Rivers…and mornings. Rivers…and evenings. Not just to be near them, but to be in them – like, just about Lingam deep. Water flows around you, pushes at you, warms you, cools you, massages you, soothes you.

It’s what water does. ~ View On Black

Smell that? What is that? Oh, it's nature; not City. Hear that....?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=88yDgm6TFes - Chet Atkins, "Sunrise"

Usually when the sun is coming up, there won’t be many other humans around. Especially on a weekday morning. They’re having coffee, or in the car, or on the train, or the bus – heading for the "jay.ooh.bee."

But, it ain’t like you’re all alone out here - in the water. You have company. Lingering stars, a rising sun, a sky changing colors, clouds coming or going, the moon (in one mood or another) saying goodnight, mammals going on the wee morning’s hunt or coming off the night one, a fish splashing here or there - chasing after some minnows or bugs skittering across the surface.

Then again, maybe they are all just moving because it feels so darn good to be alive.

It is all…so reaffirming; to be out here. You really feel as if you know how our ancestors felt over thousands of years - when waking up wasn’t quite as sure a thing as it is today. When everyone was lucky simply to open their eyes - awakening to the hopes and dreams and dangers of a new day.

Same thing at sunset, except for at twilight, you get to look back and thank your God that you made it through another day safely. (The end of the day is guaranteed. How it ends for any one of us, is not.)

Either way, whether it is come dawn or come sunset, you know that of the thousands you may have seen, no two beginnings or endings were ever quite alike. There is reason to rejoice in that. And, as you are wade in the river, and feel the water flowing around you, and pressing up against you, you also know, that you have never stepped into the same water twice.

Every time you step into a river, see that moon, watch those clouds, breathe in that humid air, twinkle back at the stars, or hear animals rustling about, is a chance to be completely renewed.

The Fox River, downstream a bit from Batavia, Illinois, 52 miles west of Chicago.

Textures courtesy:

Flypaper Summer series: flypapertextures.blogspot.com/

Pareeerica: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/sets/72157603745560932/

Distressed Jewell: www.wix.com/distressedjewell/distressed-textures

and odd little bits and pieces I’ve collected over the last two years.

Title is inspired by "Closer" - a fantastic song by Kings of Leon

Don't be afraid - it's only a trunk...hope so ;-)

"It's a wonderful thing, nature. Without it, we'd have nothing natural." --A wise man

.....actually no, it was just me trying to make shit up very late at night.

It's too late and I'm too socially confused to try to write anything, so goodnight my friends. Just one question, which could help me if the answer is as I'm hoping....Is it OK to get home from Cricket Training at 2am smelling of beer?

Definitely best viewed large

"I got to get away man

Got to clear my mind, mind, mind

Out of this mundane, god-forsaken 9-5, wasting my time"

Title and lyrics by John Butler Trio

A place where the parents still say, "Get outside and play. It is beautiful out." A place where they all eat meals together and say goodnight to one another.

To Everyone:

1. Please read "THE IMPORTANT NEWS"

in my Profile.....:))

www.flickr.com/people/by_ljucsu/

2. Very please don't fave my pics with 85+ F.....:))

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Thanks everyone for your continuous support. Thank you for the inspiring comments and to those adding me as their contact. Sorry for another "post and run" photo. Catch up sometime soon, mates. Have a wonderful week!!!

~ about me ~

Enjoy reading this quote:

“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”

~ Virginia Satir quote

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"The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.”

Author Unknown

Title is a quote by George, John, Paul and Ringo

Nominated as "Best photo of the year 2010" at the group "Simply your best photo"

And the city is called "Frankfurt/Main" :-)

Listen to The Go-Betweens

Another long exposure night shot (this time no hdr). Exposure time = 41 seconds.

Hope you don't get bored with these night shot's...

Please Stop by the Natures Kingdom Group

www.flickr.com/groups/natures_kingdom/

"...Goodnight, sweetheart, sleep tight, wherever you are

God hold you in his arms while we're apart

Though you're far away your love will stay

Tucked away here in my heart

Goodnight, sweetheart, sleep tight, wherever you are..."

Good night Sweet Heart by Joe Diffie

Explore # 208 June 21, 09 Thank you~~~

Beautiful Grass in my pot garden and jewel green droplets.

Goodnight for tonight my friendS, see you all on Monday morning; take care..bye..bye:)

Changing seasons, unforgettable time"

As John Lennon said: "Nothing is real"

It's all made in Photoshop (special thanks to Adobe *g*)

But if you get wet by looking at this photo...then it's real ;-)

Press 'L' - but don't forget the umbrella...

Here's November Rain for you

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I know, it's me up the ladder again with my fave lamp plus "The Photo Book" (given by paul)... haha... It's a cool photography book, a compilation of works of well known photographers...=D

Have a great week ahead everyone... Sorry I'm still catching up...

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~ about me ~

“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.”

~ Erich Fromm quote

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a little less time - paramita

And that's my 100th on Flickr :)

Goodnight sun... take our dreams with you ... And bring them back tommorow, brighter, wearing a new colorful dress. As we are all daydreamers. And every night we feel so lonely... But please... watch out the clouds. They may steal them from you. And turn our dreams to rain into our hearts.

Best Viewed On Black and at the same time listen to Manos Hadjidakis Street of lost dreams, (right click and save target as) played by him in his album "15 vespers".

Wish you all a Happy New Year!

I'm back from a short trip to the baltic sea and hope to catch up all your photostreams in the next few day.

This is "Schloß Gluecksburg" in the last sunrays of the decade.

Look and listen

processed with:

my texture# 2

flypaper, summer painterly collection - stygian tin desaturated

les brumes texture

Press "L" to view on black.

I think I'd like to try this flag garland again in a subdued red. This one is a bit more vivid than I'd like.

Goodnight to all. I'll finish catching up sporadically throughout the day tomorrow.

Love, Peace, and Happies,

Laura

A small island surrounded by incredible waves arranged by Sofia Diage-Goodnight in memory of her father.

link to the destination

I used a texture by Lenabem-Anna J.:

www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/5408626009/in/set-7215...

Thank you !

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From the SIM description

This sim is a tribute to my RL father who passed away in 2012. He loved Nubble Light in Maine and hopefully this does the gorgeous landscape there justice. RIP Daddy.

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The "Somewhere in sl" picture series (or "The Adventures of WuWai in Second Life") is my guide and bookmark folder to wonderful, artful, curious or in other way remarkably sims of second life with travel guide WuWai Chun.

(More pictures of WuWai's adventures: Follow this link)

You can find and buy some of the pictures inworld at my “Gallery"

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"The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.

- A.J. Darkholme

This tune makes my day <3

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnDXRJ7btE

Have a goodnight/morning

Thank you, for all your kindness xxx

Last one. Goodnight folks"

I’d love it if you could check out my new photography blog, Seeing the Gorilla. Thank you!

Train station in Northeim, Germany.

Canon EOS400D. This is no HDR, only CS4

Thanks for all your comments!

View my Photos on darckR or flickriver

I've been taged by George Goodnight

Ipod Tagging Game (works with other MP3 players as well..)

1. Put your iTunes/ ipod on shuffle.

2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.

3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

4. Tag 10 or more friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got it from.

Okay, so here we go.

1) WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY? "Bright Eyes" (Art Garfunkel) ... not really :-)

2) WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? "Can't Stop The Things We Started" (Bryan Adams) ... yeah! :-)

3) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE? "What's Up" (4 Non Blonds)

4) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? "Every Breath You Take" (The Police)

5) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? "Heaven Must Have Sent You" (The Suprems) ... hope they say that! :-)

6) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN? "Unchain My Heart" (Joe Cocker) ... hmmm

7) WHAT IS 2+2? "Nessum Dorma" (Paul Potts)

8) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? "Time To Wonder" (Fury In The Slaughterhouse) ... LOL that fits!

9) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? "What Do You Do For Money Honey?" (AC/DC) ... OMG this game is great! :-))

10) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? "Catch The Wind" (Donovan)

11) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? "Keep On Lovin' You" (REO Speedwagon) ... who not?

12) WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? "Born To Be Wild" (Steppenwolf) ... hmmm

13) WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? "Enola Gay" (OMD) ... no, no, no that's not true! :-))

14) WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? "Who's That Girl?" (Eurythmics) ... LOL I love this game! :-)

15) WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? "Bad Case Of Lovin' You" (Robert Palmer)

16) WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? "Chaos" (Herbert Grönemeyer) ... true!

17) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? "Devils On The Loose" (Rattles) ... hope they don't read this!

18) WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN? "One More Night" (Phil Collins) ... no, no, no

19) HOW WILL YOU DIE? "C'moon Everybody" (Humble Pie)

20) WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET? "Stand By Me" (John Lennon)

21) WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH? "Magnetic Fields II" (Jean Michel Jarre)

22) WHAT MAKES YOU CRY? "Breakfast in America" (Supertramp) ... I love American bereakfast!

23) WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED? "Mama" (Phil Collins) LOL Oedipus!!! :-)))

24) WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST? "Back To Back" (Amy Winehouse)

25) DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU? "More Than A Feeling" (Boston)

26) IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE? "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (U2)

27) WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW? "Pegan Baby" (CCR) ... one of my fave songs at the end!:-)

The show must go on, so I tag:

Tóta Sigthors

Worldworx

ChuckTofu

Artsee Fartsy

photoelectrique

shutter musi

haikus ~ Sabine

Geovani Aleksandr

View On Black

Goodnight Ladies ... and sirs! :-)

"Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while

Let's not try to figure out everything at once

It's hard to keep track of you falling through the sky

We're half awake in a fake empire

We're half awake in a fake empire"

The National: youtu.be/rSOxS92Txqg

"Tonight, love is rationed

Tonight, across the nation

Tonight, love infects worldwide"

Explored on August 20, 2010.

Is there anybody screaming "encore"? I thought I heared someone...

Okay, here's another bonus track from my mixed tape. Listen to Whitesnake

The forest looks a little bit better on black

©All rights reserved

Press "L" button to see large on black please.

listen ♪ MAYSA - DON'T SAY GOODNIGHT

Title inspired by Bill Bryson's book "Neither here Nor there, travels in Europe", Secker & Warburg 1991, Black Swan 1998.

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"does anyone have coffee?"... ~ che

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Thanks everyone for your time, support and wonderful comments.

I'll be on and off flickr, so busy with my current project. Need to work on weekends too... =(

see you around and have a great weekend everyone...

"La le lu, nur der Mann im Mond schaut zu, wenn die kleinen Babys schlafen. Komm. schlaf auch du..." (the lullaby from one of my famous german movies...)

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have a peaceful night and sleep well !

"Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)"

Dragon tales and the "water is wide"

Pirate's sail and lost boys fly

Fish bite moonbeams every night

And I love you

Godspeed, little man

Sweet dreams, little man

Oh my love will fly to you each night on angels wings

Godspeed

Sweet dreams

The rocket racer's all tuckered out

Superman's in pajamas on the couch

Goodnight moon, will find the mouse

And I love you

Godspeed, little man

Sweet dreams, little man

Oh my love will fly to you each night on angels wings

Godspeed

Sweet dreams

God bless mommy and match box cars

God bless dad and thanks for the stars

God hears "Amen," wherever we are

And I love you

Godspeed, little man

Sweet dreams, little man

Oh my love will fly to you each night on angels wings

Godspeed

Godspeed

Godspeed

Sweet dreams

Here's a youtube link to the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWaqB3Hy908

بالحــلا مالج " شـريييك ♥♥

Cant wait until the morning to uplaod it ;D <33

t9b7on 3la nutella ♥__♥

Title is a quote by John Butler Trio

Seen near Glücksburg at the baltic sea. The text on the signboard: "Private. Keep off. Parents are liable for their children"

This is a typical german signboard. You can see them everywhere ;-)

Looks better on black

Neverland is a place in my imagination, a quiet corner far from the city where cows graze and crickets sing all day. Neverland, is a place where dead poets write their words and artists echo their voices. Neverland is a place that sits in our hearts along with beauty and poetry. So, if you have a heart you know where Neverland is. If you don't, don't bother to look for it, you will never find it.

Copyright © matilde b. All rights reserved. Please note that the fact that "This photo is public" doesn't mean its public domain or a free stock image. Therefore, its use without written consent by the author is illegal and punished by law.

Comments with group images, deleted. Sorry about that.

Needle/Pin flowers by DOF focus.

"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goodnight for tonight my lovely friends, thank you for all kind of warm welcome:)

Explore #194...ha!

So now you know...I am old enough to be Calista's grandma! I am hoping the soft focus makes you still think it is not possible! ;---)) I had received a few comments on my post of Calista remarking I look too young to be her g-ma..because of my icon pic. So FYI, the icon pic was from about 1 year, 10 months ago! and taken when I first had gotten my Canon Rebel XTI... I can hardly believe it been almost two years already!

Note: I am finally posting one using another new lens I got recently, the "nifty fifty" no need to view large on black...lol...

Have a fabulous and HNFF! And no need to put group invites on this one...! But thanks in advance your attendance and comments, good, bad or indifferent!

Goodnight to all and good morning to some! I hope your dreams are filled with lovely flowers and wonderful thoughts!

Well, I figured my 365 wouldn't be complete without at least one photo of my Christmas tree. This artificial tree is a "hand-me-down" given to me from my parents two years ago when they decided to go with a new pre-lit. Funny thing about that is they used their new pre-lit tree for the first time last year and now this year the lights don't work on it! Well, that was a waste...so my dad had to go out and bought strings of lights for their tree. Meanwhile, I still have the hand-me-down they gave away. ;) It is pretty old but still in great shape. I can still remember the day my mom and I went to the garden centre store to buy it. I was in my early teenage years....so that was almost 30 years ago. Geez, I am getting old!!! I remember my mom fell in love with this tree but hated the price for it which was around $300. That was a lot for a fake tree back in those days but she bought it anyways. We used to go out to the woods with my dad and get a real tree to cut down and take home but my dad had a tendency of picking out skinny "Charlie Brown" trees. My mom was tired of those sickly looking trees (I am convinced my dad used to get them as a joke lol) and the fact that they eventually looked even worse as the holiday wore on because the needles would fall off and make such a mess...so that was her reason for buying this fake tree....now my fake tree...I still love it...the fancy new pre-lit trees can stay at the store as I have no need for buying one anytime soon...fa la la la la la la la la!!!...wait, that is a totally different Christmas carol...have a goodnight everyone!

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries".

Jimmy Carter

Good week all. This was sunrise over my garden recently

Listening to: Goodnight and Go by Imogen Heap

..."Colorado...Rocky Mountain High."

And at the end of the day, that's all that matters.

Goodnight, John Denver.

Image by Richard Cawood | www.RichardCawood.com

This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you use this photo, please list the photo credit as "Richard Cawood" and link the credit to www.RichardCawood.com

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Airlie Beach's TIDAL MYSTERIES REVEALED!!!: At low tide in Boat Haven bay, a wide expanse of glimmering sand fills with intriguing channels, shallows and ripples. Here the waves toss and retreat until the whole expanse is an exceptional ever-changing canvas of mysterious shapes and rivulet lines. Currently, this whole region is under threat from lax policies which permit cargo-tankers to voyage through fragile vulnerable Reef waters, rather than remain seaward!!!

WE seek your SUPPORT to encourage an enlightened, protective program of care for this precious tourism resource, and food-chain nursery-room zone. -- Your FAVE for this image is a vote for a caring future, with vigilant and protective care for this unique and priceless region.

More of Nature's wonderful art : www.flickr.com/photos/melcir-selfportraits-2006/227415261... - "Nature's art! ~ Half-circle and stripes ... on the Airlie Beach tidal flats".

Image sequence: Taken at early sunset, as Nature presented, without retouching or cropping. Boat Haven, Airlie Beach, Whitsundays, North Queensland.

My mother used to tell me stories at bedtime. One night in particular she told me the story of "Jack And The Bean Stalk". I listened with rapt attention as she told of magic beans.

"Oh I wish I had magic beans," I squealed. My mother, never one to be out done said, "We have beans. Would you like to plant them?"

"Oh yes." So she went to the kitchen took a handful of soup peas and handed them to me. She carried me outside and I tossed the beans.

She finished the story, kissed me goodnight and turned off the light. I don't think she was gone 2 minutes before I started screaming. She came back into the room and I stammered to her, "Th the giant will come down and eat me." "No, no she," countered, "The beans won't grow that fast." "Yes the will, they're magic beans." "Daddy will cut down the bean stalk." she said. "It will keep on growing." I wailed.

For the next several nights my poor father went out into the yard and stood waiting for this bean stalk to sprout so he could chop it down.

Mommy never did read me stories unless she read and reread them over and over to make sure I couldn't come up with something that would terrify me.

Isn't it strange how fairy tales are so frightening. I mean a wicked step mother. Witches who put beautiful girls into towers and let their hair grow so they could climb up them.

Joey was a great little guy to tell stories too, the more frightening they were the more he loved them. He thought of nightmares as great adventures you had when you were sleeping.

I wish you all beautiful dreams. :)

Love And Peace

Created with itKuPiLLi's "MM August 2017 - DREAM" www.mischiefcircus.com/shop/home.php?cat=321

Sister Moonshine

Long exposure HDR from 3 shots. Exposure Time: 5", 10" and 20"

Taken at "Untermainbrücke" / Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. "

— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Somewhere in the North Atlantic... :-)

I love my sister. Even when she is an avatar.

She reluctantly let me upload this haha

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I've been pretty much MIA on Flickr this past week. Caught up in school, work, college apps, scholarships etc, etc, etc. FRIDAY tomorrow. HALLELUJAHHHHHHHHH

Anyways, this is all natural lighting and background, and a "made-from-scratch" Avatar Photoshop edit of my sister:)

this just reminded me..

I was talking to my friend a while back after seeing Avatar.. and said to her: "I want to live on Pandora"

and her mom interrupts and says..... "Amber, you know Pandora is a fictional place... right?"

...... she actually thought I was serious and wanted to move there -_- hahahah

and she's the same one that "broke the news" to me that Hogwarts is not a real place as well.

HAHAHAHAH

okay.

that's enough.

goodnight!

# "... THIS WAS TEXTBOOK."

# THE TRIALS OF MRS. TRONA

# music: eponymous, GOODNIGHT OSLO -- ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3

"You leave the Stray Hotel

And find a place to smoke

A house that has no walls

Or memories at all

You're listening to her

Still broadcasting inside

But you can walk out

Any time

Goodnight Oslo

Goodnight Oslo

Goodnight Oslo"

tsiklotsilog!

i'll continue to bug you tomorrow, can't take it, i'm too sleepy already. goodnight! xoxo

Tour boats decorate the canals with light trails as they are cruising the exhibition boat route "Water Colors". Artwork by Angelo Bonello, placed at the junction of Herengracht and Leidsegracht during the Amsterdam Light Festival 2015.