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My oh my. Yesterday I spent my day drawing and writing. Today I was in a foul spell so I was grumpy trying to nap all day. It did not work out to well with my brothers knocking on my door if I found more YouTube Poop for them to watch. My father wanted to bring us all out of the house and I decided that could be a chance for some good photos. Turns out I was wrong. Nothing really jumped out at me. Probbaly due to the lack of huminity or motivation. I went back home and naped for the rest of the day, woke up and played some Animal Crossing and remembered I had some photos to edit.
*Note on the photo.
It was a cold and gray day. Everything seemed to have the same color no matter how hard I tried to bring it out.
Lots of great photo opportunities for "the sun peeking through clouds" lately. Sun's warm. Breeze is muggy. Summer's knocking on our front door. Life's good.
"If all life were to be swept from the world, leaving only its chemical constituents, no visitor from another star would be able to establish the reality of such phantom."
~Loren Eiseley
Statesville, NC…. I LOVE this town! Whenever I go to the balloonfest, I go walk around their town before I head back to Florida. Everything is shutdown on Sunday and typically I'm walking around by myself.
This little downtown area is beautiful…. there are benches and potted plants everywhere. They have awesome light poles, cool store fronts…. I just love it.
One of these visits I need to walk these streets while business is open, I think I would find the local interaction just as interesting.
There seemed to be hardly any cars going through town except for the moment I wanted to stand in the middle of the street to take a picture…LOL
Had a couple more long exposure shots, but thought I'd give you all a break with a change of pace... digging into the archives here, an image of Wellington Street in Toronto from back in spring.
In a certain phase in ones life, comes a moment of realization, where he looks back at the years behind and clearly see those nights he spent in agony and pain. And the faces of those he dearly loved and been betrayed by.
Unconditional love it was, with no boundaries, or barriers. He never wanted anything in return but to be loved. At first, everything seemed to be perfect! But then, like a fragile building everything began to crumble and fall apart including his weak wounded heart.
As he looked back with tears filling his eyes, he could not stop remembering those moments in which he felt ultimate happiness. Even if it was faked, he still wanted to be back to where it all started. To still feel the unconditional love he gave, because it was what made him careless and young. It made him important and made everything around him so pure and happy.
Tears fell from his weak eyes. The faces still hadn’t disappeared. They faced him, with what seemed as a true smile, and looked him in the eyes. He could not deny it. He truly still loved them. Every one of them, despite the pain, agony, sorrow and tears, love still pored from his wounded heart.
He finally realized that these heart breaks and betrayals are what made him the way he is now. Maybe hurt but never broken. His will to live and faith in the better future is stronger.
Life may be harsh; it can make us or brake us… It all comes to who we are at core.
Can you face life in all its faces?
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I have been too lazy to reply to your comments >_< sorry! but i read them all, and i really really THANK you for your support < hehe =P I've been too lazy to do everything lately hehe
Sorry for my "laziness" everyone!
This and a number of other similar houses in this little enclave are holiday houses for party members and others, apparently.
Clouds seen from the Jewel-Osco parking lot last week. 5 days ago was the last time we saw blue sky like this due to the wildfire smoke coming from Canada.
I accidentally left the incandescent light filter on- liked the result especially in the smoggy air of China
The illustration of the burglarisation aftermath is a blowup & colourisation of a small black-&-white clipart that I remember seeing in sixteenth-of-a-page advertisements in the back pages of popular mags in the 1960s.
The FREE ESTIMATE sunburst is a building-sized Al Jaffee fold-in.
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In Detroit on May 29th, 2011, outside "Protector Window & Door" on the east side of Gratiot Avenue between 8 Mile Road and Carlisle Street.
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Library of Congress classification ideas:
ND2605 Mural painting and decoration, American.
GT3911.A2 Painted signs and signboards—United States—Pictorial works.
HF5843 Advertising, Outdoor—United States—Pictorial works.
HD9999.S453U6 Security systems industry—United States—Pictorial works.
N8217.C783 Crime in art.
N8236.P498 Police in art.
TH7970.L35 Lampposts—Pictorial works.
F574.D443 Detroit (Mich.)—Pictorial works.
I HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING the history of the lightpole's crookedness, using G. Streetview: In June 2011 the lightpole was crooked but it had not yet been fitted with an LED fixture. By July 2015 it had gotten its LEDs and had gotten straightened up. By September 2017 it had taken on its current crookedness.
People ought to install bollards around whatever they don't want cars to crash into.
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In downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 5th, 2018, outside a Mobil gas station, formerly a Shell gas station, at the southwest corner of Wealthy Street Southwest and Division Street.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Grand Rapids (7014126)
• Kent (county) (1002540)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• damage (condition) (300068940)
• driveways (300008280)
• lampposts (300101536)
• service stations (300007815)
• streetscapes (300249570)
• tilted (300250429)
• urban landscapes (300132447)
Wikidata items:
• 5 May 2018 (Q45920295)
• May 5 (Q2550)
• May 2018 (Q27952528)
• Mobil (Q3088656)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• LED lighting (sh2015000092)