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Nothing better than waking up to a snow day -- no school! Then warring armies of snowballers, building snowmen and sledding down the tallest hill in town. . .
I took this shot last week in one of the mountains of Topanga Canyon, CA. I know there used to be a small river on this very spot but probably it dried up since it's summer and too hot this year.
Miss Zidi Wu
from Chongqing
poses stiffly
at military attention
before the beast
to memorialize
the moment
she will only half-recall
later for her parents
who only leave their village
to sell vegetables
at the moonlight market,
while her classmates
who await their turn
for their photo
will not notice her
step to the side
and quietly
begin to cry
--Miguel deO
The job ain't over until the paint is dry.
One of the volunteers at Niles Canyon Railway painting a railcar.
Aerial daredevil Sean D. Tucker performs as part of Team Oracle during a 2018 airshow in Ypsilanti, Michigan. As I recall, this stunt involved a ribbon that was held between the two banners, which Tucker then broke with his low-flying biplane. If you look closely, you can see the red ribbon caught and trailing behind the top left wing.
HSS
“Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.” - Jean Wilson
This is just the reflection of a Water Lily. I cropped the image so that only the reflection was in the frame and then I turned the image upside down. I love the slight movement in the water that adds interest in the background.
Recently, my new computer crashed on me. I wanted to be really upset and angry about it all. But I forced myself to remember the good things in this scenario. It is still under warranty so it is going to be shipped out for repairs. I had just backed up pretty much all my images on external hard drives, so even though I can’t access my desktop, I think everything is saved. I can use my old computer to save new images until my repaired computer comes back….which can be a month or longer!
What I need to do now is have patience. I need to float on the current like this flower and just enjoy the present moments. Downloading and editing will be really slow on this computer. And the weather is warming up for a grand finale to the summer. I may not be as active on Flickr for awhile. Life is good and I plan to enjoy the ride.
so much depends
upon
a red barn
glazed with rain
water
near the brown
chickens.
--after William Carlos Williams
If suddenly we meet
on a woodland path
at midday in light
and shadows, you
two couples in love,
I, walking alone,
will you notice
I, too, am in love
with my solitude,
with those blue wild
flowers the bees circle
and with that field wren
on the oak branch
singing a heart-
rending aria, yes,
do not speak to me
with your eyes, do not
notice as I look past
to where the path
branches off and
please, in your joy
forget how I turned
away as soon
as you did not
see me
--Miguel deO
For Challenge 159.0 ~ Famous Painters ~ The Award Tree ~
Own image & texture / filter: Topaz / brushes from Brusheezy.com
A painter sits in a small courtyard in Venice in front of his easel and paints the old house. In the background a young woman is standing on a small staircase leading into the courtyard. Fine art street photography from Italy in black and white.