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Some of my fondest childhood memories are of getting the Christmas tree. We almost always went into the mountains to cut one down. One year all six of us piled into the front of our 66 Chevy truck for the trip. Another year my dad let us pick the tallest tree we could find. A tree trimmer by trade, he climbed up a hundred feet or so and cut the top off the tree. Some years we hiked for what seemed like a mile through the woods to try to find the perfect tree. I don't think the trees we found were any better than the ones right next to our truck, but this was more about the adventure than the tree. I'm not sure if we ever got a tree that actually fit in our house. Most years we'd have to lop off another three feet or so to get it to work. Of course we could have measured it in the mountains, but getting a tree that was too big became part of the yearly ritual.
This year I decided it was high time that we introduced an element of the ridiculous into our trip to get the Christmas tree. We didn't make it to the mountains, but we did manage to strap a hefty tree on top of our cargo bike, which we managed to walk home without crashing (barely). The kids were very proud of their effort.
I took this picture with my phone before we started our journey home. It was almost dark so the image was pretty noisy. I tried to use this to my advantage when processing it. With the old building in the background and no cars in sight, I thought the picture looked like it might have been taken years ago. I hope that years from now our children will come across this picture and remember our Christmas tree adventure.
Feel free to share your own traditions in the comments section. It's fun to hear about other people's traditions, particularly when they involve a bit of silliness.
OK, so I went over to visit my friend Wanda last week and told her their house looks like a fairy tale house. They also had 3 hummer feeders going - you can see one in the right corner. Their big back deck is full of potted flowers and fun yard sculptures. They live 10 minutes away and have had a black bear in their garage while we had one wandering our street recently. The difference is that they managed to get a shot of it while I did not! Anyway, she said I was welcome to post a photo just for fun. Have a good Sunday night ...
"Deep within the winter forest
among the snowdrifts wide
You can find a magic place
where all the fairies hide."
.... a fairy tale world and a burst of sunshine... it feels magical
Mokra Gora, Serbia
Fog and morning light combine to produce this fairy tale, almost abstract image. I have spent the night in secluded Mokra Gora to hike in the area with the group of friends but nothing we have seen during the day beat this early morning experience.
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I know this is a repeat but I just submitted this to JPG Magazine contest for the "fairly tale" concept.
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impressions @ disaster area
Every war is the senseless destruction of lives
in the interests of the arms industry and a few deranged fanatics!
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- This house once collapsed early in the morning.
- For no apparent reason.
- All the occupants were unharmed.
I showed you all from the photo the other day of nice weather. In the night the winds and rain came up and the Tell Tale Twig is turned down today.
highland fiary tale, Glencoe Scotland
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This is the newest immersive show at Genesis House in Manhattan. Called Chroma: Tales Between Hues. In combination with Genesis House and Ashley Park, guests experience the illuminated work of Korean folk tales. It's a calming, gorgeous wow of a show. Free to the public.
The wind around him gently blew,
It whispered to him quite softly
'Some day from your mother
You will be free
To grow and be a mighty tree'
'Who'? 'Me'? A mighty oak'?
The little acorn thought this a joke.
Cruel autumn wind whistled round
And knocked the acorn to the ground.
A little girl passing by
The small acorn she did spy
She picked it up but let it fall
Down a nearby rabbit hole.
All winter long it lay inside
Soon it withered and turned dry
In the springtime a shoot of green
From the acorn could be seen.
It grew and grew, as years rolled by
Soon it reached up to the sky.
So it was a tale come true
A mighty oak
From the acorn grew.
Poem by -- Joseph Enright
~ Edited in Topaz Studio and finished in PicMonkey with a slight texture of my own applied. ~
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"Once in awhile, in the middle of ordinary life, God gives us a fairy tale. ~ Unknown.
The historic Magnolia Plantation is like walking through a fairy tale After visiting the enchanted Plantation the fall of 2014, I knew I wanted to see these beautiful gardens in full bloom. Unfortunately a couple of days before my visit, mother nature decided to throw a curve ball, laying down a killing two day freeze. It was certainly disappointing to see the azaleas limp and hanging on the bushes. Once I overcame the disheartenment, I realized that the dying blooms actually added to the charm of this almost two century year old plantation.
After hunting all over the place we finally found some Fly Agarics growing along Docwra's Ditch on Dunwich Heath!
The classic fairy tale toadstool, Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is found in woodlands, parks and heaths with scattered trees, typically growing beneath birch trees or pines and spruces.
When young, Fly agaric it is covered by a white membranous veil, which rips as the stem pushes up and the bright red cap expands. The remains of the veil skirt the stem and also leave white, wart-like flakes on the cap.
The red and white spotted fruiting bodies can usually be seen between late summer and early winter. The mycelium of Fly agaric often forms a symbiotic relationship with the trees around it, wrapping around the roots and supplying them with nutrients taken from the soil. In exchange, the fungus receives sugars produced by the trees.
Traditionally used as an insecticide, the cap of Fly agaric was broken up and sprinkled into saucers of milk to keep the flies at bay. Fly agaric is now known to contain ibotenic acid, which both attracts and kills flies. Ibotenic acid, along with the other toxins in Fly agaric, muscarine and muscimol, have psychoactive properties. Despite serious safety concerns, fly agaric mushroom is sometimes used as a hallucinogen.
I was in the AWD`(Amsterdamse Waterleiding Duinen) last week. I just love that area.
Originally meant as a basin to collect drinking water for the big cities surrounding it, it is riddled with canals, small forests and lots of sand dunes.
It is beautiful in every season but autumn is my favorite.
The area is inhabited by many Fallow Deer. (too many, some people think). As of November large numbers of them will be shot to bring the numbers down.
I was in the area at sunrise. As the sun rose, the fog started rising over the canals. And when there is a Fallow Deer jumping over that canal with the sun as back light, it really seems like it's part of a fairy tale.
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In a world of dragons, mermaids, ghosts, and magic,
Anything can happen.
But there is fire within the scorpion love story.
She waits in patience
Crawls just slightly
Raises her tail with defense
And stings when she is hurt.
One dares not scorch the soul of a scorpion
For one day the prickle shall burn
Where your wound will never heal
Wishing you never poured harm
Toward any of her balanced ways.
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" And the Miller told his tale.
How the grain at first just golden,
Turned a whiter shade of pale "
Procul Harum.
Ive been humming that song for years and its only now Ive realised what the words are! Lol!
The Pitstone Windmill, at Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire has stood here since 1627. It closed in 1894 when it was badly damaged in a storm.It is now fully operational again having being restored by a group of voluntary enthusiasts. A wonderful place to visit so if your ever that way do go and see it Its one of those rare somewhat hidden treasures!
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The mountain town of Heiligenblut, Austria. We drove through here on our way from Salzburg to Lienz; it was just before tourist season so the whole town was amazingly peaceful. A little bit about the area:
Situated in the high-Alpine region of the Hohe Tauern mountain range at 1,288 meters, Heiligenblut is located at the foot of the Großglockner, the highest mountain in Austria, and the Pasterze Glacier. The Gothic pilgrimage church of Saint Vinzenz, with its needle spire, was built between 1460-1491 and contains a relic of Christ’s Holy Blood. According to legend the relic, which is kept in a sacrament house, was brought there in 914 from Constantinople by the Danish knight Briccius. On his way home he was buried by an avalanche and his corpse was found where three ears of wheat broke through the snow. The church also houses a late-Gothic winged altarpiece from 1520, and a crypt and tomb containing the remains of Briccius.
Tighter view of the church here: