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beyond

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:23:43 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."
~ Rumi ~

little bighorn

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:23:40 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

"if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that."
~ Brian Andreas ~

fading in the distance

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:48:45 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

"I didn't pay attention to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered."
~ Sarah Dessen ~

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Thanks for the visits everyone . . . getting ready to "move camp" and will probably be out of reach of cyberspace . . . will visit everyone when I return. Blessings . . .

soon

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:31:46 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~ Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn" ~

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Looks better in Lightbox (push "L")

love beside the sea

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:14:14 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
~ Rumi ~

“Look at Love...
how it tangles
with the one fallen in love .”
~ Rumi ~

open arms

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:39:49 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

(listen to open arms)

open arms
reaching out
embracing
love.joy.sorrow.pain
life

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so hard to capture
yet begging to be photographed
I fear I didn't do it justice

lifeline

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:49:58 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

a safe haven . . .

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:42:53 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
~ Maya Angelou ~

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This bamboo forest was such a special place
there was a literal hush in the air
and I was transported back to the feelings and memories
of the sacred spaces I used as "hideouts" in my youth

(please click on images to view large)

timeless

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:33:40 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition."
~ Rod Sterling ~

traveling

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:30:12 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

in the Badlands

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
~ John Muir ~

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Reflecting

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:35:13 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

on Leap Day . . . seems like a good way to use the extra day this year!

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
~ Peter F. Drucker ~

secret dance

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:52:53 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

I spotted them through the dry prairie grasses.
Petals touching. Roots intertwined. A couple.
Dancing their ritual Spring dance,
Hidden in a sheltered place,
Oblivious to the world around them.
Lost in the ecstasy of life. Of Love.
Yes, my imagination, has gone a little overboard once again.
Because, after all, flowers don't have thoughts.
Or feelings.
Or souls.
Right???

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
~ Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858 ~

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock."
~ Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers ~

Loess Hills Vision

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:28:46 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

my first hike in the hills this year

paraphrased from my notes written while enjoying the above view:
"It's foggy / hazy with the sun starting to break through soft, overcast skies....dreamy, almost surreal. The wind whispers in the trees and causes the prairie grass to dance. There is a slight earthy smell coming to me from freshly turned soil in the valley below. I hear frogs croaking, song birds celebrating, distant crows cawing and the occasional tap-tap of a woodpecker. I am surround by pasque blossoms, singing their own silent joy...."
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"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder"
~ Eberhard Arnold ~

"And while I stood there
I saw more than I can tell,
and I understood more than I saw;
for I was seeing in a sacred manner
the shapes of things in the spirit,
and the shape of all shapes as they must
live together like one being."
~ Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks ~

he rows his boat merrily

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:32:42 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

best wishes to a wonderful guy on his special day!

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
~ unknown ~

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

chippy

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:22:09 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

says "howdy"!!

“It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people”
~ Dolph Sharp ~

shrooms

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:11:17 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

Lesson here: Even when battered and bruised, you can still be a fungi. ;~))

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.” ~ Susan Polis Schutz ~

She's colorful, creative...and very shy!

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:09:01 -0800

4Real posted a photo:

The one and only colorfulexpressions! You that know her, also know that photos of her on Flickr are rare. So you can imagine my surprise when she not only allowed me photograph her, but later agreed to let me post this shot! Please hurry and say "Hi" before she changes her mind! ;~)

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself." ~ Alan Alda ~

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." ~ Mary Lou Cook ~

flickr buddies set sail

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:12:58 -0700

4Real posted a video:

Filmed and narrated spontaneously by Antoinette. Later I took the 3 clips she shot, edited and merged them into one video. You may see the first 90 seconds above or watch the entire video (about 3-1/2 minutes) here on YouTube.

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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~ Anais Nin ~

journey back in time . . .

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:00:52 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

at Mystic Seaport

"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
~ Doug Larson ~

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
~ Peter De Vries ~

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how do you capture the mood and spirit of a place??? In my attempt to show 'another era', I started with the "real" photo, and then played . . . ;~)
(please click or press "L" to view larger)

Today you are you,

nobody@flickr.com (4Real) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:11:50 -0700

4Real posted a photo:

that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
~ Dr. Seuss ~

"The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice."
~ Yo-Yo Ma ~

"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
~ Brittany Renée ~

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
~ E. E. Cummings ~

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it's a lot of quotes I know, but I could so relate to each and every one.....