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Just round the corner a demonstration to force politicians to act against accelerating climate change there is a man homeless because he lost his job. Only the dog is his friend. This photo dedicated to Nicolas Hell.
*Working Towards a Better World
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. - Khalil Gibran
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow T. Wilson
This is the fifteenth in my new series, one which recognizes my friends here on Flickr. I wish to thank you for your friendship and your support! Some of you I work with, some of you I have worked with, some of you have given me opportunities and the rest of you my wonderful friends share an infinity with art and an ability to share our love, ideas and support thank you all!
D'ArcyG - D'Arcy Guerin Gue
mdunis - Milan Duniskvarić
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daniele castellucchio
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Robert Goldstein
Pelerin Marie-Claude - Maïclo
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Mary Ann Reilly
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jonesybewohner - Jonesy Bewohner
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halina.reshetova - Halina Reshetova
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♥DonnazMagicalPix♥
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**James Lee* - James Lee
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Rotzepotz
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SNARF 1962 - FRANS
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BadMoodyNurse
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taka_Q
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"Cisco Kid” - Greg Lawler
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yokopakumayoko
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Dominique Rolland
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Serdar Türkoğlu
music_px - R. R.
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nick_warde
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Verovix84 - Veronica C
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m!ngus photografer
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kitchou1 - Kitchou BRY
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jospedro_cordeiro - José Pedro Cordeiro
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Xavier cuadrada.
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Charles Parker_ - Charles Parker
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Rossy¨¨ - Rosalba Tarazona
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boverybovery
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Michael Figdor - Much a do about nothing
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mattioli.cordula - Cordula Mattioli
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badfoodbutplentyofit - Rhio Hirsch
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KENSEI 31
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keith midson
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Ian Jackson 1974
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Noel Z. Kondek
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sigio64 - Andreas
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teresopi
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JoyceCorey
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Lawef
Jurassic Blueberries
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xandram
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-Reji
Daniel Arrhakis
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WalrusTexas - Ron Masters
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rameshshahane
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Repangea - Brian
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lohyewkheong - loh yew kheong
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Gashe - Gagik Hovhannisyan Գագիկ Հովհաննիսյան
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Angel Moreno Orge
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Bleem Belargio
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***** PLEASE UNDERSTAND, that there are so many of you who have befriended and supported me and I have tried my very best to include everyone who is active and on my list. I have not consciously left anyone out, but if you feel that your name should be included in my friendship series and is not, please contact me and I will gladly add another friendship work to the series.
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
It took two and a half hours to get this one and only shot after the sun failed to shine at just the right time. However, it shone for just the right train as TXL 193 553 "Responsibility Driven" leads 189 932 on DGS 40561 Padborg - Verona Q.E as it passes Aßling with a consist that includes Lauritzen, "Bech-Hansen & Studsgaard", DSV, Arcese, N&K Spedition, Blue Water and "Nagel Group" piggypacks in tow
I want to take responsibility.
I'm still sending everyone who is donating over 20 USD / 20 EURO / 20 GBP to any of the charities for Haiti (see the link at the end of the posting for a list) a print of any picture from my photostream.
It will be within 30x40cm and printed by a professional lab on photo paper.
More information here.
From the archives, of course.
I just couldn't help it but snap a couple of shots as I saw this little girl starting at me... don't know what she was thinking, but a lot of thoughts went thru my mind... the hair on her face, her expression, those bags in her hand as if she's been carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders.. found it very compelling within those few seconds..
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
Kate Winslet
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.
Maria Shriver
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
Urban Scenes and Scapes
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One responsibility of a parent is to teach their children how to use a filter when speaking to other people. It is a process to have them learn that the first thoughts they have are probably ones that are better left unsaid.
Children have an uncanny ability to spot an anomaly in another child or even an adult. Most of us have had times of embarrassment when one of our small children made an accurate, but ill-advised observation about someone’s appearance.
Growing up, this Blue Heron might have been on the receiving end of some catcalls about the abnormal length of his neck. Even at my age, I found myself remarking to my wife that I had never seen such a long neck on a heron.
There are a couple of reasons heron’s necks are marvelously shaped. They have anywhere from 21-25 vertebrae in their necks, twice as many as we humans do. Along with specialized vertebrae, this enables them to sport an “S” shape with their long necks.
This ability helps them aerodynamically when they fly and is one of the characteristics most of us use to readily identify them when they pass overhead.
However, their greatest use of the make-up of their neck comes from a coiling effect when hunting. The bird stores energy in the coiled “S” curve and then releases it in a rapid thrust to impale or capture prey, both in water as well as elsewhere.
Between the bill of the heron and the length of its neck, when it strikes, the neck and bill can reach nearly two feet as they pursue their meals.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Almost an optical illusion. We loved that garden.
Beautiful flowers at Reford Gardens.
Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
Ripples in water. Concentric circles in water.
MAKING CIRCLES IN THE WATER (2011)
Faire des ronds dans l'eau (2011)
Balmori Associates, New York, USA.
Visit: www.balmori.com
GROUNDED IN ECOLOGY
Balmori Associates is an international urban and landscape design firm founded by Diana Balmori. Balmori Associates is recognized across the globe for its creative interfacing of landscape and architecture and expanding the boundaries between nature and structure. As distinguished leaders in the field of urban design and the design of innovative public spaces Balmori Associates gives form to the processes of sustainability, producing ‘green infrastructures’ while revealing the constructed and natural operations of a site.
Balmori Associates strives to achieve the highest standards of environmental responsibility by rooting our work in two basic sustainable design principles: Low-Impact and Regenerative . Low-Impact to reduce potential detrimental effects of local and project-related construction, development or consumption and to minimize environmental impacts, while sustaining the health and resilience of ecological systems. Regenerative Design to integrate building systems within landscape for resource renewal and the restoration of constructed landscape.
Our diverse portfolio includes executed projects at all scales, and award-winning competitions and has garnered numerous awards for design excellence; and sustainability is a central concern in all our work. In 1998, Balmori Associates’ Master Plan won the international competition for the waterfront development of the Abandoibarra district of Bilbao, Spain. We provided design leadership on the greenroof at Silvercup Studios in Queens, New York, the largest scientifically monitored green roof in the United States. In the fall of 2012 Korean Prime Minister and several ministries moved from Seoul to Sejong, South Korea new multifunctional administrative city, a zero-waste urban plan designed by Balmori Associates. (Info from Balmori's website)
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LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS | REFORD GARDENS
Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
Visit : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Reford
LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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Developed countries rely far too much on one-time-use plastics. The effect on the environment is disastrous.
One of the zoos I serve as a volunteer is promoting awareness, and asking people to consider alternatives. I happened to see this abandoned plastic bottle at that same zoo.
A shop on Charles Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, MA.
KWANZAA'S SEVEN PRINCIPLES
12/26 Umoja - Unity
12/27 Kujichagulia - Self Determination
12/28 Ujima - Collective Responsibility
12/29 Ujamaa - Wise Use of Resources
12/30 Nia - Purpose
12/31. Kuumba - Beauty (Inner and Outer)
1/1/25 Imani - Belief in the Vision
May the Light of the Season shine within you, all those you love, and all of us.
“Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.”
This whale at the beach was actually a mock up. The artist intended to point peoples attentention to the huge amounts of plastic and waste in our oceans. And I have to admit that it was quite shocking even though I knew it was a fake plastic whale. Standing in front of the whale reminds me once again of my responsibility to minimize my ecological footprint.
Artist: Captain Boomer Collective
A faulty wheel bearing on the rear of this Algoma Central gondola ended up derailing several cars of a southbound WC freight on May 2nd, 1992. Ironically, the gondola was carrying rail sections. See sdl39hogger's photostream for another wheel bearing failure 10 years earlier in Oconomowoc, with similar results..... Tony Stelter photo