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A sunset thunderstorm at a windmill farm. What would compliment the power of nature better than the windmills that generate electricity?
..I wake up in the morning with chocolate for dreams
I gain the strength to go on amidst the fiery dispute between right and wrong.
I say to myself – what a lucky young man I am indeed.
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When it's dark we should all stay still...
White-naped Pheasant-pigeon (Otidphaps aruensis) sitting on eggs in the Owens Aviary.
Taken from quite a distance, zooming in and cropping a bit, I tried to capture the midwinter, midnight flowering that occurs above Oslo when the new year begins.
Two minutes after Midnight.
Each of us has his own Alice, curious and fearless, ready for new adventures and new discoveries!
But when we get older, Alice becomes smaller, there are fears, insecurities!
But in dreams and through dreams we still are drawn to adventure and achievements, and it helps us to realize the dream into reality!
But even if we sometimes feel lost because of the fact that everything around us is changing and sometimes too fast, Alice somewhere inside and always with us!
This is my current thinking, such was the mood today and I wanted to somehow translate it! Maybe it was she ...
There is 8 photos together!
(Sorry for my english )
"which I carry inside of me like a secret and cannot conceal any more. I am full of an acute, awesome joy. It is the joy one feels when one has accepted death and disintegration, a joy more terrible and more profound than the joy of living, of creating."
có thể vì khoảng cách quá xa khiến bạn nản lòng trong tình yêu nhưng biết đâu được ở nơi xa đó lại là tình yêu đích thực của đời bạn :)
'Mother and Child' is such a rich and strong theme.
No one stays indifferent to it, and depending on the interaction, it can raise very varied feelings.
My boy Cash. He's going on 8 years old now. Oh, how time flies...
I'm in the heart of my crazy summer work season, so if I'm not around much for the next 2-3 weeks, you'll know why. Not much flickr time with 25 stops a day! Hope you're all enjoying your summer... or winter depending on where you live. =)
When I see someone wearing a cute outfit that I'd love to wear, a "hobby" of mine kicks in... "hunting" online to find the exact same outfit... at a ridiculously low price!
I found the Jeggings on sale for $10 and FINALLY (after 4 years) found the same tunic at an online consignment store... for $3!
Yay!
It was 85 degrees in October!
Texture by Skeletalmess
Inspired by the illustrations in "If I Ran the Circus"by Dr. Suess
When the missing beats, the heart squeezes, the lung empties, hands close and tear runs down through the eye of the corner so no one realizes how strong and weak you are being at the same time!
Another five images taken on 22 August 2024, when I drove a long way SE of Calgary, to visit a familiar old ghost town.
This ghost town is only tiny. You can walk anywhere, right up to each building. There is usually information posted about what you are seeing. I never go inside these old structures (only the restored church), but you can look through the windows.
29 August 2024 - rain, rain and more rain yesterday. Had my heating on, too. When I went to close my kitchen blinds late in the evening, it looked like there was a thin layer of snow on my neighbours's cars!? Rain is more welcome than ever at the moment, as Calgary is yet again going through water restrictions, including indoor use. On 26 August, the first day of this second water main repair episode, Calgarians apparently were not cutting back anywhere near enough, and if this doesn't improve, Calgary is going to run out of water. Warning! Going to be 'fun' for the next few weeks. Today, 29 August, it is sunny and warmer. Apparently, snow now in the mountains, though!
Another five images taken on 22 August 2024, when I drove a long way SE of Calgary, to visit a familiar old ghost town.
This ghost town is only tiny. You can walk anywhere, right up to each building. There is usually information posted about what you are seeing. I never go inside these old structures (only the restored church), but you can look through the windows.
On 22 August 2024, I made a long trip SE of Calgary. My destination was a small, almost-ghost town that I had visited three (?) times before. If I remember correctly, this was my fourth visit - the others were in July 2020, August 2022 and 18 September 2023.
Basically, my day was pretty much similar to the day I last went out there, on 18 September 2023, so I am going to use the description I wrote under last year's photos, with a few changes.
On 22 August 2024, the weather forecast was pretty good and turned out to be unusually correct. Sunny, blue sky, and puffy, white clouds.
Most of my driving was on the main roads, in order to get to my destination as quickly as possible. The total drive of 489 kms took me just over 9 and a half hours, between 8:35 am and 6:00 pm. Much as I would have loved to check out a few back roads, I knew I absolutely had to get home before my car ran out of gas. The only time I left the highway was to quickly keep an eye open for any Common Nighthawks - none.
Last year, the small ghost town, that I was so keen to revisit yet again, had to be seen from my car, because it was too windy to walk, which was a shame. A challenge to take photos, sitting in a car that is being rocked by the extreme wind.
Once I reached the ghost town, I was the only person there. It is only a small place with a handful of old buildings, but very nicely kept. One of its main buildings is a small, country United Church, kept in great condition both inside and out. I had read online beforehand that people can go inside the church and sign their Guest Book, otherwise I probably would not have gone in. Really like the door knobs to the front door. The link below gives a very interesting, detailed history, including an old photo of the church in 1980, before restoration. I would love to have seen it back then.
www.facebook.com/LethbridgeHistoricalSociety/posts/retlaw...
As well as the old ghost town, I also wanted to check on a favourite abandoned house - simple, old and leaning. It was a relief to find that it was still standing. When I had slowed down to take a few photos, a truck came from the opposite direction and stopped. I was delighted when the driver said she was the owner of the old house! So interesting. She gave me permission to go closer, with a warning that there are pit holes, so to be careful. I thanked her, but told her that I always take photos of old barns/houses from the road, anyway.
From there, I took more or less the same route home. Rather late in the season for wildflowers, but I was happy to spot one little cluster of Chicory growing at a road edge. Very few birds to be seen, too, apart from a few hawks, Horned Larks, and a Vesper Sparrow. Fortunately, I still had a little gas left in the gas tank. Always a concern when I do a long drive.
It was a great day. and my timing was good, as the other evening, we had a huge storm! Lots of rain, thunder, continuous lightning in all directions for quite a while. I have rarely seen a lightning storm like that.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive.
When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.
When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
(Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Not much to add to this, except maybe, why Saint Exupéry TODAY (tonight) and here!?!
EVERYBODY must know the book LE PETIT PRINCE... if you don't; let me know and I'll organise the library bus to bring you a copy!!!
I have read and re-read this little booklet in German, French, English and most likely even in Italian - it's easy to understand and it contains 'stuff' to re-think for ages.... it's subtly bringing facts of life to the point and it is so lovingly written that you can't hold anything against the writer - even if you sometimes might want to! It is - in short - probably the most lovable book anybody can find.
After having bought copies of a very beautiful CD, read by Will Quadflieg (in German) for my nearly blind mother, my little sister and the children of my bros-in-law, I got a copy of my gift sent back to me by little sis..... and after a very long time I have inserted it in the car CD player, where I listen to it on my way to .... somewhere! It made me aware once again how absolutely wonderful this aviator and writer is expressing himself in his work.
These four-leaf-clovers are my latest pride and joy. The make lovely red flowers and if you care to stroll down in the comments, you'll find more close-up shots of those little darlings. I wish all of you who still live through Thursday, A HAPPY GORGEOUS GREEN THURSDAY and to the rest of us a BEAUTIFUL GREEN FRIDAY!
For the shutter sisters: Hello..... (sunshine, morning, night, happiness, smiles!)
Good night, little princesses, little princes - sleep tight!
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When I wakeup I see the rising of sun and create the image in my mind that whatever happen occurs yesterday forget it and create a new day as the rising of sun.
Snaps out our car window as we drove out of Las Vegas on Friday morning to get to LAX. Never would I have ever thought Vegas would close in my lifetime.
When i saw this red hibiscus, i made a shot pointing my focus at a different angle to choose a different background. Automatically, i turned off my exposure compensation by a minus 1.8 which i always do for reds. Thanks to those who view, comment and fave my photo. It will be highly appreciated.
When I was young, much younger than today, I used to wonder why Nana's loved lavender and I just thought it was an old persons thing. Now I am six months off being 70! I understand why. I LOVE lavender. I go to sleep with it each night using it in aromatherapy.
when I could walk about en femme, and the only thing I had to worry about was getting a heel caught in a sidewalk crack
Now--well, you know
107. Little beauty - Poland - 15/10/2017...
Sony SLT A55V + Tamron 90.0 mm...
Cat: Close-up ...
© 2016 Zbigniew Walkiewicz...You can not use my photos !
“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” - Ansel Adams...
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My camera and I haven't been too close this last week or so. She wants to head out and hit the trails, and I have to keep denying the chance in favor of, well, those various reasons that always seem to get in the way of doing the things we want to do.
Instead, today, when I'm feeling every one of the years I've seen fly by, I decided to dig into the archives and find a moment when the only thing that mattered was the complete cessation of time. When the day kissed the night and everything stood still.
When you kiss me
I know you miss me
And when you’re with me
The world just goes away
The way you hold me
The way you show me
That you adore me
When you kiss me
[] Shania Twain - When you kiss me []
A fight between a "street trader" and this man (the man covering his face with his hand) in the Qiaodong district
Did you see these two girls at the Oscars ceremony this weekend. Debbi Harry won a lifetime achievement to music award while Goldie Hawn won prettiest actress ever award. Apparently both girls know how to party.