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“And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.” – Kathleen Raine

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A big hug to one of my preferred spot of the whole world.

Ricoh GR2

Hand held .

Because we can't hug,Teddy is sending his hugs telepathically:-)

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I already apologize to the people who are listening to this song. They will sing this song for several days.

♫ It's a Small World ♫

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Location Digital Art - Cammino e Vivo Capovolto: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Retrospect/180/65/35

Cleo's pole dancing days are long over, nowadays she prefers pole hugging, especially if she can enjoy some sunshine while doing that. She looked quite pleased with herself and the world.

"Art Week Gallery Group"

~~~ VIVID ABSTRACTS ~~~

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜 💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️

July on the Oregon Coast

When we silence the feelings a hug says everything.

Quando o silêncio cala o que sentimos, um abraço diz tudo.

Rural Columbia County, NY

She wants to, you know

You can see her, stretching her arms out, looking at you, smiling

Ready to give you a hug

Yes,

You

We need hugs

We need to know that others think good of ourself

We are all worthy hugs

We are all worthy love

And if you are so lucky to receive a bearhug.... Of the kind that you feel love is just flooding through to you from this person...

Wow yes

Either it's from you daughter, your son, your mom, your dad, your man, your lover, your friend or a stranger

Sigh...

Then you want to just be there for the rest of your existence

The love

The warmth

The cozyness

The comfort

The safe feelings

Yes.....

It's all there

I know

I am there in that cozyness

I know you think it is too much of us being in love-thing

But luckily you don't need to read it

That's one of the good parts of FlickrPhotos, you read the descriptions and move on

And let me chatting along to my

Dear Diary

I so love sharing this with my diary

My Mark

Sigh

Yoji and I in the new R2 Jysunsyu at Collabor88

Pose by Yoji!

Scene: Pillow Talk - Casual

Taken @ Sunny's Photo Studio

@ Karluk Lake, Kodiak Island, Alaska

Revisiting my Norfolk seal pictures I found this one - self hug seal!

It has been very cold today but little Leo enjoyed his first visit to the roof terrace where he played with everything he could find. Most of the time he was hidden somewhere between the plants and it was close to impossible to take photos. The light wasn't great anyway, I will try again tomorrow.

There is another capture in the comments which shows Leo when he saw Tofu for the first time. I think it's safe to say that the Dragon made quite an impression. :)

by Reneesme Portland-Swot

Hair Isabella by Mina Hair - NEW @Belle Event

Bikini Robyn by NX-Nardcotix - NEW @Uber

Wings: *katat0nik* Star Wing

Dress: ::{u.f.o}::sayo opacity dress - pink hologram

@ Collabor88

Pose props: andika poses wear me*andika[i met you]GG

Hair: [Love Soul] Hair*114*Blonde

Since I was at my Mom's taking pictures for last Monday's theme, I took the opportunity to photograph all the little Chriistmas knick knacks she has around ;D And here's my favourite snowman, standing at the top of a snowball enclosing the middle part of a Xmas tree and giving a big squeezy hug to its top :)))

#sliderssunday

Would you? In these contact- and closeness-avoiding times we could all do with more hugs. But would you accept a hug by a green huntsman spider? And is this a spider? Maybe it's a dew-covered spider that lurks in the darkness to surprise its unsuspecting "victims" with... a hug – a friendly, if rather wet hug. So maybe this is a new subspecies of huntsman spiders (Sparassidae), the green, glistening Hugsman Spider :)

Actually it is non of the above, but a simple sliders "accident", and what you see are the exact same leaves from my previous photo (please see the first comment) –, well, it is the same photo. As mentioned in my description for my previous image, I had processed it in HDR Efex. And the "accident" happened when I was done in HDR Efex and had returned to PS. I was wondering if I should use one of the layer blending modes to slightly soften the fairly bold look I had created in HDR Efex; I opted for the "Soft Light" blending mode, but accidentally activated the "Color Burn" blending mode instead: And all of a sudden this strange, spider-ish, alien creature looked at me, ready to hug :) And as for my previous image: I decided against the use of a blending mode, and only used the HDR Efex result for the final image.

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, have a nice new week ahead, and always stay safe and take care!

In diesen kontaktbeschränkten, abstandswahrenden Zeiten könnten wir sicher alle mal eine zusätzliche Umarmung gebrauchen, oder? Aber muss es gleich die Umarmung einer Riesenkrabbenspinne sein? Und ist dies überhaupt eine Spinne? Vielleicht ist es eine, die im Schatten der Blätter eines Busches, von Tautropfen benetzt, auf ihre ahnungslose Beute lauert? Tatsächlich? Nun, Riesenkrabbenspinnen hören im Deutschen auch auf den charmanten Namen "Grüne Huschspinne" und hier handelt es sich wohl um ein besonders verhuschtes, ganz und gar freundliches Exemplar, hat sie doch nichts anderes im Sinn, als das nächstbeste Lebewesen, das an ihrem Versteck vorbeikommt, einmal herzhaft zu umarmen :-)

Tatsächlich sind dies genau dieselben, mit Regentropfen verzierten Blätter von meinem vorherigen Foto bzw. ist es das vorherige Foto (siehe den ersten Kommentar) in einer geringfügig anderen Bearbeitung. Nachdem ich mit den Anpassungen für das Blätterfoto in HDR Efex fertig war, hatte ich noch kurz überlegt, die Nik-Ebene mit der Ebene des Originalfotos zu überblenden, weil mir das HDR-Efex-Resultat zunächst etwas zu kräftig erschien. Mir schwebte "Abdunkeln" oder "Weiches Licht" vor, ich landete aber mit einem versehentlichen Klick bei "Farbig nachbelichten" – und auf einmal schaute mich dieses von tiefen Schatten umgebene, kuschelwütige Wesen an ;-) Da mir dieser "Bearbeitungsunfall" gefiel, habe ich beschlossen, einfach zwei Bilder aus dem Originalfoto zu machen :)

Ich wünsche Euch einen guten (und gut geschützten) Start in die neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!

UTRECHT - A hug whale 5 tons of plastic, pulled from the ocean to call attention to the 150 million tons still swimming out there, jumps out of the Catharijnesingel in Utrecht. The animal is a statement against the huge amount of plastic waste that pollutes rivers, seas and oceans around the world.

(An initiative of Utrecht University’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance)