So rebellious driving without a license:DQuote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
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So rebellious driving without a license:DQuote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
Oh no no, he HAS a license. It took a while for the driving school to accept him as a pupil though. Believe it or not...:p :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ktd222
Hey Virgil, the three new born puppies look very cute, it must have been a tough decision about which one to take.....
Dillon is making quite an effort, Kathy....Is he trying to impress a she-dog around?? :p
Actually the breeder didn't give us a choice. I think the other two were already accounted for. We got a great dog, so I don't think it mattered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
hmmmmm......:)
Nope, he is just being a good driver, checking his mirror before driving off. Or maybe he has something stuck in his teeth...:p :lol: You know how sloppy dogs are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Awh :[
I don't have any awesome pictures like you guys.
Tbh, the only pictures I have are pretty vain ones of me, trying to make myself look good, although there are one or two pictures that I do like :]
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1..._Kissx/ret.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...x/smallest.jpg
I'm aware I look weird on the last one, but I thought the flowers were aceeeee! :]
x
HI there LauraJayne. I like your pics and don't think they are vain at all. You have a pretty eye! :D I think eyes are the most expressive, beautiful features that people have. This is an "artsy" one of my eyes.
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...cs/myeye22.jpg
Laura, pretty eyes.
Kathy!you are keeping this plan of torture! common ,let's see the rest of YOU!
But the rest of me isn't as nice as my eyes! :lol: Plus I need to get new batteries for my camera...take my own pic as my boyfriend won't do it for me...um. You buying any of those excuses, miss T?Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
http://www.online-literature.com/for...8&type=profile
This is what I look like without a hat. This was taken on an airplane, which explains my mood.
haha , Kathy!nah! I'll nag you till I get to see the rest.
Cuppa, wait, as I recall , you used to have a brown pic where you wear hat ,tell you a secret: you are handsomer with the hat:D
but nice hair style ,I've had some moments when I wished to have this hair style.
Haha :]
Thanks Kathycf :] and Misstenderness :]
Still.. I'm a right poser!
Love how you adjusted the picture of your eyes, great!!
xx
A few pictures from my garden - let's all dream!
Here's a breath of SPRING -
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...terflyBush.jpg
Butterfly Bush/Butterfly
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...oonFlower1.jpg
Balloon flowers - one of my favorites flowers - love the color.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p.../BalloonFl.jpg
Another of Balloon Flower.
Those are just beautiful, Janine. Are those hard flowers to grow?
Thanks Kathy, I took them about 3 or more yrs back, when I was big into tending my garden...it got too huge for me really. Think the Balloon Flowers finally did die off, but normally they came up each year. They are not that hard to grow - but you do have to water them and they have their own blooming period of time, since they are perenials. The Butterfly Bush is a cinch to grow and the butterflies will flock to it. Mine is lavender, but I believe it comes in other colors. In the fall you just cut it back about a foot or so to the ground and it grows up the following year, nicely. You do have to keep it dead-headed to have it bloom longer; that is true of most plants. Do you garden?
Thanks again for the completements of on photos - just luck I think. My camera is an older one but it still takes good closeups.
Yes, please. That is exactly what I need at the moment.... And hey: Nice pictures. :thumbs_up :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
/Claes
Yes, at least we can think about spring...dream.
Thanks, Claes, I enjoyed the ones you posted also, of Paris. Artist's must go to Paris evenutally. Is that a photo of you standing at the top of steps holding a really large camera lens poised to take a photo? Great large shots - you can really see the city well.
Yes, that's me, so I can't take credit for that picture. The missus snapped that one (on the other hand I arranged it, so I suppose we'll have to share the praise? :D ).Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
A little anecdote about the camera: When I went to Kenya I had it in the hand baggage (Big surprise, eh?). As it happens, The kit included a humongous tele lens (I was going to snap wildlife after all) with a pistol grip underneath for better stability. Well, I didn't realy think that time, did I? I walked right into airport security with that big tube in my bag... and the pistol grip attached... and there was a terrorist scare going on... :eek: Good Grief, I'll never repeat that mistake! Can you imagine the reaction of security blokes when the bag with that contraption went through the X-ray?
Their hand went to their guns, and I had the time to think -uh, oh... before they ordered me to stand off and went to the bag. They opened it, and looked stunned for a second. Gales of laughter follwed, and then they hinted that maybe I ought to disassemble that thing next time. -Errrrr, yes Sir, I think I will....:blush: :lol:
I have more Paris pictures coming up, btw. It's just that I just have not had the time to keep the scanner running: These are from 1993, long before the digital era.
/Claes
Nice photos Janine. Your flowers remind me of a Lawrence poem, "Bavarian Gentians." Blue flowers are hard to come by in nature. There aren't that many.
edit: If you wish to read that Lawrence poem I once copied it in this thread: http://www.online-literature.com/for...nce#post135040, post #18.
Janine , dreamy pictures:thumbs_up:
Janine, those are beautiful. Both a great photographer and a great gardener. :) I love the color blue, especially in flowers.
Virgil, thanks for the link to the Lawrence poem too. I hadn't read that one before. It's fantastic. Janine's flowers seem much too cheerful and above ground for that poem though. ;)
okay, I don't think this is brilliant, not my best-but it's kind of, well, different. Its my avatar.
Yours is great, Janine
:) Virgil, I love that Lawrence poem - I just read it recently, but thanks for the link. The biographer I just read said it was written indicating that Lawrence was grasping at life when he wrote it, well something like that. It is sad when you think of his fateful death at 44 by TB/comsumption. Knowing that makes this poem more poignant, and always makes me cry. So I agree with Petrarch on that one (it is so sad), but you are right, blue flowers are hard to come by. Actually these are more of a lavender....periwinkle, I suppose. Virgil, if you know of a hardy perennial that is actually blue, let me know. I would love to plant one next year. I had something that was actually blue once, but it did not survive more than one season.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Unfortunately, Petrarch, my poor garden used to be splendid but I let the weeds grow several years now and it is in disarray. You must read my sad poem about it called "Frozen Summer" in the "share a poem" thread.
Thanks miss tenderness for the dreamy compliment.
To Claes, I say - your photos are great (tell your wife she did a good job of the one of you, I am a woman so I give her all the credit...sorry) and the story was an absolute riot! I can just imagine. You should write that into a short story, Claes.
A friend of mine was transporting 2 cats to another country. Somehow his wife got aboard the plane first with the cats and he was left in the airport and they had to contact the plane to turn around. He was checking on the cats and they were on the runway. They actually came back for him, it was layover in the US and he was speaking Japanese and English and they could hardly understand him. Needless to say, they let him on the plane. Of course, that was before airports got so strick. They may have thought him a terrorist trying to pull something today. His story was funny, also. Maybe you could start a thread - "funny airport stories"! I am sure there are many, but yours really was hysterical.:lol:
No I don't know of a blue flowering perennial. If I come across one I'll let you know. Yes that poem was towards the end of Lawrence's life. When he was ill, he did not have the energy to write novels, he lay and wrote poetry. Some of his best poetry were these end of his life poems. I've posted this one before, but it is always very touching to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Quote:
Shadows by D.H. Lawrence
And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new created.
And if, as weeks go round, in the dark of the moon
my spirit darkens and goes out, and soft, strange gloom
pervades my movements and my thoughts and words
then I shall know that I am walking still
with God, we are close together now the moon's in shadow.
And if, as autumn deepens and darkens,
I feel the pain of falling leaves, and stems that break in storms
and trouble and dissolution and distress
and then the softness of deep shadows folding, folding
around my soul and spirit, around my lips
so sweet, like a swoon, or more like the drowse of a low, sad song
and the silence of short days the silence of the year, the shadow,
then I shall know that my life is moving still
with the dark earth, and drenched
with the deep oblivion of earth's lapse and renewal.
And if, in the charming phases of man's life,
I fall in sickness and in misery
my wrists seem broken and my heart seems dead
and strength is gone, and my life
is only the leavings of a life:
and still, among it all, snatches of lovely oblivion, and snatches of renewal
odd wintry flowers upon the withered stem, yet new, strange flowers
such as my life has not brought forth before, new blossoms of me--
then I must know that still
I am in the hands of the unkown God,
he is breaking me down to his own oblivion
to send me forth on a new morning, a new man.
You could try Bachelor Buttons. They come in different shades but one of the nicest is a deep violety blue color. I can grow them here, so you should have no trouble in your location. Try looking here for more information. (other flowers as well as bachelor buttons)Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
*edit* Ok they are an annual (my mistake) but they do re-seed themselves...
info and pic here.
Virgil, I had not read this poem before and it went straight to my heart, having read so much about Lawrence's life recently. Reading his travel books on Italy, I feel I really know the man. The poem made me cry. I love it. I will have to find it in my complete poetry volume that I got before Christmas. I have not gotten a chance to peruse it yet. I had the same copy from my library once awhile back. Now the poems take on much more meaning, after reading the biographies. Thanks for finding this poem. It is wonderful and so poignant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Kathcf, Thanks for the link and the information. Yes, I do think I might have had Bachelor Buttons once awhile back, but they did not reseed for me, unfortunately. Of course it would help to water the garden once in awhile. I got lazy. But I'd love to see what the link offers......maybe....just maybe.... a revived garden this year, it's way overdue for attention. I know that you can get some annuals in a blue color. Soon I will be posting some more garden shots. I have tons of them. Next I may post the big pink hybiscus - the perennial type. The blooms can be as large as dinner plates. Also I have a lovely photo of a lily I finally lost - Horizon Lily. I enjoyed it many years but think the darn squirrels ate it. I will post garden photos so we all get a feeling of spring eventually coming...anticipation!
Ok, I revised this post to add this picture - big pink Hybiscus blossom.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...biscusPink.jpg
Enjoy and think of summer!
Here's a some from my cruise trip in the mediterranean (the ones in the link are larger):
http://i1.tinypic.com/34zc8kk.jpg
leaning tower...
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4927/p1000387og4.jpg
http://i3.tinypic.com/2r7u592.jpg
Greece...
http://i14.tinypic.com/48vsrh3.jpg
back to back to back, probably belong to one guy too
http://i11.tinypic.com/2m3k0b7.jpg
the artwork there is insane...
Nice pictures, geewiz. I like the cars. Are they kind of sport cars? the designs suggests this, and I like red colour :D
Its interesting to see the last picture of Greece (in the link), the houses in hilly areas are more like this, they cant expand, as in the breadth, and are vertical....
:)
They are all ferrari's, that's why I took the picture. Prior to this I had never seen one in person and then I got to see three of them at the same time. A lot of nice cars/buildings in the Riviera.
geewiz, I was about to ask you which one was your Ferrari - nice cars!!! They have to be red - look best in red. Hot little cars!
The fountain/sculpture picture is amazing. Did Michelangelo do that sculpure? I know I have seen it before in books. Wonderful!
I'll say it is. Here is a night shot of the same place... Fontana di Trevi:Quote:
Originally Posted by geewiz
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC01058.jpg
You can say that again. Two of them passed me on the autostrada towards Venice once: Boom, boom, gone... It felt like I was standing still, but I was in fact doing 170 Km/h.... I don't even want to think about their speed. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
The sculpture in the center is Neptune by Pietro Bracci, and it is not nearly that old: It was put in place in 1762.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
/Claes
You really captured the Trevi Fountain well, Claes. That's not an easy picture to take. The fountain is very wide and there isn't usually enough room to back up to get it. And there is always a crowd of people in front blocking the view. A night shot makes it look magnificent. Too bad that guy was in front waving his arm.
Claes, you can either paint those guys out of the foreground (I do things like that all the time in Adobe or Photoshop) or you can just crop up higher than they are - you have room. It would improve the shot. It is a wonderful photo and a nite shot as Virgil pointed out with the entire width of the fountain in it. Wow!
nice picture , Gee.
Cales , your photo is wow as always:thumbs_up:
Thank's... Yes, you're right about the crowd: They were there. The place was absolutley jammed with people, so I had to resort to my bag of tricks: I simply held the camera as high above my head as my arm would reach when I snapped that picture. Not an easy feat with the slow shutter speed I had to use, I assure you. I had to and hold my breath in order to keep it reasonably steady. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
You're right, it would. I just haven't bothered, that's all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
/Claes
That's true you must have used a slow shutter speed. Well done!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
Its a very long shot. How do you take such shots? or is it a normal shot, but seems like long one.....
Very nice lighting effect you have captured.
Um...Well, I think I was maybe 6-7m from the fountain... At least no more than 10m.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Thank you. That, as it happens, is easy: Just refrain from using the flash. Excessive use of flash has ruined uncountable otherwise very good pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
/Claes
Claes, I copied out your photo and I put it into my Adobe Photo Deluxe and painted out those figures. The artist in me had to do it. It turned out great and was easy since that whole bottom area is basically blackish. Just clone the area of color and paint out. I used the "touch up face" in the menu option. It improved the picture - now it is a masterpiece! Want me to post it? I could upload to my hosting site and put it back in for you.