First match of the season when Aldershot played Darlington on 8th Aug 2009. All the optimism of a new season, the good weather, trees in full leaf.

Darlington would be relegated out of the Football League that season after 3 managers and a raft of loan and free signings. So much for optimism??

5 Darlington fans watch on, not knowing how bad things will become!

Session 3 at TEDxTehran 2019: Responsible Optimism, July 21, 2019, Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran. Photo: Ali Mirshafi /TEDxTehran

March Versatile

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A beautiful sunny day was threatened but persisted when blacks clouds and a storm blew over.

View On Black

Photography by Bethany Souza [2008] in Hilo, Hawaii

"Hemerocallis 'Optimism', 2015, Red Violet Daylily, hem-ur -oh-KAL-iss, 23"" E-M D Re Fr Perennial (Wild-G., 1998), Z3, 5.4"" red violet self , In Bed K3 for 1.8 years

Daylily Optimism - 23"" EM. Re. D. F. 5 3/8"" bloom. Lightly creped and ruffled medium red violet with light burgundy veining. Cream rib runs to green heart. Large star shaped flower."

This squirrel just uses me for my vast supply of peanuts.

My grandson, Bader or Badouri and I trying to communicate and connect mentally. I think we managed somehow, especially that he heard my voice many times earlier!

A typograph from Typographics

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Wielding a paint brush - Attempt number 1

Nashville, Tennessee

Breakfast with two very cute people :)

Optimism

© Richard Corbett 2011

Greenwich Peninsula: Sep 2007

Check out this guy's hand - it's mimicking the "Forlorn Optimism Lottery" logo on the right !!

Meeting doodle I created on my iPhone with a disc pen in Apple Notes

opposite the central city library

Brazilian Optimism : This road built over an other road, to release traffic jam, is one of the thing that caused the whole downtown area to be deserted and squatted. People from the neighbor apartment had the joy to see car passing by their windows, and was a mistake at any level... BUT... every weekend, the road is closed to car and people can walk on it, play on it, and there is usually parties and concert organized there ! So, Paulistano can enjoy this ugly piece of concrete once a week.

There is a little glimpse of a rainbow; a welcome sight on a gloomy winter day.

next to michigan central

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During bad days, the prospect for better days is better than on good days.

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An schlechten Tagen ist die Aussicht auf bessere Tage besser als an guten...

(Werner Mitsch)

Thank you to the lovely people at Orange who bought these illustrations for their "Optimism" image bank...I am one happy doodler right now!

Optimism in Action #SmileStrong

Midland Gliding Club (Long Mynd)

Fabric covered nail

Bud on the honeysuckle in the snow.

Historic Londontown & Gardens