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There is foreboding within the hollowed out, abandoned buildings of many urban environments. In addition to the structural decay, a menace in the far background of this abandoned Detroit warehouse seems to warn of danger--the wickedly sharp teeth depicted in a shark mural. (Please view in large).
The shark mural, on a building in the next street, is one of about 150 works of street art approved and commissioned by the Murals in the Market festival organization. The murals were completed in three rounds of annual paintings in Detroit's Eastern Market.
The Colour of my Dreams
I play my world of make-believe
I play it every day
but people stand and watch me
but don’t know what to say.
They give me diagnostic tests
they try out reading schemes,
but none of them will ever know
the colour of my dreams.
By Peter Dixon.
El color de mis sueños
Juego mi mundo de fantasía
lo juego todos los dias pero la gente se para y me mira
pero no sé qué decir.
Me hacen pruebas diagnósticas prueban esquemas de lectura, pero ninguno de ellos lo sabrá jamás el color de mis sueños.
Many trains short and long go through the city limits of Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. Their horns blow as a warning that they are entering or exiting these cities. Loads of freight are constantly hauled by trains and though traffic doesn't like to wait, safety is what they hope for as their journey continues
the lovely bird that popped up in a bush barely a couple of feet from Tracy Farrer and myself, as we stood waiting for the Waxwings to come down again.
Extraordinary to see an individual from what is normally such a shy species, up so close and actually stay and carry on feeding, totally unconcerned by our presence on the pavement in front.
It was so close, I was backing off as far as I could (without getting run over by passing cars), just to get all of it within frame and out to minimum focusing distance, at 420mm focal length - and most of the time I still couldn't do so.
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.
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There were 5 hanging around a very local fishing pond. We've seen about 20 Bald Eagles this winter within 25 miles of our house.
DuPage County, IL
You're looking for beauty outside of yourself. You have to learn that you are the beauty. You are the joy. You are the flowers that you enjoy so much. You are the trees and the ocean and the sky and the mountains. It's all coming from you.
If you really realize that you are that, would you run around seeking things? Everything that you want is within you. You are that. Even relationships. You look for relationship with someone so they can make you happy, so you can enjoy their company, so you can love them, so you can be with them. But I can assure you that within yourself is a greater love, a greater joy, a greater peace than you can ever find anywhere else. True. You've got it all. There is nothing, no thing that you need from the outside. And nothing can ever happen to you, because there is no one to make it happen, except yourself.
Robert Adams in a talk June 1991
"When you possess light within, you see it externally."
~Anaïs Nin
song of the day: yes, i've used this before, but how many is too many when it comes to this song??
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.
When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
- Tennessee Williams
Weekly Theme Challenge - Glass
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
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process. It needs not a map but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop. There is something new to be chronicled every day. Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
....not on the outside
find the light within you
and let it shine from your
radiate from your heart
Rumi
I wish you all my loyal Flickr friends a Merry Christmas and a healthy passage into a hopefully peaceful 2024. Not to forget lots of light for beautiful photos.....
Suche das Licht.... ..nicht im Aussen
finde das Licht in Dir
und lass es aus deinem
Herzen strahlen
Rumi
Euch allen meinen treuen Flickrfreunde wünsche ich ein frohes Weihnachten und einen gesunden Übergang in ein hoffentlich friedliches 2024. Nicht zu vergessen viel Licht für schöne Fotos.....
.... nothing like a little tu lips to relax with after a hard stressy week at work!;p
info - manual focus, hand held and not cropped
"From early dawn to midday to dusk to midnight, there are thousands of gradations of light and color. When we take time to look up to the blue of the sky, we feel the tranquility and peace of the open expanse of space. Colors no longer merely serve as a decorative or ornamental function. They affect us in deeper ways." - Louise L. Hay