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I brought some lilies home from the store because spring hasn't
arrived here quite yet, flowers are waiting for warmer weather. Hope everyone has a lovely spring weekend!
there's beauty and mystery within my own backyard, just like there's beauty and mystery within myself. i only need to open my heart and mind, and pay attention—with curiosity and kindness.
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facebook: born joy: mindfulness
Within us there is someone who knows everything,
wills everything, does everything
better than we ourselves.
The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts….We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need -- not all the time, surely, but from time to time -- to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember -- the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.
-- Frederick Buechner
Photograph captured with a Pentax ME Super, SMC 50mm lens, using Ilford HP5 film, and printed on Ilford Multigrade paper.
© GM
Amber tenticles caress...
And hold a single drop....
To cast a light within.......
Amber and gold.....earth and nature
Spin their magic for all to see.......
But only to those who seek....
And....lucky for those who find..!!
AI and Photoshop
Scylla was a supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks, each head having a triple row of sharklike teeth, while her loins were girdled by the heads of baying dogs. From her lair in a cave she devoured whatever ventured within reach, including six of Odysseus's companions.
Situated within the Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland, the Öxarárfoss waterfall is one of the best-known waterfalls of Iceland.
It flows from the Öxará river that cascades in two streams over the Almannagjá gorge cliffs, that touch the eastern boundaries of North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. With a height of 13 meters and an average width of 20 meters, this waterfall is positioned inside Almannagjá, in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Shot this the other day between rain with my new canon 50D along with my 100 mm macro. I like how they work together. I think I will have many hours of enjoyment with this new camera!
According to Wikipedia, 'Fannette Island is the only island in Lake Tahoe, California, United States. It lies within Emerald Bay, on the California side of the lake.' The little building on the island is the remnant of a tea house built by a wealthy woman whose summer house was nearby. The area is now a state park.
CC Rainbow: Blue
Nestled within the tranquil grounds of Nanzen-ji Temple in Kyoto, the Suirokaku Aqueduct is a stunning example of architectural ingenuity from Japan's Meiji era. Constructed in the late 1800s, this red brick aqueduct was built to channel water from Lake Biwa to Kyoto, symbolizing a significant leap towards modernization amidst traditional surroundings. Its Roman-style arches, adorned with moss and weathered by time, create a striking visual contrast against the serene temple structures nearby.
Varying Aventra designs visible through door 15 at Litchurch Lane, C2C's 720 605 and 607 with WMR's 730001 in the background. Thanks extended to Ian and Alsthom for an interesting and informative tour of the site.
Reflections they invade your sleep
As you feel love, so deep
Swimming through your nocturnal dreams
On your waters, it now streams
Making your heart swell with pleasure
I feel your lakes ,flowing treasure
That does soak ,my excited skin
As i swim, swim within
Your lake filled with mad desire
Your lake that burns, with raging fire
Where you feel my love, search deep
In the dreams, dreams, of your sleep
A candid street photo. It was taken within some fantasy Fairyland. Once upon a time a beautiful princess lived in the Fairyland... A colofrully dressed woman in blue jeans and deep red or wine red high boots with a tablet in her hands takes photos in a fairy corner of a public park on a gloomy day of the autumn season. May the happiness be with her.
2024 was one of the hardest years of my life.
I learned so much about myself - strengths and weaknesses.
I broke myself repeatedly to form a more solid me.
I sacrificed true love on an altar of commitment.
I watched generations wither and stepped into the gap.
I gained beautiful flowers in my garden of friends.
I froze in the face of trial and closed within myself.
I created from the depths of my agony.
I screamed in silence for dreams unfulfilled.
I stepped up and made the choice - God over everything else.
I struggled out of the pit of surviving.
I don't know what 2025 holds.
But I know there will be continued pain... continued longing...continued moments of falling and picking myself back up. Moments of showing up for myself in solitude. Moments of nostalgia... and memory... that crush the air from my very chest.
And likely...Grief.
But through it all...
I will continue to persevere as best I can.
I will continue to cry out to God in my confusion and gain clarity.
I will continue to soak up the sun and dance in the rain.
I will continue to find small joys in the birds song.
I will continue to breathe in and out.
I will continue to believe.
I will continue to live.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
Forever is composed of Nows
Tis not a different time
Except for Infiniteness
And Latitude of Home
~Emily Dickinson
the mind is merely thoughts,
of all thoughts the thought I is the root,
therefore the mind is only the thought I.
Whence this I arises,
seek for it within,
it then vanishes.
This is the pursuit of wisdom.
Sri Ramana Maharshi