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Pondering the Flower of Youth.

An old man watches from the street on a dark, rainy afternoon as two women buy flowers in a small shop in central Bologna. I was struck by the simplicity and poignancy of this image as I walked by. As I grow older and loved ones before me pass on, the beauty and fleeting nature of life
becomes an ever present conversation...

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Central Park West

A runner passes by on a hazy afternoon in Central Park on the upper West Side of New York City.

Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year and was completed in 1873.
Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the south by West 59th Street, on the west by Eighth Avenue. Along the park's borders, these streets are known as Central Park North, Central Park South, and Central Park West respectively. Only Fifth Avenue along the park's eastern border retains its name. The park, which receives approximately thirty-five million visitors annually, is the most visited urban park in the United States. It was opened on 770 acres (3.1 km2) of city-owned land and was expanded to 843 acres (3.41 km2; 1.317 sq mi). It is 2.5 miles (4 km) long between 59th Street (Central Park South) and 110th Street (Central Park North), and is 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West. It is similar in size to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Vancouver's Stanley Park, and Munich's Englischer Garten.
Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park

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Lemorange

Half lemon - Half orange. The fruit from this tree is a classic specimen of the wonders of cross pollination and grafting. You never really know how it's going to taste. Sometimes great...sometimes not.
One thing for sure though, is that it always has great color.

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The Pier at the end of Paradise.

Dusk settles on an empty pier in Paradise Cove, Malibu, midsummer.

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Thistle Flower

One of the many thistle flowers along the trail in Griffith Park (Los Angeles)
on a hot late Spring day.

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles often occur all over the plant – on surfaces such as those of the stem and flat parts of leaves. These are an adaptation that protects the plant against herbivorous animals, discouraging them from feeding on the plant. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape of a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle's flowerheads.
The milk thistle is a thistle of the genus Silybum Adans., a flowering plant of the daisy family (Asteraceae). They are native to the Mediterranean regions of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The name "milk thistle" derives from two features of the leaves: they are mottled with splashes of white and they contain a milky sap.
The seeds of the milk thistle have been used for 2000 years to treat chronic liver disease and protect the liver against toxins. Increasing research is being undertaken on the physiological effects, therapeutic properties and possible medical uses of milk thistle
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