...When they are gone,

you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain)

Trenne dich nicht von deinen Illusionen.

Wenn sie verschwunden sind,

wirst du weiter existieren,

aber aufgehört haben zu leben ... (Mark Twain)

- als Wort zum Sonntag ;-) -

HSS 😊😊😍

Kind hearts are the gardens,

Kind thoughts are the roots,

Kind words are the flowers,

Kind deeds are the fruits.

Take care of your garden

And keep out the weeds,

Fill it with sunshine

Kind words and kind deeds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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

Not a true paddle wheel riverboat, but it did make me think of the song seeing it heading down the Mississippi in Hannibal, MO.

Processed in Lightroom using a B&W preset.

Happy Slider Sunday!

"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"

Quote - Mark Twain

~~Spring is in the air, also in Origami-land ;-)) These little tulips are very excited too….do you hear them talking about….….?~~

It is a very easy model to fold, with just two square pieces of paper, make two creases and you've got yourself a lovely abstract tulip. Very useful for little decorations.

Have a lovely weekend ahead ;-))

Paper:

For the big 'Tulip' I used for the flower red kami paper (3,75x3,75) and for the leaf green kami paper, same size.

The little one is folded with 1,4x1,4 piece of paper, both for the flower and leaf.

Final size big 'Tulip' about 7,5cm and the little one 4,5cm

Model: origami Tulip

Design: Yoshihide Momotani

Diagrams in the book : New Origami Land: Origami Flowers by Yoshihide Momotani

J'ai eu la chance de passer quelques jours à Whistler en novembre 2020 ( ce n'est pas si loin de chez moi) et la neige était au rendez-vous!

Snow day in Whistler. November 2020.

“Cuando un hombre ama a los gatos, soy su amigo y camarada, sin necesidad de conocerlo más”. #MarkTwain

RIP 3/07/2022

#206 the Boyhood home of Mark Twain in Hannibal, MO

Happy Fence Friday and have a wonderful weekend! Stay cool!

"A Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage-coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats."　　— Mark Twain

Along the Rivers of America as viewed from the Mark Twain.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Mark Twain

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

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

~ Mark Twain

This is my friend's cat. He is 19 years old and still active enough to jump onto his favourite chair.

Happy Caterday!

Photographed with Oreston 50mm f1.8.

I last photographed this cat seven years ago. That portrait is in the first comment.

A view of the Dricus and Fanny Snitjer House located in Quincy's residential East End Historic District. The district encompasses 493 contributing buildings built from the 1830s to the 1930s, including representative works of nearly every popular American architectural style during the period.

The French Second Empire-style Dricus and Fanny Snitjer House is attributed to Chicago architect John S. McKean. Located in the 1400 block of Maine Street, the house was built in 1876 and is one of the most photographed in Quincy. Originally built for Dricus and Fanny Snitjer, in 1882 the house was sold to Mathias Huffman, owner of a leading Quincy jewelry store. The house was used as a college preparatory school for young women around the turn of the century. A pamphlet from 1900-01 lists author Samuel L. Clemens as a school patron.

Next door on the right in this photo is the David W. Miller House, a French Second Empire-style house with Italianate elements constructed in 1866. I invite you to visit my Adams County album for more views of the residential and commercial architecture in Quincy.

Quincy, known as Illinois's "Gem City," is the seat of Adams County. Located on the Mississippi River, this west central Illinois community had a population of 40,111 at the 2020 census. During the 19th century, Quincy was a thriving transportation center as riverboats and rail service linked the city to many destinations west and along the river.

The city has several local and national historic districts. The Quincy East End Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."

Quote - Mark Twain

Happy Fence Friday ;-))

Location Spoorzone Tilburg

"Never put off till tomorrow

what you can do the day after tomorrow."

- - Mark Twain

Best viewed LARGE.

Mark Twain (11 yrs) dancing in the snow.

He has curly, wooly, dense coat and undercoat that makes the him nearly waterproof.

He is Lagotto Romagnolo breed, water dog.

This is the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.

Nevada’s most prolific, witty, wise (and wise-cracking) writer, Mark Twain

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

Vera Nazarian

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Tennessee Williams

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

Shannon L. Alder

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear

and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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

This was an experiment. I used several of my own photos as layers to make this.

No one told the small bird he couldn't run off the Turkey Vulture. What are we facing that looks to large to overcome?

Mark Twain (11 yrs) under the quince tree in the fresh snow .

He is Lagotto Romagnolo breed, water dog.

This is the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.

Mark Twain (11 yrs) rolling in the snow.

He has curly, wooly, dense coat and undercoat that makes the him nearly waterproof.

He is Lagotto Romagnolo breed, water dog.

This is the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.

20 years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn’t do

than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

~Mark Twain

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Two foot lower than yesterday apparently. Won't be taking my exercise here again. It was like the middle of summer.

Handheld. 1/4 sec. Gotta love IBIS.

Mark Twain (11 yrs) playing with a snow ball in the lower field.

He loves it!

He is a Lagotto Romagnolo dog, a water dog.

This is the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.

'Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.'

(Mark Twain)

Mark Twain

und einer Lüge besteht darin,

dass eine Katze nur neun Leben hat.

Mark Twain

HMBT!!!

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

― Mark Twain

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This French Second Empire house is attributed to Chicago architect John S. McKean. The house, located in the 1400 block of Maine Street, was built in 1876 and is one of the most photographed in Quincy. This Quincy landmark was originally built for Drills and Fanny Snitjer, in 1882 the house was sold to Mathias Huffman, owner of a leading Quincy jewelry store. The house was used as a college preparatory school for young women around the turn of the century. A pamphlet from 1900-01 lists author Samuel L. Clemens as a school patron.

Quincy, known as Illinois's "Gem City", is the seat of Adams County. Located on the Mississippi River, this west central Illinois community has a population just under 40,000 according to a 2019 estimate. During the 19th century, Quincy was a thriving transportation center as riverboats and rail service linked the city to many destinations west and along the river. The city has several local and national historic districts.

Taken at the boyhood home of Mark Twain in Hannibal, MO.

Happy Fence Friday!

A scenic view of the Rivers of America at Disneyland Park.

And with this shot taken on the lake Maggiore during the Christmas Holidays...good night to you all!!! :)))

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp

Mark Twain

In 1878, the American writer Mark Twain visited Zermatt.

In commemoration of Mark Twain’s epic hiking expedition around the Riffelberg there is a hiking trail carrying his name running from the Riffelberg to the Riffelalp.

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View of the alpine world from the Riffelberg at the altitude of 2582 m, Switzerland

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Когда горы дружат с облаками

Наверное, нет наслаждения, равного наслаждению от восхождения в опасных Альпах.

Марк Твен

В 1878 году американский писатель Марк Твен посетил Церматт.

В память об эпической походной экспедиции Марка Твена вокруг Риффельберга проходит пешеходная тропа от Риффельберга до Риффелальпа, которая носит его имя.

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Альпийская панорама с высоты 2582 м, Риффельберг, Швейцария

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We have seen... a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we have never dreampt of before. We have stood in the dim religious light of these hoary sanctuaries, in the midst of long ranks of dusty monuments and effigies of the great dead of Venice, until we seemed drifting back, back, back, into the solemn past, and looking upon the scenes and mingling with the peoples of remote antiquity. We have been in a half-waking sort of dream all the time. I do not know how else to describe the feeling. A part of our being has remained still in the nineteenth century, while another part of it has seemed in some unaccountable way walking among the phantoms of the tenth. [Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad, 1869]

Lunchtime in Victoria Square Adelaide.

*Working Towards a Better World

The trust of the innocent

is the liars most useful tool.

Stephen King

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Bruce Lee

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Lies run sprints, but

the truth runs marathons.

Michael Jackson

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

.. Mark Twain loved this place .. and wrote a book about it .. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tramp_Abroad .. happy Sunday :)

The Mark Twain being pushed by the Shirley B. Noted that the BB Riverboats identification is painted over and only the boat's name remains. The River Queen is in the background. Taken at BB Riverboats Newport, Kentucky home location.

HSS 😊😊😍

Parenting is when you give your heart and all of your best effort to your child for you to see her grow into a beautiful and independent person.

Mary Appleton

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Rock Bankole

A new morning of a new day and I opened my eyes to see, the beautiful surroundings and clouds in the sky that's layered so neat. Birds chirping away as they embrace a new day. I can see the ocean in view, as I see a day opened up to new.

Marcelle Hinkson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Mark Twain

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

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

Virginia City, Nevada

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain

A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Nicolas Chamfort

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. - Jimmy Buffett

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. - Sean O'Casey

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

- Mandy Hale

A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -

E.E. Cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation.

- Milton Berle

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all. -David Hasselhoff

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

John Cleese

With heartfelt thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful day, stay healthy, stay alert, appreciate the beauty around you, enjoy being creative, stay safe, 😊😊😍

“Abandonamos a nuestras espaldas las nevadas montañas de Wind Rivers y Uints, siempre rodando por el mismo escenario maravilloso pero, de vez en cuando, por entre largas filas de esqueletos mondos y blancos de mulas y de bueyes —monumentos de las grandes avanzadas de colonos de antaño— y, acá y acullá, de maderos hincados en la tierra y pequeños montículos de piedras que el cochero dijo que indicaban el sitio de descanso de restos más preciosos.

¡Solitaria tierra para una sepultura! Una tierra conquistada al coyote y al cuervo; otro modo de aludir a la soledad total y a la desolación. En las glaciales y tenebrosas noches, los esqueletos desparramados emitían un tenue y asqueroso fuego fatuo, semejante a un lívido tachón de luna que constelase el infinito desierto. Era obra del fósforo de los huesos. Pero ninguna aseveración científica prohibiría el escalofrío del cuerpo cuando nos guiábamos por uno de aquellos fuegos fatuos y sabíamos que era producido por una calavera.”

Mark Twain: Pasando Fatigas.

Por caminos perdidos al suroeste de Wind River Range, cercano al South Pass.

Wyoming, USA.

Model: Skye McLeod Fairywren

Mesh Bento Head: LeLutka Chloe

Mesh Bento Body: Lara by Maitreya

Skin Applier: Glam Affair

Hair: Umji (Blonde) by [monso]

Outfit: Lavin Top, Lyn Leather Leggins by AiShA (Fantasy Faire)

Bento Nails and Rings by Meva

Body Tatt: World by This is Wrong (Fantasy Faire)

Valentines Glasses by TDR

Cigarette Animation/Lighter: [NikotiN} (I added my own cigarette as you couldn't see the NikotiN well here)

Bracelets: Betty (gold) by {JAS}

Windlight: Phototools Moonlight 5

Sim: San Mora at the Fantasy Faire 2017 @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/San%20Mora/208/207/42