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This is my first picture since feeling better (emotionally and physically). I really want to keep going with this, so I picked up the camera. I finally feel like I wanted to start remembering again.
This was my breakfast today. It was great.
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March 7, 2015
I bought these daffodils today expecting, hoping, that they will bloom. It's that time of year when we just have to put our faith in nature that things will go as planned. These flowers will open, the snow will stop, and spring will come.
"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 , Bloom Month --, In Bed K3 for 2.0 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."
Pencil crayons on Bristol paper...I think my scanner is once again crapping out. It took forever to scan, as it couldn't seem to pick up the details on the horse for the first few tries. Maybe I should have asked Santa for a drum scanner ;-) Progress pix can be seen here: www.purple-pony.com/sketchdump/optimism
A paper toy designer for the proudly one sided project.
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ODC OPTIMISM OR PESSIMISM
Last of my lovely winter camillias, but I know spring is around the corner. I will have beautiful spring flowers to photograph.
Sorry I have not posted or commented in a while, hubby has been very sick and in hospital. Still not feeling to great. Hope he is on the mend.
Creating Mood with Colour-After a long week of nothing but gray skies and snow, this photo was taken in the plant section of Walmart.
My sun hat was nicely discounted, as it's an off-season purchase. Syracuse's frequent gray days make the cheery yellow a nice reminder of sunny days to come. It performed beautifully on a first use at Clark Reservation, and will get more serious testing in Phoenix next month.
The Library of Congress has a flickr account*, and it's one which I keep in my contacts list. Noticed today they had posted a front page from the New York Tribune, one from a little over a century ago. Apparently it was the paper's Thanksgiving Day edition of 1909. The headline is not exactly one that stands out and sums up an era. Still, though, it caught my attention -- perhaps because of its tone of understatement ("a few drawbacks") and something about the way it can be considered applicable not just to the winter of 1909-10, but now as well.
The other connection is, it seems like it does suggest a similar point to that which the President used in concluding his State of the Union address the other evening, when he said:
"These words and these stories tell us something about the spirit of the people who sent us here. They tell us that even in the most trying times, amid the most difficult circumstances, there is a generosity, a resilience, a decency, and a determination that perseveres; a willingness to take responsibility for our future and for posterity.
"Their resolve must be our inspiration. Their concerns must be our cause. And we must show them and all our people that we are equal to the task before us.
"And if we do – if we come together and lift this nation from the depths of this crisis; if we put our people back to work and restart the engine of our prosperity; if we confront without fear the challenges of our time and summon that enduring spirit of an America that does not quit, then someday years from now our children can tell their children that this was the time when we performed, in the words that are carved into this very chamber, 'something worthy to be remembered.'"
Sometimes, you've got to work at being optimistic, but it's better than giving in to the alternatives.
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A rubbish night for kiting but they still run in, hoping for some miracle of wind and wave to occur.
Fotomontaje. Nuon Chea, 88, and former head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, were jailed for life on August 7 after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed court, the first-ever sentences for leaders of the murderous regime. AFP PHOTO / MARK PETERS