

Light Painting using ICM

TOKYO FORM - Folded City

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The attenuated form of a Cape crow perches precariously on desert scrub. The species has a disjunct distribution, in southern and east Africa.

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HAPPY VALENTINE

Tulips in an embrace, the leaves forming a heart, I spotted them amongst the rest in the bouquet...

I don't talk to flowers, they talk to me and I gladly listen… with my eyes!

You can see for yourself what these tulips were clearly saying!!!

"I AM ALL ABOUT LOVE!" Please, embrace me... I need to feel you...this is wonderful...

Yes I am a confessed old-fashioned romantic and I like it! LOL

Wishing you a day filled with love and thank you for visiting, always appreciated, M, (*_*)

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Downtown construction project

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Railway Station

Suburban Melbourne

form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Although the common image of graffiti is a stylistic symbol or phrase spray-painted on a wall by a member of a street gang, some graffiti is not gang-related.

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Beim Streifzug letztes Wochenende durch den Bergwald war ich fasziniert, wie viele verschiedene Formen und Farben von Pilzen es gibt. Wie dieser Bewohner heißt, weiß ich nicht, aber er hat schon ein faszinierendes Aussehen....ich wünsche Euch Allen einen schönen Sonntag

Nachtrag: lt. Siegfried ist es ein Violetter Lacktrichterling...

The result of a massive landslide. Trotternish, Skye.

Large Red Damselfly - Pyrrhosoma nymphula (form fulvipes)