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“Was this the bright vastness the poet Bashō saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?”
― Yasunari Kawabata
I sat in my car and looked at the little gift shop. This was the first time in all the years that I have been coming here, that I have seen it open. Of course, I usually stop here in the middle of the night, so it's no wonder. I thought, I really don't need to buy anything, and I almost pulled out of the lot... and then that old familiar tug at my heart saying, "go in... there might be something wonderful in there!" So, I listened to my heart. When I walked through the door, directly in front of me, one of the first thing I noticed, was photographs, beautiful matted photographs. They reeled me in because I always need to see what other people see... do they see things the way that I do.... what do they see that I am missing? The beautiful photos seemed familiar to me... like I had seen them before. I looked at the signature. I knew that name! I smiled. This person that I "knew" from my Flickr pages, had her photos for sale, in my favorite place! How fabulous! When I left the little gift shop... I pulled out my phone and left a quick comment on her Flickr page. To my surprise, I quickly had a response to my comment telling me that she lived right around the corner and asking how could she get in touch with me? Being technologically challenged, I couldn't figure out a way to Flickr mail her my phone number, so I just threw it out there on her page and within minutes we were in contact and a few minutes later we had plans! Dinner and a night sky shoot... in my very favorite place! What could possibly be better?!!
For my birthday weekend... I followed my heart to a place that I love, to do what I love to do. And there... the Universe gave me a wonderful birthday gift... a new friend, with whom I spent a perfect evening.... eating pizza, shooting the sunset, talking about things we love, shooting the night sky and making new plans. And I know we will do it again!! Thank you, Universe!! Thank you Joan for a really fun night! ♥
Oh....and one last fun thought.... remember synchronicities?... those fun little unexplainable coincidences? Earlier this day I walked along the edge of a beach, not the water edge, but near wooded edge... and I happened to notice a little path through the woods... I wondered where it led. Later, I found that.... it leads to Joan's house! We are all connected in ways... sometimes by words on a Flickr page.... sometimes by paths in places you've never been. How cool is that....? : )
Follow your heart.... ♥
My new and very talented friend, Joan ... go say hi!
: www.flickr.com/photos/joanatkinson/ I bet some of you already know her!! : )
Two Drokpa girls playing at the window with the cle. In a remote village like Dah-Hanu, kids don't have really much of choice relating to toys. Dah - Hanu are very small villages of Drokpa people in Ladakh region of north India located not far from the Indo- Pakistan border.
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Last year, at the beginning of May we have taken a drive to Beaverhills Natural Area. The road was calling us for the sun was shining, the skies were amazing and the world awakened from winter slumber. Such a pleasure to visit again, even if it is only in pictures ;D
And The Neon When it's Cold Outside, and the Highway When it's Late at Night
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Epic night clouds rush past the old Road Runner's Retreat Restaurant in the Mojave Desert. Much of the business along Route 66 in California dried up overnight when the much quicker I-40 was completed. This was photographed during a week-long 1582-mile road trip with Mike Cooper. This will appear in my third book, this one about abandoned Route 66 night photography and history.
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(3112) Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 320. March 2019.
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I took a photo just like this last year (see it here) when I went on a fall camping trip around the same time. Being from Miami, I haven't seen many fall colors in my days, so when I have the opportunity to see them I take it. The colors weren't peaked but we still had an amazing time. This photo in many ways signifies how when I look back at my life and where I've come in the past few years, I am utterly amazed at what God has done in my life and how much it's changed because of Him in college. For most of my life I knew God was real and knew we were meant to know Him personally and that He loved us, but I was surrounded my legalism and false religion. I was told you shouldn't do this or that and if you do these things, God will be happy with you and you'll go to heaven. I was told all the ways I could "reach" God, yet I feel no one was actually able to do it. That's because it's impossible, He's perfect and we're not - but the beautiful thing is God doesn't ask us to reach Him, He stepped down off of His perfect throne in heaven and came into a world full of evil and hate, because He loves us that much and wanted to show us all He is willing to do for us if we are just willing to say yes to Him. I think about how I used to think I was a good person and now I know that I fall so short of that, but that Christ is showing me what it means to truly love and helping me show that to others. I think about how I wasn't even planning on going to the college I'm at now and how I am so thankful I was led there because now I have the most amazing family who has encountered Jesus and been wrecked by Him and not living another day for anything but Him. I go to what many people consider to be the biggest party school in the country, and I tried those things and saw how deeply unsatisfying they were, and am now in a place where I experience indescribable joy, love, and peace. I cannot begin to describe how incredible it is to know the God of the Universe so closely and deeply and if you have any desire at all to know Him too, you absolutely can and please inbox me and I will tell you more about my story and how you can know Him!
Tiny frog we have noticed while observing orchids in the Tamborine Mountain Botanic Garden.
Tentative ID: eastern dwarf tree frog Litoria fallax (rather flower frog;)
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
A young man looks up to the engine driver of wd 90733, perhaps asking how he may one day be an engine driver.
When you know where she is, you find here again. From time to time people feed this foxes in this nature area (i dont ) But this is why they are not to scarred by humans with their camera
Watercolor on !/4 sheet Arches watercolor paper. I started this painting FOREVER ago and just couldn't finish it. It's that I don't like alizarin crimson.
When 87004 first arrived in Bulgaria towards the end of the last decade, it had a dedicated bucket and brush to keep it in pristine condition!
Nearly 10 years on and the brush a distant memory, the truly weathered BR blue liveried Class 87, No.87004 'Britannia' is pictured arriving at Pirdop with BZK liveried classmate No.87003 whilst in charge of service 30580, the 04:50 Razdelna to Pirdop service which consists of a consignment of empty Sulphuric Acid tanks destined for the town's massive Aurubis copper smelter and refinery.
- Abraham Lincoln
All these gorgeous photographs belong to the talented people who are linked to below. Do visit their photostreams for more!
1. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate., 2. 142, 3. let the light consume you, 4. pink roses, 5. A Little Polaroid Sx-Love ♥, 6. Untitled, 7. In Good Company, 8. When the heart floats, 9. lyrical
Slightly inspired by Kristybee's recent TILT :)
@ 2015 Jean Graham
This was a tough assignment. When I was a child our Uncle lived with us and he would give me and my siblings a dime every day. I would save it up and at the end of the week we could bring money to school with a passbook and they would deposit our money into a bank account. They would enter the amount in the passbook. Perhaps this is why I am pretty good at saving!
Created for Faestock Challenge 149 – Light & Darkness 25
Girls with thanks to faestock
Colorful abstract render pack with thanks to MariaSemelevich
Staves Collection 3 with thanks to frozenstocks