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Perdonatemi, ma -come si sa- la carne è debole e l'ego, qualche volta- prende il sopravvento!
[Foto di Paolo Mezzetti]
Forgive me ... but the flesh is weak and the ego -sometimes- takes over!
"I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections,
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling,
Or just after.”
~ Wallace Stevens~
“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries,
and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”
~ Joseph Addison ~
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
- Sigmund Freud
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdSqk78nHw
WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT – TOM JONES
Looking for the waxwings
eating apples in the orchard
a big cat came to greet me
he was huge and very forward
He climbed the fence to meet me
to block my view of birds
he told me they were meant for him
hadn't anybody heard
I must admit he made my day
he made me belly laugh
I laughed until my ribs were aching
he told me I was daft
He climbed the fence like he was human
and not a cat at all
but he landed like a cat on all fours
told me a tale so tall
Once upon an eerie moment
he said he'd seen a ghost
while lurking in the nearby churchyard
scratching at a post
It was the spirit of a lady
who carried a lantern bright
she stooped to pick up falling conkers
her body clothed in white
her hair so long and straggly dangled
over her eyes and face
her finger nails were more like talons
that cut through her finest lace
“I think she was a witch”, he said
“and once I was her familiar,
so I hid behind the biggest headstone
in case she beckoned me to her.”
“Were you afraid?”, I asked the cat.
“No, not at all, not really ...
but I'd rather be a humble cat
chasing the waxwings freely.”
He looked well fed and was content
he loved to pose for his portrait
and I was sorry to say goodbye
but had I stayed I would be late
Happy Fence Friday to you my friends
and a Happy Caturday too
It's nice to be back and feeling happy
and it's lovely to see all of you! : 0)
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“You don't have to travel around the world
to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBZaLPEhq04
UN'EMOZIONE PER SEMPRE – EROS RAMAZZOTTI (An Emotion (That Lasts) Forever)
UNEQUAL MEASURES OF LOVE
Though I love you I cannot stay
there is so much I want to do
please know it is better this way
for this is all that I can promise you
I will keep your love in my heart forever
the fire from our golden hour will keep me warm
on a cold Winter's night when the snow falls down like melting stars
I will remember you gently and recall your soft tears
I could never have made you happy
I pray that you see it this way now
I have given all I had to give you
and I would have fallen down in the innocence of your eyes
I couldn't bear to see you hurt
so it's better to have ended it this soon
better you think of me kindly than to think me a fool
please don't wait for me in the darkness
you are so pure and born of the light
your presence is precious and deserves only the best
but I know myself and know that it must be with somebody else
in my memory you are still laughing
with your smiling Irish eyes
dancing until the new dawn has broken
through the parting of the sombre night skies
the dew on the lawn sparkles and welcomes
the first day of the rest of your life
and if in the distance you can still hear the thunder
that carries it's power to you
let it lift up your heart and embrace all your sadness
let the sun dry your tears along with the dew
tilt your head toward the sky and sing a sweet song
embrace the freedom life has given to you
don't ever close your heart and mind because of me
you are worth a million of me; from here to infinity and more
I will always love you in my own special way
but put the memory of me away within a closed drawer
lock it and throw away the key
but keep your heart open; your one special love is still yet to come
forgive me my special friend; it could never be me
you deserve someone to love you equally
unequal measures of love will never do for you or for me.
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Happy Caturday 11.8.2018 "Quotations"
Neighbours Snoop dines like a real gentleman
"Dinner for one" is the most played skizze in german TV - no silvester without it:-)
It was listed in 1988 in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's most frequently repeated television production".
The face of the Olympian Hermes. Just a tiny part of the whole statue. The other parts, represented by Fujifilm boxes, you have to visualise yourself or, since his image is scattered over the world-wide web, you can look it up. Here, I am offering just a visual quotation. It refers to something larger and, at the end of the day, to a long narrative which, in itself, is invisible.
Fujifilm X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 (wide-open).
Thanks to Midnight Digital for this quotation:
"When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."
A rather nice statue in Vienna. Been looking back through these as I failed to get anything from my recent trip to Spain at all!!!
Simon Kennedy is an Architectural Photographer based in London
My instagram account with new images is here: www.instagram.com/_simonkennedy/
When you're not being able to do much there's always technology to make you have a dialogue with your many florals, which I did yesterday. Many quotes spring to mind, but I chose this one.
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and harmonious tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs to him" ~ August Rodin
153/366 pictures in 2020
Our Daily Challenge -Thoreau quotations
43/100x floral macros in 2020
“As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done."
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"If there ever comes a day
Where we can't be together,
Keep me in your heart.
I'll stay there forever." -- Winnie the Pooh
"Camouflage is a game we all like to play,
but our secrets are as surely revealed
by what we want to seem to be
as by what we want to conceal."
~ Russell Lynes ~
Interesting, I had no idea who was famous for this quotation until
I looked up Russell Lynes in Wikipedia and discovered
he was "an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine."
You learn something new every day!
Love grows when we work at it.
Love overlooks a multitudes of faults.
Love will bring us together.
Love finds away to get together.
Love will keep us together.
A tabletop creation.
This quotation of Amiels “Intimate Diary“ was spinning in my mind this morning.
Or in my words: “ The world in my Self and my Self in the world.“
Please: if anybody has an idea about the stripes in the neg, write it in the comments. Tanks.
Mamiya 7II 65mm
Foma without label, exposed as 200ASA
Sekonic L-758 D
Epson V-750
For Poetography group: Some topics speak to me more than others and this week is a good example. Our word is leaf, or leaves.
They started cutting down the forest behind our house yesterday to build homes. I hoped this wouldn't happen too soon even though we were told to anticipate it. It's still tough.
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I come across another funny Quotation on FaceBook and wanted to share this with you all. Have a fantastic day, everyone!
'and i was speechless...'
my day consists of floral skirts and quotation marks.
outtakes in comments!
all sooc of course (:
"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
— George Orwell ("1984")
...posted, the morning after the presidential election, upon pondering the horrors to be inflicted upon the United States of America in the months to come.
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"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."
~~ Carl Sandburg
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine". Alan Turing
Movie: The Imitation Game
(I used a photo of a calculator keypad, taken today, to produce all the numbers shown. This was processed with one of my own textures from a photo of the sea as I wanted a dreamy effect.)
ODC "movie quote"
If You Remember the ’60s, You Really Weren’t There
Robin Williams? Charlie Fleischer? Paul Krassner? Paul Kantner? Grace Slick?
Dear Quotation Investigator: I lived through the 1960s, but the only thing I remember about it is the following quotation:
If you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.
Does anyone recall who said this?
Quote Investigator: Yes, many people think they remember who said this. The problem is they disagree: Paul Kantner, Robin Williams, Paul Krassner, Pete Townshend, Grace Slick, Timothy Leary, and many others have been credited with the saying. Of course, no one who was there really remembers.
The earliest citation currently known by QI for this expression was found by the outstanding researcher Stephen Goranson.
The cite is a two-line article in the Comedy column of the Los Angeles Times in 1982:
EXIT LINE: Comedian Charlie Fleischer observes: “If you remember the ’60s, you really weren’t there.”
Apparently it took all of the 1970s to recover from the 1960s and create the quip. Until further citations are located, Charles Fleischer gets the credit.
Mother Nature has the US in her grasp. I hope you are all warm and safe as this continues to pass through our lives.
Quotations from Augustine of Hippo, asking for God's enlightenment. The second quote refers to:
James 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. (World English Bible, public domain.)
Thanks for looking!