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2013-05-16 13:32:33 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

Farewell, sweet Samson (August 30, 2000 - May 15, 2013). You brought us and everyone you met so much exuberant joy and love. We will miss you dreadfully.

2013-04-12 17:36:58 (58 comments, 10 reshares, 92 +1s)

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen 

This little friend was a surprise photobomber. I was happily snapping away at the little grape hyacinth when she zoomed in seeking nectar. I think I startled her though, as she was gone again immediately after this shot.


for #floralfriday  +Tamara Pruessner, #colorsonfriday  +Britta Rogge +Karsten Meyer, #dailydepthoffield  +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig, #hqspflowers  +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best +Anja Wessels,  #buggyfriday  +Buggy Friday +Dorothy Pugh +Ray Bilcliff, #macro4all  (+Macro4All) +Walter Soestbergen +Bill Urwin +Aamir Shahzad +Mark O'Callaghan, #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar      

2013-04-11 01:33:53 (33 comments, 4 reshares, 75 +1s)

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte

I was in Washington, DC this week, and I'm happy to report that spring is in full force there! It won't be in full swing here in upstate New York for another few weeks, but this ought to help tide me over.







For #hqspflowers  +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best, #colormeweekly  +ColorMe Weekly +Rosie Nixon, #dailydepthoffield  +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig,     #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar, #macro4all  +Macro4All +Walter Soestbergen +Bill Urwin +Aamir Shahzad +Mark O'Callaghan  

2013-04-10 03:13:21 (20 comments, 3 reshares, 58 +1s)

Spring Screen

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

Richard Le Gallienne


For #treetuesday  +Shannon S. Myers +Christina Lawrie +Allan Cabrera  
#hqspflowers  +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best 
#springfevertuesday  +Vesna Krnjic 
#pinkcircle  +lane langmade +Cheryl Cooper 

2013-04-05 14:02:09 (50 comments, 5 reshares, 73 +1s)

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot


For #floralfriday  by +Tamara Pruessner, +G+Flora by +Lynn Harrison, #hqspflowers  by +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley  +nicole best,   #yisforyellow , #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar, #macro4all   +Macro4All +Bill Urwin +Aamir Shahzad +Mark O'Callaghan  +Walter Soestbergen, #dailydepthoffield  +Vince Ong +f.a. fiebig +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen , #colorsonfriday  +Britta Rogge +Karsten Meyer 
  
 

2013-04-03 11:16:04 (37 comments, 5 reshares, 75 +1s)

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Elizabeth Bowen

I've got these winter blues I just can't shake...


#hqspmonochrome  +Luis Vivanco +Johnny Minor +Dennis Freeland 
#allthingsmonochrome  +Charles Lupica +Bill Wood 
#hqspnaturalother  +Delcour Eric +Valesa Diamontes +Alison Thurston +Blake Harrold 
#dailydepthoffield  +Daily Depth Of Field +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +f.a. fiebig +Virgil Cowen 

2013-04-01 00:53:22 (48 comments, 12 reshares, 78 +1s)

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

Epicurius

A companionable pair of dwarf iris (Iris reticulata)

For #macromonday  subtheme BUDS +Kelli Seeger Kim +Jake Easley +Kerry Murphy +Jennifer Eden 
#macro4all  (+Macro4All ) +Walter Soestbergen +Shane Williams 
#hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar 
#hqspflowers  +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best 

2013-03-18 12:00:42 (55 comments, 4 reshares, 77 +1s)

Odonata - Summer Loving


#MacroMonday  Subtheme CURLS +Jennifer Eden +Jake Easley +Kelli Seeger Kim +Kerry Murphy, #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar, #macro4all  +Walter Soestbergen +Shane Williams, #hqspbugs  +Nicole Best,  #dailydepthoffield  +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +f.a. fiebig +Virgil Cowen, #DOFMonday  +Mara Acoma +Nigel Smith +Alan Gurling +Mark Hall  #odanatapoker  +viviane godenne
, #odeaday   +Kimberly Hosey

2013-03-16 13:12:36 (14 comments, 1 reshares, 35 +1s)

Meet the Neighbors


A shared moment of wonder at the Monterey Bay Aquarium jellyfish exhibit.


For #silhouettesaturday   #silhouettesonthursday   #hqspnonnaturephotos   by +Alexandre Fagundes de Fagundes  +Rhea Surgimath 

2013-03-15 13:30:39 (27 comments, 2 reshares, 46 +1s)

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Ella Maillart

Your Infinite Horizons

For #floralfriday  by +Tamara Pruessner 
#hqspflowers  by +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best 
#hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar 
#macro4all  (+Macro4All) by +Walter Soestbergen +Shane Williams 

2013-03-13 18:03:20 (37 comments, 5 reshares, 59 +1s)

The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. 

Robin McKinley


Chiaroscuro and Choices


For #abstractsinnature  +Abstracts In Nature  by +Beth Akerman , #hqspflowers  +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best, #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar, #macro4all  (+Macro4All) +Walter Soestbergen +Shane Williams, #purplecircle  +Lynn Langmade +Craig Szymanski +Alexis Coram, #natureartthursday  +NatureArtThursday  +Dane Clingan +Trisha Standard  #plusphotoextract  +Jarek Klimek 



Happy Birthday, +Lynn Langmade and +lane langmade! 

2013-03-11 11:22:17 (28 comments, 2 reshares, 47 +1s)

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

John McDonald

For #macromonday  subtheme geometry by +Kerry Murphy +Kelli Seeger Kim +Jake Easley +Jennifer Eden, #macro4all  (+Macro4All) +Shane Williams +Walter Soestbergen, #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar, #monochromemonday  by +Hans Berendsen +Steve Barge +Jerry Johnson (although there's still a hint of color here...)

2013-03-09 14:37:00 (30 comments, 5 reshares, 62 +1s)

Mum's the word!

A variation on a shot I posted earlier (also in this album) with a more subdued processing. This one has a more early spring feel to me, and I'm in the mood for spring to hurry up and get here!

for #hqspflowers  +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best, #macro4all  (+Macro4All ) +Walter Soestbergen +Shane Williams, #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar

2013-03-08 12:42:07 (22 comments, 7 reshares, 46 +1s)

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

Clive Bell 
 

For #floralfriday  and  +Tamara Pruessner, #hqspflowers  +Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best, #macro4all  (+Macro4All) +Walter Soestbergen +Shane Williams, #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar  

2013-03-02 14:35:15 (20 comments, 6 reshares, 56 +1s)

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

Driftwood Beach - Jekyll Island, GA

For #earthpatternsaturday  by +Annette Gretler and +Beat Gretler   #landscapephotography  +Landscape Photography  by +Margaret Tompkins , +Carra Riley , +paul t beard, +David Heath Williams, +Bill Wood and +Jim Warthman +Ben T, #hqsplandscape  by +Ara MO +Rodolfo Seide +Johnny Minor, #curvyfriday  by +Peter From +Lorena Masi  #flowingwaterfriday  +FlowingWaterFriday  by +Rolf Hicker and #hqspnaturalother  +Delcour Eric +Blake Harrold +Alison Thurston 

2013-03-01 14:50:08 (38 comments, 5 reshares, 60 +1s)

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, 
One clover, and a bee.
And reverie.
The reverie alone will do,
If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

No clover, but I'm hoping to make a prairie autumn out of one aster and one bee today. Won't you join me in my reverie?





For   #floralfriday    +FloralFriday   curated by +Tamara Pruessner,   #buggyfriday    +Buggy Friday  curated by +Sherry McBriar  +Dorothy Pugh  +Ray Bilcliff,  the   #purplecircle    +PurpleCircle   led by +Lynn Langmade  +Craig Szymanski +Sinead Sam McKeown  +Alexis Coram,    #hqspflowers   curated by +Larry Henley +Nicole Best  +Werner Polwein  #hqspmacro    by +Vinod Krishnamoorthy  and +Vishal Kumar,      #macro4all    +Macro4All   by +Walter Soestbergen  and +ShaneWilliams,   and   #dailydepthoffield ... more »

2013-02-27 06:11:34 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 37 +1s)

"When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine."

Alex Lowe


For #grasstuesday  by +Ray Bilcliff +lizett Beltran +Margaret Tompkins, #dailydepthoffield  by +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig and  #allthingsorange  by +Kenneth Williams +Lauren Kelly +Nina Piccoli 

2013-02-22 02:01:12 (20 comments, 3 reshares, 47 +1s)

Sonnet 73

by William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.


I think that Shakespeare fellow was onto something here.


#leavesonthursday curated by +Anne Durand +StephenThackeray... more »

2013-02-20 01:55:53 (15 comments, 3 reshares, 57 +1s)

When the days are grey and the winter seems endless, it's nice to be reminded that upstate New York sometimes does have more to offer, weatherwise. 


Here's a memory of autumn for +Christina Lawrie and +Shannon S. Myers for #treetuesday  +Tree Tuesday as well as #landscapephotography   +Landscape Photography   by +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard +Ke Zeng +David Murphy  #hqsplandscape   +HQSP Landscape   +Ara MO +Rodolfo Seide +John Minor  

2013-02-20 01:58:09 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

"One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh


For #seatuesday  +Sea Tuesday +Julia Anna Gospodarou, #landscapephotography   by +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard  +Ke Zeng +David Murphy, #hqsplandscape  +HQSP Landscape  +Ara MO +Rodolfo Seide +John Minor 

2013-02-16 14:35:45 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 52 +1s)

Happy Birthday, +Ping Doherty!

May it be a perfectly peachy year!



 
(I hope you won't mind sharing your bouquet with +Tamara Pruessner's   #floralfriday .)

2013-02-15 02:36:23 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 28 +1s)

Hedge Trimming
by Edward Baugh

In another life I’ll let the overgrowth
grow over me, once in a while
not pass the afternoon hedge clipping.
Come to think of it, maybe I’ll not
keep a hedge, nor hedge my bets
not live so much in parenthesis.
I’ll study the passions and subtleties of weeds,
make new terms with earth, its terrors.
No longer now the neighbourhood boast
and envy, who once could keep so straight
a line, so spirit level through murrayea
and privet, fastidious worrier at the edges
of things, Blake’s “tame high finisher
of paltry blots and sundry paltry rhymes.”
Neighbourhood dogs will take back to their mistresses’
drawing rooms reports of strange sightings:
a wild man laughing through the overgrowth.

For #leavesonthursday  +Anne Durand +Stephen Thackeray +RayBilcliff  #hqspm... more »

2013-02-13 12:58:42 (18 comments, 5 reshares, 35 +1s)

Stone
by Charles Simic

Go inside a stone
That would be my way.
Let somebody else become a dove
Or gnash with a tiger's tooth.
I am happy to be a stone.

From the outside the stone is a riddle:
No one knows how to answer it.
Yet within, it must be cool and quiet
Even though a cow steps on it full weight,
Even though a child throws it in a river;
The stone sinks, slow, unperturbed
To the river bottom
Where the fishes come to knock on it
And listen.

I have seen sparks fly out
When two stones are rubbed,
So perhaps it is not dark inside after all;
Perhaps there is a moon shining
From somewhere, as though behind a hill—
Just enough light to make out
The strange writings, the star-charts
On the inner walls.


For #abstractsinature  by +Beth Akerman, #h... more »

2013-02-11 00:58:39 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 49 +1s)

O shooting star
that fell into my eyes and through my body-:
not to forget you. To endure.

Rainer Maria Rilke



Just a few teensy snowflake stars for your   #zensunday  +Charlotte Therese Björnström +Nathan Wirth +Simon Davis-Oakley 

2013-02-08 13:21:24 (20 comments, 3 reshares, 41 +1s)

Pennies From Heaven by Arthur Johnston & Johnny Burke 

Oh every time it rains
It rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven
You'll find your fortune
Fallin' all over town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down

#leavesonthursday    by +Marilou Aballe  +Anne Durand  +Ray Bilcliff  +Stephen Thackeray  
#hqspmacro    by +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar  +Rinus Bakker +HQSP Macro  #hqspnaturalother   #hqspnature   +Alison Thurston  +Blake Harrold  #macro4all  +Shane Williams +Walter Soestbergen +Macro4All 

2013-02-06 00:48:27 (34 comments, 6 reshares, 80 +1s)

Moonlit Apples by John Drinkwater

At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows,
And the skylight lets the moonlight in, and those
Apples are deep-sea apples of green. There goes
A cloud on the moon in the autumn night.

A mouse in the wainscot scratches, and scratches, and then
There is no sound at the top of the house of men
Or mice; and the cloud is blown, and the moon again
Dapples the apples with deep-sea light.

They are lying in rows there, under the gloomy beams;
On the sagging floor; they gather the silver streams
Out of the moon, those moonlit apples of dreams,
And quiet is the steep stair under.

In the corridors under there is nothing but sleep.
And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep
Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep
On moon-washed apples of wonder.... more »

2013-02-05 18:46:10 (12 comments, 3 reshares, 36 +1s)

Lakeside, Mid-July

Sometimes Ithaca has lovely weather. Late-January is not the time for it. In the midst of a day of cold rain, preceded by snow and bitter cold, I offer you this moment of summer bliss.


for your #dailydepthoffield  +Daily Depth Of Field +Vince Ong +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig +Nuraini Ghaifullah, #mytowntuesday   +Melanie Kintz +Jamie Furlong,   #hqspseasons  by +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Tony Davis +Alison Thurston and #allthingsorange  by +Nina Piccoli +Kenneth Williams +Lauren Kelly 

2013-01-25 02:54:20 (17 comments, 3 reshares, 43 +1s)

A Reason to Loiter


Just a wee #cappuccino  'cause I miss +Jason Kowing and +Cheryl Cooper's #coffeethursday s. Thank goodness for the #teacoffeechocolatefoodclub  +Tea Club ( Tea Coffee Chocolate Food Club ) gang of +Gemma Costa  +Cynthia Chia +Mike Sh +Andrea Martinez +Elizabeth Edwards and the #foodfriday  +FoodFriday  crew of +D. DeMonteverde +Natty Netsuwan and +Jenn Oliver, and all the #coffeelovers  of G+!

2012-12-24 02:09:42 (31 comments, 2 reshares, 58 +1s)

"While I dance I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance."
Hans Bos

The Dance of the Seagulls

Tracks found on the beach, Rehoboth Beach, DE July 2012.

These footprints remind me of a particularly complex dance step diagram.


for #sepiasaturday  by +Renee Stewart Jackson, #beachsunday   by +Ross Campbell, #earthpatternsaturday   by +Beat Gretler +Annette Gretler  #abstractsinnature  +Beth Akerman 

2012-12-21 21:04:19 (21 comments, 5 reshares, 53 +1s)

“How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.”
 Graham Swift, Tomorrow

For #floralfriday  by +Tamara Pruessner, #colorsonfriday  +Britta Rogge and +Karsten Meyer +ColorsOnFriday, #macro4all  +Walter Soestbergen +Shane Williams +Macro4All and #hqspflowers  +Carina Marsh +Marina Versaci +Daniela White and +Werner Polwein   

2012-12-17 14:34:15 (25 comments, 2 reshares, 59 +1s)

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness." 
Bob Hope

Here's hoping for a quietly happy week for us all.

 Cloisonné ornament for #macromonday   #holiday  theme curated by +Jennifer Eden +Kerry Murphy +Kelli Seeger Kim, #macro4all  +Macro4All  curated by +Walter Soestbergen and +Shane Williams,   #dofmonday   curated by +Mara Acoma +Alan Gurling +Nigel Smith  and #dailydepthoffield  by +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah 

2012-12-17 02:32:31 (29 comments, 3 reshares, 67 +1s)

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."
Dalai Lama

Dawn gives us a moment to pause and reflect, and look forward with hope.

For #dawnonsunday    +Dawn On Sunday +Ray Bilcliff +Sherry McBriar +linda stokes, #skysunday  +Sky Sunday - Photography Theme  +Randy Scherkenbach +Patrick Scherkenbach, #landscapephotography  +Landscape Photography +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard +Bill Wood +David Heath Williams +Ben T +Jim Warthman, #hqsplandscape  +HQSP Landscape  +Delcour Eric +Rinus Bakker +Ara MO  #swampysaturday  +Swampy Saturday +Ray Bilcliff +Sherry McBriar +Gail Beerman 

2012-12-15 00:14:24 (17 comments, 1 reshares, 38 +1s)

Further Up the Shore

“The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.”
Cyril Connolly




For #curvyfriday  by +Peter From and +lorena masi, #landscapephotography   +Landscape Photography  by +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +Ben T and #hqsplandscape  +Delcour Eric +Ara MO +Rinus Bakker +Blake Harrold  +Carina Marsh +John Minor 

2012-12-13 13:49:52 (67 comments, 3 reshares, 88 +1s)

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
Albert Camus

Barberry Leaves in Autumn

for #leavesonthursday  +Marilou Aballe +Anne Durand +Ray Bilcliff 
#macro4all  +Walter Soestbergen  #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Rinus Bakker +Vishal Kumar and #allthingsred  +Lucille Galleli +Stephen Thackeray 

2012-12-11 21:53:45 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 50 +1s)

"And if I had a boat
I'd go out on by the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on by my boat
And we could all together
Go out on by the ocean
Me upon my pony on by my boat"

With apologies to Lyle Lovett

Riders on the beach with a shrimp boat in the background. Jekyll Island, Georgia.

For #seatuesday  +Julia Anna Gospodarou,  #transporttuesday  +Gene Bowker +Michael Earley +Steve Boyko +Joe Paul, #equinetuesday  +Jillian Chilson 

2012-12-10 18:42:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

HQSP NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER CIRCLE 6.0

With compliments to +Rinus Bakker and the HQSP team for their work.

Why add this circle to your circles?
To fill your stream with great stuff, because this are all people with excellent photographers!

Why share this circle public?
-Others will become to know you and us and enjoy our work.
-You will get more followers which means more attention for your shares
-You will get more followers which means more friends
-You give a huge support to the HQSP project
-You will be a great encouragement for the team who does all the hard work.

What happens if you do not add and/or share?
Absolutely nothing. No more followers,no more friends, no support for the project, no encouragement for the team.

I count on YOU as allways!
Thank you very much and I am sure you will... more »

2012-12-11 12:04:34 (21 comments, 1 reshares, 54 +1s)

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

Claude Debussy

for #landscapephotography  +Margaret Tompkins  +David Heath Williams +Carra Riley +paul t beard +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman 

#hqsplandscape   by +Delcour Eric +Ara MO +Blake Harrold +John Minor  

#seatuesday  +Julia Anna Gospodarou 

#treetuesday  +Christina Lawrie +Shannon S. Myers 

2012-12-10 17:48:10 (41 comments, 2 reshares, 81 +1s)

"Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached."
Prem Rawat

Dawn in a tidal marsh for #dawnonsunday  by +Ray Bilcliff +Sherry McBriar +linda stokes, #skysunday  by +Randy Scherkenbach and +Patrick Scherkenbach, #zensunday  +Charlotte Therese Björnström +Nathan Wirth, +Hawkea's friends #shadow theme and #shadowsonsunday  +André Roßbach and +Daniel Graupner. 

2012-12-09 05:45:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Added photos to Me & My Camera Contest by Lorena Masi and Peter From.

2012-12-07 13:29:16 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 39 +1s)

"To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."
William Samuel Johnson

For +Tamara Pruessner's #floralfriday ,   #macro4all    by +Walter Soestbergen, #dailydepthoffield  +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah, #colorsonfriday    +Karsten Meyer +Britta Rogge   and #hqspmacro  +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar. 

2012-12-06 21:46:17 (19 comments, 1 reshares, 38 +1s)

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau

For #leavesonthursday  by +Marilou Aballe +Anne Durand +Ray Bilcliff, #macro4all  by +Walter Soestbergen, #dailydepthoffield  +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah. and #hqspmacro  by +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Vishal Kumar. 

2012-11-28 13:40:08 (38 comments, 5 reshares, 66 +1s)

“The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


For #woodenwednesday  +Stefan Bittner +Jan Lindenberg +Jennifer Landua
and #abstractsinnature  by +Beth Akerman 
as well as #macro4all  +Walter Soestbergen 
#allthingsmonochrome  +Charles Lupica +Bill Wood 

2012-11-27 13:14:43 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 41 +1s)

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away". "

Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley


for #treetuesday  by +ChristinaL... more »

2012-11-26 13:29:51 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 50 +1s)

"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. "
-Yoshida Kenko 

Autumn asters do their best PURPLE daisy impression for #macromonday  by +Jennifer Eden +Kerry Murphy +Kelli Seeger Kim 
For the #purplecircle  +Lynn Langmade +Sinead Sam McKeown +Craig Szymanski +Alexis Coram 

2012-11-25 14:51:56 (22 comments, 0 reshares, 62 +1s)

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
-Joseph Addison 

For #dawnonsunday  +Ray Bilcliff +Sherry McBriar +linda stokes 
and #swampysaturday  +Ray Bilcliff +Sherry McBriar +Gail Beerman 
and #zensunday  +Charlotte Therese Björnström +Nathan Wirth 

2012-11-24 20:26:27 (38 comments, 1 reshares, 70 +1s)

"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you within yourself. "
-Ella Maillart 

A flock of birds lift up from the marsh at sunrise (view larger, they're there!)

#landscapephotography   +Margaret Tompkins 
#ruralsaturday  +Mario Cerroni +linda stokes 
#swampysaturday  +Ray Bilcliff +Sherry McBriar +Gail Beerman 

2012-11-24 03:12:59 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 52 +1s)

"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own." 
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 

Peering through a driftwood porthole at sunset...

For #sunsetsaturday  by +Dennis Hoffbuhr 

2012-11-23 22:14:50 (26 comments, 1 reshares, 59 +1s)

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
-Ray Bradbury 

No Black Friday shopping here; I'd rather spend the time with my photos.

For +Tamara Pruessner's #floralfriday   

+Walter Soestbergen's #macro4all   

2012-11-22 14:42:58 (18 comments, 4 reshares, 50 +1s)

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
 -Emily Dickinson

For #leavesonthursday  by +Marilou Aballe +Anne Durand +Ray Bilcliff 
#macro4all  +Walter Soestbergen & +Hawkea's friends RED week.

2012-11-22 03:32:52 (14 comments, 2 reshares, 41 +1s)

"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
-Jane Porter

Cozy sunrise seating for two, shared with +Hawkea's friends for this week's RED motif.

Also shared with #allthingsred .