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Just having fun editing. I removed the 2 dark spots as suggested by T.Morris (thanks, i didn't notice them) and replaced the file.
Mike!! thank you thank you thank you!! this was such an awesome surprise today. I was so tickled I had to put it up immediately. front and center of my desk - will grab a frame very soon!
I owe you a payback print! let me know what I can send your way! :)
Finally finding time to pick the camera up again. Liked the light play in the green stones. Also thought the 'light' theme was cool, because Garbo is doing much, much better!
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) Having stolen the flat fish from a Cormorant in the harbour then had no idea what to do next
Several miles of walking along this logging road finally brings us near the forest trailhead that leads to Twin Falls. A most welcome sight.
Once I pondered optimism for the "in the future" challenge I just couldn't get it out of my head. I thought this photo was a good symbol for optimism :)
I believe if we remain optimistic, even through very difficult times, we grow! I also believe that if you are pessimistic through dark times, it will hinder your growth... (I could write forever on this topic, but I'd best go and make my tea :))
odc - in the future
Optimists are nostalgic about the future. ~Chicago Tribune.
Yellow - The color of happiness and optimism. Yellow is a cheerful and energetic color that brings fun and joy to the world. - From Color Meanings by Jacob Olesen.
Have a cheerful day, everyone... :)
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
*** EXPLORE: December 25
To God BE The Glory !
© 2019 Garry Velletri. All rights reserved. This image may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission.
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You can try the best you can
if you try the best you can
the best you can is good enough
(Radiohead, Optimistic)
I visited the lake again today. The Pelican remains at the lake. From a distance I watched as it sort of rambled forward, slowly exercising its open wings. It never attempted to take off.
If you look at the photo, the injured wing is its right wing, shown on the left here. No obvious deformities. From my observations and from what others have told me, this bird has been in place for at least two weeks. Because there is no obvious 'break'...or anything else obvious to the eye...it may be a muscle, ligament or tendon injury. Any of those might heal. My subjective interpretation of what I saw today was the Pelican was 'testing' its wings, to see how they would work. The photo looks 'normal', but I have to say that when the wings are folded, the right wing significantly droops and drags along the ground.
Though rescue seems unlikely, for a number of reasons, perhaps there is hope that the injury will indeed heal itself. And the bird does not LOOK ragged, undernourished or lackadaisical. It looks normal, except for the dragging wing and the inability, apparently, to fly.
The decline of summer is beginning to move into the acute phase for me. Began pulling up spent tomato plants from my garden yesterday. So sad to callously yank out the roots of plants that I so gingerly planted just a few months ago. May and June were filled with hope and optimism for another garden season. The days were long and filled with sun and brightness. Now my backyard is filled with pockets of deep shadow as the midday sun no longer rises high enough to get past the trees. The days are still mild, but an evening chill rushes in now like an ocean tide at sunset. I scurry about closing windows in the house. It all seems so sudden, and it's this sense of being rushed that adds to the undercurrent of anxiety. For me it's not so much winter but the impending darkness. These seasonal reminders are all about. Some more subtle than others. One thing I notice lately is not so much an occurrence as much as its absence. The familiar sounds of people cheering on little league baseball teams. That chorus of voices, heard from far away, that would rise and fall with each hit of the ball. The voices have fallen silent as the diamonds are now deserted. I came upon one of these rural ballfields the other day about the same time a storm front arrived. The diamond was already overgrown with weeds which were crawling up the backstop and into the dugouts. I walked the baseline, very slowly. I traced the outline of home plate with my boot. It was embedded into the ground, but curling up at the edges. There's something eerie about venues like this, built entirely for recreation and enjoyment, but now desolate and abandoned. The crowds and the kids may return here next spring. But for now it's just me and the ever increasing darkness.
“The New Year is a painting not yet painted;
a path not yet stepped on;
a wing not yet taken off!
Things haven’t happened as yet!
Remember that you are blessed with the ability
to reshape your life!”
―Mehmet Murat ildan
Shank Hall's marquee has since been changed... Looking down the Upper East Side's Farwell Avenue at a downtown-bound Milwaukee "Hop" Streetcar on a foggy day.
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I am asking that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. I am suggesting that as we go through life we “accentuate the positive.” I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment virtue and effort. ~ Gordon B. Hinkley
Even though the Corona Virus is causing a lot of doom and gloom, there is always optimism:
“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
The New Year 2020 has rolled in, so let's hope it brings lots of good things. Happy New Year everyone
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Scanned 2nd pass lith print.
Original lith print from April 2017.
Moersch Kupfer Bleicher 1+1, full bleach.
Redeveloped in Moersch Easy Lith (3A+3B+500H2O) @ 35°C followed by a warm waterbath for a couple of minutes.
Feb 24, 2019.
We were supposed to be painting the kitchen today, but, we both overslept ! Lol ! So instead I've been doodling and this is the result ... Influenced (I think) by the Pattern and Decoration Movement
Entered in the Kreative People: Treat This no73 - Friday March 27 - Thursday April 3
Many thanks to xandra m for her lovely source image ivy, used to create the side panels.. A small version of "ivy" is posted below in the first comment box
All other photographs and textures are my own. These are, as near as I can remember:
FrostyGradient
GoldenNoise2
AutumnFog
SpringReflections
And are available from My Texture Set