For all the people who suffer on some illness. We don't forget you.

Forgetmenot for Smile on Saturday

For Smile on Saturday - the shape of water

For Smile on Saturday

and Macro Mondays

a swan's feather floating in a pond ... toned a bit blue in post processing

taken for Macro Mondays - theme of November 14, 2022: Curves

[This image should be way under 7.5 cm wide: I was getting as close as I could with my 100mm 1:1 macro lens / crop factor of the sensor: 1.5]

HMM ! I will catch up in the evening : )

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.

Zeenat Aman

"BLUE FOR YOU - ME 2022"

Smile on Saturday

For Smile on Saturday - small part sharp

If you had to choose an oil...it would have to be lavender essential oil, because it is antibacterial and antiviral. So, it's great to have when people around you are sick; it can also be used to relax.

Karen Rose

For Smile on Saturday - a look in the mirror

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Rumi

It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

John Steinbeck

For Smile on Saturday - "shimmer and glitter"

I got this beautiful egg from my neighbors woman. It's a boiled egg. She colored it with onion skins and scratched the flowers with a razor on the egg. So I was thinking, this artwork you all should see.

For Smile on Saturday - "eggs-periment"

For "Looking close... on Friday!" - "Raindrops or Dewdrops"

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

Anton Chekhov

For Smile on Saturday - frosty flora

For Smile on Saturday - ribbons

For Smile on Saturday

Hyacinth

For Macro Mondays - Redux 2022 - "Festive Season"

All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

Confucius

...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

Dean Koontz

For Smile on Saturday - gemstones

For Smile on Saturday

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

Lisa Kleypas

For Smile on Saturday - "meet cute"

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

For Smile on Saturday - red hearts

For Smile on Saturday

For Smile on Saturday

I remembered on an old song title from the 70th and I thought it will match perfect for my image. The singer of this song is Danyel Gérard. Look here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmCnpVjt6nI (English)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYoGz4L-0Uc (France)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxzTuHR8iQ4 (German)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15traUGsbo (Español)

For Smile on Saturday - song title

forgetmenot

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. (Marcy is one of them)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Smile on Saturday - "flowers in march"

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Lucy Larcom

For Macro Mondays - Water

Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.

Paulo Coelho

For Macro Mondays - Holiday lights

Mushroom in the forest......

A little smile, a word of cheer,

A bit of love from someone near,

A little gift from one held dear,

Best wishes for the coming year.

These make a merry christmas!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Selfie in a bauble - for Smile on Saturday

Photo was taken on September 5, 2006 in Wailea, Maui, Hawaii

Crocus

For Smile on Saturday - matches

Echinacea

For Macro Mondays - I Spy

Macro Mondays - theme of October 10, 2022: Fruit

taken with the manual Laowa 60mm ultra 2x macro @f/8; backlit with LED lights

this slice of lemon is 1 cm thick, the white part 6 - 7 mm wide

HMM !

I am a bit under the weather today, so I might post and run tonight and catch up tomorrow

Macro Mondays - theme of June 7, 2021: Board Game Pieces

Pieces of a German board game called "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (= Man, Don't Get Angry!)

similar to LUDO / Pachisi / Parcheesi

En.Wikipedia - "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht"

width of this image: about 6 cm (the pieces are 1.4 cm wide and 2 cm high)

Happy Macro Monday

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Albert Einstein

For Smile on Saturday - Bee-autiful

Taken in the Rhododendron Park by the Rakotz Bridge

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

John Ruskin

LOVE YOURSELF

For smile on Saturday - feathers

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

John Hartford

For Macro Mondays - Spirals

part of an arts and crafts glass bauble

Macro Mondays - theme of December 19, 2022: festive season

(width of this image: 4 - 5 cm at most / the whole bauble is 7 cm in diametre)

HMM and festive greetings for the week ahead!