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Asolo, Italy

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A small brook Estero Natales with intense desire to meet the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.....

Taken on a stroll in Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile

A little street in Canterbury, taken in April

“Do I chase the night or does the night chase me?”

The autumn fruits of the Guelder Rose trees were still hanging on the branches in January, giving lovely colour.

These trees line the path at Mottisfont which leads to a walk by the River Test.

St. Peter-Ording, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

I long to romp the trails at sunset and sunrise to capture such glorious moments like this sunset at Lake Crabtree nearby. Enjoy your week my friends.

casan lake

Our "new" winters here in Michigan are warmer, wetter, and grayer.......ugh. I'm longing for Spring these days and this older photo helped me cope with the "new" winter here.

In my yard today, the leaves are falling but dotted all around my porch growing in the grass are these delicate autumn crocus. Yes, it may have looked better cropped but I didn't want to omit the green grass - soon I will be longing for it.

THE LONGING..⛈️

Nearly here little buddy..

I've noticed that the Dainty Tree Frogs (Chlorohyla gracilenta) have moved down from the treetops and are quite low to the ground now. They wait in anticipation of the coming rains inundating their breeding sites along the Barron River floodplain here in Cairns. The first heavy showers last week were sufficient enough to trigger their exodus.

I really love these frogs to bits..

With a blueprint being given out last night by our mop haired buffoon of a prime minister for a gradual release from Covid restrictions, there's a definite feeling of optimism that we can look forward once again to some of life's finer pleasures.

~ Changes ~

Lido di Jesolo, Italy

There is a rapture that my soul desires,

There is a something that I cannot name;

I know not after what my soul aspires,

Nor guess from whence the restless longing came.

~ Augusta Theodosia Drane

This is where I long to be. Can't seem to get enough sleep these days.

Spring come fast let me fly and touch the blooming flowers

A German songwriter once sang: "Above the clouds, freedom

must be limitless .." The view over the clouds sometimes

brings with it a longing for the distance and for what is behind

the horizon.

View from the Geigenkamm towards Kaunergrat.

Pitztal Tyrol.

I would like to thank you very much for

all comments, awards and faves!

Unfortunately it is not possible for me to

thank everyone personally.

Many greetings from the Tyrol,

the ❤️ of the Alps.

Lizards can dream too.

Credits & Nophotoshop version

Torrevieja, Valenciana. July 2017

Visit this location at Rooftops in Second Life

Utrecht, Oudegracht

come to me in my dreams, and then

by day I shall be well again!

for so the night will more than pay

the hopeless longing of the day.

come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,

a messenger from radiant climes,

and smile on thy new world, and be

as kind to others as to me!

or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,

come now, and let me dream it truth,

and part my hair, and kiss my brow,

and say, my love why sufferest thou?

come to me in my dreams, and then

by day I shall be well again!

for so the night will more than pay

the hopeless longing of the day

longing

matthew arnold

Explore #7

They exist, the places where you can still breathe deeply in togetherness.

Es gibt sie, die Orte wo man noch in Zweisamkeit durchatmen kann.