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March 30, 2011.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams
Ten things I want to do before I die
1. Travel wherever I want to go, stand on top of mountains with the wind tugging at my hair, feel the cold air sinking into my lungs, like I'm actually learning to breathe
2. Write a book. I really want this to come true more than anything else.
3. Stand in the middle of a road at midnight with cars speeding past just to have that feeling of almost-dying-but-not-going-to because it's reckless. For once.
4. Get soaked in the rain without anyone telling me not to or that I'm going to fall ill.. Have water dripping into my eyes, have my hair soaked down my back, have water cascading through my fingers
5. Play a grand piano on the beach with waves crashing in the background, birds flying in the sky, the sun setting.
6. Lie under cherry blossoms with my eyes shut feeling petals falling onto my face, and the soft scent of flowers in the air
7. Have those cinematic moments when my eyes lock with someone from my past and time seems to slow down. Heart thumping, mind racing, wind sighing, everything else dissolving into a blur except the both of us. It would be nice if music was playing at the same time :P
8. Run in a wheat field with sunshine streaming everywhere, get that feeling of being immensely tiny compared to the world
9. Climb onto my roof and just watch the sky and clouds racing past for hours, have light burning onto me. Experience that emotion of being made up of light.
10. Set up some kind of foundation to help people, in some way, any way.
”I can’t play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.” -John Lennon
Spongecola performing at Elixir
Comments and critiques are welcome. :)
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
The beautiful Black-Eyed Susan flowers as the sunsets in Grandview Square - the park in our condominium complex.
Model - Kristia Chua
Make-up - Kristel Matias
Hair - Achie Lim
Stylist - Adrian Rios
Location - Paco Park, Manila
Makes sense that if you sleep on a river at 5 degrees, you should have the best insulating material around.
Huron River, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Life is what you make it!
These are some coneflowers my husband planted in our garden this year. I just love coneflowers! Hope you enjoy!
Spanaway, Washington
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My pal for the day Sebastian, (he hailed from Virginia USA) is seen leading the way as the two of us made our way up an unnamed summit within these hills known as the Candy Cane Mountains. As can be seen it was particularly arid and also most colourful.
Our guide had given us an hour and a half to explore and we made full use of that time only returning to the minibus in the nick of time. His only stipulations were, be back on time, stay safe and take water.
Goldie is wearing the Another Alice's stock dress, boots from Ixtee; Melodie is wearing a top from a Robert Tonner rabbit, hat from Dollsville, skirt from Dollicious, boots from BHC.
This months wonderful FOTF theme of 'Makes Me Smile', chosen by Dave,
I am someone who always takes time out to smell the roses and appreciate the simple and little things in life, and now so more than ever.
So many things make me smile, the sunshine, the clouds in the sky, the sea, my little garden, my friends, good coffee, my camera . . . but someone that makes me smile each and everyday without fail, is my wonderful husband Ray, with his constant thoughtfulness and kindness.
Each and every morning he delivers me a hot coffee from my favourite local cafe, and he often surprises me with lovely bunches on flowers because he knows they make me smile and I love to fill the house with them (and photograph them too).
The coffee also makes me smile because my gorgeous pooch loves to lick the frothy coffee lid when I am finished (and cup I might add), it makes her so happy, she waits for it and seeing her happy, makes me smile too.
There are so many things, even in times like this to be thankful for and to make you smile. A Melbourne cafe has embodied all that I think too, in a wonderful sign on their door that reads:
Not everything is cancelled:
Sun is not cancelled
Spring is not cancelled
Love is not cancelled
Reading is not cancelled
Music is not cancelled
Kindness is not cancelled
Coffee is not cancelled
Conversations are not cancelled
Relationships are not cancelled
Devotion is not cancelled
Hope is not cancelled.
I am so grateful for all of these things and I am so blessed to have the love and the happiness my 'Ray' of sunshine and my pooch bring to me, each and every day.
Keep smiling everyone and have a wonderful day. The sun is shining and it's glorious out!
Mr. Gainer, Jack's girlfriend's dad attacks Janet. Read the full transcript of the three's company episode Make room for Daddy
EXPLORE 410 ...... many thanks :) :)
The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely ...... hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference ~ Sasha Azevedo
A dreary day at Myrtle Beach. I got up early that morning with the hopes of catching a sunrise. I watched a lady putting up beach umbrellas and chairs. When the weather gives you lemons, make lemonade. I captured this image from the balcony of our hotel room on the 10th floor.
miss a picked this all by herself. she was outside on tuesday and picked one, but the little things flew away as she ran in the house to show me and then said, "don't worry, i have another wish in my room." she ran upstairs and grabbed this one - i didn't even know she was saving her wishes.
Photographing an ostrich pacing inside it's fence was slight compensation for failure to get a proper shot of a sandhill crane. The rain was heavy so I shot through an open car window. Sometimes you have to make do with the limited photographic opportunities fate provides....
It's difficult to resist the urge to take a picture of a Dandelion with a maco lens. They reveal much about the lenses characteristics.
Minolta Rokkor 100mm f3.5 Macro
I can’t adequately describe the thrill of seeing not one, but two, koalas just near home this week. It doesn’t get much better than that 😍 And it was just delightful to see so many people stopping their cars to look, show their kids and take photos. (The koalas were safely inside the fence line of our golf course which has unfortunately been sold, but close enough to to the road to be easily seen).
It’s a desperately sad fact that koalas in Queensland, where I live, are now listed as an endangered species. Their numbers continue to decline as a result of habitat loss due to land clearing for development and farming, climate events like bushfires and drought, and disease.
Spring is mating season for koalas and I was lucky to spot two of them in the same tree in our local area where it’s estimated there are around 40 living in a conservation zone. But even this area is now under threat of housing redevelopment which would mean the further destruction of precious habitat for the koalas, kangaroos and other wildlife. The developers and local authorities will have a fight on their hands. I am getting ready for battle.
30. Far apart
122 in 2022
If you want to escape, make sure you leave your shit behind. It can drag you down.
Message to boat owner: pull your boat above the tide line to stop it being swamped like this. Finns are not used to tides and the sea level changing. Normally there is hardly any tide in the Baltic Sea. But there was on this day