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We had it confirmed yesterday that our dear Flickr friend, Gérard had left us. I say confirmed because I had noticed he had not reappeared as he always did and the days of his absence were increasingly disturbing. I thought about him often of late...his loyalty, consistent presence and most of all his humor. He is the only one I've ever known who I could really hear laugh when he wrote "LOL."
It's funny how this medium can actually develop what can only be defined as real friendships when one anticipates and looks forward to daily interactions and comments. I recall the shock I felt when he informed us of his condition...and clearly recall also the shock he himself felt in just those few dramatic words. I eagerly awaited his return to Flickr from his treatments and, when he did, marveled at his spirit during this impossibly difficult time.
Gérard and I shared musical tastes and frequently exchanged YouTube links we thought appropriate to an image or an expressed thought. In many ways, we were on the same "wave length" and we discussed and mourned the losses in the musical arena this year. And now he has joined them. It has indeed been a year of loss.
So adieu, mon ami. You will be missed deeply by many, as myself, who have never met or even spoken to you...a tribute indeed. Oh, and I can tell that's you captured in this image by the white head...;-)
And one more link to carry you onward...
all that is gold does not glitter
not all those who wander are lost
the old that is strong does not wither
deep roots are not reached by the frost
--jrr tolkien--
Years ago, I used to walk in a lovely beech wood. I never could remember exactly how to get there. Today, I found myself in it by accident ! I will not forget again.
Processed in Topaz Studio with my own texture applied.
If any one of you has lost something precious to you, I hope you find it again, whether it be material or spiritual.
Thank you, as always, for taking a look.
Listening to Carole King today… another old Rocker that’s made beautiful music for a number of years.
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years.
Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.
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The Hooded Merganser:
Spotted this Female Hooded Merganser Strutting Her Stuff after finishing a breakfast of Frog Legs alfresco. The legs were still attached to the frog, so it took her awhile to dine, but she seems to have had a Happy Ending : )
Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles.
Hooded Merganser ducklings leave their nest cavity within 24 hours of hatching. First, their mother checks the area around the nest and calls to the nestlings from ground level. From inside the nest, the little fluffballs scramble up to the entrance hole and then flutter to the ground, which may be 50 feet or more below them. In some cases, they have to walk half a mile or more with their mother to the nearest body of water.
The oldest recorded Hooded Merganser was a male and at least 14 years, 6 months old when he was shot in Mississippi in 2009. He had been banded in Minnesota in 1995.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
We have wiped out many of the pests and scourges which afflicted humanity. We have advanced science to the edges of the inexplicable and hoisted technology to the sun itself... In brief, we are prosperous, lively, successful, inventive, diligent — but, nevertheless and notwithstanding, something is wrong and we know it :-)
Archibald MacLeish, in LIFE, "Eloquent Guides to America's National Purpose," 1960
HFF! Truth Matter! Character Matters! We can be better...and we know it :-)
rose, 'Rainbow Sorbet', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
... with some swallows / Schwalben catching breakfast in the rising mist at Malchower See, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- foto © Eugenio Costa - Tutti i diritti riservati
Un raggio di sole ravvivò quel giorno iniziato con cupe nubi.- Ritratto street
A ray of sunshine revived that day started with dark clouds. - Street portrait
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Because you are our first grandchild, that's why! Robin William Collis is the first child of our daughter, Tanya Vincenza Collis, and her husband Nick.
Photograph by Tanya Collis.
For the Macro Mondays theme: “What is that?”
Have a guess ;-))
And a lovely start of this week!!
Update: it is a macroshot of a zipper ;-))
Seems like it is going to get worse in Ukraine according to the French president and now the nuclear plant is on fire !! Let's hope there is no nuclear fall out !
Stop the war now !
Cyclamen flower taken at Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory.
Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves.... it is always appreciated.
When this Coffee Scoop was new it was bright shiny Gold...... Over the years of regular use Gold disappeared.... Leaving only plastic
That said it Perfect in delivering the right size of Coffee....
… and closer to the training pen. This look is very familiar to anyone who has horses. We see a beautiful morning fresh with new possibilities to up our horsemanship game, and our equine bestie sees his friends loafing around in the pasture and grieves the ever increasing distance between his destination and his oats! Not to worry, Roanie, I foresee carrots in your very near future!
Happy Friday, everyone! Wishing you happy trails and a weekend filled with all of the things you love the most! ♥
CHEF Temari challenges us to express the secret life of flowers ...
➤ Your image must include one and only one flower though that same flower may be repeated up to 12 times.
➤ You must use a basically two-toned background with colors derived from your flower.
➤ Include at least one sphere or bubble.
➤ The image must have from two (min) to five (max) fairies and/or butterflies and/or bees.
➤ NO BIRDS.
All items are from my own photos.
The last picture from my project series to "forest and fog" or "fog and forest"? No matter, it's giant fun. Both walking in the foggy winter forest as well as the photographing. I am very happy when the pictures also liked one or the other. Enjoy your time, makes the best of it and stays healthy.
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Pose by Tribal Tuesday ~ That Moment
Your Limo to .: Tribal Tuesday :.
♫ ♪ Victoria Monét - Moment ♪ ♫
I got a feeling that you brought me to you
Yeah, you did, babe
Look what your mind's imagination can do
Making shit true
Yeah, you do, babe
So let me take away your pain
Give me all of your emotions
Land it like a plane on my back if you can't hold it
Life is but a dream that you manifested slowly
So fuck a fantasy
This your motherfuckin' moment
Aye, this your motherfuckin' moment
Yeah (That you manifested slowly)
Aye, this your motherfuckin' moment
Life is but a dream
Here we are inside of it and you're inside of me
Until you actually fall asleep
Finally you can add this moment to your memory, ooh
Take away your pain
Give me all of your emotions
Land it like a plane on my back if you can't hold it
Life is but a dream that you manifested slowly
So fuck a fantasy
This your motherfuckin' moment
Aye, this your motherfuckin' moment
Yeah (That you manifested slowly)
Aye, this your motherfuckin' moment
For some that phrase would describe their eyes after a late night of partying and ringing in the New Year. For me on this first morning of the 20s, it meant first-light reaching Towers of the Virgin in Zion National Park.
Being a native East-Coaster, who has transplanted to life on the West Coast, I still feel that the New Year occurs when the crystal ball drops in New York, and that's the end. So, with the aide of staid Springdale, Utah, it was easy to get an early bedtime on New Years Eve so we could begin the trek to the Canyon Overlook Trail at 6:00 AM to catch first-light and sunrise from this vantage.
The trail is a relatively flat mile hike with a few tricky spots where the ice and slickrock conspire to give even the most sure-footed concern in the dark. Once we reached the overlook, I was a little concerned that our cold trek may have been for naught, due to the heavy cloud cover. Though they were thick overhead, there still was some clearing to the East, along the sun on the horizon to light a narrow band, reflecting off the cloud bottoms and warming the sheer rocks faces of the Temple of the Virgin ahead. This image was captured about 10-15 minutes before the local sunrise time, and is considerably brighter than what we saw with our eyes, due to the 20-second exposure.
Once the actual sun rays reached the Temple directly, the light only lit the areas seen here in red for less than 5 minutes before disappearing above the clouds for the remainder of the day.
Recognition:
Merit, Nature/Landscape category - JAN 24 PPSDC Image Competition, San Diego
Selected for Display, Color Scenic Landscape: Winter - JUN-JUL 2023, International Exhibition of Photography, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, CA
Yes that’s the baby reptilian shapeshifter staring in the opposite direction. From the other dogs. She doesn’t quite fit in anywhere. She dances to her own beat when she isn’t barking at invisible creatures she is dragging in rocks from the yard the size of her paw proudly displaying it. She brings joy to us all and is the funniest quirkiest dog we have ever known
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p.s. the song that this picture inspires me ⏬
Wish that I could find the words
To describe you now
As I am lying next to you
And the world goes quiet
Wish that I could make you see
How you fit me perfectly
And I fall
Fall for you again
We've been through it all
You're the one who understand.
In a world where hope grows thin
You've completed me
And the story left within'
Tells me how to breathe
Wish that I could make you see
How you fit me perfectly.
Stocky heron that roosts in groups in tall trees, usually beside water (including mangroves). Adult is rufous with pale breast and a black cap. Immature is heavy streaked, and can be easily confused with Striated Heron (black crown), Black Bittern (darker, with yellow neck stripe), or Australasian Bittern (which is a much larger bird). (eBird)
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We spent the morning on the Yellow Waters Billabong and Jim Jim Creek of Kakadu National Park, looking for birds and crocodiles. We came across the adult and immature night-herons as we moved slowly through the mangroves and fields lining the river.
Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Tropical Australia.
Yellow Waters Cruises.
A storm glass is a glass tube filled with multiple chemicals, and it is said that the weather in the near future can be known from the state of the solution, precipitation, and crystals.
Crystals have appeared today, so the weather will be bad soon.
We are hoping Santa Paws brings you some nice treats and maybe a toy, squeaky toys are the best or maybe he will just bring you human stuff, lol. Thankyou for all the support throughout the year, we hope that we have brought you some joy and we wish you all a very happy 2023.
that person will always find a way to make time for you. No excuses, no lies and no broken promises" ❤️️
Taken at the beautiful Tulum reserve
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all that remains when an iron foundry becomes an art gallery
alles, was bleibt, wenn aus einer Eisengießerei eine Kunsthalle wird
Carlshütte, Rendsburg-Büdelsdorf
Jesse Cook: All That Remains
“That is one good thing about this world ... There are always sure to be more springs.” (L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, 1909)
Cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) in Primrose Hill Community Woodland taken this spring after end of lockdown. Bath, BANES, England, UK
This will be the day
That you will hear me say
That I will never run away
I am here for you
Love is meant for two
Now tell me what u're gonna do
If I gave you diamonds and pearls
Would you be a happy boy or a girl
If I could I would give you the world
But all I can do is just offer you my love
Which one of us is right
If we always fight
Why can't we just let love decide (Let love decide)
Am I the weaker man
Because I understand
That love must be the master plan (Love is the master plan)
If I gave you diamonds and pearls
Would you be a happy boy or a girl
If I could I would give you the world
But all I can do is just offer you my love
D to the I to the A to the M
O to the N to the D to the pearls of love
D to the I to the A to the M (To the M)
O to the N to the D to the pearls of love
There will come a time (There will come a time)
When love will blow your mind (Blow your mind)
And everything you'll look 4 you'll find (Take a look inside)
That will be the time (That will be the time)
That everything will shine (Forever)
So bright it makes you colorblind (You will be color blind)
If I gave you diamonds and pearls
Would you be a happy boy or a girl
If I could I would give you the world
All I can do is just you my love
If I gave you diamonds and pearls (Pearls)
Would you be a happy boy or a girl (Yeah yeah)
If I could I would give you the world (Give you the world)
All I can do is just offer you my love (All I can do)
If I gave you diamonds and pearls (Diamonds)
Would you be, would you, would you
(Would ya, would ya, would ya be happy little baby)
A happy boy or a girl
If I could I would give you the world
Legend says that Atlantis city was built by Poseidon, god of sea when he fell in love with a mortal woman Cleito. He made this city on top of a nearby hill and named it Atlantis. It is believed that he walked through these islands until he reached the biggest of them all- Atlantis and found it to be inhabited by people more beautiful and intelligent than rest of the world. It is here he first saw his future wife and fell in love with her.
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