CarlZeiss Y/Contax Planar T* 50mm/F1.4

@ Showa Commemorative National Government Park, Tokyo

Eakins Oval, Philadelphia

The two remaining nestlings have graduated to be branchlings. They're hopping around on the branches around the nest and flapping their wings a lot.

Collected on a dog walk

Ain't nothing like a sunny day

Chit-chat at a street cafe

Just paint the picture, baby

Where you want to be...

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The Chit Chat Cafe is showing her age from a constant salt sea spray...

48th roll of film

Showing some of the "unlucky dip" gifts opened on Christmas day 2023.

I started doing this at about 30 years ago - wrapping up the funniest, silliest, ugliest, or awfullest things I could find, then family takes from the bag at random. Makes for lots of laughs.

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At our first stop in Edinburgh.

In my future flat, there will be a wall.

A wall to be stacked up with notebooks, stamps, cameras..... etc.

More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/stacks-of-things.html

Ko fải kẹo đâu :P Dây buộc tóc đấy :))

It's not real candy :| It's something we use to tie our hair - but I can't find any word in English for it ( poor me and poor my terrible English +__+ ) , so let's just pretend it's a real candy :-$ Haha :))

A few of the wild things growing in the back yard. The pole helps support blackberry vines. My backyard looking west in the late afternoon.

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

Linda Olsson

tones: AllEdges and Bärbel's PS/PSE actions

texture: kim klassen

wish you a good weekend :)

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A Dice

Moth on Yarrow

Longue expo a Mennetou sur cher, Loir et Cher, France.

Premier essai de capture d'éclairs.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

messing about following on from Jane Monk e-book One Tangle volume 3.My version of Feathers and Pearls.

Poor lighting aside I quite like this.

come from the hand of God..

thats my honest true feelings..

thanks be to god for all.. family.. friends.. love..feelings.. sharing.

thanksgiving theme... at Expressly U!

I need a little time to think it over

I need a little space just on my own

I need a little time to find my freedom

I need a little...

~ Beautiful South

SQUARE CROP.. A macro buttercup & hover-fly Eupeodes luniger.. I think.. any experts out there..? Large/Black

EXPLORE.. Highest position: #470 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Yes, I get it. This is just a snapshot in blazing sunlight with a camera phone. That's partly the point. It's what's happening here that transcends the ordinary.

This is a not particularly large example of Xanthorrhoea johnsonii. I'd say there's nothing exceptional about it — in the sense that grass trees aren't uncommon. But, of course, every one of them is exceptional.

Those spikes rising (more correctly risen but for today's fixation with being "in the moment") from the plant carry vast numbers of tiny cream-coloured nectar rich flowers. It's difficult to see them here, but those flower spikes are swarming with butterflies and bees.

Despite this being an unnatural setting, this is Nature at her best — taking care of these little things.

I'm left with just one unanswered question: whatever happened to the past participle?

"The important things of tomorrow are probably going to be things that are overlooked today." ~~ Andy Grove

If I have a constant prayer it is that I may not overlook those common things of today.

Thanks for sharing the experience,

Bev

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Can you smell them? Smile

Bird's skull, yesterday at sunrise.

Bjorn Olinder's Pictures

I have learned about dying by looking at two pictures

Bjorn Olinder needed to look at when he was dying:

A girl whose features are obscured by the fall of her hair, planting a flower-

and a seascape: beyond the headland

A glimpse of immaculate sand that awaits our footprints.

Michael Longley

Thinking of this, i decided my 16 things would be in fact 16 things (though I cheated, there are plurals on the list) took me a while, roberta and britt but thank you for your tag. :)

city fair , Szeged , sweet things

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory.

~ Marcel Proust