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Remains
9 Feb
Remains, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
A stop on the way from the airport despite the Captains gloom weather report the light & day was amazing … my first morning in England.
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Vision
28 Jan
Vision, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Li Ka Shing
Thanks for gracing us with these, Andy… xox
I’ll be by your streams asap, I have to head out to B&Q for wallpaper…
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Inner
25 Jan
Inner, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Through a hotel (restaurant) window at night in Portsmouth, England… the mood was exceptionally lovely.
Happy Wednesday everyone. x❤x
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“I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: “Why do they make good neighbours?”
14 Oct
“I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: “Why do they make good neighbours?”, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.SOMETHING there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
“Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
“Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.” I could say “Elves” to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
Robert Frost
❦
I love Frost but it’s still raining☂
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Hours ⌛ in the City
27 Aug
A big thank you to Bill Champitto for the use of his lovely song Circles from the album Water’s Edge.
To hear more of Bill Champitto’s music please visit; http://billchampitto.com/downloads.html
big bokies, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
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English White Christmas Cake
22 Dec
On a vintage pressed glass cake/ tart plate, thank you for the home baked sweets, Honey
Johnny Carson may had joked that there was one Christmas Cake circulating the world,
If the funny Man {he was a gem, we miss him} had a sweet tooth, I assure he would of loved a piece of this cake!
Thank you for the yummy cake & cookies, the luscious chocolates galore, jelly babies, the loop, the wonderful crafting tools, my lens bag and more, all lovely, but your surprise trip here for Christmas last year took the cake, your presence is the best present, you’re the best sweet, ever and you cook and bake, how lucky can a woman get!
xox
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Var: Snow Sparrow
12 Jan
The snow is snowing and the wind is still blowing,
and like a Canadian child I was up as soon as I saw how much snow we had, I confess I simply love snow.
These cute Sparrows are resting between feeding on the rose vines.
Shot through my glass deck door, on Jan 12 2011
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Hairdresser’s broken wand No. 1
17 Jan
{Hairdresser’s} broken wand, originally uploaded by M’s♥2.
For Macro Mondays theme “Broken”. Shot in monochrome playing with a bouncing flash, on my little self-made studio. SOOC but for a sq crop.
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Hairdressers wand Snapped!
18 Jan
Held a Jewel in My Fingers
I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep
The day was warm, and winds were prosy
I said, “Twill keep”
I woke – and chide my honest fingers,
The Gem was gone
And now, an Amethyst remembrance
Is all I own
Emily Dickinson
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Love’s Farewell
18 Jan
Photo of Love’s Whispers, from a painting from Norman Prescott Davies, found in my Grace Hartshorne book, For Thee Alone purchased in the 80′s from a local older Man named Tommy for a tiny song.
Tags: Art, Arts, ♥, Boston, D300, Grace Hartshorne Dana Estes 1899 Book Blended Pages, Heart, HeArtLights, Love's Farewell, Love's Whisper From a fave book For Thee Alone, USA
It sets the imagination spinning!
24 Jan
Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination is the work of the mind that helps create. Imagination helps give meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world,[ and it also plays a key role in the learning process.
A basic training for imagination is listening to storytelling (narrative),[1][5] in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to “evoke worlds.”[6]
Imagination is the faculty through which we encounter everything. The things that we touch, see and hear coalesce into a “picture” via our imagination.
source; wikipedia.
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde
I love Oscar and ordinary objects, don’t you!
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Winters Fringe Benefits
29 Jan
I love winter, its so intensely beautiful, the sights, smells, sounds of the cold snow when I walk on it, the coziness it evokes.. – it helps us appreciate spring .
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~ Pietro Aretino
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It’s a matter of how you see it
4 Feb
Obsessed and enthralled with the magic found in the ordinary. a brooms ice laden bristles in sunlight,.
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
Not only smart, a very wise Man.
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Then and again
5 Feb
Honey this colour-drenched image is dedicated to you, Happy Anniversary!
xox.
“The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.”
George T. Delacorte
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Eyes that watch the world and can’t forget.
9 Feb
the inspiration for my title was Don McLean’s song Vincent ♪ Starry, starry night there is always a song playing in my head, in yours?
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Ward 2
10 Feb
Originally uploaded by M’s♥2 ~ Away
“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”
Alfred Adler
With too much to do it’s time I take a break from flickr I’ll be back for spring cleaning… does throwing the word friend around make for social feeling, hmm I think not.
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HeArtLight
13 Feb
Originally uploaded by M’s❤ Happy Valentines Wknd ♥
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HeArt Art
13 Feb
A Valentine
I’ve always loved making hearts, from as long as I can recall. Mom was never thrilled to find hearts drawn on my jeans, or bubble gum blown into a bubble and stored in the butter compartment in the fridge, that trick I’ve lost, hearts never.
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Water is taught by thirst..
3 Mar
Water, is taught by thirst.
𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢𝄢
Land — by the Oceans passed.
Transport — by throe –
Peace — by its battles told –
Love, by Memorial Mold –
Birds, by the Snow.
~ Emily Dickinson~
𝄢𝄢𝄢
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Raw ore…
6 Mar
Raw ore…, originally uploaded by ❤ M’sheArt2 ❤.
Galena is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide. It is the most important lead ore mineral. It crystallizes in the cubic crystal system often showing octahedral forms.
SOOC and sig.
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“I can resist everything except temptation.”
12 May
The Tulip Bed
The May sun–whom
all things imitate–
that glues small leaves to
the wooden trees
shone from the sky
through bluegauze clouds
upon the ground.
Under the leafy trees
where the suburban streets
lay crossed,
with houses on each corner,
tangled shadows had begun
to join
the roadway and the lawns.
With excellent precision
the tulip bed
inside the iron fence
upreared its gaudy
yellow, white and red,
rimmed round with grass,
reposedly.William Carlos Williams
Happy Birthday to me!
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Tell…
14 May
Tell…, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
Life
LET me but live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul;
Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal;
Not mourning for the things that disappear
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear
From what the future veils; but with a whole
And happy heart, that pays its toll
To Youth and Age, and travels on with cheer.
So let the way wind up the hill or down,
O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy:
Still seeking what I sought when but a boy,
New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,
My heart will keep the courage of the quest,
And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.
Henry Van Dyke
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There are things unknown…
27 May
There are things unknown…, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
“There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
— Jim Morrison (Letters From Joe)
Does anyone happen to know what the name of this house plant is?
I’d be very appreciative to know what this spindly, long leafed I can’t say if I can call them leafs:) plant is that bears these large and gorgeous pink flowers, if you know please enlighten me, thanks! ‘~]))
to reiterate this is in the Cactaceae family, it’s an Epiphyllum cactus, ( I was thinking a succulent, wrong!)
Thank you Andy for identifying this for us!
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Video – Slaughter cruelty shocks animal campaigners – The Age
31 MayVideo – Slaughter cruelty shocks animal campaigners – The Age.
Bloody brutalized, how can anyone do this to Cows, born and breed to sustain us, with their flesh, and milk, how can humans do this to a helpless animal, why do we not respect the very life that feed us!
How can someone look in those eyes and do what these people do! How can we call people like this human, how can someone do this and cradle a child, make love, be a loving human, imo they can’t.
How very sad and tragic live can be for some at the hands of Mankind, such a misnomer.
Photo by Andy~B © 2010 All rights reserved.
Thanks RSPCA for sharing the slaughter conditions in Indonesia, which has prompted calls for a ban on live exports.
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Candy is dandy but…
5 JunI’d take tulips.
Candy is dandy but…, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.❦
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
Happy Birthday Natalie, I hope you’ve all of the above…
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Like Oil for Water O ❍☉ ⧂
9 Jun
originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
Like oil for water
”Resist much. Obey little.” — Walt Whitman
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Abronia Latifolia, Abronia Maritima, Abronia Umbellata, Abronia Villosa, Abscise, Abscission, Abutilon Theophrasti, Acacia Catechu, Acacia Dealbata, Acacia Farnesiana, Acacia… What is it!?
6 Jul
Abronia Latifolia, Abronia Maritima, Abronia Umbellata, Abronia Villosa, Abscise, Abscission, Abutilon Theophrasti, Acacia Catechu, Acacia Dealbata, Acacia Farnesiana, Acacia… what is it?, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
I don’t remember what this plant / flower is do you happen to know?
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Cowgirls like it @ 102º
22 Jul
Cowgirls like it @ 102º, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
Life is a beach. .. Actually it’s a total bitch for some of us, all of us at different times perhaps. Amy knew ♪ may she rip.
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Mourning Dove meet the {im}Patient Sparrow
13 Aug
Mourning Dove meet the {im}Patient Sparrow, originally uploaded by M’sheArt2❤.
Shot through the screen door on the back deck a save feeding place.
As I was trimming my ivy yesterday it grows madly & cascaded down to the sidewalk}, an American Red Robin mauled and dead , the poor little love huddled in an attempt at refuge and survival.
Clearly Lucky the Cat who is so very unlucky for Birds and has been for the last decade, especially ground feeders like the lovely American Robin, did a number on the little guy.
How do I know it was him- as I was chatting with my neighbor on the day previous as I tried to mow her lawn ( never happened too many divots I think bad Golfers visit her garden at night )
She told me her cat Lucky walked in with a Robin ( yes right they strolled in together no doubt) he just played with it and then the bird left, how very civilized eh.
She’s a lovely Lady she really is, as are my parents, as is my sister, and thousands of other cat owners, but their heads are in the sand..
Yes I have had Cats, 2, Call who had a litter of 4 one of whom was Shogun,
I loved they dearly and they never went out but for an early escape into my garden and I learned all there was to know about fleas the little nasty critters.
They did lounging on (second floor) porch or on window sills, and the occasional car ride for Call, Shogun had no interest in rides.
Please people keep your Cats indoors, they are pets, not wild, it’s not survival of the fittest its opportunist killings and it’s nonsense, there is no excuse to allow Cats outdoors to run havoc on Birds and other wildlife.
I’ve seen very few American Robins, Crackles and Catbirds recently…
The American Bird Conservancy estimates that up to 500 million birds are killed each year by cats — about half by pets and half by feral felines. “I hope we can now stop minimizing and trivializing the impacts that outdoor cats have on the environment and start addressing the serious problem of cat predation,” said Darin Schroeder, the group’s vice president for conservation advocacy.
By contrast, 440,000 birds are killed by wind turbines each year, according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, although that number is expected to exceed one million by 2030 as the number of wind farms grows to meet increased demand..
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html
www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cats…
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22 Aug
A compilation of two Hawks competing for the same prey?
No I don’t think we should keep Hawks indoors… Cats however we need to get serious about the hell they create for Birds, and keep them indoors for both their own safety and the safety of our Wild Birds, they’ve enough to content with, think about it.
birdchaser.blogspot.com/2008/03/cats-kill-over-1-billion-…
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