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Our distinctive, velvety Rosa Gallica have already produced their first blooms; they bring us so much joy and flower three times a year!
[Porst Color Reflex Auto 55mm / 1.4]
This has nothing to do with the photo, I just like the proverb !!
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours"
Swedish Proverb
A few days ago we had snow on deck for the Sunday forecast at lower elevations. Plenty of precipitation and the temperatures were supposed to dip below freezing, but just barely. As is often the case, the snowflake has turned into a more familiar rain cloud....bummer.
I really hope we get snow in Portland this winter. I know I can head east and get all the snow I can handle, but the city just looks so pretty under a fresh coat.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
We're Here! : Optimistic Cloudgoat
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
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Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling my bed
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
This one’s optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one drops a payload
Of fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
I’d really like to help you man
I’d really like to help you man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Float around on a prison ship
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Radiohead
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This mother turkey seems to be getting started way too late in the season. I took these this morning. Her nest is along a fence between Hwy 94 and a rail corridor in St. Paul. When she stands the piece of styrofoam rises. When she sits it covers her and her 12 eggs. The cars on 94 were roaring by at 65 MPH 20 feet behind me as I shot. Those are railroad tracks behind the fence in the background. I took a few shots and left when she stood up. I didn't want to stress her. I'm afraid she has enough to worry about.
We are going through tough times at the moment with Covid-19, but we remain optimistic that by October many of the restrictions will have been lifted, and so Anne Strickland and I are continuing with our plans to run our workshop in Senja, northern Norway at the end of October. We are also offering you the opportunity to 'hold' your place on the tour with a minimal deposit of $100. A full deposit will be taken at a later time, but even then that deposit will be fully refunded if we are unable to run the workshop due to travel restrictions beyond our control.
This picture was taken on our scouting trip last month. The trip had to be cut short, but we were so excited with what Senja has to offer the landscape photographer, and furthermore we had all but one location to ourselves the whole time we were there!
If you'd like information about our workshop, which will coincide with one of the peak times for northern lights, then visit www.earthfocusphototours.com to find out more information.
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 70-210mm F/4 "Beer Can" Lens. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/30 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4148 K * Plug-In: Vibrant Fall - Lou & Marks * Elevation: 2,211 feet above sea-level
"Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some "
Radiohead_Optimistic
Group of Four Optimistic Cactus Flowers In My Front Garden
These glorious cactus flowers in my front garden open at night and last for a single day. They are so optimistic that they will be fertilized quickly.
🌙♥ The Good Witch of the North ♥🌙
She is humble, optimistic, mild-mannered, and extremely kind.
She gave Dorothy a powerful magical kiss on her forehead that protected her from being abused by any who would wish her harm.
Her whole ensemble can be found at PurpleMoon for Only L$100 from Oct 26 to Nov 1. It includes, gown, sleeves, crown and staff.
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E. Beauty Calie shape and skin
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..."Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." --Dalai Lama XIV
For ODC: Dalai Lama quotes
And Color My World Daily (yellow day on Wednesday)
Excerpt from urbanicity.com/hamilton/city/2022/01/the-staircase-is-clo...:
The Staircase Theatre – a 25-year staple of Dundurn Street North known mainly as an incubator for independent arts from music to theatre to comedy and beyond – had faced the frightening possibility of closure in late 2020 after its owners announced their plans to shutter the venue amid the uncertainty of the pandemic.
However, a trio of small business owners – Staicha Kidd of The Hearty Hooligan, Marc Nascimento of 1Up Games, and Alistair Hill of Democracy – swept in to take over, saving The Staircase by preserving its identity as an indie arts space while turning the large front café space into a pub serving up vegan comfort dishes.
Now called People Under the Staircase, the venue was in operation for just over a year, even getting to host some movie screenings and live performance events during more optimistic times of the pandemic.
However, with yet another devastating small business blow as the Ontario government has reinstated numerous restrictions in the face of the Omicron variant, The Staircase is heartbreakingly saying goodbye for a second time.
“Well Hamilton, I feel like we’ve gone 30 rounds with this pandemic and this last one just delivered a knockout punch,” reads their announcement on social media.
“This closure came with no government support at a time of year when live shows and an open theatre are so necessary to keep the doors open. In all honesty I’m a little too emotionally exhausted to write the long and heartfelt post you deserve, so I’ll just say thank you so much for all of your support.”
The announcement was met with a flood of responses from hundreds of Hamiltonians and Staircase lovers; a testament to what this important venue has meant to so many in our city and well beyond.
It’s hard to say what will ultimately happen to The Staircase going forward; but here’s hoping that, in brighter days, the venue can once again become the vibrant arts hub it’s known as.
The We're Here! gang is looking for optimistic cloudgoats today. This one thinks he's going to get fried eggs for breakfast...but they are only "fried-egg poppies", not the real thing.
fioriranno.
How could I translate the said "se son rose fioriranno"...
you could say "time will tell" but it lacks of the optimistic aspect.
You could go with the literal translation and it'll be "if they are roses, they will bloom" but it doesn't sound very poetic.
"if it's meant to be, it's meant to be" could be a good definition too.
We use this said usually to comment young relationships.
Which is what Google found when I asked if pink and yellow compliment each other. They do for me, at least in nature.
Taken at the Salinas do Samouco, near Lisbon, Portugal.
Fynn and his human and furry family wish all our Flickr friends a Happy New Year. May the sun shine on you and your loved ones in 2017 and may the year be all you hope it will be.
I have chosen Fynn for my New Year's greetings because it's often not easy to stay optimistic when you have to deal with his health issues. He ends the year with more problems than he started it and I'm not sure what the next months will bring but I know that Fynn is a fighter otherwise his life would have been over years ago. If anyone has taught me not to give up easily it's him.
After optimistically mistaking a pair of turkey vultures for our resident hawks, I spotted Mom perched in a tree at the Oval. Before I could get my exposure set, she took off to the ballfield and into this pine tree. It was a very nice surprise to find her sitting next to T4. Yes, that is ice on Mom's right eye.
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Rappelez-vous que les jours se lèvent toujours.
Savez-vous qu'être optimiste,
partager plus et vouloir moins,
vivre de manière plus simple et moins compliquée
est pour nous aussi protecteur que la lumière du jour,
chaque jour nous invitant à danser
avec la danse du temps d'aujourd'hui.
Oui c'est vrai mes amis(es),
: )
Ivan
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Remember the days always rises.
Know you that being optimistic,
share more and want less,
try to live in a simple and less complicated way
for every day inviting us to dance
with the dance of today's time,
is for us as protective as the days'light.
Yes my friends, all will be fine.
: )
Ivan
I wasn't terribly optimistic when I went looking for the BNSF's local on the Hanley Falls branch to Madison, MN. Good news! I saw a headlight when I crossed the tracks at this rural crossing west of Boyd. Bad news: it soon became obvious they were running east as light power. Consolation: the east facing locomotive was an ex-Frisco GP38-2 still wearing H1 paint. I gave a little chase back to Clarkfield, but I think I'll need to come back to try again. This telephoto view shows how little grading was done when the Minneapolis & St Louis Railway laid the first tracks down back in the late 19th century.
I'm not sure what this nursery web spider (Pisura mirabilis) was up to on the garden sage bush. It looks like it is eyeing up the Bombus lapidarius queen as a snack. Normally it goes for much smaller prey which it subdues physically rather than poisons so the bee represented quite a challenge!. I shall never know as the bee flew off before the spider could make its intentions clear.
This is the third species of queen bumblebee seen in the garden this year - the other two being B. terrestris and B. hypnorum. There have also been honeybees and a single male mining bee.
The spider is interesting because although I've seen them in the local countryside it's the first time I have seen the species in the garden.
My (optimistic) Order...
Please deliver a massive Starling murmuration very close to home during the lock-down
Status...
Delivered
20-30,000 birds
Payment Details...
1 tube of meal-worms and crushed peanuts in the garden feeder every morning
(Only 20-30 Starlings will attend)
Done
Transaction completed
Thank you
20,000 Starlings
"Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.” - Jack Layton (1950-2011)
St. Margaret's Anglican Church which I have photographed over the years. It looks so different without the huge tree that was removed by the City of Toronto, because it might become a hazard if it fell.
Thanks for visiting, take care, stay healthy and hopeful. #BeKind